Seattle Fiction
Take a trip through the many stories of Seattle with a variety of adult fiction books selected by our librarians, primarily published in the past five years plus some contemporary classics. (September 2022)
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Written in the Stars
Free-spirited astrologer Elle and buttoned-up actuary Darcy go on a disastrous date but agree to pretend they’re dating to make it through the holidays, finding that opposites really do attract.
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The Solace of Bay Leaves
Pepper Reece has her hands full running the Spice Shop in Pike Place Market, but finds herself investigating the shooting of a childhood friend which is tied to another unsolved murder.
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Black Hole
A strange plague has hit teenagers in Burns’ horror graphic novel set in Seattle's Roosevelt and Ravenna neighborhoods in the 1970s. Originally published as a series of 12 comic books.
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Hollow Kingdom
A northeast Seattle crow, armed with a TV education and a canine pal named Dennis, may be the one to save humanity from extinction. Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
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Comeuppance Served Cold
Seattle in 1929 is a city full of magic. Dolly White, hired as a companion for the daughter of the Commissioner of Magi, enacts a plan to take down the corrupt and powerful Order of Saint Michael.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
When renovations at a Seattle hotel reveal a basement full of stored items from Japanese Americans sent to internment camps during World War II, Chinese American Henry remembers his childhood friendship with Japanese American Keiko.
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This Is How It Always Is
A big, brave, messy modern family adapts to raising a transgender daughter.
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Dog Biscuits
Gussy tries to keep his dog biscuit business going amidst Covid anxiety, police brutality, dating apps and the loneliness of lockdown during the summer of 2020 in this graphic novel.
Format: Graphic Novel
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The Final Case
In this examination of justice and injustice, a Seattle attorney takes on the fraught case of white adoptive parents of a young girl born in Ethiopia charged with her murder.
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Walk, Don't Run
In 1961, Chinese American Wallace has just finished fifth grade and is looking forward to summer, a time that will find him exploring beyond his familiar Beacon Hill and International District neighborhoods.
Format: Graphic Novel
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