Popular Fiction
November 2023
Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward

In the years before the Civil War, Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, struggles through the miles-long march, seeks comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother, opening herself to a world beyond this world.
Sisters Under the Rising Sun
by Heather Morris

Prisoners of war in 1942, Australian nurse Nesta James and Norah Chambers, held in the notorious Camp Palembang, battle disease, starvation and unimaginable brutality meted out by Japanese soldiers, but found, in themselves the courage and resourcefulness to survive.
Roman Stories
by Jhumpa Lahiri

"Nine mesmerizing stories saturated in the details of Roman life that showcase Jhumpa Lahiri's extraordinary range and virtuosity"
Absolution
by Alice McDermott

Sixty years after they lived as wives of American servicemen in early 1960s Vietnam, two women reconnect and relieve their shared experiences in Saigon in the new novel by the author of The Ninth Hour.
America Fantastica
by Tim O'Brien

The author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country chase through a nation corroded by delusion.
The List : a novel
by Yomi Adegoke

A high-profile female journalist's world is upended when her fiances name turns up in a viral social media post. A first novel.
The Future
by Naomi Alderman

While a few billionaires lead the world to certain doom, Martha Einkorn, working for a powerful social media mogul hell-bent on controlling everything, and Lai Zhen, an internet-famous survivalist, work together to prevent the cataclysmic end of civilization.
The House of Doors
by Tan Twan Eng

From the best-selling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists comes a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.
Forever Home : a novel
by Graham Norton

The internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darkly comic novel that casts a caustic light on the relationship between mothers and daughters and truth and self-preservation.
Never Whistle at Night : an Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
by Shane Hawk

Celebrating Indigenous peoples' survival and imagination, these twenty-seven spinetingling stories from best-selling and award-winning authors introduce readers to ghosts
and unsettling acts of revenge. 
How I Won a Nobel Prize
by Julius Taranto

A funny novel about a graduate student who decides to follow her disgraced mentor to a university that gives safe harbor to scholars of ill repute, igniting a crisis of work and a test of her conscience (and marriage).
The Square of Sevens
by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

"An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her deceased mother and uncovers shocking secrets about her family"
Shoot the Moon
by Isa Arsén

When physics graduate Annie Fisk, a NASA secretary during the Apollo 11 mission, identifies an engineer's mistaken calculations, she is propelled into a new position where she's torn between her ambitions, her heart and a mysterious discovery.
Hold My Girl : a novel
by Charlene Carr

After seven difficult years of trying—and failing—to conceive, Katherine gives birth to Rose, her IVF miracle child, but one thing isn't quite perfect: Rose's pale skin doesn't match Katherine's complexion, and an irritating doubt begins to grow in Katherine's mind.
Everything Is Not Enough
by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom

Three black women fight their own personal struggles in one of the most egalitarian societies, Sweden.
The Berry Pickers
by Amanda Peters

Growing up as the only child of affluent and overprotective parents, Norma, troubled by recurring dreams and visions that seem more like memories than imagination, searches for the truth, leading her to the blueberry fields of Maine where a family secret is finally revealed.
Blood Sisters
by Vanessa Lillie

Returning to her Oklahoma hometown when her sister goes missing, an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker, digs into the case, uncovering a string of missing Indigenous women cases going back decades and must expose a darkness in the town.
The Unmaking of June Farrow 
by Adrienne Young

Determined to end the curse that has plagued their family line, June Farrow, after her grandmother's death reveals clues to her mother's decades-old disappearance, embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also entangle her heart in a star-crossed love.
What Wild Women Do
by Karma Brown

While staying at an isolated cabin in the Adirondacks, aspiring Hollywood screenwriter Rowan is drawn into the unsettling story of a socialite-turned-feminist crusader bent of helping women unleash their inner "wildness" who vanished in these same woods the summer of 1975.
One Puzzling Afternoon 
by Emily Critchley

An uplifting, bittersweet story with a page-turning mystery at its heart. Emily Critchley writes about aging and memory with huge warmth and compassion. A beautifully atmospheric and endearing book.
The Vulnerables
by Sigrid Nunez

This story about modern life and connection with others, including an adrift member of Gen Z and a feisty parrot named Eureka, reveals what happens when strangers are willing to open their hearts to each other and how far even small acts of kindness can offer healing and hope.
A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens 
by Raul Palma

When Alexi, the debt collector who has been hounding him for years, asks him for spiritual help in exchange for forgiving his debt, widow and babaláwo Hugo Contreras finds the job to be more than he bargained for when memories from his past collide with Alexi's demons.
A House for Alice 
by Diana Evans

The matriarch of the Pitt family yearns to return to Nigeria to live out her final years but her trip is made more complicated by her arguing daughters and a fire that kills her estranged husband.
The Happy Couple
by Naoise Dolan

An intimate, funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart.
The Sun Sets in Singapore
by Kehinde Fadipe

In Singapore, three different women—Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK; Amaka, a sharp-tongued banker from Nigeria; and Lillian, a pianist turned “trailing spouse” from the US—find their lives inexplicably intertwined upon the arrival of a handsome and mysterious man from Geneva.
Black Love Letters
by Cole Brown

Celebrated Black writers and artists including John Legend, Ben Crump and Allisa Findley provide essays, letters and illustrations on the subject of "Black love” and rejoice in their heritage, though rife with pain and suffering, with joy. 
The Madstone
by Elizabeth Crook

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms.
Something About Her 
by Clementine Taylor

When they meet at the Poetry Society, Aisling and Maya, two very different young women, find their connection unexpected as they embark on a surprising journey of self-discovery and modern love.
The Porcelain Maker
by Sarah Freethy

Two lovers are caught at the crossroads of history, and a daughter searches for the truth.

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