Novels, short stories, and fictional narratives
This HarperCollins omnibus, published October 7, 2025, collects all five of Terry Pratchett's Tiffany Aching novels — The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith, I Shall Wear Midnight, and The Shepherd's Crown — in a single paperback volume of 1,936 pages, tracing Tiffany's arc from a nine-year-old defender of her homeland to a fully realized witch of the Chalk, accompanied by Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, and the irrepressible six-inch-high Nac Mac Feegle. The Chicago Tribune called it "wonderful language, genuinely scary explorations, and a young girl whose growing up is believable and exciting." It is also notable as the series that contains The Shepherd's Crown, Pratchett's final Discworld novel.
Jul 5, 2026
Michael J. Fox's Lucky Man is a disarmingly honest and self-deprecating memoir about fame, illness, and gratitude — and the audiobook edition, narrated by Fox himself, delivers the material with a personal directness the printed page cannot replicate.
Jul 5, 2026
Soul Music, the sixteenth book in Terry Pratchett's beloved Discworld series, is a fantasy satire that sends rock and roll crashing into the Disc's vaguely medieval world, while Death goes absent without leave and his granddaughter Susan must grapple with fate, duty, and a destiny she never asked for. Critical coverage called the Discworld novels "comic masterpieces," describing this entry as "unfailingly amusing and sometimes hysterically funny." Available as an unabridged audiobook from Transworld Digital, narrated by Sian Clifford, Peter Serafinowicz, and Bill Nighy, the recording runs eleven hours and twenty-two minutes and was released on October 27, 2022.
Jul 4, 2026
America's First Daughter is a sweeping historical fiction novel co-authored by Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie, published by William Morrow Paperbacks in 2016, that brings to life Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph — Thomas Jefferson's eldest daughter — as the keeper of her father's most complex secrets and the architect of an enduring American legacy. Drawing from thousands of letters and original sources, it is both a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, and a landmark work of biographical historical fiction centered on a woman too long eclipsed by the men around her.
Jun 28, 2026
Great Circle is a sweeping literary novel by New York Times-bestselling author Maggie Shipstead — a Booker Prize finalist and Women's Prize for Fiction nominee hailed as a masterpiece by critics and named one of the best books of the year by TIME, NPR, the Washington Post, and others. Its dual-timeline structure follows Marian Graves, a fictional aviator pursuing a pole-to-pole circumnavigation, alongside a present-day Hollywood actress preparing to portray her on screen. The novel is praised for its meticulous research, emotional depth, and the kind of sprawling ambition rare in contemporary fiction — though its very scale makes it demanding reading.
Jun 29, 2026
Elizabeth Strout's eleventh novel, published by Random House on May 5, 2026, marks a deliberate departure from her celebrated interconnected Maine universe, introducing a new protagonist — 57-year-old Artie Dam — and exploring male loneliness, the weight of secrets, and the slow, painful work of honest self-knowledge in a compact, scene-driven narrative set in Massachusetts.
Jun 28, 2026
Twenty Years Later is a cold-case thriller from Charlie Donlea — a USA Today, IndieBound, and #1 internationally bestselling author — in which a TV reporter hiding her own dark past pursues the truth behind a gruesome murder that investigators walked away from two decades earlier. Published by Kensington, the novel earns praise from critical coverage for its "breathtaking pacing and clever plot twists," and from critical coverage for being "excellent" and "propulsive," cementing Donlea's reputation as a master of tightly wound, twist-driven suspense.
Jun 28, 2026
Mike Nixon's memoir, published by Palmetto Publishing in October 2022, traces his journey from a nineteen-year-old introvert working at a Comfort Inn motel in Hampton Roads, Virginia, dreaming of a bigger life, to a man who spent fourteen years traveling more than thirty countries. The book is equal parts travel narrative and coming-of-age story, grounded in Nixon's real-world stops — studying in the Dominican Republic, volunteering with the Peace Corps in Paraguay, working for an NGO in Nicaragua, and serving as a U.S. Navy sailor stationed in Japan. Reviewers at Independent Book Review describe the storytelling as conversational and unembellished, and the memoir's throughline — that human connection makes life worthwhile — gives it genuine emotional weight alongside its sense of adventure.
Jun 28, 2026
Matthew Hild's A Little More Love: The Life and Legacy of Olivia Newton-John is an archival and interview-driven biography of the late Australian-British entertainer, tracing her life from her early years in Australia through iconic pop culture milestones — Grease, "Physical" — and into the humanitarian and environmental work that defined her later years. Published by Bloomsbury Academic in May 2026, the book draws on original interviews with Newton-John's friends and associates and delivers what the publisher describes as the most comprehensive account of how her music, fame, and humanity were intertwined. Critical coverage calls it "a gift for those hopelessly devoted to Newton-John; serviceable for everyone else," a verdict that captures both its strengths and its limits.
Jul 5, 2026
The Cruel Prince launches Holly Black's Folk of the Air trilogy with a mortal girl's dangerous bid for power inside the treacherous courts of Faerie — a New York Times bestselling series opener that delivers royal intrigue, complex characters, and a relentlessly unpredictable plot.
Jun 28, 2026
Assassin: A Dark Epic Fantasy Novel is the opening entry in Andy Peloquin's eleven-book Darkblade series, published by The Fantasy Fiends Publishing Inc. In July 2021, and it delivers exactly what its title promises — a relentless, action-driven descent into the grimdark end of the fantasy spectrum, centered on a legendary immortal killer known only as the Hunter of Voramis. Readers drawn to morally complex antiheroes, blood-soaked urban fantasy settings, and sprawling epic ambition will find a great deal to engage with here, though the book's considerable length and unrelenting darkness will naturally suit some tastes more than others.
Jun 28, 2026
Philos Fablewright's debut novel Curious follows Edward, a once-successful CEO whose life unravels, and uses his journey as a lens through which to examine life's biggest questions about existence, technology, and the future of humankind — blending fictional narrative, historical facts, scientific concepts, and humor into a single ambitious work that critics described as "engaging and challenging."
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