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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Music and the Arts

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Literary Fiction - 29
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  • City of Night Birds
    Juhea Kim
    Hardcover: 11/26/2024
     
    A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke ...
  • Our Evenings
    Our Evenings: A Novel
    Alan Hollinghurst
    Hardcover: 10/08/2024
     
    From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel of modern England through the ...
  • The Dance of the Dolls
    Lucy Ashe
    Paperback: 09/10/2024
     
    A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers—identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara ...
  • The Anthropologists
    Aysegül Savas
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life ...
  • Exhibit
    Exhibit: A Novel
    R O. Kwon
    Hardcover: 05/21/2024
     
    From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between her ...
  • Blue Ruin
    Blue Ruin: A Novel
    Hari Kunzru
    Hardcover: 05/14/2024
     
    From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty and power, ...
  • 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 ...

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