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Literary Fiction - 23
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  • Happy
    Happy: A Novel
    Celina Baljeet Basra
    Paperback: 11/12/2024
     
    For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in ...
  • Land of Milk and Honey
    C Pam Zhang
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel ...
  • Nicked
    Nicked: A Novel
    M.T. Anderson
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, ...
  • Roman Stories
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    Paperback: 06/18/2024
     
    The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her ...
  • Return to Valetto
    Dominic Smith
    Paperback: 06/11/2024
     
    From the bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith's Return to Valetto tells of a ...
  • Fair Rosaline
    Fair Rosaline: A Novel
    Natasha Solomons
    Paperback: 05/07/2024
     
    The most exciting historical retelling of 2023: a subversive, powerful untelling of Romeo and Juliet by New ...
  • The Sicilian Inheritance
    Jo Piazza
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the ...

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