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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Ind. Mich. Ohio

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  • Blood Test
    Blood Test: A Comedy
    Charles Baxter
    Hardcover: 10/15/2024
     
    From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic ...
  • Dayswork
    Dayswork: A Novel
    Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel
    Paperback: 09/03/2024
     
    A startlingly original, incantatory novel about marriage, mortality, and making art.
  • Under This Red Rock
    Mindy McGinnis
    Hardcover: 03/19/2024
     
    From award-winning author Mindy McGinnis comes a mesmerizing YA psychological mystery following a teen girl ...
  • Tom Lake
    Tom Lake: A Novel
    Ann Patchett
    Hardcover: 08/01/2023
     
    In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself ...
  • Now Is Not the Time to Panic
    Kevin Wilson
    Paperback: 08/01/2023
     
    An exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the...
  • Zorrie
    Laird Hunt
    Paperback: 11/01/2022
     
    "It was Indiana, it was the dirt she had bloomed up out of, it was who she was, what she felt, how she thought...
  • Crossroads
    Crossroads: A Key to All Mythologies #1
    Jonathan Franzen
    Paperback: 10/04/2022
     
    Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never ...

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