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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + 1980s & '90s

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  • Tom Lake: A Novel
    Ann Patchett
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself ...
  • Theft: A Novel
    Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Hardcover: 03/18/2025
     
    In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying ...
  • Michelle de Kretser
    Hardcover: 02/18/2025
     
    A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a ...
  • William Boyle
    Hardcover: 02/04/2025
     
    As an Italian American family's decades-old secret begins to unravel, they will have to bear ...
  • Cynthia Weiner
    Hardcover: 01/21/2025
     
    A dazzling novel about one young woman's summer of infinite possibility...
  • Beautyland: A Novel
    Marie-Helene Bertino
    Paperback: 01/14/2025
     
    A wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth, by the acclaimed author of Parakeet.
  • Playworld: A Novel
    Adam Ross
    Hardcover: 01/07/2025
     
    Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and ...

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