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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + Parenting & Families

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  • So Far Gone: A Novel
    Jess Walter
    Hardcover: 06/10/2025
     
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles...
  • Rufi Thorpe
    Paperback: 06/10/2025
     
    A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman's attempt to navigate adulthood, ...
  • Taffy Brodesser-Akner
    Paperback: 05/20/2025
     
    An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, and ...
  • Liars: A Novel
    Sarah Manguso
    Paperback: 05/13/2025
     
    A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all—from...
  • All Fours: A Novel
    Miranda July
    Paperback: 05/13/2025
     
    The New York Times bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising ...
  • The Names: A Novel
    Florence Knapp
    Hardcover: 05/06/2025
     
    The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life?
  • Wiz Wharton
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a ...

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