Book Recommendations for
General Fiction + Contemporary
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Yasmin Zaher
Paperback: 07/15/2025
A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City ...
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Danzy Senna
Paperback: 07/15/2025
A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial ...
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Aysegül Savas
Paperback: 07/08/2025
Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life ...
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Percival Everett
Paperback: 07/03/2025
Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as American Fiction...
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Benedict Nguyen
Hardcover: 07/01/2025
In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in...
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Rachel Kushner
Paperback: 07/01/2025
From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most ...
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Dwyer Murphy
Hardcover: 06/24/2025
When a group of old college friends reunites for a summer vacation at a beach house in coastal Massachusetts, ...
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