Here’s our fiction selector’s curated list of noteworthy August releases. Click the titles below and then the Full Display button to read summaries or reviews or to place titles on hold.
General Fiction / Literary Fiction
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin
Lucky Us by Amy Bloom
The Kills by Richard House
The Madmen of Benghazi by Gerard de Villers
First Novels / Fiction
Your Face in Mine by Jess Row
Painted Horses by Malcolm Brooks
The Frozen Dead by Bernard Minier
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya
Crime Fiction /Suspense
A Colder War by Charles Cumming
The Long Way Home by Louise Penny
Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridasson
One Kick by Chelsea Cain
The Furies by Natalie Haynes
SF / Fantasy / Horror
Fool’s Assassin by Robin Hobb
Trial by Fire by Charles Gannon
Lock In by John Scalzi
We Are All Completely Fine by Daryl Gregory
The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit by Graham Joyce
Romance
Heroes Are My Weakness by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
With Every Breath by Elizabeth Camden
Virgin by Radhika Sanghani
Since You’ve Been Gone by Anouska Knight
His Every Need by Terri L. Austin
More good reading
If you’re curious about titles that will be coming out later this year, take a look through The Millions’ Most Anticipated Books for the Second Half of 2014. Or to see what you may have missed, revisit their preview picks for the First Half of the year. Amazon looks in the rear-view mirror in their recently posted Best of 2014 so far, where Spot-Lit followers will recognize many of our own earlier picks. And if you’re looking to discover additional new talent, check out Library Journal’s Summer Best Debuts.
To see all on-order fiction, click here.
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