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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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  • Soft Core
    Soft Core: A Novel
    Brittany Newell
    Hardcover: 02/04/2025
     
    A young woman's madcap search for her missing ex-boyfriend takes her into the sexual underground in Brittany ...
  • Saint of the Narrows Street
    William Boyle
    Hardcover: 02/04/2025
     
    As an Italian American family's decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear ...
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    Ilium: A Novel
    Lea Carpenter
    Paperback: 02/04/2025
     
    Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the...
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    Gliff: A Novel
    Ali Smith
    Hardcover: 02/04/2025
     
    From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing...
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    Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
    Paperback: 02/04/2025
     
    A gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to ...
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    Rachel Lyon
    Paperback: 02/04/2025
     
    An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer ...
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    Cahokia Jazz: A Novel
    Francis Spufford
    Paperback: 02/04/2025
     
    From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-...
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    Tia Williams
    Paperback: 02/04/2025
     
    In this enchanting love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-...
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