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6 Literary Fiction Novels About Finding Your Calling

6 Literary Fiction Novels About Finding Your Calling

Discover six powerful literary fiction novels that delve into the journey of finding one’s true calling. Each story explores characters on quests for purpose, identity, and fulfillment, offering deeply personal and transformative journeys. For readers seeking inspiration and introspection, these novels offer a thought-provoking look at the paths that lead us to who we’re meant to be.


The Next God

by b.t. gottfred

Release Date: November 1 2024

Nineteen year-old Cyur Good convinces the brilliant and beautiful Madison Pike to travel with him to a mysterious Indiana farm to see if a man claiming to be a god actually is one.

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The Girl in the Midnight Maze

by Cathy Hayward

Release Date: November 1 2024

Even as a child, her strongest connection to her mother was a painting Margaret created before Emma was born, of a little girl lost in a maze. So when Margaret dies, gifting the painting to a total stranger, Emma is consumed by grief—for her mother, the little girl, and the relationship they never had.

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The Lies We Leave Behind: A Novel

by Noelle Salazar

Release Date: November 5 2024

For fans of Kate Quinn and Beatriz Williams, this sweeping story follows a fearless nurse who must leave love behind when duty calls her back to the front.

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TIME TRAVEL’S END: A TIME TRAVEL NOVEL (TIME CHAIN Book 4)

by Steven Decker

Release Date: November 1 2024

Charles has returned from the dead, but not for the reasons you’d expect—he’s working for a higher power, and the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.

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The Waiting (A Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch Novel Book 6)

by Michael Connelly

Release Date: October 15 2024

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.

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The Blue Hour

by Paula Hawkins

Release Date: October 29 2024

A masterful novel that is as page-turning as it is unsettling, The Blue Hour recalls the sophisticated suspense of Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith and cements Hawkins’s place among the very best of our most nuanced and stylish storytellers.

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