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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

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Jake Tapper recommends 6 books about the Rat Pack era

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6 books John McWhorter loves

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9 beach reads for your 2021 summer vaxcation

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Alison Bechdel recommends 6 books on exercise

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6 books Abbi Jacobson read during quarantine

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Damon Linker

Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara illuminates what meritocracy does to the soul

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Jonny Sun recommends 6 emotionally powerful books

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Shadow and Bone is a cauldron of talent

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6 book recommendations from Morgan Jerkins

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Ryan Cooper

John Boehner's charm defensive

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6 book recommendations from Rachel Kushner

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6 books that inspired Hanif Abdurraqib's work

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Katherine Heiny recommends 6 books set in small towns

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Rufi Thorpe recommends 6 books that knocked her out

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Simon Doonan's 6 favorite art books

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6 books whose dramas unfold through the eyes of African children

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Cathy Young

Why the Dr. Seuss 'cancellation' is chilling

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Damon Linker

The lost art of being reasonable

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Jeva Lange

The complicated quagmire of Dr. Seuss

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Viet Thanh Nguyen recommends 6 books that interrogate commitment

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How to read Proust

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Elizabeth Kolbert recommends 6 books about people and the planet

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Chang-rae Lee recommends 6 tales about encountering new worlds

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Mayim Bialik shares 6 of her favorite reads

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Lisa Gardner recommends 6 books with powerful female leads

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6 charming homes for book lovers

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Ryan Cooper

America has forgotten how to be free

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6 books that inspired Angie Thomas' latest novel

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6 book recommendations from Bruce McCall

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23 books to read in 2021

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Critic's choice: The year's best nonfiction