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• The Briar Club

  a Novel

  Quinn, Kate

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  Chosen for your interest in historical fiction and Kate Quinn.

• Cartier's Hope

  a Novel

  Rose, M. J., 1953-

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  Chosen for your interest in historical fiction with a touch of fashion-based mystery.

• China Dolls

  a Novel

  See, Lisa

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  Chosen for your interest in richly detailed historical fiction set in San Francisco.

• The Future

  Leroux, Catherine, 1979-

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  Chosen for your interest in award-winning literary fiction and Heather O'Neill, who championed for its Canada Reads 2024 win.

• In the Dream House

  a Memoir

  Machado, Carmen Maria

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  This inventive memoir explores an abusive relationship through the lens of classic literary tropes. Chosen for your interest in biographies/memoirs.

• In the Night Garden

  Valente, Catherynne M., 1979-

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  Chosen for your interest in lyrical literary fiction with a touch of surrealism.

• Knife

  Meditations After An Attempted Murder

  Rushdie, Salman

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  Chosen for your interest in biographies/memoirs.

• Or What You Will

  Walton, Jo

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  This metatextual love letter to Shakespeare was chosen for your interest in historical and literary fiction.

• Piranesi

  Clarke, Susanna

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  Chosen for your interest in dreamlike literary fiction.

• The Porcelain Moon

  a Novel of France, the Great War, and Forbidden Love

  Chang, Janie

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  Chosen for your interest in historical fiction and Janie Chang.

• Quichotte

  a Novel

  Rushdie, Salman

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  This modern retelling of Don Quixote was chosen for your interest in surrealist literary fiction.

• The Starless Sea

  Morgenstern, Erin

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  This love letter to storytelling was chosen for your interest in lyrical literary fiction.

• The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington

  Moorhead, Joanna

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  Chosen for your interest in Leonora Carrington and biographies/memoirs.

• When We Lost Our Heads

  O'Neill, Heather

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  Chosen for your interest in Heather O'Neill and historical fiction.

• A Wild Sheep Chase

  Murakami, Haruki, 1949-

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  Chosen for your interest in literary fiction with a healthy dose of surrealism.