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A warm fit for readers who like coming-of-age fiction, found family, music, and 1990s nostalgia.
The People We Keep
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Women's Fiction
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In 1994, 16-year-old musician April Sawicki leaves her small New York town and takes to the road, trying to build a life of her own. As she moves through new places and relationships, the novel follows her search for belonging and the people who become family. A warm fit for readers who like coming-of-age fiction, found family, music, and 1990s nostalgia.
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ONE OF BOOK RIOT’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
“This is a novel of great empathy, about connections and coming-of-age, built families and self-acceptance. It contains heartbreak and redemption, and a plucky, irresistible protagonist…[A] propulsive, empathetic novel.” —Shelf Awareness
A lyrical coming-of-age novel about a young woman's journey through heartbreak, chosen family, self-discovery, and creative resilience in 1990s upstate New York.
Little River, New York, 1994: April Sawicki is living in a motorless motorhome that her father won in a poker game. Failing out of school, picking up shifts at a local diner, she’s left fending for herself in a town where she’s never quite felt at home. When she “borrows” her neighbor’s car to perform at an open mic night, she realizes her life could be much bigger than where she came from. After a fight with her dad, April packs her stuff and leaves for good, setting off on a journey to find a life that’s all hers.
Driving without a chosen destination, she stops to rest in Ithaca. Her only plan is to survive, but as she looks for work, she finds a kindred sense of belonging at Cafe Decadence, the local coffee shop. Still, somehow, it doesn’t make sense to her that life could be this easy. The more she falls in love with her friends in Ithaca, the more she can’t shake the feeling that she’ll hurt them the way she’s been hurt. As April moves through the world, meeting people who feel like home, she chronicles her life in the songs she writes and discovers that where she came from doesn’t dictate who she has to be.
This lyrical, coming-of-age novel “is both a profound love letter to creative resilience and a reminder that sometimes even tragedy can be a kind of blessing” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author).
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A good pick for fans of dual-timeline WWII historical fiction built around family secrets, wartime courage, and long-buried promises.
The Singapore Secret
Literary Fiction
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The Singapore Secret begins when Annabel discovers hidden letters and photographs after her grandmother Dotty dies at one hundred, revealing a secret life in wartime Singapore and a mysterious bridegroom who was not her grandfather. The truth leads back to 1942, when Dorothy made a promise during a desperate evacuation that echoed across generations. A good pick for fans of dual-timeline WWII historical fiction built around family secrets, wartime courage, and long-buried promises.
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'Wow what a blockbuster of a narrative, I was hooked from the first page and until the end... Full of intrigue and secrets... Be prepared to be swept away' Reader review
'Heartwarming and inspirational story about hope, forgiveness, bravery, promises made and secrets kept, that will stay with you long after you have read the last page' Reader review
A secret letter. A wartime promise. A courageous act of love...
Singapore, 1942: The war is drawing ever closer, and Dorothy faces a heart-rending choice to flee the country she has come to call home. With warplanes advancing across the ocean, she is boarding a boat full of evacuees when something is urgently pressed into her arms.
As enemy fire cuts off all escape routes, Dorothy makes a promise that will echo through the years...
England, 2019: When her beloved grandmother, Dotty, passes away aged one hundred, Annabel discovers letters and photographs hidden in her desk that document a secret life as a young woman in Singapore. But Dotty has never travelled further than her small village in Cornwall... What could have made her conceal this past life? And who is the bridegroom standing proudly next to Dotty in a faded wedding photo, who is clearly not Annabel's grandfather?
Determined to uncover the truth, is Annabel prepared for what she will find?
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A good pick for readers drawn to literary historical fiction, courtroom mysteries, and layered community memory.
Snow Falling On Cedars
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Called “Compelling...heart-stopping. Finely wrought, flawlessly written” by the New York Times Book Review, Snow Falling on Cedars centers on a 1954 murder trial after a Japanese American man is charged with killing a local fisherman on isolated San Piedro Island. The case opens old wounds involving forbidden love, lost land, and the wartime internment of the island’s Japanese residents. A good pick for readers drawn to literary historical fiction, courtroom mysteries, and layered community memory.
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Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award ▪ American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award
"Haunting....A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper."—Los Angeles Times
San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries—memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched. Gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric, Snow Falling on Cedars is a masterpiece of suspense—one that leaves us shaken and changed.
