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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Nature & Environment

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 76
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  • Absolution
    Absolution: Southern Reach, book 4
    Jeff VanderMeer
    Hardcover: 10/22/2024
     
    The surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the ...
  • The Mighty Red
    Louise Erdrich
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells a ...
  • North Woods
    North Woods: A Novel
    Daniel Mason
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit...
  • Playground
    Playground: A Novel
    Richard Powers
    Hardcover: 09/24/2024
     
    A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of The ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Avian Hourglass
    Lindsey Drager
    Paperback: 08/13/2024
     
    At once an ode to birds, an elegy to space, and a journey into the most haunted and uncanny corners of the ...

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