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Here, the best fiction books of 2024. In The Coin, a stylish Palestinian schoolteacher navigates a cramped New York City, where she’s obsessing over the large inheritance she can’t access due to her ...

Getting truly lost in a good historical fiction story is like stepping back in time. Between the fascinating details of bygone eras, generations-spanning mysteries and courageous characters overcoming ...

These standout novels represent the best newcomers to the literary scene this year Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has previously ...

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There are a ton of different subgenres within fiction. If you want to dive into a novel to escape to another world, there are seemingly endless ways to do just that. Some genres (and subsequent ...

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