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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Thrillers

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  • Hot Springs Drive
    Lindsay Hunter
    Paperback: 11/12/2024
     
    The third title in Roxane Gay Books' inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel ...
  • The Puzzle Box
    Danielle Trussoni
    Hardcover: 10/08/2024
     
    Two sisters. A lost imperial treasure. The world's greatest puzzle master has twenty-four hours to solve the ...
  • The Sequel
    The Sequel: The Book Series #2
    Jean Hanff Korelitz
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    After the "insanely readable" (Stephen King) and "perfectly told" (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times bestseller...
  • Model Home
    Model Home: A Novel
    Rivers Solomon
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel.
  • Graveyard Shift
    Graveyard Shift: A Novella
    M. L. Rio
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift ...
  • The Dance of the Dolls
    Lucy Ashe
    Paperback: 09/10/2024
     
    A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers—identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara ...
  • The Ascent
    Adam Plantinga
    Paperback: 09/10/2024
     
    When a high-security prison fails, a down-on-his luck cop and the governor's daughter are going to have to ...
  • 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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