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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Dealing with Loss

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  • Katherine Arden
    Paperback: 01/28/2025
     
    During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie ...
  • Leo Vardiashvili
    Paperback: 01/28/2025
     
    Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the past to ...
  • Good Girl: A Novel
    Aria Aber
    Hardcover: 01/14/2025
     
    An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and ...
  • Shubnum Khan
    Paperback: 01/07/2025
     
    "A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts ...
  • Lindsay Hunter
    Paperback: 11/12/2024
     
    The third title in Roxane Gay Books' inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel ...
  • Maame Blue
    Paperback: 10/08/2024
     
    An internationally award-winning writer makes her triumphant American debut in this emotionally powerful story...
  • Kate Greathead
    Hardcover: 10/08/2024
     
    From the author of the critically acclaimed Laura & Emma comes a The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. for our ...

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