Books

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Critic's choice: The year's best nonfiction

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Critic's choice: The year's best novels

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Matthew Walther

The best novels I read in 2020

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The 7 new books that helped me escape this year

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6 books that inspired John Patrick Shanley

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The unrivaled John le Carré

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Maaza Mengiste recommends 6 books by writers from her native Ethiopia

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Melissa Maerz recommends 6 books by and about slackers

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Reza Farazmand recommends 6 graphic novels

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Ryan Cooper

Obama the pretender

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N. Scott Momaday recommends 6 of his favorite books

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Jeva Lange

Obama is the new Harry Potter

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6 books that inspired author Kiese Laymon

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Bonnie Kristian

Obama is asking the wrong question about American values

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J. Kenji López-Alt recommends 6 books that helped him as a chef and parent

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Robert Putnam recommends 6 books on America's swinging ideology

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6 book recommendations from Phillipa Soo

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Claire Messud recommends 6 works by masters of interiority

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Rumaan Alam recommends 6 books on homes and domesticity

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Netflix's Haunting anthology seems bent on proving the book is better

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6 book recommendations from Tim Weiner

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Jenna Bush Hager recommends 6 books on family and love

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Fredrik Logevall recommends 6 books about the American century

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21 books to read this fall

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Matthew Walther

There's nothing shocking about Bob Woodward's new book

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6 book recommendations from Laila Lalami

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Ilya Kaminsky recommends 6 works of poetry from 2020

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Jeva Lange

Donald Trump Jr. is unfortunately right about the future for conservative publishing

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Erin Morgenstern recommends 6 of her favorite books

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6 books that explain Ronald Reagan's late-1970s rise

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6 book recommendations on loss and longing from Karolina Waclawiak

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Aimee Bender recommends 6 books with unique perspectives

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Sarah Weinman recommends 6 true-crime stories with literary merit

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6 book recommendations from crime writer Camilla Läckberg

Brave New World actress Jessica Brown Findlay over Big Brother poster.

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Jeva Lange

Why dystopias never change

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Sophie Mackintosh recommends 6 books about desire