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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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Literary Fiction - 1661
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  • My Friends
    My Friends: A Novel
    Hisham Matar
    Hardcover: 01/09/2024
     
    A luminous novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Booker Prize–...
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    After Sappho: A Novel
    Selby Wynn Schwartz
    Paperback: 01/09/2024
     
    An exhilarating debut from a radiant new voice, After Sappho reimagines the intertwined lives of feminists at ...
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    Tara Karr Roberts
    Hardcover: 01/02/2024
     
    A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their ...
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    Kate Alice Marshall
    Paperback: 01/02/2024
     
    Kate Alice Marshall's What Lies in the Woods is a thrilling novel about friendship, secrets, betrayal, and ...
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    Krystal Marquis
    Paperback: 01/02/2024
     
    The first in a breathless YA series set in 1910 Chicago, The Davenports offers a glimpse into a period of ...
  • Age of Vice
    Age of Vice: A Novel
    Deepti Kapoor
    Paperback: 01/02/2024
     
    This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can ...
  • The Silence that Binds Us
    Joanna Ho
    Paperback: 12/26/2023
     
    Joanna Ho, New York Times bestselling author of Eyes That Kiss in the Corners, has written an exquisite, heart...
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    Skull Water: A Novel
    Heinz Insu Fenkl
    Paperback: 12/26/2023
     
    A "mesmerizing" (PW, James McBride) "magnificent" (Ha Jin) intergenerational coming-of-age novel set in South ...
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