The Beauty in the Blur: 6 Literary Fiction Picks

18 Jul 2025

The Beauty in the Blur: 6 Literary Fiction Picks

These novels play with time, memory, and identity, blurring what’s real and what’s remembered. The structure may be fragmented, but the emotions are crystal clear. You’ll feel untethered, and somehow more grounded than ever.

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The Otero County Disclosure

by Huey Hawke

Release Date: July 8, 2025

Everything you know, everything you understand, is about to change. What answers to big, universal questions does wheelchair-bound Alexa have, and where do her theories come from? How could anyone know her ideas if she’s never been able to talk… until now? Super-bright seventeen-year-old Alexa doesn’t realise that she has someone’s attention.

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UTOPYC: The First Anarcho-Capitalist Utopia

by W. Galt

Release Date: March 24, 2025

Gabriel Dan, journalist, visits Utopyc to discover that strange new country that everyone is talking about and no one knows a thing about. Olga is assigned to show him every corner of Utopyc, and the result could not be more shocking. How can a country exist without a State? How can you live in chaos, in disorganization, without a political authority?

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Wayward Girls

by Susan Wiggs

Release Date: July 15, 2025

In 1968, we meet six teens confined at the Good Shepherd—a dark and secretive institution controlled by Sisters of Charity nuns—locked away merely for being gay, pregnant, or simply unruly. Wayward Girls is a haunting but thrilling tale of hope, solidarity, and the enduring strength of young women who find the courage to break free and find redemption…and justice.

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Inheriting the Cottage by the Loch

by Kennedy Kerr

Release Date: June 26, 2025

The manor house overlooking Loch Cameron, with its sprawling garden of unruly blooms and tall wrought iron gates, has been uninhabited for as long as anyone in the village can remember. But an old lady hiding a family secret and a puzzling inheritance is about to bring two estranged sisters home again…

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The Satisfaction Café

by Kathy Wang

Release Date: July 1, 2025

Joan’s life is a series of unexpected events: she never thought she would live in California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode—especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American man and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children.

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El Dorado Drive

by Megan Abbott

Release Date: June 24, 2025

The three Bishop sisters grew up in privilege in the moneyed suburbs of Detroit. But as the auto industry declined, so did their fortunes. Harper, the youngest, is barely making ends meet when her beloved, charismatic sister Pam—currently in the middle of a contentious battle with her ex-husband—and her eldest sister, Debra, approach her about joining an exciting new club.

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