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https://maccrane12.substack.com/about Genre: Short Stories, Literary Fiction Published by: The Dial Press, Random House Publish date: July 7, 2026 Number of pages: 256 pages Author’s website: https://maccrane12.substack.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! An employee at a hunting ground where people pay to act out hate crimes prepares to meet their girlfriend’s parents for the first time. …
Nathan Bajar for The New York Times Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: One World Publish date: July 23, 2024 Number of pages: 224 pages Author’s website: https://www.instagram.com/karlarrrio Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulnerable student at an elite college, forced to …
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Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Marysue Rucci Books Publish date: September 23, 2025 Number of pages: 496 Author’s website: https://monaawadauthor.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! In the cult classic novel Bunny, Samantha Heather Mackey, a lonely outsider student at a highly selective MFA program in New England, was first ostracized and then seduced by a clique …
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https://www.leilamottley.com/ Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Knopf Publish date: June 24, 2025 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://www.leilamottley.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Adela Woods is sixteen years old and pregnant. Her parents banish her from her comfortable upbringing in Indiana to her grandmother’s home in the small town of Padua Beach, Florida. …
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Author Photo By Beowulf Sheehan Genre: Literary Fiction Published by: Knopf Publish date: January 23, 2024 Number of pages: 352 pages Author’s website: https://kavehakbar.com/ Support local! Buy the book on BookShop! Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided …
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