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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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  • Elaine Hsieh Chou
    Hardcover: 08/19/2025
     
    From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the ...
  • Sweetener: A Novel
    Marissa Higgins
    Hardcover: 08/19/2025
     
    From the author of A Good Happy Girl, a lesbian screwball comedy following two exes who turn to online dating ...
  • Ruth: A Novel
    Kate Riley
    Hardcover: 08/19/2025
     
    In this mesmerizing and profound novel, the arc of a woman's life in a devout, insular community challenges ...
  • Catherine Dang
    Hardcover: 08/12/2025
     
    A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nyugen, as she grapples ...
  • Elizabeth Strout
    Paperback: 08/12/2025
     
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships...
  • Fonseca: A Novel
    Jessica Francis Kane
    Hardcover: 08/12/2025
     
    The story acclaimed English author Penelope Fitzgerald never wrote, of her real-life journey to Mexico with ...
  • Rejection: Fiction
    Tony Tulathimutte
    Paperback: 08/06/2025
     
    From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens ("the first great millennial novel," ...
  • Don Martin
    Hardcover: 08/05/2025
     
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