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Genre: Adult Fiction
Literary Fiction - 1517
Historical Fiction - 563
Thrillers - 446
Mysteries - 307
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Adult Books From Child's Perspective - 140
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Books in Translation - 128
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  • The Wrong End of the Telescope
    The Wrong End of the Telescope
    Rabih Alameddine
    Paperback: 08/05/2022
     
    By National Book Award and the National Book Critics' Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woman, Rabih ...
  • We Are Not Like Them
    We Are Not Like Them: A Novel
    Christine Pride, Jo Piazza
    Paperback: 08/02/2022
     
    Told from alternating perspectives, an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women,...
  • The Arsonists' City
    The Arsonists' City
    Hala Alyan
    Paperback: 08/02/2022
     
    A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of ...
  • Mercury Pictures Presents
    Mercury Pictures Presents: A Novel
    Anthony Marra
    Hardcover: 08/02/2022
     
    The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini's Italy to ...
  • Dirt Creek
    Dirt Creek: A Novel
    Hayley Scrivenor
    Hardcover: 08/02/2022
     
    In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never ...
  • Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
    Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth: A Novel
    Wole Soyinka
    Paperback: 08/02/2022
     
    From the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our fiercest political activists, a ...
  • A Woman of Intelligence
    A Woman of Intelligence
    Karin Tanabe
    Paperback: 08/02/2022
     
    From "a master of historical fiction" (NPR), Karin Tanabe's A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of...

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