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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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Literary Fiction - 1709
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  • So Far Gone
    So Far Gone: A Novel
    Jess Walter
    Hardcover: 06/10/2025
     
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles...
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    Rufi Thorpe
    Paperback: 06/10/2025
     
    A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, ...
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    Enlightenment: A Novel
    Sarah Perry
    Paperback: 06/10/2025
     
    A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and astronomy ...
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    Victoria E. Schwab
    Hardcover: 06/10/2025
     
    From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-...
  • The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl
    Bart Yates
    Paperback: 06/03/2025
     
    Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in ...
  • The Slip
    The Slip: A Novel
    Lucas Schaefer
    Hardcover: 06/03/2025
     
    For readers of Jonathan Franzen and Nathan Hill comes a haymaker of an American novel about a missing teenage ...
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    Caro De Robertis
    Paperback: 06/03/2025
     
    Perfect for fans of Circe and Black Sun, this bold and subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of ...
  • The Night of Baba Yaga
    Akira Otani, Sam Bett
    Paperback: 06/03/2025
     
    A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect...
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