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Neal Stephenson recommends 6 books on information manipulation

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No burn

Virginia local school board reverses ban of 'sexually explicit' books

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Kate Baer's 6 favorite risk-taking novels

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'those books in a fire'

Banning, criminalizing, maybe even burning books is back for public schools

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6 book recommendations from Emily Ratajkowski

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6 book recommendations from Yrsa Daley-Ward

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Ryan Cooper

The forgotten history of Republican book banning

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Jeva Lange

The 5 words that haunt me at 3 a.m.

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Damon Linker

The important lesson of Ross Douthat's medical memoir

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Bonnie Kristian

Against political kids books

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Michael Koryta recommends 6 books for spooky season

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6 books that inspired Elizabeth Strout

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Jeva Lange

Dune should've been less Dune-y

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Susan Orlean recommends 6 books for animal lovers

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Jeva Lange

Will a screenwriter ever win the Nobel Prize for literature?

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6 book recommendations from Joshua Ferris

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6 book recommendations from Monica Byrne

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15 books to read this fall

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Samuel Goldman

Why is Canada burning books?

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6 book recommendations from Deborah Feldman

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Grady Hendrix recommends 6 books about killers

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Matt Haig recommends 6 books that offer solace

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Samantha Downing recommends 6 books with unsavory narrators

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Miranda Beverly-Whittemore recommends 6 books that explore the quest for home

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Helen Ellis recommends 6 novels for summer reading

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6 book recommendations from Richard Marx

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6 book recommendations from Bernd Heinrich

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Riley Sager recommends 6 books about danger in confined spaces

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6 book recommendations from Adam Serwer

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Alex Michaelides recommends 6 books influenced by mythology

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6 book recommendations from Raven Leilani

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Chris Offutt recommends his 6 favorite crime novels

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6 book recommendations from B. Catling

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Meet you at the top of the coconut tree

Lois Ehlert, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom illustrator, has died at 86

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rest in peace

The Very Hungry Caterpillar author Eric Carle dies at 91