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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Ark. La. Ok.

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Total Books Recommended: 43

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  • Season of the Swamp
    Yuri Herrera
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World....
  • King of the Armadillos
    Wendy Chin-Tanner
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City...
  • Let Us Descend
    Jesmyn Ward
    Paperback: 09/03/2024
     
    From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress ...
  • Stealing
    Stealing: A Novel
    Margaret Verble
    Paperback: 02/20/2024
     
    A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian ...
  • Glory Be
    Glory Be: A Glory Broussard Mystery
    Danielle Arceneaux
    Hardcover: 10/03/2023
     
    The first in a vivid and charming crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously ...
  • Nobody's Magic
    Destiny O. Birdsong
    Paperback: 01/10/2023
     
    In this glittering triptych novel, Suzette, Maple and Agnes, three Black women with albinism, call Shreveport,...
  • Things We Lost to the Water
    Eric Nguyen
    Paperback: 04/26/2022
     
    A stunning debut novel about an immigrant Vietnamese family who settles in New Orleans and struggles to remain...

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