"Compelling...heart-stopping. Finely wrought, flawlessly written."—New York Times Book Review
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Readers who enjoy women’s history, buried family stories, and past-and-present mysteries should find plenty to like here.
The Secret Letter
Literary Fiction
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Called “Incredible… I was enraptured through every single part of it…” by a five-star NetGalley reviewer, this dual-timeline historical novel follows Suffragette Esther in 1910 London and schoolteacher Lizzie in 2019 Kent, where a threatened school leads her to uncover Esther’s secret. Readers who enjoy women’s history, buried family stories, and past-and-present mysteries should find plenty to like here.
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‘Incredible… I was enraptured through every single part of it… Made me feel quite emotional… Fabulous read.’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars
London, 1910. Twenty-one-year-old Esther Watkins would do anything for the Suffragette cause. Imprisoned, force-fed and beaten, she is determined to fight for what she believes is right – no matter what it costs her. With new love Joseph by her side, will she get the better future she dreams of?
Kent, 2019. With her marriage in tatters, school teacher Lizzie Armstrong moves to sleepy Elm Heath for a fresh start, and her pupils and the community soon steal her heart. So when the school is threatened with closure Lizzie knows she has to fight, and she looks to the school’s founder for inspiration.
What makes Esther, born and bred in London, a proud Suffragette, suddenly leave the city and escape to Elm Heath? And when Lizzie uncovers Esther’s heartbreaking secret, could it give her the strength she needs to save not just the school, but her new beginning too?
A heart-wrenching and uplifting novel for fans of Emily Gunnis, Kathleen McGurl and Kathryn Hughes.
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Good for readers looking for contemporary family drama with coastal atmosphere, layered secrets, and summer-read appeal.
Vacationland
Literary Fiction
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Amanda Eyre Ward calls Vacationland “As sophisticated and delicious as lobster bisque.” The novel follows Louisa and Kristie through a Maine summer shaped by family secrets, marriage, motherhood, privilege, old betrayals, and questions of what they owe others. Good for readers looking for contemporary family drama with coastal atmosphere, layered secrets, and summer-read appeal.
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A Sarah Selects Book Club Pick!
“As sophisticated and delicious as lobster bisque.” —Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestselling author
A shimmering summer read set in Maine about family secrets, marriage, motherhood, and privilege, from the bestselling author of Two Truths and a Lie and The Islanders.
Louisa has come to her parents’ house in Maine this summer with her three kids, a barely written book that has a looming deadline, and a trunkful of resentment. Louisa is hoping the crisp breeze will blow away her irritation for her life choices and replace it with enthusiasm for both her family and her writing.
But all isn’t well in Maine. Louisa’s father, a retired judge and pillar of the community, is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Louisa’s mother is alternately pretending everything is fine and not pretending at all. And one of Louisa’s children happens upon a very confusing and heartfelt letter referring to something Louisa doesn’t think her father could possibly have done.
Louisa’s not the only one searching for something in Maine this summer. Kristie took the Greyhound bus from Pennsylvania with the $761 left in her bank account and a whole lot of emotional baggage. She has a past she’s trying to outrun, a secret she’s trying to unpack, and a new boyfriend who’s so impossibly kind she can’t figure out what she did to deserve him.
As June turns to July turns to August, secrets will be unearthed, betrayals will come to light, and both Louisa and Kristie will ask themselves what they are owed and what they owe others. Both a delicious summer read and a compelling portrayal of family, responsibility, ambition, and loss, Vacationland is Meg Mitchell Moore at her best.
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A warm fit for readers who enjoy cozy fantasy, books about books, family legacies, and gentle touches of magic.
The Secret Library
Literary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Book editor Lucy Thomas inherits her grandmother's Cornish home, along with its remarkable library and a box of unfinished stories she must complete to honor her grandmother's final wish and uncover the magic within them, with a 4.2-star average from more than 2,800 Goodreads ratings. A warm fit for readers who enjoy cozy fantasy, books about books, family legacies, and gentle touches of magic.
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Some stories don't end. They wait to be found…
Book editor Lucy Thomas has just inherited her grandmother’s windswept Cornish home, and with it, a library bathed in sunlight, a spiral staircase that leads to secrets, and a battered box filled with unfinished stories…
To honour her grandmother’s last wish, Lucy must finish what was left undone – and discover the magic hiding between the lines.
