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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + 19th Century

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Literary Fiction - 51
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  • 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 ...
  • Murder by Degrees
    Ritu Mukerji
    Paperback: 10/15/2024
     
    For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd, Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th ...
  • 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....
  • Chenneville
    Chenneville: A Novel of Murder, Loss, and Vengeance
    Paulette Jiles
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post&#...
  • Beyond the Door of No Return
    David Diop
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
  • Let Us Descend
    Jesmyn Ward
    Paperback: 09/03/2024
     
    From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress ...
  • The Lost Wife
    The Lost Wife: A novel
    Susanna Moore
    Paperback: 08/20/2024
     
    From one of our most compelling and sensual writers comes a searing, immersive novel about a seminal and ...

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