#generalfiction — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #generalfiction, aggregated by home.social.
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📚 Rabbit Cake by: Annie Hartnett
Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drown...
https://bookblabla.com/book/rabbit-cake
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📚 The World Jones Made by: Philip K. Dick
Floyd Jones has always been able to see exactly one year into his future, a gift and curse that began one year before he was even born. As a fortune-teller at a post-apocalyptic carnival, Jones is a powerful force, and may just be able to force society away from its paralyzing Relativism...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-world-jones-made
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #literary
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📚 Ed by: qntm
Ed MacPherson is your college whiz-kid hyper-scientist: wormholes, time travel, heavy stellar engineering. When the aliens attack and you need a giant robot to fight them, he's your guy. When a galaxy goes missing, he's the one who misplaced it.
But there's something wrong in the dark layers of Ed's universe - and the problem might just be E...
https://bookblabla.com/book/Ed
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction
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📚 Japanese Gothic by: Kylie Lee Baker
October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York and go to the one place that might offer refuge—his father’s new home in Japan, a house hidden by sword ferns and wil...
https://bookblabla.com/book/japanese-gothic
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #fantasy #contemporaryfiction
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📚 Firestarter by: Stephen King
Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as the Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them—man...
https://bookblabla.com/book/firestarter
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #sciencefiction #thrillers
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📚 Under the Dome by: Stephen King
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome”...
https://bookblabla.com/book/under-the-dome
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #psychologicalfiction #thrillers
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📚 Enormous Wings by: Laurie Frankel
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas—that would be her three grown children—but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the ex...
https://bookblabla.com/book/enormous-wings
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #familylife #generalfiction #womenfiction #humorous
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📚 The Road to Tender Hearts by: Annie Hartnett
At sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren’t for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. Since t...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-road-to-tender-hearts
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📚 Taiwan Travelogue by: Shuang-zi Yang
May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs...
https://bookblabla.com/book/taiwan-travelogue
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #historical #generalfiction #lgbtq
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📚 Trouble with Lichen by: John Wyndham
Francis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two scientists investigating a rare lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realizing the implications for the world of an ever-youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an oppo...
https://bookblabla.com/book/trouble-with-lichen
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #geneticengineering
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📚 The Cure for Drowning by: Loghan Paylor
Born Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since, at ten, they fell through the river ice and drowned—only to be nursed back to life by their mother's Celtic magic. A daredevil in boy's clothes, Kit chafes...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-cure-for-drowning
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #lgbtq #generalfiction #historical #20thcentury
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📚 Une unique lueur by: Fred Vargas
- Vous avez regardé les photos, Danglard ? De la scène du crime ? Demanda Adamsberg.
- Cela va de soi.
- Et donc ? Cela vous dit quelque chose ? Parce qu’à moi, oui.
- Tiens. Et cela vous raconte quoi ?
- Mais justement, rien. C’est quelque chose que je ne sais pas alors que cela me di...https://bookblabla.com/book/une-unique-lueur
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #thrillers #generalfiction #crimefiction #crime
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📚 Stakeouts and Strollers by: Rob Phillips
Charlie Shaw is low on sleep. And cash. Otherwise, life is going pretty well for the ex-crime reporter: he’s happily married to his college sweetheart, he’s a first-time dad to the most adorable baby girl in existence, and he’s making ends meet as a rookie P...
https://bookblabla.com/book/stakeouts-and-strollers
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #mysterydetective #generalfiction #cozy #privateinvestigators
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📚 When the Cranes Fly South by: Lisa Ridzén
Bo is running out of time. Yet time is one of the few things he’s got left. These days, his quiet existence is broken up only by daily visits from his home care team. Fortunately, he still has his beloved elkhound Sixten to keep him company, though now his son, wi...
https://bookblabla.com/book/when-the-cranes-fly-south
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #familylife #generalfiction #friendshipfiction #animals
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📚 Lost Lambs by: Madeline Cash
The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud's open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime West Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an onlin...
https://bookblabla.com/book/lost-lambs
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #familylife #generalfiction
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📚 This Book Is Full of Spiders by: Jason Pargin, David Wong
Warning: You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR.
