Letters to Who We Were: 6 Literary Fiction Picks

07 Aug 2025

Letters to Who We Were: 6 Literary Fiction Picks

These novels feel like intimate conversations with your past self. Through reflection, conflict, and quiet grace, they chart the path from self-deception to clarity. Perfect for readers craving emotional truth wrapped in unforgettable prose.

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The Kelpie’s Bridle

by Emily Donoho

Release Date: July 12, 2025

Based on a true story, a captured wild horse from the Scottish Highlands travels through the human world, fighting for her lost freedom. Matt Mackay, an equine veterinarian from Glasgow, battles his demons and almost loses. Their lives intertwine, but can the wild horses show Matt what it means to love, to lose, and to move on?

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The Veritas Clause (Dark Academia Book 1)

by Livia Huntingdon-Jones

Release Date: July 14, 2025

Veritas vos liberabit. The truth will set you free.

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In Berlin

by Eric Silberstein

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Software engineer Anna Werner lives at a rapid clip, relishing her work and adopted city as much as her early morning runs. All comes undone on a sweaty August evening when, in the course of a 20-minute commute, Anna goes from worrying vaguely over a sore shoulder to staggering her way into an ambulance. She has suffered a spinal stroke.

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The Silent Sister

by Jan Baynham

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Greece, 1953. When a catastrophic earthquake reduces the beautiful island of Kefalonia to ruins, Cassia Makris risks everything to save a young girl buried beneath the rubble that was once her home. In that moment, Cassia makes a life-changing decision that will bind their fates forever but force her to carry a devastating secret…

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Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

by Katie Yee

Release Date: July 22, 2025

A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie. A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn’t just heartbreak—it’s cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie.

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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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