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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + 20th Century (multiple decades)

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  • Benjamin Labatut
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    From one of contemporary literature's most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian ...
  • Time's Mouth: A Novel
    Edan Lepucki
    Paperback: 08/06/2024
     
    From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets that grow ...
  • Ruben Reyes
    Hardcover: 08/06/2024
     
    An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future ...
  • Bart Yates
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    Both sweeping and exquisitely intimate, award-winning author Bart Yates blends historical fact and fiction in ...
  • Anton Hur
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, ...
  • The New Earth: A Novel
    Jess Row
    Paperback: 07/02/2024
     
    A globe-spanning epic novel about a fractured New York family reckoning with the harms of the past and ...
  • Tessa Hadley
    Paperback: 07/02/2024
     
    A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and ...

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