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Literary Fiction - 23
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  • Let Us Descend
    Jesmyn Ward
    Paperback: 09/03/2024
     
    From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress ...
  • Time's Mouth
    Time's Mouth: A Novel
    Edan Lepucki
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow ...
  • Craft
    Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
    Ananda Lima
    Hardcover: 06/18/2024
     
    Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and ...
  • Cecilia
    K-Ming Chang
    Paperback: 05/21/2024
     
    An erotic, surreal novella from the author of Organ Meats and Bestiary.
  • Wings in the Wild
    Margarita Engle
    Paperback: 04/23/2024
     
    This gorgeously romantic contemporary novel-in-verse from award-winning author Margarita Engle tells the ...
  • Weyward
    Weyward: A Novel
    Emilia Hart
    Paperback: 02/27/2024
     
    Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an ...
  • Victory City
    Victory City: A Novel
    Salman Rushdie
    Paperback: 01/30/2024
     
    The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the ...

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