Next Reads Fiction/Non-Fiction
Discover your next favorite book with our curated list of top fiction and non-fiction reads. Explore captivating stories, bestsellers, and hidden gems for every reader.
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Audition
by Ryu Murakami
In this thriller from the best-selling Japanese author, a widower stages an open casting call with his filmmaker friend to attract the perfect wife and …
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Big Machine
by Victor LaValle
Ricky Rice is a middling hustler with a lingering junk habit, a bum knee, and a haunted mind. A survivor of a suicide cult, he …
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a …
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Horns
by Joe Hill
The "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Heart-Shaped Box"--a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction ("Washington Post")--returns with a relentless new supernatural thriller.
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Long for This World
by Sonya Chung
Pushcart Prize nominee Sonya Chung has displayed her stunning talent in her award-winning short fiction and essays. Now, she renders the compelling story of a …
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Mr. Shivers
by Robert Jackson Bennett
It is the time of the Great Depression. Thousands have left their homes looking for a better life, a new life. But Marcus Connelly is …
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A Thread of Sky
by Deanna Fei
Widowed after a devastating accident and fearful of facing her grief alone, Chinese-American Irene Shen reunites three generations of independent women from her estranged family--including …
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Termite Parade
by Joshua Mohr
In this unnerving yet entertaining follow-up to Mohr's first novel, Some Things That Meant the World to Me (Two Dollar Radio, 2010), Mired, the self-described …
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Winter's Tale
by Mark Helprin
When master mechanic Peter Lake attempts to rob a mansion on the Upper West Side, he is caught by young Beverly Penn, the terminally ill …
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
by Paolo Giordano
In an award-winning first novel, misfits Alice and Mattia bond as teens over shared experiences of suffering before mathematically gifted Mattia accepts a research position …
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The Best of Joe R. Lansdale
by Joe R. Lansdale
Gathers stories combining horror with Westerns, mysteries, and satire that reveal the Texas author's distinctive perspective, as well as an autobiographical work.
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The Disappeared
by Kim Echlin
A searing, fiercely beautiful love story, "The Disappeared" traces one woman's three-decades-long journey from the peaceful streets of Montreal to the war-torn villages of Cambodia, …
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The Missing
by Tim Gautreaux
A masterful novel set in 1920s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New Orleans department store. When a …
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Lark and Termite
by Jayne Anne Phillips
National Bestseller New York Times Notable Book Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Lark …
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A Dark Matter
by Peter Straub
Old friends try to come to grips with the darkness of the past--a secret ritual that left behind a gruesomely dismembered body--and find themselves face-to-face …
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A Gate at the Stairs
by Lorrie Moore
Simultaneous release with the September hardcover from Knopf
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The Girl with Glass Feet
by Ali Shaw
An inventive and richly visual novel about young lovers on a quest to find a cure for a magical ailment, perfect for readers of Alice …
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Alice I Have Been
by Melanie Benjamin
In this spellbinding historical novel, readers meet the young girl whose bright spirit sends her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole--and the grown …
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The Tale of Halcyon Crane
by Wendy Webb
A young woman travels alone to a remote island to uncover a past she never knew was hers in this thrilling modern ghost story When …
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The House of Tomorrow
by Peter Bognanni
Homeschooled teenager Sebastian Prendergast is forced by his grandmother's stroke to venture out of his geodesic dome habitat and befriends a chain-smoking teen who introduces …
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Burnt Shadows
by Kamila Shamsie
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award An Orange Prize Finalist Nagasaki, August 9, 1945. Hiroko Tanaka watches her lover from the veranda as he leaves. …
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The Alchemy of Murder
by Carol McCleary
Nellie Bly, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, and Louis Pasteur team up during the 1889 World's Fair in Paris to find a killer connected to a …
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Beijing Coma
by Ma Jian
Dai Wei, a PhD student and protestor in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, was caught by a soldier's bullet and fell into a deep coma. …
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A Free Life
by Ha Jin
A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate In A Free Life, …
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The City & The City
by China Miéville
Inspector Tyador BorlĂş must travel to Ul Qoma to search for answers in the murder of a woman found in the city of BesĹşel.
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The Boat
by Nam Le
The seven stories in Nam Le's masterful collection take us across the globe, guiding us to the heart of what it means to be human. …
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One More Year
by Sana Krasikov
One More Year is Sana Krasikov’s extraordinary debut collection, illuminating the lives of immigrants from across the terrain of a collapsed Soviet Empire. With novelistic …
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Unaccustomed Earth
by Jhumpa Lahiri
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Interpreter of Maladies: These eight stories take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India …
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Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
Memoir of three Chinese women, Jung Chang, her mother, and her grandmother in twentieth-century China.
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Neon Angel
by Cherie Currie
Cherie Currie, with her signature Bowie haircut and fishnet stockings, was the groundbreaking lead singer of '70s teenage all-girl rock band the Runaways. At the …
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Nothing to Envy
by Barbara Demick
"Nothing to Envy" follows the lives of six North Koreans over 15 years--a chaotic period that saw the unchallenged rise to power of Kim Jong …
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For All the Tea in China
by Sarah Rose
Rose's remarkable account follows the journey of Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, who was deployed by the British East India Company to steal China's tea …
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The Orange Eats Creeps
by Grace Krilanovich
An incredibly ambitious and assured first novel from an explosively original new voice.
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The Visiting Suit
by Xiaoda Xiao
The Visiting Suit is a powerful addition to classic gulag literature, furthering Xiaoda Xiao's budding reputation as a Chinese Solzhenitsyn.
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The People who Watched Her Pass by
by Scott Bradfield
Salome Jensen is three years old when she is taken from her home by the man who fixes the hot water heater. As she drifts …