Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Humor & Satire

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  • Erasure
    Percival Everett
    Paperback: 07/03/2025
     
    Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as American Fiction...
  • Hot Girls with Balls
    Benedict Nguyen
    Hardcover: 07/01/2025
     
    In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in...
  • How to Dodge a Cannonball
    Dennard Dayle
    Hardcover: 06/17/2025
     
    A cutting, revealing caricature of the American Civil War, told through the eyes of a white teenager who joins...
  • Craft
    Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil
    Ananda Lima
    Paperback: 06/17/2025
     
    Strange, intimate, haunted, and hungry―Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil is an intoxicating and ...
  • Bury Your Gays
    Chuck Tingle
    Paperback: 06/17/2025
     
    Bury Your Gays is a heart-pounding new novel from USA Today bestselling author Chuck Tingle about what it ...
  • Endling
    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 ...
  • Mood Swings
    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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