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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Philosophical

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Total Books Recommended: 107

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 75
Historical Fiction - 8
Thrillers - 1
Mystery - 4
Romance/Love Stories - 6
Short Stories - 10
Speculative, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Alt. History - 21
Poetry & Novels in Verse - 1

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Debuts - 21
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Uplifting - 7
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Generational Sagas - 13
Parenting & Families - 6

Ages & Stages
Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 6
Coming of Age - 21
Mid-Life Onwards - 18
Dealing with Loss - 26

Ethnicity
Books in Translation - 11
Immigrants & Expats - 11
Black Authors - 4
Asian Authors - 16
Jewish Authors - 10
Middle-Eastern Authors - 1
Native and Indigenous Authors - 1

Gender & Sexuality
Female Friendships - 5
Strong Women - 22
LGBTQ+ - 4

Philosophy & Spiritual
Philosophical - 107
Religious or Spiritual Themes - 20

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Magical or Supernatural - 10
Magical Realism - 1

Miscellaneous
Small Press Titles - 11
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Physical & Mental Differences - 7
Books About Animals - 3
War Related - 14
Nature & Environment - 11
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Activism & Volunteering - 1
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LibraryReads Picks - 9

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400+ Pages - 5
250-400 Pages - 107
Less Than 250 Pages - 28

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17th Century or Earlier - 3
18th Century - 1
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USA - 37
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USA (48 States)
Mass. - 6
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New Jersey - 1
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Ariz. Nev. N.M. Utah - 1
California - 2
Wash. Ore. Idaho - 1

USA Regions
New England, USA - 12
Mid-Atlantic, USA - 8
South, USA - 7
Midwest, USA - 4
West, USA - 5

Europe by Region
UK (Britain) & Ireland - 13
Scandinavia - 2
France - 6
Spain - 1
Germany - 1
Italy - 5
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Asia by Region
Middle-East (West Asia) - 3
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South Asia (except India) - 2
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Africa by Region
Northern & Western Africa - 2

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  • Land of Milk and Honey
    C Pam Zhang
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel ...
  • Creation Lake
    Creation Lake: A Novel
    Rachel Kushner
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most ...
  • Bright Objects
    Ruby Todd
    Hardcover: 07/16/2024
     
    A young widow grapples with the arrival of a once-in-a-lifetime comet and its tumultuous consequences, in a ...
  • Toward Eternity
    Anton Hur
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Alternatives
    Caoilinn Hughes
    Hardcover: 04/16/2024
     
    From the writer Anthony Doerr calls "a massive talent," the story of four brilliant Irish sisters, orphaned in...
  • 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, ...

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