18 Jul 2025
The Beauty in the Blur: 6 Literary Fiction Picks
These novels play with time, memory, and identity, blurring what’s real and what’s remembered. The structure may be fragmented, but the emotions are crystal clear. You’ll feel untethered, and somehow more grounded than ever.
The Otero County Disclosure
by Huey Hawke
Release Date: July 8, 2025
Everything you know, everything you understand, is about to change. What answers to big, universal questions does wheelchair-bound Alexa have, and where do her theories come from? How could anyone know her ideas if she’s never been able to talk… until now? Super-bright seventeen-year-old Alexa doesn’t realise that she has someone’s attention.
UTOPYC: The First Anarcho-Capitalist Utopia
by W. Galt
Release Date: March 24, 2025
Gabriel Dan, journalist, visits Utopyc to discover that strange new country that everyone is talking about and no one knows a thing about. Olga is assigned to show him every corner of Utopyc, and the result could not be more shocking. How can a country exist without a State? How can you live in chaos, in disorganization, without a political authority?
Wayward Girls
by Susan Wiggs
Release Date: July 15, 2025
In 1968, we meet six teens confined at the Good Shepherd—a dark and secretive institution controlled by Sisters of Charity nuns—locked away merely for being gay, pregnant, or simply unruly. Wayward Girls is a haunting but thrilling tale of hope, solidarity, and the enduring strength of young women who find the courage to break free and find redemption…and justice.
Inheriting the Cottage by the Loch
by Kennedy Kerr
Release Date: June 26, 2025
The manor house overlooking Loch Cameron, with its sprawling garden of unruly blooms and tall wrought iron gates, has been uninhabited for as long as anyone in the village can remember. But an old lady hiding a family secret and a puzzling inheritance is about to bring two estranged sisters home again…
The Satisfaction Café
by Kathy Wang
Release Date: July 1, 2025
Joan’s life is a series of unexpected events: she never thought she would live in California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode—especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American man and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children.
El Dorado Drive
by Megan Abbott
Release Date: June 24, 2025
The three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege in the moneyed suburbs of Detroit. But as the auto industry declined, so did their fortunes. Harper, the youngest, is barely making ends meet when her beloved, charismatic sister Pam—currently in the middle of a contentious battle with her ex-husband—and her eldest sister, Debra, approach her about joining an exciting new club.
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