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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + 1920s & '30s

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Literary Fiction - 48
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  • The Dance of the Dolls
    Lucy Ashe
    Paperback: 09/10/2024
     
    A novel about obsessive love featuring two ballet dancers—identical twin sisters Olivia and Clara ...
  • The Golden Gate
    Amy Chua
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that ...
  • The Flower Sisters
    Michelle Collins Anderson
    Paperback: 04/23/2024
     
    From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention for ...
  • Becoming Madam Secretary
    Stephanie Dray
    Hardcover: 03/12/2024
     
    New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray returns with a captivating and dramatic new novel about an ...
  • Cahokia Jazz
    Cahokia Jazz: A Novel
    Francis Spufford
    Hardcover: 02/06/2024
     
    From "one of the most original minds in contemporary literature" (Nick Hornby) the bestselling and award-...
  • A Love Song for Ricki Wilde
    Tia Williams
    Hardcover: 02/06/2024
     
    In this enchanting love story from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-...
  • The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
    Shubnum Khan
    Hardcover: 01/09/2024
     
    "A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts ...

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