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Bookstore Fiction

Bookstores are full of stories - literally! This is a list of recently published fiction titles featuring bookstores and bookshops.

Pima County Public Library

14 items

  • From Bibliocommons: "A whimsical and healing novel about a trans man in New York who-almost 30, laid off, broke-moves back to his small Illinois hometown, walks into the bookstore he worked at in high school. . . and slips through time to…
    BookNew York, NY : Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — Fiction Underhill
  • From Bibliocommons: "Follow one little girl for whom the local bookstore is a world that allows her imaginations to soar, provides answers she needs and sparks her curiosity, in a love letter to bookstores inspired by a song of the same…
    BookSomerville : Candlewick Press, 2025. — Picture Book Arrow
  • From Bibliocommons: "In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how much books and…
    BookNew York : Harper Perennial, 2024. — Fiction Yagisawa
  • I love the Last Chapter bookstore!
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — Fiction Mckinlay
  • From Bibliocommons: "While working toward the grand opening of their Black-owned bookstore, four best friends are each told four little words that upend their lives, forcing them to lean on each other--and the books they love--to navigate…
    BookToronto : Mira, [2024] — Fiction Lindo
  • From Bibliocommons: "Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeong-Ju, in a leap of faith, opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, and, welcoming new friends and visitors to her circle, builds an inviting space for hurt and lost souls to rest,…
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — Fiction Hwang
  • From Bibliocommons: "Belladonna Blackthorn hasn't lost her magical spark, precisely . . . but she hasn't seen it in a while either. Balancing work at her beloved Lunar Books with protecting it from her toxic boss, all the while concealing…
    BookNew York : Ace, 2024. — Fiction Wood
  • From Bibliocommons: "In this atmospheric southern cozy debut, Madeline Brimley returns to the bookstore she inherited, discovering that small towns hold deadly secrets. Madeline Brimley left small town Georgia many years ago to go to…
    BookNew York : Minotaur Books, 2024. — Mystery Nelson
  • "Bailey Briggs adores her year-round Halloween-themed town of Elyan Hollow, Oregon, but when she takes over her grandfather's beloved bookshop, Lazy Bones Books, she accidentally discovers the town's secret dark side... Normally, spooky…
    BookNew York, NY : Kensington Publishing Corp., [2024] — Mystery Duncan
  • From Bibliocommons: "In a dystopian world devastated by The Storm, seventeen-year-old Liz finds refuge in her old bookstore, but when Maeve breaks in seeking shelter from another impending storm, the two confront their secrets and inner…
    BookNew York : Delacorte Press, [2025] — Fiction Braun TEEN
  • From Bibliocommons: "In her return to Provincetown after a best-selling novel exposes local secrets, an author returns to her idyllic Cape Cod hometown to face her betrayal but rediscovers her passion and community through a summer…
    BookToronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row Books, [2024] — Fiction Brenner
  • From Bibliocommons: "When a secret message turns up hidden in a book in the Cinnamon Bun Book Store, Hazel can't understand it. As more secret codes appear between the pages, she decides to follow the trail of clues. She just need someone…
    BookLondon : One More Chapter, 2024. — Fiction Gilmore
  • Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop

    Twelve Tales of Seasonal Suspense Set in the World's Oldest Mystery Bookstore

    From Bibliocommons: "The oldest mystery bookstore in the world, The Mysterious Bookshop, has for most of its forty-five-year history commissioned an original short story as a holiday gift for its customers, written exclusively for the…
    BookNew York : Mysterious Press, 2024 — Mystery Christmas
  • From Bibliocommons: "Viggo Bergman, hopeless romantic, is thoroughly weary of waiting for his happily ever after. But between opening a romance bookstore, running a romance book club, coaching kids' soccer, and adopting a household of…
    BookNew York : Berkley Romance, 2024. — Fiction Liese