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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 983
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  • Long Island Compromise
    Taffy Brodesser-Akner
    Paperback: 05/20/2025
     
    An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and ...
  • The Emperor of Gladness
    Ocean Vuong
    Hardcover: 05/13/2025
     
    Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we ...
  • All Fours
    All Fours: A Novel
    Miranda July
    Paperback: 05/13/2025
     
    The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising ...
  • The Names
    The Names: A Novel
    Florence Knapp
    Hardcover: 05/06/2025
     
    The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
  • The Covenant of Water
    Abraham Verghese
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023

    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone ...
  • Early Sobrieties
    Michael Deagler
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Like a sober, millennial Jesus' Son, Michael Deagler's debut novel is the poignant confession of a recovering ...
  • Daughters of Shandong
    Eve J. Chung
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daughters' harrowing escape to Taiwan as the ...

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