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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 1664
Historical Fiction - 655
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Short Stories - 187
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Poetry & Novels in Verse - 22

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Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 149
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Books in Translation - 143
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Female Friendships - 225
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LGBTQ+ - 153

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Philosophical - 107
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Magical or Supernatural - 268
Magical Realism - 52

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Small Press Titles - 255
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Books About Animals - 56
War Related - 510
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LibraryReads Picks - 235

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400+ Pages - 331
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USA - 1499
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Global - 85
Imaginary Locations - 116

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Mass. - 76
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Mid-Atlantic, USA - 393
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Midwest, USA - 172
West, USA - 324

Europe by Region
UK (Britain) & Ireland - 505
Scandinavia - 35
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France - 103
Spain - 25
Germany - 54
Italy - 64
Eastern Europe - 50

Asia by Region
Middle-East (West Asia) - 94
Russia (North Asia) - 34
Central Asia - 14
East Asia (except China) - 67
China - 57
South Asia (except India) - 20
India - 56
South-East Asia - 43

Africa by Region
Eastern Africa - 27
Middle & Southern Africa - 29
Northern & Western Africa - 44

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  • Bright Young Women
    Jessica Knoll
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    From the megabestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive comes another shocking thriller inspired by the real-...
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    T. Kingfisher
    Hardcover: 08/06/2024
     
    From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call&#...
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    Witness: Stories
    Jamel Brinkley
    Paperback: 07/30/2024
     
    From National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken ...
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    Jessica Anthony
    Paperback: 07/30/2024
     
    From "one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page" (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, ...
  • Someone Like Us
    Dinaw Mengestu
    Hardcover: 07/30/2024
     
    The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by ...
  • The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
    Bart Yates
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in ...
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    Jon Clinch
    Paperback: 07/23/2024
     
    Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a ...
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    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in ...
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