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New For You - Contemporary Fiction - November 2025

Explore modern life in all its fictional glory with this selection of new contemporary fiction titles.

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  • With her brother’s grumpy best friend and her longtime nemesis as Beth’s flight instructor, her pilot lessons could be a plane disaster or their first-class ticket to forever.
    Book, 2025New York : Berkley Romance, 2025. — ROMANCE CON
  • For fans of Survivor and Less, this fast-paced debut novel shines an unflinching light on the drama of reality TV when a gay man returns to the cut-throat show he won in his youth after his adult life begins to unravel.
    Book, 2025New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2025. — FICTION HOL
  • For fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel TV show. Overwhelmed and fed up, Clementine goes on strike, ditching obligations, setting boundaries, and venting her frustrations on social media. When her raw, hilarious, and unexpectedly poignant videos go…
    Book, 2025New York : Alcove Press, 2025. — FICTION BAI
  • The story of a runaway mother’s ten days of freedom and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment, from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes.
    Book, 2025New York : One World, [2025] — FICTION HUD
  • Beilin’s exhilarating second novel (after Revenge of the Scapegoat) portrays a writer’s struggle to progress with her work after eye surgery.
    Book, 2025New York : A New Directions Paperbook Original, 2025 — FICTION BEI
  • Ruth is alone, unnoticed and at a loss: her marriage has ended, her daughter is leaving home and her job is leading nowhere. But luckily Sookie is back in her life - vivid, self-assured Sookie, who never spared the time for Ruth when they were…
    Book, 2025London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025. — FICTION LAN
  • Three teenagers kill an older acquaintance. Told in three interlinked parts spanning three generations of American lives, protagonist Catt Greene attempts to unravel the mystery and understand the teenagers in an exploration of a fractured America,…
    Book, 2025Melbourne, Victoria : Scribe, 2025. — FICTION
  • In one year, Mona will lose her eyesight forever, so every Wednesday her granddad takes her to see a great work of art in Paris. Mona discovers the power of art and the meaning of generosity, doubt, melancholy and loss in this moving portrait of…
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  • Decades after a tangled college love triangle shaped her life, a woman is forced to confront her old choices and hidden truths in this intimate novel of friendship and desire.
    Book, 2025Edinburgh : Canongate, 2025. — FICTION KIN
  • Spanning three centuries and linked by a long-extinct denizen of the northern oceans, a sweeping and intimate tale about a fateful encounter between man and nature. A gorgeous, thought-provoking book about the consequences of the human exploration…
    Book, 2025London : MacLehose Press, 2025. — FICTION TUR