Adult General Fiction

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The Mortons / Justine Larbalestier and Scott Westerfeld.
"The Mortons are a modern-day, old-money dynasty with impeccable taste, from their exquisitely crafted cocktails to their expertly tailored vintage garments. They are also stone-cold killers. For the Mortons, homicide is heritage. They, along with the ot…
Wasp's nest : a novel / Kat Stoddard.
"Tess wants nothing more than for her upcoming society wedding to overshadow the failure of her first marriage. Her fiancé Warren, a steady soon-to-be state senator, is nothing like her first husband. Tess’s relationship with working-class artist Peter wa…
Yellow Pine / Claire Vaye Watkins.
"In her homestead deep in the Mojave, Rose has found a way to live 'on the other side of the portal,' with an intentionality that’s brought her hard-won peace and freedom. She’s navigating single parenthood, and she’s found a community out at Yellow Pine,…
Ungodly rich : a novel / Katharine McGee.
"When Julia Dodds meets Harry Adams, love hits her like a lightning bolt. He’s adventurous, charismatic, and impossibly handsome. Little does Julia know that her boyfriend has left out a few key details. His name isn’t Harry: it’s Ares, as in the ancient …
Oona out of order / Margarita Montimore.
"It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or remain at home in Brooklyn t…
Famous men : a novel / Julie Buntin.
"Will Miles is trapped. Trapped in tiny Greening, Michigan, where a toxic high school rumor has turned her into a social exile. Trapped in the predictable routines of her mother, and under the unrelenting gaze of her mother’s increasingly sinister boyfrie…
Crash into me : a novel / Robinne Lee.
"When Cecilia Chen finds herself in an accident shortly after a move to Los Angeles, she's shocked to recognize the swan-necked beauty in the other car as the Anouk Ferrand. It's been twenty years since she last encountered the enigmatic model on a photo …
Destination funeral : a novel / Paige Harbison.
"When Babe—the complicated, magnetic matriarch of their teenage summers—dies, four estranged friends return to sleepy Mercy Island, a storm-swept stretch of coastal Georgia, summoned by the reading of her will. Didion arrives at the timeworn pink house to…
The great wherever : a novel / Shannon Sanders.
"The dead are relentless gossips, or at least these dead are. An impulsive and heartbroken woman inherits her father's share of a Tennessee farm that is rich in family secrets and occupied with busybody ghosts in this sweeping family portrait. At thirty-t…
Habits of the sea / Shea Ernshaw.
"The night Clay Lockhart’s wife dies, a violent storm tears their home—and the eight hectares of land beneath it—away from the Scottish coast, sending it adrift into the Atlantic. Thirty years later, twelve-year-old Ellie Mills discovers the fabled floati…
Lowly creatures : a novel / Gaspard Koenig ; translated from the French by Stephanie Smee.
"Lowly Creatures follows the twin destinies of two young men, Kevin and Arthur, each who has vowed to dedicate his life to earthworms to save the earth from impending ecological disaster. Their shared passion brings them together at a Paris agri-tech scho…
Nebraska : a novel / by Monica Datta.
"The captivating and tragicomic story of the Chatterjee family and the catastrophe that tore them apart-for fans of Kiran Desai's The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny and Jonathan Franzen's Crossroads"--Provided by publisher.
The neighbors are watching : a novel / Aggie Blum Thompson.
"From the "master of suburban scandal" (Samantha M. Bailey) comes a scandalous twisty thriller about obsession, betrayal, and the price of perfection Just outside Washington, DC, sits Eastbrook, Bethesda-a leafy suburb with top schools, pristine landscape…
The diner / Joanne Demaio.
"Like misty wisps of salt air, The Seaside Saga weaves its way into readers’ lives and hearts. The fluid, ongoing storyline not only makes for an immersive literary experience—it redefines modern fiction and the very notion of a novel. At 26 books (and co…
Good morning means I love you : a novel / Kendra Allen.
"In her arresting first novel, Kendra Allen investigates love, partnership, motherhood, pleasure and the pursuit of freedom in one young woman’s defiantly unconventional terms. Rae has just returned to her family after leaving for a stretch and suddenly –…
The memory bookshop : a novel / Song Yu-jeong ; translated from the Korean by Shanna Tan.
"Jiwon’s life has been slowly disintegrating since her mother died. Until one day, caught by a sudden downpour, she stumbles into a mysterious bookstore. Inside, she is met by Manager K and offered no explanation, only a mysterious hourglass and a rare op…
The frenzy : stories / by Joyce Carol Oates.
