Books set primarily in Florida
Florida
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Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
by Rebecca Renner
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters
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Absolution: Southern Reach, book 4
by Jeff VanderMeer
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.
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A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens: A Novel
by Raul Palma
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of the devil's bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom.
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The Reformatory: A Novel
by Tananarive Due
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit: The Vision of Mary McLeod Bethune
by Noliwe Rooks
Hardcover: Jul 2024
An intimate and searching account of the life and legacy of one of America's towering educators, a woman who dared to center the progress of Black women and girls in the larger struggle for political and social liberation.
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Banyan Moon: A Novel
by Thao Thai
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the death of their matriarch, revealing the family's inherited burdens, buried secrets, and unlikely love stories.
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Blue Skies: A Novel
by T.C. Boyle
Hardcover: May 2023
Paperback: May 2024
From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary American life in the glare of climate change.
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Real Americans: A Novel
by Rachel Khong
Hardcover: Apr 2024
From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An exhilarating novel of American identity that spans three generations in one family and asks: What makes us who we are? And how inevitable are our ...
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The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Hardcover: Dec 2022
Paperback: Apr 2024
For readers of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing ...
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Say Hello to My Little Friend: A Novel
by Jennine Capó Crucet
Hardcover: Mar 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man's attempt to capitalize on his mother's murky legacy—a story steeped in Miami's marvelous and sinister magic.
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If I Survive You
by Jonathan Escoffery
Hardcover: Sep 2022
Paperback: Sep 2023
A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.
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The Orchard
by David Hopen
Hardcover: Nov 2020
Paperback: Aug 2021
A commanding debut and a poignant coming-of-age story about a devout Jewish high school student whose plunge into the secularized world threatens everything he knows of himself.
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