New Literary Fiction to Pull You Out of Your Reading Slump

21 Mar 2025

Stuck in a reading slump? These fresh literary fiction picks will reignite your love for captivating storytelling. With rich prose, deep characters, and thought-provoking themes, these books will pull you in and keep you turning pages. Ready to fall in love with reading again? Let’s dive in!

My Bully, My Aunt, and Her Final Gift

by Harold Phifer

Release Date: February 2 2025

After the death of Aunt Kathy, Hal was tasked with the responsibility of creating a eulogy and building a buzz around a funeral no one wanted to attend. Everyone knew Aunt Kathy was slated for hell and Hal was certainly ok with it. However, Aunt Kathy’s beloved pastor had other ideas. He wanted to slip her past Saint Peter at the Pearlie Gates.

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The Paris Express

by Emma Donoghue

Release Date: March 18 2025

Emma Donoghue, the “soul-stirring” (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station.

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The Story She Left Behind

by Patti Callahan Henry

Release Date: March 18 2025

Inspired by a true literary mystery, New York Times bestselling author of the mesmerizing The Secret Book of Flora Lea returns with the sweeping story of a legendary book, a lost mother, and a daughter’s search for them both.

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The Heart of the Matter

by Deanna Lynn Sletten

Release Date: March 11 2025

They say you should forgive and forget in order to move on. Marsha is unable to forget what happened to her. And the one person who holds the key to her understanding the truth is the only one who can also help her forgive.

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Theft

by Abdulrazak Gurnah

Release Date: March 18 2025

As tourism, technology, and unexpected opportunities and perils reach their quiet corner of the world, bringing, each arrives at a different understanding of what it means to take your fate into your own hands.

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Killer Potential

by Hannah Deitch

Release Date: March 18 2025

By turns cuttingly hilarious and deeply insightful, Killer Potential is a strikingly original debut. A literary novel with the page-turning intensity of a thriller that asks timely questions about our belief in the romance of social mobility, and how the stories we’re sold about our potential can shape the course of our lives.

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