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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 54
Historical Fiction - 26
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Uplifting - 11
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Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 5
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Books in Translation - 5
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Female Friendships - 7
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LGBTQ+ - 7

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Philosophical - 9
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Magical or Supernatural - 16
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Small Press Titles - 7
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400+ Pages - 15
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New England, USA - 9
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South, USA - 4
Midwest, USA - 5
West, USA - 7

Europe by Region
UK (Britain) & Ireland - 33
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Middle-East (West Asia) - 3
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  • The House of Doors
    Tan Twan Eng
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, ...
  • Dayswork
    Dayswork: A Novel
    Chris Bachelder, Jennifer Habel
    Paperback: 09/03/2024
     
    A startlingly original, incantatory novel about marriage, mortality, and making art.
  • Colored Television
    Danzy Senna
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial ...
  • Ink Blood Sister Scribe
    Emma Torzs
    Paperback: 06/11/2024
     
    In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of ...
  • A Short Walk Through a Wide World
    Douglas Westerbeke
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, ...
  • James
    James: A Novel
    Percival Everett
    Hardcover: 03/19/2024
     
    A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny...
  • The Extinction of Irena Rey
    Jennifer Croft
    Hardcover: 03/05/2024
     
    From the International Booker Prize-winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, an utterly beguiling novel ...

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