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The Best of 2021: Fiction

Fiction

Fiction

** Some of these titles are not available at Helen Hall Library, but can be requested for purchased or Interlibrary Loan. **

The Turnout

by Megan Abbot

Razorblade Tears

by S.A. Cosby

Clark and Division

by Naomi Hirahara

Lightning Strike

by William Kent Krueger

Dream Girl

by Laura Lippman

The Killing Hills

by Chris Offutt

Harlem Shuffle

by Colson Whitehead

Velvet Was the Night

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mango, Mambo, and Murder

by Raquel V. Reyes

Tricky

by Josh Stalling

         

 

** Some of these titles are not available at Helen Hall Library, but can be requested for purchased or Interlibrary Loan. **

The Final Girl Support Group

by Grady Hendrix

Children of Chicago

by Cynthia Pelayo

The Last House on Needless Street

by Catriona Ward

The Book of Accidents

by Chuck Wendig

Goddess of Filth

by V. Castro

 

My Heart is a Chainsaw

by Stephen Graham Jones

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

by Eric LaRocca

Reprieve

by James Han Mattson

Queen of Teeth

by Hailey Piper

 

 

** Some of these titles are not available at Helen Hall Library, but can be requested for purchased or Interlibrary Loan. ** 

Cloud Cuckoo Land

by Anthony Doerr

The Removed

by Brandon Hobson

The Prophets

by Robert Jones Jr. 

Once There Were Wolves

by Charlotte McConaghy

Open Water

by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Bewilderment

by Richard Powers

The Five Wounds

by Kirstin Valdez Quade

What Storm, What Thunder

by Myriam J.A. Chancy

Matrix

by Lauren Groff

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

by Wole Soyinka

 

** Some of these titles are not available at Helen Hall Library, but can be requested for purchased or Interlibrary Loan. ** 

The Reading List

by Sara Nisha Adams

The Personal Librarian

by Marie Benedict 

Girls With Bright Futures

by Tracey Dobmeier

Libertie

by Kaitlyn Greenidge

The Great Mistake

by Jonathan Lee

Nightbitch

by Rachel Yoder

A Splendid Ruin

by Megan Chance

L.A. Weather

by Maria Amparo Escandon

Smile and Look Pretty

by Amanda Pellegrino

Annie and the Wolves

by Andromeda Romano-Lax

 

** Some of these titles are not available at Helen Hall Library, but can be requested for purchased or Interlibrary Loan. ** 

Act Your Age, Eve Brown

by Talia Hibbert

Hana Khan Carries On

by Uzma Jalaluddin

Sailor Proof

by Annabeth Albert

Subtle Blood

by KJ Charles

A Lot Like Adios

by Alexis Daria

The Love Con

by Seressia Glass

The Devil Comes Courting

by Courtney Milan

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower

by Erica Ridley

Love, Chai, and Other Four-Letter Words

by Annika Sharma

A Thorn in the Saddle

by Rebekah Weatherspoon

 

 

 

** Some of these titles are not available at Helen Hall Library, but can be requested for purchased or Interlibrary Loan. ** 

The Unbroken

by C.L. Clark

Domesticating Dragons

by Dan Koboldt

Winter's Orbit

by Everina Maxwell

She Who Became the Sun

by Shelley Parker-Chan

The Jasmine Throne

by Tasha Suri

   

Project Hail Mary

 by Andy Weir

A Spindle Splintered

by Alix E. Harrow

No Gods, No Monsters

by Cadwell Turnball

         

 

** Some of these titles are not available at Helen Hall Library, but can be requested for purchased or Interlibrary Loan. ** 

That Old Country Music: Stories

by Kevin Barry

The Souvenir Museum: Stories

by Elizabeth McCracken

First Person Singular: Stories

by Haruki Murakami

Filthy Animals: Stories

by Brandon Taylor

Five Tuesdays in Winter

by Lily King

Milk Blood Heat

by Dantiel W. Moniz

Prayer for the Living

by Ben Okri

Afterparties: Stories

by Anthony Veasna So

Songs for the Flames: Stories

by Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories

by John Edgar Wideman

 

** Some of these titles are not available at Helen Hall Library, but can be requested for purchased or Interlibrary Loan. ** 

Catch the Rabbit

by Lana Bastasic

The Twilight Zone

by Nona Fernandez

The Book of Mother

by Violaine Huisman

Bolla

by Pajtim Statovci

Zabor or the Psalms

by Kamel Daoud

After the Sun

by Jonas Eika

The Italian

by Shukri Mabkhout

Brotherhood

by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

The Death of Murat Idrissi

by Tommy Wieringa

The Art of Losing

by Alice Zeniter