Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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  • Anton Hur
    Paperback: 07/01/2025
     
    Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, ...
  • Ruben Reyes
    Paperback: 07/01/2025
     
    An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future ...
  • Elif Shafak
    Paperback: 07/01/2025
     
    In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but...
  • The Original: A Novel
    Nell Stevens
    Hardcover: 07/01/2025
     
    In a grand English country house in 1899, an aspiring art forger must unravel whether the man claiming to be ...
  • Yoko Ogawa
    Paperback: 07/01/2025
     
    From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel ...
  • Benedict Nguyen
    Hardcover: 07/01/2025
     
    In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in...
  • Creation Lake: A Novel
    Rachel Kushner
    Paperback: 07/01/2025
     
    From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most ...
  • Dwyer Murphy
    Hardcover: 06/24/2025
     
    When a group of old college friends reunites for a summer vacation at a beach house in coastal Massachusetts, ...
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