Satisfying stories for the literature lover

The Finder

(SIMON & SCHUSTER CANADA) BY WILL FERGUSON, $25

Who is the shadowy figure collecting the world’s lost wonders?

The Midnight Library

(HARPER

AVENUE) BY MATT HAIG, $22

A library set between life and death offers another reality with each book on the shelves.

Better Luck Next Time

(HARPER AVENUE) BY KATE HILTON, $25

A generational comedy set around a feminist march led by the family’s matriarch.

Magic Lessons

(SIMON & SCHUSTER) BY ALICE HOFFMAN, $24

The prequel to the Practical Magic series introduces us to accused witch Maria Owens in 1664.

Love Your Life

(DIAL PRESS) BY SOPHIE KINSELLA, $36

Romantic comedy, Kinsella-style, at a writers’ retreat in Italy.

The Book of Two Ways

(RANDOM HOUSE CANADA) BY JODI PICOULT, $35

A Sliding Doors– type novel about the choices that shape our lives.

The Return

(HACHETTE) BY NICHOLAS SPARKS, $18

An injured doctor meets two women who change his life.

Cobble Hill

(ATRIA BOOKS) BY CECILY VON ZIEGESAR, $25

The author of the Gossip Girl novels is back with a juicy tale of four Brooklyn families.

Hench

(WILLIAM MORROW) BY NATALIE ZINA WALSCHOTS, $24

In the vein of The Boys, a darkly comic debut about the cost of superheroes.

White Ivy

(SIMON & SCHUSTER) BY SUSIE YANG, $25

A gripping novel of a grifting teen who grows into a woman who wants success—at any cost.