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)
A Little Kissing Between Friends
Two women worry that their newfound romance will ruin their yearslong friendship. (Kirkus)
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The Prospects
"Queer trans PNW baseball romance?? Say less."--Jane S.
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House of Bone and Rain
As Hurricane Maria bears down, five lifelong friends in Puerto Rico vow to get justice after one of their mothers is murdered by men connected to the biggest drug dealer on the island. (Library Journal)
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Alley
In this collection of short stories, master horror mangaka Ito revisits classic body horror tropes, like the invasion of privacy, monsters connected by myriad protuberances from the mouth, mold spores growing over host bodies, and more. (School Library Journal)
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Love and Sportsball
The new athletic trainer for the WNBA Atlantic Cannons, Khadijah Upton discovers her hot one-night stand is Shae Harris, the team’s star player, and mixing business with pleasure against her better judgment, finds herself no longer playing by the rules. (NoveList Plus)
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A Fate Inked in Blood
A shield maiden blessed by the gods battles to unite a nation under a power-hungry king—while fighting her growing desire for his fiery son. (NoveList Plus)
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Those Beyond the Wall
When mutilated bodies are discovered, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause -- a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen -- and it could spell doom for the entire world. (NoveList Plus)
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The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife
Eighty-two-year-old Frederick Fife, kind at heart, is desperately lonely, broke and on the brink of homelessness until a case of mistaken identity lands him in a nursing home where he learns about the man's past and how he can return a life in better condition than he found it. (NoveList Plus)
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I Was A Teenage Slasher
A good kid in a small Texas town in 1989 finds himself cursed to kill for revenge in true slasher film-style. (NoveList Plus)
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All Fours
Ditching her California life for the open road, a restless, semi-famous artist leaves her husband, child and career and reinvents herself in a motel room, embarking on a journey of self-discovery and what it means to be alive and free. (NoveList Plus)
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