Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Uplifting

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  • Annie Hartnett
    Paperback: 02/28/2023
     
    A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-...
  • Louise Erdrich
    Paperback: 09/06/2022
     
    In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich ...
  • Nina LaCour
    Paperback: 01/18/2022
     
    Nina LaCour delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me, the much-anticipated follow-up to the ...
  • Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
    Paperback: 08/18/2020
     
    Following her National Book Award–nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton ...
  • Matt Haig
    Paperback: 06/11/2019
     
    A love story across the ages - and for the ages - about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and ...
  • Jandy Nelson
    Paperback: 10/27/2015
     
    A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, ...
  • Katharina Hagena
    Paperback: 02/04/2014
     
    Shimmering with the incandescence and irresistible magic of the novels of Alice Hoffman, Joanne Harris, and ...

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