02 Feb 2023
Books to Read if You Like The New Yorker: Fiction Podcast
Do you love The New Yorker: Fiction Podcast and all things fiction? Then you won’t want to miss these amazing new-release literary fiction novels! Check out our latest recommendations from bestselling authors Robert Horton, Ann-Helén Laestadius, M. Darusha Wehm, Anstey Harris, Delia Cai, and Catherine Hokin. Enjoy your new books!
Dr Connie Smythe
by Robert Horton
Release Date: January 26, 2023
Terry Thompson’s wife, Julie-Ann, is everything to him. But his world comes crashing around his ears when she dies giving birth to their daughter. The attending doctor, Dr. Connie Smythe, helps to comfort him afterwards. Little does he know that his wife had plans for him and Dr. Smythe and tried to set them in motion before her death…
Stolen
by Ann-Helén Laestadius
Release Date: January 31, 2023
Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law.
Hamlet, Prince of Robots
by M. Darusha Wehm
Release Date: January 31, 2023
A beat-by-beat retelling of the Shakespeare classic, Hamlet, Prince of Robots grapples with conscience, ambition, and pain, and what it means to be, or not to be, human.
When I First Held You
by Anstey Harris
Release Date: January 24, 2023
In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors’ squat is raided and many, including Jimmy, are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy, Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers’ home, give up their baby and learn to live with her grief. More than half a century later, Judith’s tranquillity is shattered when Jimmy—so different and yet somehow the same—reappears, yearning to unpick the painful past.
Central Places
by Delia Cai
Release Date: January 31, 2023
A young woman’s past and present collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents in this vibrant debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.
The Girl in the Photo
by Catherine Hokin
Release Date: January 27, 2023
A heart-wrenching novel about love and courage in the face of terrible odds. Fans of The Alice Network, The Nightingale and The Tattooist of Auschwitz will need a box of tissues handy.
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