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This guide encompasses the genres of literary, historical, and inspirational fiction.

General fiction

This guide will help you find your next great fiction read in the genres of literary, historical, and inspirational fiction. In these guides, we are highlighting what's new, classics, local authors, staff picks, audiobooks, and graphic novels that will guide you if you're already an established fan or if you're entirely new to the genre. Happy reading!

Read with pride

The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle
Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
Aunt Tigress by Emily Yu-Hsuan Qin
A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo
An Evening With Birdy O'Day by Greg Kearney
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
God of Want by K-Ming Chang
Householders by Kate Cayley
A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
Theory by Dionne Brand
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

Spring reads

Outline by Rachel Cusk
Emma by Jane Austen
Spring by Ali Smith
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Sweet Bean Paste by Dorian Sukegawa
Indians on Vacation by Thomas King
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Difffenbaugh
Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat

What's new

The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E.M. Anderson
This Kind of Trouble by Tochi Eze
Julius Julius by Aurora Stewart De Pena
The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki
Courtroom Drama by Neely Tubati Alexander
The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja
What Hunger by Catherine Dang
Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth
The Nantucket Restaurant by Pamela Kelley
Nero by Conn Iggulden
Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda
Tilt by Emma Pattee
Retreat by Krysten Ritter
Lucky Night by Eliza Kennedy
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
Twist by Colum McCann
Nobody Asked for This by Georgia Toews
The Resistance Painter by Kath Jonathan

Staff picks

The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
Foster by Claire Keegan
Shark Heart by Emily Habeck
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
Real Ones by Katherena Vermette
Show Don't Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld
Sandwich by Catherine Newman
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Cider House Rules by John Irving

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