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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Minn. Wis. Iowa

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Total Books Recommended: 48

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  • The Lost Wife
    The Lost Wife: A novel
    Susanna Moore
    Paperback: 08/20/2024
     
    From one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing, immersive novel about a seminal and ...
  • Saints of the Household
    Ari Tison
    Hardcover: 03/28/2023
     
    Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town - beautifully ...
  • The Sentence
    Louise Erdrich
    Paperback: 09/06/2022
     
    In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich ...
  • The Family Chao
    Lan Samantha Chang
    Paperback: 08/30/2022
     
    An acclaimed storyteller returns with "a gorgeous and gripping literary mystery" that explores "family, ...
  • Brood
    Jackie Polzin
    Paperback: 07/26/2022
     
    An exquisite new literary voice - wryly funny, nakedly honest, beautifully observational, in the vein of Jenny...
  • Lightning Strike
    Lightning Strike: Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #18
    William Kent Krueger
    Paperback: 07/05/2022
     
    The author of the instant New York Times bestseller This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his ...
  • We Contain Multitudes
    Sarah Henstra
    Paperback: 05/12/2020
     
    Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe meets I'll Give You the Sun in an exhilarating and ...

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