Book Recommendations for
General Fiction, set in Washington DC
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Kate Quinn
Paperback: 07/08/2025
The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting ...
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Percival Everett
Paperback: 07/03/2025
Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as American Fiction...
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Geraldine Brooks
Paperback: 01/16/2024
Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Fiction Award
A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and ...
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Louis Bayard
Paperback: 06/13/2023
Master storyteller Louis Bayard delivers a surprising portrait of a young Jackie Kennedy as we've never seen ...
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Lara Prescott
Paperback: 06/30/2020
A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story ...
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Stephanie Marie Thornton
Paperback: 03/12/2019
"Presidential darling, America's sweetheart, national rebel: Teddy Roosevelt's swashbuckling daughter Alice ...
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Uzodinma Iweala
Paperback: 03/05/2019
In the long-anticipated novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Beasts of No Nation, a revelation ...
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