Exceptional novels for adults written from a child's perspective
Adult Books From Child's Perspective
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A Council of Dolls: A Novel
by Mona Susan Power
Hardcover: Aug 2023
Paperback: Nov 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 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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Mina's Matchbox: A Novel
by Yoko Ogawa
Hardcover: Aug 2024
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, a hypnotic, introspective novel about an affluent Japanese family navigating buried secrets, and their young house guest who uncovers them.
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Promise: A Novel
by Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Aug 2024
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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A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
Hardcover: Apr 2024
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.
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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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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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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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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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