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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + The Future

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Total Books Recommended: 94

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 24
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Philosophical - 10
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Magical or Supernatural - 8
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Small Press Titles - 9
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  • Prophet Song
    Paul Lynch
    Paperback: 11/05/2024
     
    Exhilarating, terrifying and surprisingly intimate, Prophet Song offers a shocking vision of a country at war ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Julia
    Julia: A Novel
    Sandra Newman
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell's 1984, from the point of view...
  • Sky Full of Elephants
    Cebo Campbell
    Hardcover: 09/10/2024
     
    In a world without white people, what does it mean to be black?
  • There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven
    Ruben Reyes
    Hardcover: 08/06/2024
     
    An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future ...
  • Toward Eternity
    Anton Hur
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, ...

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