"Frenzy (noun): a temporary madness; a violent mental or emotional agitation; intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity Joyce Carol Oates is a master of the short story and one of the legends of the form. Her collections of…
Most ardently yours : a novel / Freya Sampson.
"Zoe Knight, a struggling romance writer, has sworn off men for good. At least...the ones in real life. Once a believer in a happily ever after, she now curbs her loneliness with the help of the best book boyfriends in literature - and there is no better …
Self-help for serial killers : a novel / Asia Mackay
"Homework. Housework. Homicide. You can do it all! Hazel and Fox have it all: two children, a beautiful home, and a late-night habit of eliminating people who deserve it. Yet work-life balance is hard when you want to kill bad men but raise good kids. W…
Everything to the sea : a novel / Alicia Upano.
"Home for one final summer, Jane is working and saving cash for her senior year of college before she leaves her island town behind forever. At first, she doesn't remember Kenji, but he quickly becomes someone she can't forget: square jaw, a dimple in his…
Names have been changed : a novel / Yu-Mei Balasingamchow.
"A stylish and fast-paced debut novel follows Ophir-not her real name-as she reveals the story of her last ten years on the run around the world, in a confessional podcast that soon charms countless fans, even as she risks her anonymity and freedom"-- Pro…
Thrilling tales of modern men : stories / Danny McBride.
"There are many sides to Danny McBride: He’s starred as the iconic character Kenny Powers in the cult classic HBO show Eastbound & Down, a series he also wrote and created—just as he did with Vice Principals and The Righteous Gemstones. He’s produced horr…
Some people : a novel / Parini Shroff.
"Malti Patel is absolutely fine. Concussed and bruised, maybe, but fine. Certainly fine enough to not need her daughter's soon-to-be-ex-husband, Nathan Whitlock, playing nurse in her home while she recuperates. And yet, that's exactly the quandary in whic…
Sisterhood above all / Kathleen Barber with Amayah Shaienne.
"Any girl would kill to be a Gamma. Being a Gamma at Southern State University means belonging to the most desirable, exclusive sisterhood there is. For Ava, it means even more-it's the last connection she has to her beloved late mother, and she'll do any…
The Lowe job : a novel / Grace Alexander.
"Scandal made her famous. Sisterhood made her fearless. When Lili Lowe gets caught having an affair with her married boss, an admired politician, she finds herself at the epicenter of a scandal that could dismantle her life as she knows it. She turns, as…
Love you more : a novel / Emily Giffin.
"Billie has built the perfect life. Her medical practice in New York City is thriving, and she’s finally found the right partner in Dean after years spent trying to move on from her high-school sweetheart, Mick. Their young love had been intense and true,…
Country people : a novel / Daniel Mason.
"Miles Krzelewski is a devoted husband, a doting father beloved for his outlandish bedtime stories, and the proud owner of a truffle-hunting dog in a land with no truffles. He is also a bit lost, twelve years late with his PhD on Russian folktales and inc…
Lucky : a novel / Marissa Stapley.
"Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She’s ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity—when things go sideways. Lucky finds herself alone for the first time, naviga…
Ghost-eye : a novel / Amitav Ghosh.
"Varsha Gupta wants fish for lunch. Her family is shocked; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don’t allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can remember another life, in a mud …
Agnes lives! : a novel / Hallie Elizabeth Newton.
"New York City, 2014. Agnes Maurer seeks a willing murderer and wonders what she should wear. Candidates include: an icy magazine editor with a special cutlery set; an eccentric designer from her past; and Agnes's cruel novelist boyfriend. As she Ubers fr…
Skin contact / Elisa Faison.
"A newly open marriage brings discovery, excitement, and upheaval to a young couple, and to the friends and lovers in their orbit. Thirty years old and reeling from her mother’s recent death, Frances feels as if she’s lost her sense of purpose, her joy; h…
The girl on the beach : a novel / Carol Snow.
"On the surface, Sonia and Graham Starr were a glamorous couple: She, the sleek entrepreneur; he, the boyishly handsome painter with an irrepressible zest for life. They had everything money can buy and the one thing it can't -- a precious, precocious fou…
The very unremarkable life of Mrs. Etty Bloom / Talya Jankovits.
