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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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  • The House on Buzzards Bay
    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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    Kevin Barry
    Paperback: 06/24/2025
     
    Award-winning writer Kevin Barry's first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of ...
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    Aisling Rawle
    Hardcover: 06/24/2025
     
    Love Island meets Lord of the Flies in this must-talk-about-it read, as bingeable as the best reality TV.
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    Jayson Greene
    Hardcover: 06/17/2025
     
    From the author of Once More We Saw Stars comes a gripping novel about four intertwined lives that collide in ...
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    Mia McKenzie
    Hardcover: 06/17/2025
     
    In this vibrant, gratifying novel, a pious, small-town teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and ...
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    Jennifer Croft
    Paperback: 06/17/2025
     
    From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel ...
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    Dennard Dayle
    Hardcover: 06/17/2025
     
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    Henry Wise
    Paperback: 06/17/2025
     
    Holy City is the captivating debut from Henry Wise about a deputy sheriff who must work alongside an ...
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