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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + 17th Century or Earlier

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Literary Fiction - 17
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  • The Palace of Eros
    Caro De Robertis
    Hardcover: 08/13/2024
     
    Perfect for fans of Circe and Black Sun, this bold and subversive feminist retelling of the Greek myth of ...
  • Nicked
    Nicked: A Novel
    M.T. Anderson
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, ...
  • The Bright Sword
    The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur
    Lev Grossman
    Hardcover: 07/16/2024
     
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians trilogy returns with a triumphant reimagining of the...
  • Every Rising Sun
    Jamila Ahmed
    Paperback: 07/16/2024
     
    In this riveting take on One Thousand and One Nights, Shaherazade, at the center of her own story, uses wit ...
  • Masquerade
    O.O. Sangoyomi
    Hardcover: 07/02/2024
     
    Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the...
  • The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye
    Briony Cameron
    Hardcover: 06/04/2024
     
    This epic, dazzling tale based on true events illuminates a woman of color's rise to power as one of the few ...
  • Fair Rosaline
    Fair Rosaline: A Novel
    Natasha Solomons
    Paperback: 05/07/2024
     
    The most exciting historical retelling of 2023: a subversive, powerful untelling of Romeo and Juliet by New ...

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