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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 28
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  • The Bullet Swallower
    Elizabeth Gonzalez James
    Paperback: 01/21/2025
     
    A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The ...
  • Wild and Distant Seas
    Tara Karr Roberts
    Paperback: 01/07/2025
     
    A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their ...
  • North Woods
    North Woods: A Novel
    Daniel Mason
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit...
  • There Are Rivers in the Sky
    Elif Shafak
    Hardcover: 08/20/2024
     
    In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but...
  • 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, ...
  • A Short Walk Through a Wide World
    Douglas Westerbeke
    Hardcover: 04/02/2024
     
    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, ...
  • You Glow in the Dark
    Liliana Colanzi
    Paperback: 02/06/2024
     
    Introducing the Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi, You Glow in the Dark glimmers with an unearthly light and a ...

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