Thoughtful Gifts for Fiction Readers

Perfect for the person who is already dreaming about their summer vacation. Alex and Poppy are best friends, despite the fact that they have nothing in common. Each year, these polar opposites go on a week-long vacation together, that is until two years ago, when they ruined everything. Somehow Poppy convinces Alex to go on one last trip together. Now she only has a week to fix everything or lose the person who means the most to her.

Our unnamed narrator works as an Interpreter for the International Court. She is a woman with many languages, identities, and stories, but is finally looking for a place to call her home. If only it could be that simple…

Fasten your seatbelts and let Maggie Shipstead take you on a journey that covers more than a century and circumnavigates the globe! As a girl Marian Graves became obsessed with flight. But when her patriarchal society tried to deny her at every turn, she decides to go over their heads, literally. A century later, Hadley Baxter is cast to play Marian in an upcoming Hollywood production. As she immerses into her character, she finds that their lives will collide in new and unexpected ways. A soaring novel!

Diana and Finn are getting ready for a romantic vacation to the Galapagos when the unthinkable happens. A virus has started to emerge all over the world and Finn, a surgical resident, has to stay behind to work at the hospital. Diana decides to go on the trip alone, but from the moment she leaves home nothing seems to go right, until she befriends a local family. On her own, Diana is able to reevaluate her relationships and goals and wonders if she will be the same person when she returns.

A hilarious and satirical magical realism story that aims to turn the model immigrant myth on its head. Neil is struggling to carry the weight of his parents’ dreams on his shoulders when he discovers that his neighbor has a potion that bestows the ancient power of gold on the recipient. Finally, he sees a way to get ahead, but at what cost?

Wole Soyinka, the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is back with her first novel in almost half a century. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is a funny, satirical, and cheeky look at the ways power can contaminate a person, a nation, and the world.

In Lauren Groff’s first novel since Fates and Furies we find Marie de France, a young girl cast out of the royal court and sent to England to live with nuns in an abbey on the brink of ruin. She grows fiercely protective of the sisters she leads, but in this changing world there is little room for women warriors. This is must-read fiction.

The ways motherhood and feminism tend to be at odds with one another is enough to make anyone go wild. Nightbitch leans into this feeling with a modern fairytale about a stay-at-home mom who is convinced she is turning into a dog. The result is absurd, electric, and darkly funny.

Ancient mythology comes to life in this modern Texas town. March, the estranged son of the wealthy Briscoe family has just returned to town, but his own family members don’t seem so happy about it. Over the course of the week, relationships will shatter, secrets will be revealed, and someone will be murdered.

For those that loved Sally Rooney’s Normal People or the Hulu adaptation, this collection of the scripts is a must. Complete with behind-the-scenes photographs and an introduction by the director, you can delve deeper into the lives of Marianne and Connell and their life-changing relationship.

Elle is spending another perfect summer at her family’s summer place, “The Paper Palace,” with her husband and children. But everything changes when Elle sleeps with Jonas, her childhood sweetheart, and she must decide between the life she loves with her husband, and the one she daydreamed about but never thought could be a reality. How did Elle get here? If these walls could talk…

Investigator Lacy Stoltz works for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct, but it starting to look for a change, when she is approached by a woman who has become obsessed with trying to solve her father’s murder, a cold case for more than twenty years. She has narrowed in on a suspect, the only problem is that person is…a sitting judge. How can Lacy pursue someone who is seemingly above the law?

Klara, an Artificial Friend, closely observes the humans around her, from the store shoppers to the customer who chooses her to be her companion. Beautifully haunting and thought-provoking, Ishiguro’s latest novel is a story of love, loneliness, and empathy.

Amor Towles takes readers on another wild ride, this time through 1950s America. Emmett Watson has just been freed from jail and he plans on taking his younger brother to California so they can both start a new life. But when two of Emmet’s friends from jail escape, they have their own plan for Emmett’s life.

Lucy and William have been divorced for many years but have remained close. So, when William asks her to help him investigate a family secret, she agrees without a second thought. But old family secrets aren’t the only revelations that will come to light. This beautiful story is a study on the mysteries of marriage, and the true ties that bind.

A Passage North is a powerful meditation on the far-reaching effects war and its aftermath have on a country, to those who left and those who stayed behind. As a man travels through Sri Lanka’s war-torn region, he must come to terms with the decisions he’s made in his past and how it will affect his future.

Outlander fans rejoice, Jamie and Claire are back in the newest book in the series! The year is 1779 and the Frasers have finally been reunited with their daughter Brianna and their grandchildren. But what should be a happy moment is clouded by the rumors circulating the Colonies about a possible revolution against the British. As tensions build, Jamie and Claire hold on tighter to the family they’ve fought so hard to keep.