New Literary Fiction Books For Your Reading List | Fall 2019

09 Oct 2019

New Literary Fiction Books For Your Reading List | Fall 2019

The seasons are changing and now is the perfect time to stock up on some new literary fiction books for your fall reading list. Don’t miss exciting new novels from Marc Grossberg, Elizabeth Strout, Zadie Smith, Ann Patchett, André Aciman, and Fiona Valpy. Enjoy your new books!


The Best People

by Marc Grossberg

Release Date: October 8, 2019

A former cop from Brooklyn, Paddy Moran is now a licensed attorney in Houston with big dreams and aspirations. After surviving some early challenges, he manages to land two high-profile clients. After some outstanding outcomes, he finds himself on the success trajectory in the upper echelons of the city’s divorce bar. Can Paddy balance his thirst for recognition with his sense of right and wrong?

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Olive, Again

by Elizabeth Strout

Release Date: October 15, 2019

The new novel from New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout… Olive, Again follows the life of beloved Olive Kitteridge. Olive is struggling to understand not only herself but the lives of everyone around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. “Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I’d never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is.”—Zadie Smith.

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Grand Union: Stories

by Zadie Smith

Release Date: October 8, 2019

Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal, Grand Union is a collection of short stories from bestselling author Zadie Smith… Including 11 new and unpublished stories, Smith combines her power of observation and her imitable voice to mine the complex experience of life in the modern world.

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The Dutch House

by Ann Patchett

Release Date: September 24, 2019

The Dutch House is the new novel from Ann Patchett, the New York Times Bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder… When the Second World War ended, Cyril Conroy uses some luck and a canny investment to begin a real estate empire. His first order of business is to buy a lavish estate in the Philadelphia suburbs, the Dutch House.

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Find Me

by Andre Aciman

Release Date: October 29, 2019

From the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman… Find Me tells the story of Elio’s father, Samuel, as he takes a trip from Florence to Rome. He is traveling to visit Elio, who is now a gifted pianist. But a chance encounter on the train with a beautiful woman upends his plans.

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The Dressmaker’s Gift

by Fiona Valpy

Release Date: October 1, 2019

Paris, 1940. While their city is occupied by Nazis, three young seamstresses try to go about their normal lives. But all of three of these women are keeping secrets. Mireille is fighting for the Resistance, Claire is in a relationship with a German officer, and Vivienne can’t reveal her involvement to either of them.

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