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VPL - Books Just For You - Award-Winning, New Fiction Stories

This VPL Books Just For You list was selected by a Vancouver Public Library staff member for a patron with an interest in new and award-winning General Fiction. The patron's favourite books and movies include the Harry Potter series, Amélie, and Good Will Hunting.

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  • Winner of the Booklist Editors' Choice - Adult Fiction for Young Adults: 2016, Locus Awards: Fantasy Novel, and Nebula Awards: Best Novel. Patricia and Laurence are two misfits who are drawn together as outcasts but driven apart by their…
    Book, 2016New York : TOR Books, 2016.
  • Winner of LibraryReads Favorites in 2021 and the Alex Award in 2022. Two dying hospital patients, one 17 and one 83, begin an art project to chronicle their collective century of life.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
  • Winner of LibraryReads Favorites in 2019. Ivy Gamble is a private investigator who is hired for her first murder case - which is unfortunately at the magician academy where her estranged sister teaches. Playing on the "magic school" concept of Harry…
    Book, 2019New York : Tor, 2019.
  • Winner of LibraryReads Favorites in 2021. Alice Holtzmann, a middle-aged widow beset by panic attacks, takes solace in her beekeeping. This draws her and two young men, each damaged in their own ways, together as a corporation threatens the safety…
    Book, 2021[New York] : Dutton, [2021]
  • Winner of the British Book Awards: Book of the Year and Debut Fiction of the Year, the Costa Book Awards: First Novel category, Librarians' Choice (Australia): 2017, and LibraryReads Favorites: 2017. Eleanor Oliphant leads a solitary life…
    Book, 2017Toronto : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2017.
  • Winner of the Alex Award, the Mythopoeic Award: Adult Literature, and The Reading List (RUSA) in 2021. Linus Baker is a caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youths (DICOMY), placing magical children in DICOMY-sanctioned orphanages. But…
    Book, 2020New York : Tor, 2020.
  • Winner of the Booklist Editors' Choice - Adult Fiction for Young Adults, Library Journal Best Books, and School Library Journal's Adult Books 4 Teens in 2011 and the Alex Award, Locus Awards: First Novel, and The Reading List (RUSA) in 2012. Celia's…
    Book, 2011Toronto : Doubleday Canada, c2011.
  • Winner of the LibraryReads Favorites: 2023. William comes from a quiet, grief-stricken home, and marrying into Julia's loving and boisterous family brings a new warmth and light into his life. When depression begins to strain the family, will their…
    Book, 2023New York : The Dial Press, [2023]
  • Winner of the LibraryReads Favorites in 2022. After a tragic loss of her husband and son, Tova Sullivan finds her solace in her nighttime work at Sowell Bay Aquarium, where she befriends Marcellus, a clever Giant Pacific octopus. As their unlikely…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Ecco, [2022]