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Book Recommendations for General Fiction + 1960s & '70s

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  • These Heathens
    Mia McKenzie
    Hardcover: 06/17/2025
     
    In this vibrant, gratifying novel, a pious, small-town teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and ...
  • The Night of Baba Yaga
    Akira Otani, Sam Bett
    Paperback: 06/03/2025
     
    A fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment to the yakuza princess she's been forced to protect...
  • Remember Us
    Jacqueline Woodson
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Winner: BookBrowse YA Book Award 2023

    National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful...
  • Ghost Girl, Banana
    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 ...
  • The Usual Desire to Kill
    Camilla Barnes
    Hardcover: 04/01/2025
     
    An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their ...
  • Lessons in Chemistry
    Bonnie Garmus
    Paperback: 04/01/2025
     
    A must-read debut! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a "formidable, unapologetic and inspiring" (Parade) scientist in 1960s...
  • Real Americans
    Rachel Khong
    Paperback: 03/25/2025
     
    From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny? An ...

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