Every year we ask our staff across the system for their favorite books published in a given year. Our staff are such voracious readers that we needed two parts for adult fiction this year! Enjoy this variety of fiction staff favorites, with annotations by staff members or as noted. (Created November 2024)
William
"Chilling, disturbing, fast paced tech horror meets a haunted house story. Imagine if the Overlook Hotel was run by AI powered robots."--Jennie D.
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One of Us Knows
A woman with dissociative identity disorder finds herself at the site of the childhood trauma that caused her break, fighting for survival against threats both external and internal. (Kirkus)
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Midnight Rooms
Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with heightened paranoia and creeping horror, a spine-chilling historical thriller will leave readers questioning who, or what, they can trust, including their own sanity. (NoveList Plus)
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The Mercy of Gods
When the Carryx decimate the human population, taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society to serve on their home world, Dafyd Alkhor, swept along with them, is forced to compete against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure. (NoveList Plus)
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Victory Parade
The author of the Eisner-nominated graphic novel Unterzakhn now gives us a heart-wrenching, phantasmagorical tale of love, loss, and trauma both personal and global, set during World War II in Brooklyn, New York, and in the newly liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. (NoveList Plus)
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Heavy Hitter
The beloved New York Times bestselling author of Birds of California hits it out of the park with this smart, sexy, thrilling take on the celebrity-athlete story-a funny, sizzling, ripped-from-the-headlines romance between an international pop star and a major league baseball player who thought his best days were behind him. (NoveList Plus)
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Behind You Is the Sea
A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore—from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich—shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion. (NoveList Plus)
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Exordia
A refugee and genocide survivor, now a put-upon office worker, Anna Sinjari joins a group of civilians, soldiers, and scientists investigating a terrible threat to the universe. (Library Journal)
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Foul Days
A young witch fights to regain the powers she lost in order to save herself, and her city, from the very real monsters that haunt them. (Kirkus)
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Monstrous Nights
With her magic reclaimed and her role in the community of Chernograd restored, Kosara’s life should finally be back to normal—but, of course, things can’t possibly be that simple. (NoveList Plus)
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