Filled with warmth, whispers of magic, and the irreplaceable comfort of books, The Secret Library is for anyone who knows how one story can change everything.
PRAISE FOR AMANDA JAMES:
'This was an emotional and heartfelt read and had me invested from the start.'
'A thoroughly uplifting enjoyable read that will certainly leave you feeling better with the world. Amanda James always seems to write intriguing, sensitive books with that touch of magic and The Midnight Bookshop is no exception.'
'To appreciate the book fully you have to leave any preconceived ideas at the first page and open up you mind to a magical world.'
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This literary novel fits readers who want quiet emotional depth, family regret, friendship, and a tender portrait of atonement late in life.
When the Cranes Fly South
Literary Fiction
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Love becomes harder to express when time narrows and the smallest loss carries the weight of a whole life. In When the Cranes Fly South, Bo faces aging, strained fatherhood, and the possible loss of his beloved dog, Sixten. This literary novel fits readers who want quiet emotional depth, family regret, friendship, and a tender portrait of atonement late in life.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man’s attempts to mend his relationship with his son before it’s too late: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood, dogs, and atonement that is already an international sensation.
"One of those ‘you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to buy twenty copies and give them to everyone you love’ books.” —Fredrik Backman, bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, in The New Yorker
“So heartbreaking and funny and beautiful and wise. . . . An extraordinary book.” —Richard Osman, author of the New York Times Bestselling Thursday Murder Club series
Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company … though now his son, with whom Bo has had a rocky relationship, insists upon taking the dog away, claiming that Bo has grown too old to properly care for him. The threat of losing Sixten stirs up a whirlwind of emotion, leading Bo to take stock of his life, his relationships, and the imperfect way he’s expressed his love over the years.
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Best for readers who like medieval historical fiction about marriage, duty, court politics, and women behind the throne.
The Crownless Queen
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Romance · Historical Romance · Pre-History | Ancient History
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Called “entertaining, engrossing” by Sharon Bennett Connolly, The Crownless Queen follows Jeanette of Kent after the death of Thomas Holland, as she remarries Prince Edward, takes on royal responsibility, and faces the cost of power, with a 4.4-star average from more than 200 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers who like medieval historical fiction about marriage, duty, court politics, and women behind the throne.
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1360: Having left her days of rebellion behind, Jeanette of Kent has finally found contentment as a wife and mother. Then, she is delivered a new blow: her beloved husband, Thomas Holland, has died on duty overseas.
Though broken, Jeanette readies herself once more to fight to protect what is hers. And when Prince Edward, heir to the throne and her longtime friend, unexpectedly steps forward and offers marriage, she accepts for the sake of her family.
As their relationship deepens, love blossoms again for Jeanette, but it comes at a price. With great power comes great responsibility - not least bearing a future king - and, as the wheel of fortune climbs higher, it becomes harder and harder to hold on.
Jeanette has more to lose than ever before. But with the wolves gathering beneath her, can she survive the fall?
From the award-winning and bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick comes the much-awaited second novel in the Jeanette of Kent duology, The Crownless Queen - bringing to a powerful conclusion the remarkable story of a woman who began life as a royal rebel and ended it behind the throne...
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A good pick for readers who like literary fiction with humor, mental health themes, underdog teams, and bruised but stubborn hope.
Head Fake
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2024, Head Fake follows Mikey, a depressed young man who becomes the unlikely basketball coach for high-risk students experiencing mental illness, with a 4.6-star average from more than 1,100 Goodreads ratings. A good pick for readers who like literary fiction with humor, mental health themes, underdog teams, and bruised but stubborn hope.
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Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2024
“Head Fake is about how laughter can save us." —Chris Rock, comedian, actor
"An absorbing, uplifting tale of finding light and self-worth in adversity’s darkest depths.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Mikey makes everything a joke, even the clinical depression he’s struggled with for years. After a run of failed jobs, he becomes the unlikely basketball coach at a high school for high-risk offenders who are experiencing mental illness. The position becomes suddenly available after the team tried to strangle their last coach.
Every instinct tells Mikey to get as far away from this school as possible. Coaching these kids, who have been arrested for who-knows-what, would be difficult for a normie. For Mikey, it could cause another breakdown and force him right back to living on the street. But he knows that if he has any chance to make his twenty-sixth birthday, he needs to keep this job, even if the school board wants him fired, and the students would rather fight each other than play ball.
