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December 03, 2023

The Best Books of 2023: Debut Fiction!

December 03, 2023/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2023: Debut Fiction!

The best debut novels of 2023!

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December 03, 2023/ Steve Donoghue/
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Best Books of 2023: Debut Fiction, debut fiction, Ghost Season, Fatin Abbas, Swim Home to the Vanished, Brendan Shay Basham, The Road to Dalton, Shannon Bowring, The Weight, Jeff Boyd, The All-American, Joe Milan, Western Lane, Chetna Maroo, Close to Home, Michael Magee, The God of Endings, Jacqueline Holland, Disturbance, Jenna Clarke, In Memoriam, Alice Winn, Steve Donoghue
October 01, 2022

A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

October 01, 2022/ Steve Donoghue
A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

A slim debut about a man going through a quarter-life crisis at college.

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October 01, 2022/ Steve Donoghue/
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A Minor Chorus, Billy-Ray Belcourt, fiction, debut fiction, Steve Donoghue, LGBTQ
June 16, 2022

Such a Beautiful Thing To Behold by Umar Turaki

June 16, 2022/ Amberlee Venters
Such a Beautiful Thing To Behold by Umar Turaki

The people in Umar Turaki’s debut novel must contend with a mysterious illness known as “The Grey.”

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June 16, 2022/ Amberlee Venters/
Literary Fiction, Fiction-Debut
Umar Turaki, Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold, fiction, debut fiction, Amberlee Venters, literary fiction
December 13, 2021

Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić

December 13, 2021/ Anna Matthews
Catch the Rabbit by Lana Bastašić

A debut novel takes readers down the rabbit hole of war and memory in the Balkans

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December 13, 2021/ Anna Matthews/
Fiction-Debut, Literary Fiction
Lana Bastašić, Serbo-Croatian translation, debut fiction, Bosnia
December 04, 2020

The Best Books of 2020: Debut Fiction!

December 04, 2020/ Steve Donoghue
The Best Books of 2020: Debut Fiction!

Many very interesting, challenging, and moving debut novels appeared in 2020.

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December 04, 2020/ Steve Donoghue/
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Best Books of 2020, Debut Fiction, The Town, Under the Rainbow, Celia Laskey, Boys of Alabama, Genevieve Hudson, Swimming in the Dark, Tomasz Jedrowski, Saltwater, Jessica Andrews, The Beauty of Your Face, Sahar Mustafah, Follow Me to the Ground, Sue Rainsford, Kingdomtide, Rye Curtis, Sharks in the Time of Saviors, Kawai Strong Washburn, fiction, debut fiction
February 12, 2020

Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

February 12, 2020/ Olive Fellows
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

The title character of Margarita Montimore’s debut novel is living the years of her life out of chronological order - but some problems are timeless.

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February 12, 2020/ Olive Fellows/
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