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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Florida

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  • Absolution
    Absolution: Southern Reach, book 4
    Jeff VanderMeer
    Hardcover: 10/22/2024
     
    The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the ...
  • A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
    Raul Palma
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of ...
  • The Reformatory
    Tananarive Due
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a ...
  • Banyan Moon
    Banyan Moon: A Novel
    Thao Thai
    Paperback: 06/04/2024
     
    A sweeping, evocative debut novel following three generations of Vietnamese American women reeling from the ...
  • Blue Skies
    Blue Skies: A Novel
    T.C. Boyle
    Paperback: 05/21/2024
     
    From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving send-up of contemporary American ...
  • Real Americans
    Rachel Khong
    Hardcover: 04/30/2024
     
    From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An ...
  • The Light Pirate
    Lily Brooks-Dalton
    Paperback: 04/16/2024
     
    For readers of Station Eleven and Where the Crawdads Sing comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and ...

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