Fiction with Strong Storylines and Good Character Development

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Fiction
• Strong plot
• Strong characterization

Forgotten Garden
By Kate Morton
F MORTON
Abandoned on a 1913 voyage to Australia, Nell is raised by a dock master and his wife who do not tell her until she is an adult that she is not their child, leading Nell to return to England and eventually hand down her quest for answers to her granddaughter.

The Night Circus
By Erin Morgenstern
F MORGENST
A fierce competition is underway, a contest between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood to compete in "a game," in which each must use their powers of illusion to best the other. Unbeknownst to them, this game is a duel to the death, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will.

Grown Up Kind of Pretty
By Joshilyn Jackson
F JACKSON
Ginny was 15 years old when she had her daughter Liza. When Liza turns 15 she also finds herself the teenage mother of a little girl. Now, Mosey approaches her own 15th birthday and is overwhelmed by her family’s expectation that she too will follow in Ginny and Liza’s footsteps. But before this expected trial actually occurs, real tragedy strikes when Liza suffers a debilitating stroke. Her mother and daughter manage to care for her despite her inability to interact with them. Then one day, Ginny decides to tear down her daughter’s favorite backyard tree and Liza’s terrifying and uncontrollable response takes the family on an entirely unexpected quest for truths that have been hidden through the past 30 years.

Rules of Civility
By Amor Towles
F TOWLES
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.

Informationist
By Taylor Stevens
F STEVENS
Dealing information to wealthy clients throughout the world, Vanessa Munroe hopes to leave her unconventional past behind her until a mission to find the missing daughter of a Texas oil billionaire forces her to return to the central Africa region of her youth.