Category: Literary Fiction
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Notes on an Execution

A gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life.
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What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

A Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long‑missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and they set out to bring her home.
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My Name is Lucy Barton

A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter, despite their complicated past.
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Please Report Your Bug Here

A debut novel by Instagram’s first employee about a dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worlds.
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Treacle Walker

A fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity time, vivid storytelling that illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around him.
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Factory Girls

A young woman, awaiting her exam scores, works a summer job in a shirt factory in Northern Ireland, while tensions rise both inside and outside the factory walls.
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Good Neighbors

Celeste Ng’s enthralling dissection of suburbia meets Shirley Jackson’s creeping dread in this propulsive literary noir, when a sudden tragedy exposes the depths of deception and damage in a Long Island suburb—pitting neighbor against neighbor and putting one family in terrible danger.
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Small Things Like These

A tale of one man’s courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family.
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The Last White Man

Two young white people deal with a changing world after one of them wakes up one morning with dark skin. Soon, others start to change and unrest grows.
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Good Rich People

A destitute woman deceives her way into the guesthouse of a Hollywood Hills mansion and inadvertently becomes a target in the twisted game of the wealthy family upstairs.
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