Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Contemporary

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  • The Coin: A Novel
    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 ...
  • Danzy Senna
    Paperback: 07/15/2025
     
    A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial ...
  • AysegĂĽl Savas
    Paperback: 07/08/2025
     
    Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life ...
  • Percival Everett
    Paperback: 07/03/2025
     
    Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as American Fiction...
  • Benedict Nguyen
    Hardcover: 07/01/2025
     
    In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in...
  • Creation Lake: A Novel
    Rachel Kushner
    Paperback: 07/01/2025
     
    From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and "one of the most ...
  • 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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