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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Contemporary

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 823
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Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 45
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Books in Translation - 62
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Female Friendships - 88
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Philosophical - 48
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Magical or Supernatural - 94
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Small Press Titles - 118
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USA - 680
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Middle-East (West Asia) - 39
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  • The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac
    Louise Kennedy
    Paperback: 12/03/2024
     
    Brilliant, dark stories of women's lives by "a very major talent" (Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times)
  • Hello Beautiful
    Ann Napolitano
    Paperback: 11/19/2024
     
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward comes a poignant and engrossing family story that ...
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    Lindsay Hunter
    Paperback: 11/12/2024
     
    The third title in Roxane Gay Books' inaugural list, Hot Springs Drive is an urgent, vicious blade of a novel ...
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    Happy: A Novel
    Celina Baljeet Basra
    Paperback: 11/12/2024
     
    For fans of Vikas Swarup and Charles Yu, the story of a starry-eyed cinephile who leaves his rural village in ...
  • The Oceans and the Stars
    The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story (A Novel)
    Mark Helprin
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, ...
  • Canoes
    Maylis De Kerangal
    Paperback: 10/29/2024
     
    A colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a ...
  • Those Pink Mountain Nights
    Jen Ferguson
    Paperback: 10/15/2024
     
    In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and ...

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