Exceptional novels for adults written from a child's perspective
Adult Books From Child's Perspective
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The History of a Difficult Child: A Novel
by Mihret Sibhat
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution
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The Reformatory: A Novel
by Tananarive Due
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.
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Our Missing Hearts: A Novel
by Celeste Ng
Hardcover: Oct 2022
Paperback: Aug 2023
From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother's unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.
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A Council of Dolls: A Novel
by Mona Susan Power
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day.
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The Book of Goose: A Novel
by Yiyun Li
Hardcover: Sep 2022
Paperback: Aug 2023
A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and ...
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Promise: A Novel
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Two Black sisters growing up in small-town New England fight to protect their home, their bodies, and their dreams as the Civil Rights Movement sweeps the nation in this "magical, magnificent novel" (Marlon James) from "a startlingly fresh voice" (...
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Fight Night
by Miriam Toews
Hardcover: Oct 2021
Paperback: Jan 2023
From the bestselling author of Women Talking and All My Puny Sorrows, a compassionate, darkly humorous, and deeply wise new novel about three generations of women.
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Foster
by Claire Keegan
Hardcover: Nov 2022
An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the ...
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Lightning Strike: Cork O'Connor Mystery Series #18
by William Kent Krueger
Hardcover: Aug 2021
Paperback: Jul 2022
The author of the instant New York Times bestseller This Tender Land returns with a powerful prequel to his acclaimed Cork O'Connor series - a book about fathers and sons, long-simmering conflicts in a small Minnesota town, and the events that echo ...
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A Town Called Solace
by Mary Lawson
Hardcover: Feb 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
Mary Lawson is back after almost a decade with a fresh and timely novel that is different in subject but just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work.
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The Dictionary of Lost Words
by Pip Williams
Hardcover: Apr 2021
Paperback: May 2022
In this remarkable debut based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, the daughter of one of them decides to collect the "objectionable" words they omit.
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The Funny Thing About Norman Foreman: A Novel
by Julietta Henderson
Hardcover: Apr 2021
Paperback: Mar 2022
Julietta Henderson's delightfully charming, tender and uplifting debut takes us on a road trip with a mother and son who will live in the reader's heart for a long time to come, and teaches us that--no matter the odds--we must always reach for the ...
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