Characters That Leave a Mark: 6 Literary Fiction Reads

15 Aug 2025

Characters That Leave a Mark: 6 Literary Fiction Reads

Step into the lives of six unforgettable characters, each facing their own struggles and moments of growth. These novels explore their inner worlds with depth, emotion, and nuance. Their stories will linger in your mind long after you close the book.

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Biochemistry For Poets Living In A Cell

by Hari Hyde

Release Date: July 9, 2025

What is life? A biochemist mischievously reimagines the lives of the cell’s biomolecules. We fancy that we are reciprocally alive with the proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids inhabiting our bodies. Yet we can sense that paramount insights—vital truths that the biomolecules warily guard from our scrutiny—still elude us.

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People Like Us

by Jason Mott

Release Date: August 5, 2025

People Like Us is Jason Mott’s electric new novel. It is not a memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason’s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don’t let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt.

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Seduction Theory

by Emily Adrian

Release Date: August 12, 2025

Simone is the star of Edwards University’s creative writing department: renowned Woolf scholar, grief memoirist, and campus sex icon. Her less glamorous and ostensibly devoted husband, Ethan, is a forgotten novelist and lecturer in the same department. According to Simone and Ethan, and everyone on campus, their marriage is perfect. That is, until Ethan sleeps with the department’s administrative assistant, Abigail, and the couple’s faith in their flawless relationship is rattled.

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Sick and Hurt (The Call of the Sea Book 15)

by Andrew Wareham

Release Date: August 4, 2025

The war at sea is petering out, the French building for the future but sending very little to sea for the while. Prize money is something of the past. Hungry sailors are rescued by the American declaration of war, their President unwisely responding to British provocation. The opportunity is there to cripple the American merchant marine and provide a last great outpouring of rich prizes.

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To Save Her Husband

by Ellie Midwood

Release Date: August 21, 2025

Berlin, 1933: As Aurelia grasps her husband Max’s sleeve so as not to be separated in the crowd of torch-bearing people, a shiver slides down her spine. She sees wild-faced people all around her, their hands waving leaflets full of hateful slogans, and knows deep in her heart that she and her husband are no longer safe in the city they’ve always called home.

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The Taking of Britain: A Bronze Age Saga

by Cory Fodor

Release Date: August 3, 2025

The year is 2500 BC. Thousands of years before the rise of Rome…before the marauding Norsemen, the Celts, or the wandering barbarians, Europe was a very different place. Halós was born in the fertile Rhine River valley to a settled warrior. Growing up, his father told him incredible stories of his forefathers. How a few centuries ago, they had swept westward from the steppe, driven onward by the beating war club of the thunder god.

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