Threads of Truth: Literary Fiction Must-Reads

22 Aug 2025

Threads of Truth: Literary Fiction Must-Reads

Every life is woven from hidden truths. These books unravel love, betrayal, and redemption in prose that lingers. A journey into the beauty and pain of being human.

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The Gray Between Us

by L. Nora

Release Date: July 20, 2025

When Jade’s baby is born with unexpected features, secrets buried deep within her family’s past come to light. As her world unravels, she must confront love, identity, and truth to protect the future. A moving tale of legacy, self-discovery, and generational healing.

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The Echo Chamber (Blackwell Book 2)

by Livia Huntingdon-Jones

Release Date: July 23, 2025

An echo trapped in silicon.

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One Last Verse

by Ashley Broussard

Release Date: July 31, 2025

Some songs haunt you. This one rewrites you. Harper Guidry doesn’t chase chaos—but she’s drawn to it, especially when it sings in Southern chords and wears a crooked smile. A food stylist trying to hold her life together, Harper crosses paths with Mason Rudd, an almost-famous musician with a rust-washed voice and a thousand quiet detonations buried in his past.

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The Old Man by the Sea

by Domenico Starnone

Release Date: August 19, 2025

Domenico Starnone’s The Old Man by the Sea is a slim masterpiece of a novel about an 82-year-old Neapolitan man, Nicola, who has spent his entire life telling stories, becoming very, very good at it. In words, with his pen, in the notebook he carries with him everywhere, he records life’s minutiae, its ephemera, those vibrating essences and almost imperceptible atoms of existence that most of us barely notice but that constitute the very stuff of life.

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Atomic Hearts

by Megan Cummins

Release Date: August 5, 2025

Sixteen and living in a small Michigan town, Gertie is harboring a secret heavy enough to fracture her closest friendship. She and Cindy have been bonded since birth by the fact that their fathers are addicts, and their unsteady home lives are a little easier when they’re together, sprawled on a trampoline with pilfered vodka and dreams of moving to New York.

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Everyone Deserves a Home

by Baer Charlton

Release Date: August 1, 2025

1905, New Orleans. Dr. Walter Humphrey, a man of mixed race, must keep the dangerous secret of passing for white to survive. Alongside his lifelong companion Leatha and a young woman named Betsy, they form an unconventional household, where they raise their brilliant daughter, Hannah Maria Rose Murphy.

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