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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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Literary Fiction - 1709
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  • 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 ...
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    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 ...
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    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...
  • Meet Me at the Crossroads
    Megan Giddings
    Hardcover: 06/03/2025
     
    From the award-winning, critically-acclaimed author of Lakewood and The Women Could Fly, a dazzling novel...
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    Endling: A Novel
    Maria Reva
    Hardcover: 06/03/2025
     
    Set in Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails crosses paths with sisters posing as members of ...
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    Mood Swings: A Novel
    Frankie Barnet
    Paperback: 05/25/2025
     
    In a pre-apocalyptic world not unlike our own, a young Instagram poet starts an affair with a California ...
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    Spent: A Comic Novel
    Alison Bechdel
    Hardcover: 05/20/2025
     
    The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-...
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