New For You - Contemporary Fiction - September 2025Like this list

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• Favorite Daughter

  a Novel

  Dick, Morgan

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  When estranged half-sisters unknowingly connect as therapist and patient due to their late father’s manipulative will, secrets unravel, tensions ignite and they face a collision course that could either destroy or heal their fractured lives.

• All the Perfect Days

  Thompson, Michael, 1986-

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  Charlie Knight fears life is passing him by. He's in his late thirties, and treading water as a family doctor in the same small town he grew up in. Just as he's planning his escape, something changes. He develops a gift: a sense of exactly how many…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Food Person

  a Novel

  Roberts, Adam D.

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  After a public soufflé disaster costs her job at a digital cooking magazine, foodie Isabella Pasternack reluctantly agrees to ghostwrite a cookbook for a scandal-ridden actress, sparking a chaotic journey of culinary devotion, unlikely friendship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Slip

  a Novel

  Schaefer, Lucas

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  An American novel about a missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.

• Bloody Awful in Different Ways

  Walden, Andrev

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  In the aftermath of a furious argument, seven-year-old Andrev’s mother lets him in on a secret: his father isn’t really his father. A vivid, funny and tender story of a boy growing up in the ’80s and 90s, who has seven fathers in seven years,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Golden Sister

  Do, Suzanne

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  The Golden Sister celebrates the intensity of families, the solace of strangers, and the unparalleled power of love.

• Shamiso

  Chikwava, Brian

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  Quirky, challenging and mischievous, this tender coming-of-age story brilliantly examines selfhood, love and the many shapes family can take.

• My Sister and Other Lovers

  Freud, Esther

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  A captivating coming of age novel about love, sisterhood, secrets and betrayal

• Happiness and Love

  a Novel

  Dubno, Zoe

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  Following a young woman over the course of one outrageous and insufferable downtown dinner party at the home of her estranged best friends—an artist and curator couple, whom she now realizes stand for everything she detests.

• Hailstones Fell Without Rain

  Barroso, Natalia Figueroa

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  A dazzling, multilayered and often laugh-out-loud story about three generations of working-class women from one family.