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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Mid-Life Onwards

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 178
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Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 4
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Mid-Life Onwards - 249
Dealing with Loss - 73

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Books in Translation - 9
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Philosophical - 18
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Middle-East (West Asia) - 8
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  • Blood Test
    Blood Test: A Comedy
    Charles Baxter
    Hardcover: 10/15/2024
     
    From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic ...
  • Tell Me Everything
    Elizabeth Strout
    Hardcover: 09/10/2024
     
    From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friendships...
  • The Night Guest
    Hildur Knútsdóttir
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    Hildur Knútsdóttir's The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjav&#...
  • Colored Television
    Danzy Senna
    Hardcover: 09/03/2024
     
    A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial ...
  • Witness
    Witness: Stories
    Jamel Brinkley
    Paperback: 07/30/2024
     
    From National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley, Witness is an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken ...
  • The General and Julia
    Jon Clinch
    Paperback: 07/23/2024
     
    Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and a ...
  • Pink Slime
    Fernanda Trias
    Hardcover: 07/02/2024
     
    Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and ...

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