"In the insulated Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tradition and cultural norms are as sacred as religion. Childhood friendships are cultivated to climb social ladders, matchmakers dictate futures, and young girls are primed for marriage and m…
Riverwork / Lisa Robertson.
"Under the pavements of Paris there lies buried an ancient river, the Bièvre. For years, Lucy Frost has walked along these streets, unaware of the water and history under her feet, on her way to clean the apartments of Paris’s academic class. As she begin…
Conviction : a novel / Elizabeth H. Winthrop.
"The story of a young, American woman's misguided journey to join ISIS and the grief of the mother she leaves behind-a gripping and thought-provoking exploration of loss, empathy, and hope from the acclaimed author of The Mercy Seat. Maggie is gone. And h…
Games : a love story / Anna Maria Volkova.
"Normal People meets Fifty Shades of Grey in this provocative coming-of-age debut chronicling the turbulent romance between a brilliant but damaged economics grad student and a magnetic Wall Street CEO two decades her senior over the course of a heady New…
Social animals : a novel / Camille Perri.
"Val Caruso, Alex Reed, and June Kennerson could not come from more different worlds - Val is a tough-talking private investigator; Alex is reticent, nervous and on the run from her past; and June is an athlete turned housewife whose true love is her pup.…
The top of the world : a novel / Ethan Joella.
"June 1975. Maggie Bishop has just graduated high school, the future hers to embrace--but she's still reeling from the death of her older brother, Chip. A devastating diagnosis the summer before prompted Chip to leave home for a few months, never revealin…
Seven : or, how to play a game without rules / Joanna Kavenna.
"Who decides the rules of the games we play? In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find the head of the Society of Lost Things, Theodoros Apostolakis. Fortunately Apostolakis isn't lost but ev…
The wash-ashores : a novel / Hannah McKinnon.
"Thirty-year-old Holly has inherited the historic Cranberry House Inn on Cape Cod from her grandmother, Francine. Only Francine is not dead. At least not yet. And she's not convinced the aging inn is the right for for Holly. Besides, she has an offer from…
Tell your friends : a novel / Lauren Wilson.
"University was meant to be Crystal’s way out. Growing up, there was nothing in her life that couldn’t be turned into content for her mother’s popular (and profitable) family vlog channel, At Home with the Shaws—including the tragic death of her older sis…
Close relationships with strangers : a novel / Krista Diamond.
"Reviled by celebrities and the public, Ben is one of the last remaining paparazzi scouring the streets of Los Angeles. Amateurs with camera phones, social media, and a lack of bonafide stars have slowly killed a once essential role in the Hollywood appar…
The revelation of Dionne Daphne : a novel / Mara Brock Akil.
"What happens when one knock at your door sends your entire world into chaos? When a stranger becomes a lifeline? When the reality you’ve meticulously curated seems to be a mirage? From the outside looking in, one might say that Dionne Daphne had it all: …
The man : a novel / Laura Sims.
"The photos Judith Stanley takes are just for her, a private passion to fill her suburban days. But when she shares them with Paul Sorenson, her new photography instructor, she’s unprepared to hear his astonished praise. “Stunning,” he calls her photos. “…
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt : a novel / Ben Reeves.
"Travis is Death in the modern world. He lives with his cat in a small, gray town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life, which he does without complaint or judgement. He's stoic, gentle, and a little naive, despite who he is, bu…
Weddings : a novel / by Danielle Steel.
"Dominque Dupont is one of the world’s most sought-after designers of wedding dresses, and is as unfailingly chic as her gowns. Her international list of clients includes royals and presidents’ daughters. As for her own adult daughters, Felicity and Viole…
As if : a novel / Isabel Waidner.
"Two men meet in an apartment in London. They are strangers to one another, and yet they look remarkably alike. Lewis is grieving his dead wife; Korine is hiding from his very-much-alive one. Lewis never had children; Korine has just walked out on his. Le…
Arrivals and departures : a novel / Amanda Eyre Ward.
"The Perkins family has problems. They’re scattered across the globe. Lee, a glamorous reality-TV star, is struggling with her mental health in the spotlight. Regan, her younger sister, has fallen for a romance scammer. Cord, their charming brother, is on…
Man overboard! : a novel / Kathleen Rooney.
"Patrick “Kick” Kilpatrick hates the ocean. Has always been terrified of it. And now he’s in a real pickle. Drifting alone in the sea after falling (or jumping? He can’t remember as the all-inclusive drinks on the cruise he was taking with his extended fa…
Someone else's husband : a novel / Kimberly McCreight.
