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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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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 ...
  • Camilla Barnes
    Hardcover: 04/01/2025
     
    An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their ...
  • Jo Piazza
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the ...
  • The Railway Conspiracy: A Dee and Lao Mystery
    John Shen Yen Nee, S.J. Rozan
    Hardcover: 04/01/2025
     
    Judge Dee and Lao She must use all their powers of deduction—and kung fu skills—to take down a ...
  • Snowglobe: Snowglobe, Book 1
    Soyoung Park, Joungmin Lee Comfort
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the ...
  • Bonnie Garmus
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    A must-read debut! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a "formidable, unapologetic and inspiring" (Parade) scientist in 1960s...
  • Leif Enger
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    A career defining tour-de-force from New York Times bestselling, award-winning and "formidably gifted" (...
  • Douglas Westerbeke
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, ...
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