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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Strong Women

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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 358
Historical Fiction - 281
Thrillers - 90
Mystery - 76
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Short Stories - 29
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Poetry & Novels in Verse - 5

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Uplifting - 33
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Generational Sagas - 150
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Ages & Stages
Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 26
Coming of Age - 201
Mid-Life Onwards - 47
Dealing with Loss - 145

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Books in Translation - 14
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Black Authors - 65
Latinx Authors - 9
Asian Authors - 78
Jewish Authors - 26
Middle-Eastern Authors - 11
Native and Indigenous Authors - 8

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Female Friendships - 135
Strong Women - 832
LGBTQ+ - 41

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Philosophical - 22
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Magical or Supernatural - 83
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Miscellaneous
Small Press Titles - 53
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War Related - 149
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LibraryReads Picks - 105

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400+ Pages - 64
250-400 Pages - 832
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17th Century or Earlier - 66
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USA - 358
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Imaginary Locations - 31

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N.H. Vt. Maine - 16
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Mass. - 23
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Nebr.& Dakotas - 2
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California - 57
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New England, USA - 66
Mid-Atlantic, USA - 106
South, USA - 86
Midwest, USA - 38
West, USA - 92

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UK (Britain) & Ireland - 145
Scandinavia - 7
Netherlands & Belgium - 1
France - 30
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Italy - 18
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Asia by Region
Middle-East (West Asia) - 28
Russia (North Asia) - 5
Central Asia - 4
East Asia (except China) - 12
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India - 14
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Africa by Region
Eastern Africa - 8
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Northern & Western Africa - 18

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  • Murder by Degrees
    Ritu Mukerji
    Paperback: 10/15/2024
     
    For fans of Jacqueline Winspear and Charles Todd, Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th ...
  • Shred Sisters
    Betsy Lerner
    Hardcover: 10/01/2024
     
    No one will love you more or hurt you more than a sister.

    From Betsy Lerner, celebrated author of The ...
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    C Pam Zhang
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel ...
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    Sandra Newman
    Paperback: 09/24/2024
     
    An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell's 1984, from the point of view...
  • The Reformatory
    Tananarive Due
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a ...
  • Beyond the Door of No Return
    David Diop
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
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    Lucy Ashe
    Paperback: 09/10/2024
     
    A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers—identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara ...

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