As winter comes to an end and even your favorite bookworms get cabin fever, here are the best contemporary fiction novels coming out this spring. Whether you want to wow your book club or get lost in beautiful prose, you don’t want to miss out on these books!

A Far-flung Life by M.L. Stedman (3/3)

In a remote area of Western Australia in 1958, the MacBride family lives on a vast sheep station that features a million acres. On a seemingly ordinary day, patriarch Phil MacBride swerves to avoid a kangaroo and within seconds the entire MacBride family is changed forever. When another tragedy strikes, the youngest MacBride, Matt, is plunged into a journey he was never prepared to be on with no guidance.

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Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami (3/17)

Hana is fifteen years old and lives in a tiny apartment in Tokyo with her young mother, a hostess at a local dive bar. When she meets the older and charming Kimiko, Hana’s world changes and the two set up a bar called Lemon. Now, Hana has a job she loves, friends, and the hope of financial security. But in Sangenjaya, nothing is as it seems and Hana is about to realize how quickly things can change.

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American Fantasy by Emma Straub (4/7)

The American Fantasy cruise ship is about to set sail for four days with three thousand women traveling with the five members of a famous boy band from the nineties. Amongst the three thousand is newly divorced Annie who is about to turn fifty. When the band performs and the drinks start flowing, Annie resurrects a part of herself that has been long buried. When she meets one of the band members, she finds that the possibilities are endless.

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Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke (4/7)

Natalie is a trad wife influencer who may have some secrets behind the scenes that her eight million followers don’t know about. So what? Her handsome cowboy husband may be an heir to a political dynasty and she might have nannies, but Natalie is building an empire. When Natalie wakes up one morning in a life that isn’t hers, her husband and kids look familiar but gone are the industrial refrigerators and ovens and her social media perfect life. Now, Natalie is truly a trad wife and will do whatever it takes to escape.

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Go Gentle by Maria Semple (4/14)

Adora Hazzard is a Stoic philosopher and divorcee who lives on the Upper West Side of New York City and believes she has found the key to happiness: only desire what you have. This mindset has helped her believe she has it all figured out along with the “coven” of women who live on the same floor as her and believe the same. When Adora meets a handsome stranger, her life takes a drastic turn with secret rendezvous and black-market art deals as the past she worked so hard to bury comes back to haunt her.

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Somewhere Soft to Land by kai alonte (4/21)

Dzifa is used to feeling a bit off and burnt out. She feels like she’s always bracing herself for what she could lose – a job, a home, another sign she’s “off.” The only constant in her life that makes it better is her best friend, Tatiana. When Tatiana’s child unexpectedly passes, Dzifa rushes to her hometown to be by her best friend’s side and finds herself in the middle of a conflict between two families. When Tatiana asks for the ultimate favor, Dzifa finds herself choosing between their friendship’s loyalty and her authentic self.

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The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (5/5)

During the day, Artie Dam is a high school history teacher who goes to holiday parties with his wife of thirty years, makes small talk with neighbors, and takes his sailboat out on the weekends. Behind the exterior of his picture-perfect life, Artie deals with feelings of isolation and wonders how people can know so little about those around them. When Artie learns that life has been keeping a secret from him that could change his entire life, he finds himself on a new life path that he never expected.

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John of John by Douglas Stuart (5/5)

With little to no money and nothing to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod is on the ferry back home to the island of Harris. Returning home he is met by his father, John, a sheep farmer and preacher of the local Presbyterian church and his grandmother, Ella, the one who helped him the most when he lost his mother. While Cal wonders if the island has any other lonely men on it, his father is looking to save him. As the threads holding the community together threaten to snap, everything is about to change.

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Double Happiness by Heather Eng (5/19)

Mei Li’s life is about to take a drastic turn when she runs into Alexandre Brodeur at a family function. Working eighty-hour work weeks at a tech startup and engaged to Joey, Mei has the stability that she’s been craving since her childhood. Now, with Alexandre back in her life and much different than the version she met years ago, she now wonders what she really wants in life and in love as her wedding date approaches.

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