6 Literary Fiction Novels to Enhance Your Bookshelf
Dive into our selection of 6 enthralling literary fiction novels designed to transform your reading experience. Each book is a gateway to captivating storytelling, profound insights, and thought-provoking themes. Embark on this literary journey with us and discover novels that promise to leave a lasting impression and ignite your imagination. Happy reading!
Magic Lessons for Margo
by Maria Elena Sandovici
Release Date: December 21, 2023
To survive her childhood, Margo takes refuge in science. She grows up to be anxious, shy, and in denial about her identity. When her worldly teenage sister suffers a mysterious emotional crisis, Margo abandons her comfort zone and agrees to travel together to New Orleans, Galveston, and Houston in search of ghosts, culinary adventures, and healing.
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by Jessica Bryant Klagmann
Release Date: February 1, 2024
After the mysterious disappearance of her fiancé, Alma Hughes moves to a remote island in the North Atlantic, where she hopes to weather her grief and nurture her ailing dog. But the strange town of Violette has mysteries as well. On this doomed island haunted by echoes of the departed, Alma searches for meaning in her future—and dares to discover the power of hope among the living.
Buy on AmazonThe Turtle House
by Amanda Churchill
Release Date: February 20, 2024
“Sweeping yet intimate, Amanda Churchill’s Turtle House spans cultures and continents. Minnie and her granddaughter Lia are unforgettable protagonists, whose grit and grace will inspire you. Together, they find a way through in this gripping debut.”—Vanessa Hua, author of Forbidden City. Moving between late 1990s small-town Texas to pre-World War II Japan and occupied Tokyo, an emotionally engaging literary debut about a grandmother and granddaughter who connect over a beloved lost place and the secrets they both carry.
Buy on AmazonBehind You Is the Sea
by Susan Muaddi Darraj
Release Date: January 16, 2024
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich—lives which intersect across divides of class, generation, and religion. Behind You Is the Sea faces stereotypes about Palestinian culture head-on and, shifting perspectives to weave a complex social fabric replete with weddings, funerals, broken hearts, and devastating secrets.
Buy on AmazonThe Memory Library
by Kate Storey
Release Date: February 1, 2024
For forty-two years, Sally Harrison has been building a library. Each year, on her daughter’s birthday, she adds a new book to her shelves – with a note in the front dedicated to her own greatest work. But Ella – Sally’s only child – fled to Australia twenty-one years ago after a heated exchange, and never looked back. And though Sally still dutifully adds a new paperback to the shelves every time the clock strikes midnight on July 11th, her hopes of her daughter ever thumbing through the pages are starting to dwindle. Then disaster strikes and Ella is forced to return to the home she once knew. She is soon to discover that when one chapter ends, another will soon follow. All you have to do is turn the page…
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by Andrew J. Graff
Release Date: January 16, 2024
From the author of Raft of Stars comes a heartfelt novel of marriage and whitewater rafting, following one couple as they navigate the changing currents of family, community, and the river itself. Amid tumultuous currents both on and off the river, Sam and Swami struggle to maintain the new life they’ve built. Before the summer draws to a close, the Brechts must learn to face the floodwaters together in order to create a sustainable future for their family, the town, and the pristine river from which it all flows.
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