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Literary Fiction - 101
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  • Absolution
    Absolution: Southern Reach, book 4
    Jeff VanderMeer
    Hardcover: 10/22/2024
     
    The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the ...
  • North Woods
    North Woods: A Novel
    Daniel Mason
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit...
  • A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens
    Raul Palma
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens explores the weight of ...
  • The Empusium
    The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story
    Olga Tokarczuk
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie ...
  • Final Cut
    Charles Burns
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    The beloved and award-winning author of Black Hole's haunting and visually arresting story of an artist's ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Night Guest
    Hildur Knútsdóttir
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjav&#...

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