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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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  • Pink Slime
    Fernanda Trias
    Paperback: 07/22/2025
     
    Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and ...
  • Nicked
    Nicked: A Novel
    M.T. Anderson
    Paperback: 07/22/2025
     
    From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, ...
  • Girl, 1983
    Girl, 1983: A Novel
    Linn Ullmann
    Hardcover: 07/22/2025
     
    Called a "masterpiece" (Ali Smith), this stunning novel explores desire and anxiety, beauty and youth, memory ...
  • The Coin
    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 ...
  • The Bewitching
    Silvia Moreno-Garcia
    Hardcover: 07/15/2025
     
    Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror ...
  • Colored Television
    Danzy Senna
    Paperback: 07/15/2025
     
    A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial- identity-industrial ...
  • A Sorceress Comes to Call
    T. Kingfisher
    Paperback: 07/15/2025
     
    From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call&#...
  • The Lion Women of Tehran
    Marjan Kamali
    Paperback: 07/08/2025
     
    From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop,...
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