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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Less Than 250 Pages

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 257
Historical Fiction - 41
Thrillers - 14
Mystery - 32
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Short Stories - 98
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Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 26
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Books in Translation - 54
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Philosophical - 28
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Magical or Supernatural - 33
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Small Press Titles - 79
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250-400 Pages - 456
Less Than 250 Pages - 456

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17th Century or Earlier - 11
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USA - 185
Canada - 6
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USA (48 States)
N.H. Vt. Maine - 6
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California - 21
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Europe by Region
UK (Britain) & Ireland - 55
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Asia by Region
Middle-East (West Asia) - 12
Russia (North Asia) - 4
Central Asia - 3
East Asia (except China) - 18
China - 4
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India - 10
South-East Asia - 5

Africa by Region
Eastern Africa - 6
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    Rental House: A Novel
    Weike Wang
    Hardcover: 12/03/2024
     
    From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through ...
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    Maylis De Kerangal
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a ...
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    Blood Test: A Comedy
    Charles Baxter
    Hardcover: 10/15/2024
     
    From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic ...
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    Yoko Tawada
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's new and irresistible Suggested in the ...
  • Season of the Swamp
    Yuri Herrera
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World....
  • 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 ...
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    Graveyard Shift: A Novella
    M. L. Rio
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    The author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift ...

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