Novels, short stories, and fictional narratives
The Missing Half: A Post-Apoc Survival Journey is the concluding eighth entry in Randall Wood's Half a World post-apocalyptic series, published by Tension Bookworks in March 2026, and delivers the propulsive, high-stakes storytelling that readers of the series have come to expect — though its rewards are reserved almost entirely for those already invested in the saga.
May 2, 2026
All the Broken Places is a historical fiction novel by New York Times bestselling author John Boyne — a sequel to his book The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas — that follows Gretel Fernsby, now 91 years old and living quietly in a London mansion block, as the arrival of a new family forces her to confront decades of buried guilt over her father's role as commandant of a Nazi extermination camp, her own complicity, and her part in her brother Bruno's death.
Apr 27, 2026
Lisa Wingate's The Book of Lost Friends is a New York Times bestseller and a dual-timeline historical novel that roots its emotional power in the real-world tragedy of post–Civil War "Lost Friends" newspaper advertisements, weaving together the journeys of three young women in 1875 Louisiana and Texas with the story of a modern teacher who uncovers their forgotten history.
Apr 26, 2026
Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is a philosophical fiction and Gothic horror classic that follows the beautiful Dorian Gray as he bargains his soul so that his portrait — rather than himself — bears the marks of age and moral corruption. Originally published in 1890 and widely regarded as a cornerstone of both Gothic and English literature, this Grapevine Kindle edition makes the novel readily accessible to a new generation of readers. The Guardian has listed it among the 100 best novels ever written in English, and it remains among the most widely read Gothic novels in the world.
May 3, 2026
Last Seen Alone pairs attorney Leigh Larson and Austin homicide detective Brandon Reynolds in a race to find a missing woman whose only traceable connection is a business card left at a blood-soaked crime scene — a setup that drives both a propulsive mystery and a slow-burn romance. Published by Berkley in September 2021, the novel comes from a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than thirty books to her name, and it earns the praise of peers who cite Griffin's sharp dialogue, tight plotting, and well-researched construction as hallmarks of the genre.
Apr 29, 2026
Gary Gerlacher's debut medical thriller introduces Dr. AJ "Doc" Docker, a Houston ER physician whose determination to identify and seek justice for an unnamed young woman who dies in his emergency room pulls him into the criminal underworld — with his policeman friend and a police dog at his side. Published by Black Rose Writing in December 2023, the novel blends action-packed thriller plotting with lighter, episodic moments from emergency room life, with Gerlacher's real-world background as a pediatric emergency physician providing the authentic ER detail that grounds the series opener.
Apr 27, 2026
The 7 She Saw launches Elle Gray's Blake Wilder FBI Mystery Thriller series with a protagonist haunted by personal tragedy, an investigation into three murders in a deceptively idyllic Washington coastal town, and a serial format that has since grown to over thirty installments — making this 2020 debut a foundation worth understanding on its own terms.
Apr 26, 2026
The Summer Guests is a character-driven novel from New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe, published by Gallery Books, in which a gathering of strangers and their horses ride out a hurricane together at a North Carolina farm — and find that the storm forces each of them toward new beginnings, rediscovered connections, and the truths about what matters most in their lives.
May 1, 2026
Sylvia Plath's only novel, The Bell Jar, follows nineteen-year-old Esther Greenwood from a promising summer internship in New York City into a harrowing descent through mental illness and institutionalization — a thinly veiled autobiography that became an instant bestseller in the United States and has since been translated into more than forty languages. First published in January 1963 under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas," and later issued under Plath's real name, the novel endures as a landmark of psychological fiction and a defining coming-of-age text, praised by USA Today for its "perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice."
May 1, 2026
Alex North's debut novel, The Whisper Man, is a New York Times bestseller published by Celadon Books that intertwines a cold-case serial killer investigation with a story of grief, fatherhood, and a child's unnerving connection to something he cannot explain — earning starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist and an Editor's Pick designation from The New York Times.
Apr 28, 2026
Jessica Irena Smith's debut thriller, published by Headline in October 2024, centres on Steppy Corner — host of the hit true crime podcast All the Dark Corners — who wakes in a Colorado hospital with no memory of why she was racing up a mountainside toward the estranged family she left behind in Heartsick. The novel has drawn enthusiastic reader responses for its tightly plotted structure, emotionally weighted family secrets, and a climactic twist that has repeatedly caught readers off-guard.
Apr 26, 2026
Michael C. Connolly's debut novel, Murky Overhead, follows the Folan family — Irish immigrants scratching out a living on Portland, Maine's Munjoy Hill — across a single day, drawing on the author's decades of academic research and personal heritage to illuminate the broader immigrant experience on both sides of the Atlantic.
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