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Book Recommendations for General Fiction

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  • 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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    Lev Grossman
    Paperback: 07/08/2025
     
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    Kate Quinn
    Paperback: 07/08/2025
     
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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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    Anton Hur
    Paperback: 07/01/2025
     
    Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility, ...
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    Ruben Reyes
    Paperback: 07/01/2025
     
    An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future ...
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    Elif Shafak
    Paperback: 07/01/2025
     
    In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but...
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