Top new literary-fiction books out this week: 9 Nov - 15 Nov 2025
Last updated:
November 15, 2025
This week featuring new releases by Daryl Banner, Allie Tagle-Dokus, Justinian Huang, Grace Walker and many more.
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Hate To Love You: A Fairview/Spruce Texas Romance by Daryl Banner
Sometimes the person you hate to loveis the one you were meant to fall for.Liam has one goal for the get through it.Then he'll be back on campus where life makes sense.No drama. No summer job at Gary's Grocers.And definitely no dating.Until he matches with a mysterious guy on a new app.Someone funny, thoughtful, and easy to talk to... -
Lucky Girl by Allie Tagle-Dokus
An exhilarating, darkly funny debut novel about the absurd and fleeting nature of childhood fame, and the ever-evolving desire for family and forgiveness. Lucy Gardiner felt like she was put on earth to dance.Amid the chaos of her Massachusetts upbringing—her loving, erratic brothers; her overburdened mother—twelve-year-old Lucy is discovered and cast on a new dance reality show... -
Lucky Seed by Justinian Huang
The billionaire Sun Clan of Greater Los Angeles is your typical American family, with power-struggling aunties, emasculated uncles, scheming cousins, scandalous secrets and a fortune teller on retainer. But at the end of each combative day, the Suns are chained together with golden handcuffs, whether they like it or not. Yet strange storms are a-brewing...fiction · contemporary · lgbtq · audiobook · humor · family · literary-fiction · romance · book · adult -
The Merge by Grace Walker
A thrilling and ominously prophetic debut set in a world when Earth and its resources have been pushed to breaking point, giving rise to a revolutionary—and highly controversial—procedure in which two people’s consciousness can be combined to exist in one body. How far would you go to never say goodbye? Laurie is sixty-five and living with Alzheimer’s...sci-fi · dystopia · fiction · politics · family · anthologies · post-apocalyptic · crime · literary-fiction · female-mc