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Fiction A to Z October 2025 |
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What a time to be alive : a novel by Jade ChangStruggling with grief, unemployment, and a fractured family, Lola Treasure Gold unexpectedly rises to fame as a self-help guru after a viral video, but she must confront accusations, personal loss, and the mystery of her missing mother while seeking her own truth.
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Will there ever be another you by Patricia LockwoodAs a mysterious illness warps her memory and perception during a global pandemic, a grieving young woman struggles to care for her family while questioning her identity, her past and whether her fractured mind might offer a strange kind of freedom.
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The Irish goodbye : a novel by Heather Aimee O'NeillThree adult sisters grapple with a shared tragedy over a Thanksgiving weekend spent in their childhood home, navigating complex relationships and old tensions.
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Bog queen : a novel by Anna NorthWhen a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. Vividly flashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with climate urgency and ancient wisdom as it connects across time two gifted young women learning to harness their strange strengths.
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A guardian and a thief by Megha MajumdarIn a near-future Kolkata, India, which has been ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other.
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The Dogs of Venice by Steven RowleyPaul is blindsided when his five-year marriage suddenly unravels. Paul takes a trip alone.to Italy, and notices a scruffy, self-assured dog trotting alongside a canal with the confidence he wants for himself. Amid the food, sights, and welcoming people of Venice, Paul's journey culminates in a magical encounter that leads him to feel real connection--to a dog, to a foreign city and, most importantly, to himself.
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We love you, bunny : a novel by Mona AwadAfter publishing a novel that enrages her former MFA classmates, Samantha Heather Mackey is kidnapped by the eerie, cult-like Bunnies, who force her to hear their surreal origin story—an unsettling tale of monstrous creativity, deadly friendship and the violent magic at the heart of dark academia.
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Gone Before Goodbye by Reese WitherspoonWhen disgraced combat surgeon Maggie McCabe takes a secretive job treating a powerful man overseas, his sudden disappearance pulls her into a deadly conspiracy forcing her on the run to uncover the truth and clear her name.
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The Elopement by Gill HornbyHornby (Miss Austen) continues her series devoted to the family of Jane Austen with a tale of Fanny Knight, the eldest daughter of Jane's brother Edward. Hornby breathes life into the characters, highlighting the societal restrictions faced by women in Regency England and their roles as daughters and wives
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The hitchhikers by Chevy StevensOn the remote Canadian highways in 1976, Tom and Alice are on an RV road trip to repair their marriage and heal the wounds of recent tragic events, but when they join up with a seemingly friendly young couple, things take an even darker turn.
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Cover story by Mhairi McFarlaneThirtysomething Connor left his seemingly perfect life in London for a chance to pursue a lifelong dream of becoming a reporter, but after a bad first impression with journalist Bel, his internship begins to feel like another in a series of poor decisions, except that she's the first bit of excitement he's felt in a very long time.
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