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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Adult Books From Child's Perspective

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Literary Fiction - 120
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Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 151
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Books in Translation - 13
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  • A Short Walk Through a Wide World
    Douglas Westerbeke
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, ...
  • The Capital of Dreams
    Heather O'Neill
    Hardcover: 01/07/2025
     
    From the hugely acclaimed author beloved by literary lights, including Emily St. John Mandel, Kelly Link, and ...
  • A Council of Dolls
    Mona Susan Power
    Paperback: 11/05/2024
     
    The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American ...
  • The Reformatory
    Tananarive Due
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a ...
  • Mina's Matchbox
    Yoko Ogawa
    Hardcover: 08/13/2024
     
    From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel ...
  • Promise
    Promise: A Novel
    Rachel Eliza Griffiths
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their ...
  • The History of a Difficult Child
    Mihret Sibhat
    Paperback: 02/01/2024
     
    A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family ...

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