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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + 400+ Pages

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 143
Historical Fiction - 92
Thrillers - 64
Mystery - 23
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Short Stories - 3
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Magical or Supernatural - 37
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Eastern Africa - 5
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  • The Oceans and the Stars
    The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story (A Novel)
    Mark Helprin
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, ...
  • 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 ...
  • Demon Copperhead
    Barbara Kingsolver
    Paperback: 08/27/2024
     
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which ...
  • The Bright Sword
    The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
    Lev Grossman
    Hardcover: 07/16/2024
     
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the...
  • The New Earth
    The New Earth: A Novel
    Jess Row
    Paperback: 07/02/2024
     
    A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and ...
  • Wellness
    Wellness: A Novel
    Nathan Hill
    Paperback: 06/25/2024
     
    The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about marriage, the ...
  • The Bee Sting
    The Bee Sting: A Novel
    Paul Murray
    Paperback: 06/25/2024
     
    From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-...

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