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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 116
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  • We Must Not Think of Ourselves
    Lauren Grodstein
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives kept by ...
  • The Blood Years
    Elana K. Arnold
    Paperback: 10/22/2024
     
    From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Golden Gate
    Amy Chua
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that ...
  • 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 Most
    Jessica Anthony
    Paperback: 07/30/2024
     
    From "one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page" (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, ...
  • The Caretaker
    The Caretaker: A Novel
    Ron Rash
    Paperback: 07/16/2024
     
    Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, The ...

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