Literary Fiction Novels For Your Spring Reading List
Literary fiction readers are in for a treat because we’ve handpicked some amazing new novels for your Spring reading list! You won’t want to miss these amazing books by Charlie Suisman, Laura Koerber, C Pam Zhang, Ruby Hummingbird, Beth Morrey, and Afia Atakora. Enjoy your new books!
Arnold Falls
by Charlie Suisman
Release Date: March 10, 2020
If given a choice of go big or go home, nine times out of ten the townspeople of Arnold Falls will go home and forget about the whole thing. Tempests great and small (mostly small) are always brewing in this tiny town where half the residents are fighting to preserve its red-light district heyday, half are up to no good, and another half are sleeping it off… Yes, that math is correct. Spend some time in this oddball village, where larger than life characters deal with the smallest of problems. Somehow it all comes right in the end.
Buy on AmazonCoyote Summer
by Laura Koerber
Release Date: January 30, 2020
The summer of magic happened forty years ago when Ben O’Rourke was just seventeen, but he’s never forgotten. It started with rape and ended with a promise. In between things happened that Ben still didn’t understand. A man turned into a coyote, a girl danced in the air, Ben broke the law, and he fell in love for the first time. And, when the summer ended, he made a promise that he now needs to keep.
Buy on AmazonHow Much of These Hills Is Gold
by C Pam Zhang
Release Date: April 7, 2020
This debut novel from C Pam Zhang is set against the twilight of the American gold rush. Two orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refuses their existence. They flee the threats of their Western mining town and set off on a journey to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past.
Buy on AmazonThe Garden of Lost Memories
by Ruby Hummingbird
Release Date: April 1, 2020
Elsie knows what she likes. This sixty-two-year-old likes custard creams at four o’clock, jigsaw puzzles, and her ivy-covered, lavender-scented garden. Ten-year-old Billy would rather be doing anything that babysitting his grumpy neighbor Elsie and being force-fed custard creams. If it were up to them, they would both have nothing to do with one another. But unfortunately, they can’t choose who they live next to.
Buy on AmazonThe Love Story of Missy Carmichael
by Beth Morrey
Release Date: April 7, 2020
The world has changed around seventy-nine-year-old Millicent Carmichael. The librarian is quick to admit she found her role as housewife and mother less than satisfying but Missy led a good life driven by two children, an accomplished husband, and a Classics degree from Cambridge. But now they are all gone and she spends her days sipping sherry, avoiding people, and rattling in her oversized, under-decorated house.
Buy on AmazonConjure Women
by Afia Atakora
Release Date: April 7, 2020
The fantastic first novel from Afia Atakora… Conjure Women follows the story of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother’s footsteps; and their master’s daughter Varina. It moves back and forth through time to tell this haunting story of passion, friendship, and the lengths they will go to save themselves and those they love.
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