You will dismiss this as ridiculous fear-mongering. Dismissing things as ridiculous fear-mongering is, in fact, the first symptom of parasitic spider infection, the ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/this-book-is-full-of-spiders
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #humorous #thrillers
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📚 Skirting Danger by: Kay Keppler
Suspended for a hunch gone wrong, CIA language analyst Phoebe Renfrew is desperate to get her job back. But when she uncovers a terrorist plot at a Las Vegas start-up car company owned by famed ex-quarterback Chase Bonaventure, no one listens to her.
The CIA doesn't care, the FBI is too busy, and th...
https://bookblabla.com/book/skirting-danger
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #romance #romanticcomedy
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📚 Twist by: Colum McCann
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfath...
https://bookblabla.com/book/twist
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #familylife #generalfiction #psychological
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📚 I Who Have Never Known Men (B&N Exclusive Edition) by: Jacqueline Harpman
As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the fortieth prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others...
https://bookblabla.com/book/i-who-have-never-known-men-bn-exclusive-edition
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #generalfiction #literaryfiction #dystopianfiction #feminist
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📚 Women of a Promiscuous Nature by: Donna Everhart
On a brisk February morning while walking to the diner where she works, 24 year-old Ruth Foster is stopped by the local sheriff. He insists she accompany him to a health clinic, threatening to arrest her if she doesn't undergo testing in order to preserv...
https://bookblabla.com/book/women-of-a-promiscuous-nature
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #20thcentury #generalfiction #southernfiction
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📚 I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200 by: Robert Brockway
To bright and anxious eight-year-old Kay Washington, the worst thing in the world is being alone with the quiet. That's why Eddie Video makes the perfect imaginary friend: He's smart, he's loud, he loves pulling pranks, and he's always there...
https://bookblabla.com/book/i-will-kill-your-imaginary-friend-for-200
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #humorous #darkhumor
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📚 The Green Mile by: Stephen King
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk 'the Green Mile', the lime-colored linoleum corridor leading to a final meeting with Old Sparky, Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-green-mile
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #fantasy #historicalfiction #horror #generalfiction
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📚 This House Will Feed by: Maria Tureaud
County Clare, 1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over Ireland, Maggie O'Shaughnessy has lost everything—her entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rations, she can see no futur...
https://bookblabla.com/book/this-house-will-feed
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #gothicfiction #historical #generalfiction #horror
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📚 Keeper of Lost Children by: Sadeqa Johnson
Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American Officer, is living in Occupied Germany in the 1950s. After discovering a local orphanage filled with the abandoned mixed-race children of German women and Black American GI’s, Ethel feels compelled to help find these children homes.
P...
https://bookblabla.com/book/keeper-of-lost-children
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #generalfiction #womenfiction
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📚 People Like Us by: Jason Mott
In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics ab...
https://bookblabla.com/book/people-like-us
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #literaryfiction #generalfiction #southern
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📚 Land of Dreams by: Gian Sardar
It's 1933, and though the country is stuck in the Great Depression, movies are the ultimate escape. But Hollywood is skilled at selling lies, and nothing is as it seems.
Frankie Donnelly is scrappy, smart, and ambitious. Her knack for spinning any story into stellar publicity has made...
https://bookblabla.com/book/land-of-dreams
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #20thcentury #generalfiction #mysterydetective
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📚 Hollow by: Celina Myers
Mia Adair isn't even twenty-five yet, but she's starting to wonder if her peak has already passed. She’s spent years working at her local bookstore, a job that was supposed to be temporary. As a kid, she experienced a strange sort of fame within the paranormal community thanks to her inclusion in a book that rev...
https://bookblabla.com/book/hollow
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #romance #paranormal
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📚 Snow Crash by: Neal Stephenson
Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions.
Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defe...
https://bookblabla.com/book/snow-crash
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #cyberpunkfiction #actionadventure
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📚 The Mountain in the Sea by: Ray Nayler
The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching c...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-mountain-in-the-sea
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #sciencefiction #generalfiction #thrillers #technologicalfiction
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📚 A Gentleman in Moscow by: Amor Towles
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his lif...
https://bookblabla.com/book/a-gentleman-in-moscow
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #historical #generalfiction #literaryfiction #political