"Gretchen Falk, a Park Avenue sophisticate born into great wealth and blessed with a storybook marriage, knows she lives a charmed life, and she's not about to risk losing any part of it. That's why she tried so hard to convince Richard, her devoted husba…
And how have you been? : stories / Maria Judite de Carvalho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
"Carvalho returns to what really threatens us, not the sea or witchcraft or a lion with watchful eyes, but people and time. She has visions of an empty future of machines and no more art, a vision that looks more and more prophetic. And she tangles with a…
The Emilys : a novel / Heather Abel.
"Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with her two children in Massachusetts while her husband pursues his music career in New York City, she’s frustrated, bored, and, above all, lonely when she runs into Demeter, a childhood friend with whom she shared one …
Pure men / Mohamed Mbougar Sarr ; translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud.
"A viral video makes the rounds in Dakar, showing an incensed crowd that gathers to dig up a grave and drag the corpse from holy ground. When Ndéné, a French literature teacher, watches it, he’s surprisingly affected. Who was this man, and what could he h…
Someone to cook for / Maiko Seo ; translated from the Japanese by Laurel Taylor.
"Yuko has had four different surnames and been brought up in several families. The parental figures in her life, despite not being related by blood, have always cared deeply for her. Through it all, pragmatic and resilient and Yuko has navigated life's ch…
Medea sang me a corrido / Dahlia de la Cerda ; translated by Heather Cleary and Julia Sanches.
"In the mythic but all-too-familiar country of Aztlán, the violence of the cartel and the military are ever-present and indistinguishable, and everyday people strive to survive in the cross fire. Enter Medea: a deity with punk-rock flair, equal parts midw…
On the other side is March / Sólrún Michelsen ; translated from the Faroese by Marita Thomsen.
"I’m a woman in my early sixties.Somewhere between late and never. No longer the career woman, mother, housewife, and lover doing it all… Now I’m wife, mother, grandmother and my mother’s mother. But I still have to satisfy all the demands placed on me. S…
Nantucket second chances : a novel / Pamela Kelley.
"Nantucket is the perfect place for a new beginning. Claire Shipman never imagined she'd be the single mom of a teenager, going through a contentious divorce, and unexpectedly pregnant. On the bright side, at least she's on Nantucket, where she grew up, a…
We were forbidden / Jacqueline Harpman ; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz.
"In the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest. She and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their eternal march through its strange depths. Attending a rigid French school in 1940s Casablanca, a…
Main characters : a novel / Bobby Palmer.
"When Clara and Seb first cross paths in a London square, it's the start of something exciting. Clara, an aspiring director stuck in an entry-level job, itches to pick up a camera. Seb, having floated between music, modeling, and now acting, struggles to …
A sense of occasion / Brodie Crellin.
"After Mary’s sudden death, a fractured family reunites in a small English village for a funeral over a hot summer weekend. Patch is clearly overwhelmed by hosting a wake for her mother in her childhood home but is trying to muddle through, starting with…
It's all river : a novel / Carla Madeira ; translated by Alison Entrekin.
"Lusted after by everyone she meets, Lucy is the town’s most deviant and desired whore—and proud of it. But there is only one man who has captured her attention: the somber, ever-suffering Venâncio, a carpenter with a dark secret—and a wife. Once upon a t…
The au pair : a novel / Teddy Wayne.
"Award-winning author Teddy Wayne follows the tremendous critical success of his breakout sensation The Winner--a New York Times Top Ten Thriller of the Year--with another seductively twisty page-turner about the explosive impact of a beautiful Norwegian …
You first / Caroline Kepnes.
"Joe Goldberg is ready for his life to start. He’s seventeen years old, working in Mr. Mooney’s bookshop, falling in love with every girl on the subway all while wondering who will be the one. He knows what he needs: A woman who will force him to get his …
Goodbye Chinatown / Kit Fan.
"Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London’s Chinatown following the failure of her father’s traditional restaurant. When her parents decide to return to Hong Kong, taking with them their young son Bobby as we…
While we were waiting : a novel / Katherine Nouri Hughes.
"Lorraine and Will, New Yorkers married for 15 years, are having their first baby, via IVF. They are 40, successful in their careers—finance and music—with pasts that have held each of them back from one another until the day While We Were Waiting unfolds…
It could have been her : a novel / by Lisa Jewell.
"Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he'd been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered …
The bone stalker / Victor Methos.
"When a terrifying new killer targets Detective Lazarus Holloway’s inner circle, he ventures into the darkest corners of the city to unmask the murderer—and the one who’s really pulling the strings. Lazarus Holloway is no stranger to violent crime. The s…
The housewife : a novel / Natalie Barelli.
"Jodie always dreamed of being a housewife. And after a whirlwind romance, she marries renowned psychologist Dr. Roy Davies and moves into his perfect Beverly Hills home. But the fairy tale fades fast. Roy is distant, his friends view her as a gold-digger…
Summer's never over / Darby Bozeman.
"Five years ago, Greer left her family’s summer camp in the mountains of Georgia and vowed she’d never return. An idyllic season had turned into a nightmare after a mysterious Phantom began stalking the camp—and ended with Greer’s friend and fellow counse…
Shortbread in the Highlands / Robin Jones Gunn.
"When cousins Nora and Allie travel to Scotland to claim their gran's inheritance, a cottage by a loch seems the perfect setting until they're derailed by delays and village eccentrics. After exploring castles and hiking heather-covered hills, they uncove…
Meet me at the Seaside Cottages : a novel / Jenny Colgan.
"Janey Carter has a lot to be grateful for—a home by the sea in the Scottish isles, a job that she loves, two kids who have successfully launched, and a network of kind and supportive friends. But since her husband left, her confidence has taken a nosediv…
The world according to Garp / John Irving.
"Powerful and political, with unforgettable characters and timeless themes, The World According to Garp is John Irving's breakout novel. The precursor of Irving's later protest novels, it is the story of Jenny Fields, an unmarried nurse who becomes a sing…
Persuasion / Jane Austen ; edited with an introduction and notes by Gillian Beer.
"At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor r…
The last time we saw her : a novel / Jaclyn Goldis.
"Ten years ago, a group of American teenage summer campers went to a lush and isolated Azores island for a hiking and heritage trip. But when a clue to a local legend of buried treasure emerged, the summer devolved into a frenzied hunt and culminated in t…
Devotions : eight stories / Lucy Caldwell.
"A woman recalls the time her grandfather claimed to have met Jesus. A professional musician travels across the world and through her memories with a violin older than the USA. A young Belfast theatre troupe brings their experimental production of Hamlet …
Good company : a novel / Kate Christensen.
"From the brilliant Kate Christensen, winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for The Great Man, comes another novel about women, sex, and the way we live now. As she did in Welcome Home, Stranger, Christensen studies the life of a fifty-something woman who's tr…
The moonstone : a novel / Wilkie Collins.
"At a party celebrating her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder wears the stunning yellow diamond she unexpectedly inherited from her uncle, Colonel John Herncastle. She is not aware that the precious gem, known as the Moonstone, has been missing since i…
My year in Paris with Gertrude Stein : a fiction / Deborah Levy.
"In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist"--Provided by publisher.
Tata / Valérie Perrin ; translated from the French by Hildegarde Serle.
"When Agnes hears from the local police her Aunt Colette has died, she can’t believe her ears. Her father’s sister Colette, her Tata, died three years ago and has been resting in peace in the cemetery of Gueugnon. Agnes is called to identify the body: t…
You girls play nice / KD Aldyn.
"Four friends. Four plans for revenge. One secret killer. When Helen Wyatt is brutally murdered, her four best friends anxiously wait in the courtroom to ensure justice is served. But when her attacker is acquitted of all charges, the women decide to get …
The break-up retreat : a novel / Camilla Sten.
"Welcome to Himlafall Clinic, where we use revolutionary therapy techniques to heal you from heartbreak. Whether you are going through a devastating breakup, or can’t seem to stop picking the wrong partners, we are here to help you change your life, once …
People who live alone talk too much : stories / Sofi Stambo ; illustrated by Yana Mihaylova.
"A nervous dog takes flight over Manhattan. A woman soothes her neighbors with multilingual telepathy. A purse snatcher inherits her victim’s scribbled lists—and her worries. In these stories, immigrants to New York City work their way through absurd situ…
Dead bird songs / Reid Faylor
"The Moebiary Stampbill is doomed to extinction. Every bird will become a piece of tableware, thanks to Wellings, Estuary's largest domestic goods corporation. But among the lowest ranks of the giant company, rebellion stirs. Courtlan is a quietly unnervi…