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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Washington DC

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  • The Briar Club
    Kate Quinn
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting ...
  • Horse
    Horse: A Novel
    Geraldine Brooks
    Paperback: 01/16/2024
     
    Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Fiction Award

    A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and ...
  • Jackie & Me
    Louis Bayard
    Paperback: 06/13/2023
     
    Master storyteller Louis Bayard delivers a surprising portrait of a young Jackie Kennedy as we've never seen ...
  • The Secrets We Kept
    Lara Prescott
    Paperback: 06/30/2020
     
    A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story ...
  • American Princess
    American Princess: A Novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt
    Stephanie Marie Thornton
    Paperback: 03/12/2019
     
    "Presidential darling, America's sweetheart, national rebel: Teddy Roosevelt's swashbuckling daughter Alice ...
  • Speak No Evil
    Uzodinma Iweala
    Paperback: 03/05/2019
     
    In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation ...
  • That Kind of Mother
    Rumaan Alam
    Paperback: 02/19/2019
     
    From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and those we fight...

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