Top new literary-fiction books out this week: 21 Sep - 27 Sep 2025
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September 27, 2025
This week featuring new releases by Ian McEwan, Elizabeth Day, Mona Awad, Eva Jurczyk, Yume Kitasei, Emily Prescott, Kiran Desai and many more.
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What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found.2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost...fiction · sci-fi · dystopia · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · contemporary · 21st-century · mystery · crime · romance -
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One of Us by Elizabeth Day
Pineapple Street meets Anatomy of a Scandal in this juicy, fast-paced ensemble drama about old friends, dazzling wealth, and the secrets the upper crust will keep—as long as they’re on your side... -
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We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad
In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samatha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique of creepy-sweet rich girls who call themselves “Bunny...horror · fiction · dark-academia · contemporary · fantasy · literary-fiction · humor · magical-realism · mystery · season-autumn -
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6:40 to Montreal by Eva Jurczyk
No WiFi, no distractions. No way out…Agatha needs to get some serious work done on her new book. To help her, her husband bought her quiet time to concentrate: a train ticket for a six-hour ride from Toronto to Montreal. The time aboard sets the stage for a perfect writing retreat, with only a handful of other passengers, plenty of snacks and drinks, and beautiful views...north-america · canada · fiction · contemporary · suspense · cozy · season-winter · thriller · crime · literary-fiction -
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Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei
From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister―and Earth’s environmental salvation.In Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths... -
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Henhouse by Emily Prescott
Effie and Hope Thatcher grew up knowing that their grandmother found the last good man. Heartbreak and disappointment were as familiar in Thatcher house as estrogen and town gossip. Hope’s unexpected pregnancy announcement has twenty-three year old Effie realizing that she’s the only woman in their all-female house that hasn’t even dared to find love... -
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
The spellbinding story of two young people whose fates will intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of LossBehind every love story are the myriad stories of two families.In the snowy mountains of Vermont, Sonia is lonely...romance · fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · poc-mc · young-adult · coming-of-age · family · book
