6 New Literary Fiction Books for Deep Thinkers
For readers who savor sentences as much as stories, these novels deliver layered worlds and quiet truths. They ask big questions about art, memory, and what it means to belong. Every page hums with reflection and wonder.
Everyone Deserves a Home
by Baer Charlton
Release Date: August 1, 2025
“We weren’t born her children. And she was Black before she was white.” In 1905, Hannah Maria Murphy was born into a mixed family of sex and blood. Her journey as a surgeon leads her from the segregated South to the front lines of war-torn London, where she must confront the complex legacy of identity and the powerful emotions that come with it.
Buy on AmazonDecoding History: The Invisible Thread
by Ash A. Milton
Release Date: July 27, 2025
In 2055, knowledge is rationed. The elite curate every stream of acceptable truth. Eliza, orphaned and trained as a courtesan, is thrust into a life she never chose. Drawn into a secret sisterhood of forgotten feminine strength, every book and every keystroke becomes an act of quiet defiance—a flicker of hope in a world ruled by control and wealth.
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by W.H. Muhlenfeld
Release Date: July 15, 2025
A dying man takes the trip of a lifetime in the company of Azure Sky, a psilocybin-infused tea, resulting in a remarkable end-of-life experience. “Everyman” meets “Alice in Wonderland” in this thoughtful and adventurous journey of the mind that explores the recall, revelations, and realizations one experiences at the onset of death.
Buy on AmazonThe Cassatt Sisters
by Lisa Groen
Release Date: October 9, 2025
In 1877, the Paris art scene was very competitive for men but nearly impossible for thirty-three-year-old Mary Cassatt, an American woman. Bored by traditional methods of painting, she admires the work of avant-garde painters, especially Edgar Degas. So, when Edgar visits Mary’s studio to view her paintings, she is exhilarated by his invitation to join him, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and other Impressionists in the collective.
Buy on AmazonThe Death of a Showgirl
by Willow Bowery
Release Date: October 3, 2025
Did she leave the stage in silence? Was it candle, was it blade? Was it love turned into violence, or some darker masquerade? No witness is ever certain, no voice will quite agree. The truth lies hid behind the curtain, not yet revealed to thee.
Buy on AmazonThe Summer We Mended
by Kimberly Thomas
Release Date: October 14, 2025
On the serene shores of Martha’s Vineyard, Lily has spent a year adrift in grief after the sudden loss of her husband, Daniel. Her once-vibrant pottery studio is shuttered, her laughter silenced, and her days empty. But when her daughter Emma returns home with her lively twins, seeking refuge while her husband, Luke, is deployed overseas, the quiet house begins to stir with life once more.
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