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This guide encompasses the genres of literary, historical, and inspirational fiction.

General fiction

This guide will help you find your next great fiction read in the genres of literary, historical, and inspirational fiction. In these guides, we are highlighting what's new, classics, local authors, staff picks, audiobooks, and graphic novels that will guide you if you're already an established fan or if you're entirely new to the genre. Happy reading!

Spring reads

Outline by Rachel Cusk
Emma by Jane Austen
Spring by Ali Smith
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Sweet Bean Paste by Dorian Sukegawa
Indians on Vacation by Thomas King
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Difffenbaugh
Chasing Painted Horses by Drew Hayden Taylor
The Boat Who Wouldn't Float by Farley Mowat

What's new

The Keeper of Lonely Spirits by E.M. Anderson
This Kind of Trouble by Tochi Eze
Julius Julius by Aurora Stewart De Pena
The Hand of Iman by Ryad Assani-Razaki
Courtroom Drama by Neely Tubati Alexander
The Summers Between Us by Noreen Nanja
What Hunger by Catherine Dang
Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth
The Nantucket Restaurant by Pamela Kelley
Nero by Conn Iggulden
Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda
Tilt by Emma Pattee
Retreat by Krysten Ritter
Lucky Night by Eliza Kennedy
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
Twist by Colum McCann
Nobody Asked for This by Georgia Toews
The Resistance Painter by Kath Jonathan

Staff picks

Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Hellgoing by Lynn Coady
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac
What We All Long For by Dionne Brand
Hotline by Dimitri Nasrallah
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

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