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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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Literary Fiction - 1700
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  • Women and Children First
    Alina Grabowski
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in a small ...
  • The Witches of Bellinas
    J. Nicole Jones
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her marriage, ...
  • The Names
    The Names: A Novel
    Florence Knapp
    Hardcover: 05/06/2025
     
    The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
  • The Covenant of Water
    Abraham Verghese
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023

    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone ...
  • Remember Us
    Jacqueline Woodson
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Winner: BookBrowse YA Book Award 2023

    National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful...
  • Old School Indian
    Aaron John Curtis
    Hardcover: 05/06/2025
     
    A coming-of-middle-age novel about an Ahkwesáhsne man's reluctant return home and what it takes to heal.
  • Ghost Girl, Banana
    Wiz Wharton
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a ...
  • Early Sobrieties
    Michael Deagler
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Like a sober, millennial Jesus' Son, Michael Deagler's debut novel is the poignant confession of a recovering ...
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