This poignant, hilarious, and sometimes uncomfortable novel proves that even the most damaged of us can emerge victorious.
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Good for readers who like literary fiction built around wealth, power, unreliable storytelling, and shifting perspectives.
Trust
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction
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A Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestseller called “Exhilarating” by the New York Times, Trust follows a legendary Wall Street tycoon, his wife, and the competing narratives around their fortune, with a 3.8-star average from more than 186,000 Goodreads ratings. Good for readers who like literary fiction built around wealth, power, unreliable storytelling, and shifting perspectives.
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE
“Buzzy and enthralling . . . A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery . . . Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily
"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City’s elite in the roaring ’20s and Great Depression." —Vanity Fair
“A riveting story of class, capitalism, and greed.” —Esquire
"Exhilarating.” —New York Times
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
Hernan Diaz’s TRUST elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one another—and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.
At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, TRUST engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
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Ideal for readers looking for a funny, bookish romance with Jane Austen inspiration, magical realism, and questions about what a happy ending really means.
Most Ardently Yours
Women's Fiction · Romance · RomCom
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Most Ardently Yours follows Zoe Knight, a struggling romance writer who accidentally summons Mr. Darcy into modern London after stealing a copy of Pride and Prejudice from a bookshop. Ideal for readers looking for a funny, bookish romance with Jane Austen inspiration, magical realism, and questions about what a happy ending really means.
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From USA Today bestselling author Freya Sampson comes a romance inspired by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that asks: what if your book boyfriend jumped from the pages of their story and into your life?
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of many romance novels, must be in want of a book boyfriend."
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 man than Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy. So when she stumbles into a classic London bookshop and argues with the annoyingly attractive store owner, Nick, who refuses to sell romance novels, she decides to liberate him of a dusty copy of Pride & Prejudice abandoned on a top shelf.
But this is no ordinary book.
After reading from the pages, Zoe finds herself in a remarkable situation: she has accidentally summoned the Mr. Darcy to the real world. Now, she's face-to-face with the man she's loved forever, and he's everything she dreamed he would be. Handsome? Check. Brooding? Check. Talks like he swallowed a thesaurus? Check and check. But even in all his regency perfection, can he ever be as good as in the novel? And if he's here, in her London apartment trying to figure out how to work a shower , what will happen to the literary world he came from? With Nick—the last man she could ever be prevailed upon to work with—urging her to send the fictional Darcy back to his own story, Zoe will have to decide what she really wants from a happy ending, before it's too late.
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A good pick for readers who like WW2 military fiction, espionage puzzles, battlefield action, and historical thrillers.
Drake’s War
Historical Fiction · Men's Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Called “spellbinding,” Drake's War follows Second Lieutenant Tennyson “Ted” Drake, a former schoolmaster caught behind the lines in the Ardennes in May 1940 with a bloodstained coded notebook and a mysterious raven sketch. As Blitzkrieg overwhelms the Allied defences, Drake must uncover the raven’s secret before it changes the war, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 700 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for readers who like WW2 military fiction, espionage puzzles, battlefield action, and historical thrillers.
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“A quick-paced, well-plotted novel…a propulsive, mystery-driven narrative.” KIRKUS REVIEWS
“Absolutely fascinating and highly informative… battles are described in electrifying detail.” V E H Masters of The Historical Novel Society
"As a portrait of military history, it doesn’t get much better. Unflinching realism… a genuine tour de force of nail-biting tension. Action sequences are exceptional. Frankly, they thrill." E.V. Seymour, best-selling author of The Patient
"If you liked Sharpe's Rifles, you'll love Drake's War" - Selected for the Bernard Cornwell reading club
It's May 1940.
The Allies are at a standoff with Hitler's Germany.
Second Lieutenant Tennyson "Ted" Drake, until recently a barracks schoolmaster, is on a shadowy reconnaissance trip deep in the Ardennes forest.
But when the German panzers burst across the border, Drake's commanding officer is killed, leaving Drake in a place he should not be, with no orders, just a bloodstained notebook filled with code - and a mysterious sketch of a raven.
As the Allied defences crumble before the onslaught of the Blitzkrieg, Drake must stay alive long enough to discover the raven’s secret - and stop its catastrophic consequences on the outcome of the war…
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