Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah
The New Yorker
Best books of 2022
The New Yorker’s books of 2022: 24 main picks and 309 more recommendations, across fiction, poetry and nonfiction.
Main picks
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An Immense World
Ed Yong
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Bad Mexicans
Kelly Lytle Hernández
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The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
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Checkout 19
Claire-Louise Bennett
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Constructing a Nervous System
Margo Jefferson
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Continuous Creation
Les Murray
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Customs
Solmaz Sharif
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G-Man
Beverly Gage
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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
Jamil Jan Kochai
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The Invisible Kingdom
Meghan O’Rourke
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The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
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Lessons
Ian McEwan
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Magnificent Rebels
Andrea Wulf
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The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty
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The Revolutionary
Stacy Schiff
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Song of the Cell
Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Stay True
Hua Hsu
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Strangers to Ourselves
Rachel Aviv
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Trust
Hernan Diaz
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We Don’t Know Ourselves
Fintan O’Toole
Also recommended
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The Individualists
Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi
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Western Lane
Chetna Maroo
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Young Bloomsbury
Nino Strachey
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Morgenthau
Andrew Meier
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My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley
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City of Newsmen
Kathryn J. McGarr
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How Far the Light Reaches
Sabrina Imbler
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Of Boys and Men
Richard Reeves
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Hatching
Jenni Quilter
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The Lion House
Christopher de Bellaigue
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This Afterlife
A. E. Stallings
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A Private Spy
John le Carré
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Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
Bushra Rehman
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Dinner with Joseph Johnson
Daisy Hay
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The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler
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Sybil & Cyril
Jenny Uglow
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American Caliph
Shahan Mufti
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Slouching Towards Utopia
J. Bradford DeLong
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Visual Thinking
Temple Grandin
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Confidence Man
Maggie Haberman
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No One Left to Come Looking for You
Sam Lipsyte
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Dr. No
Percival Everett
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If Walls Could Speak
Moshe Safdie
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The Latecomer
Jean Hanff Korelitz
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
Simon Parkin
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A Poison Like No Other
Matt Simon
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Seduced by Story
Peter Brooks
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
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Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy
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We Are Not One
Eric Alterman
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The Grand Affair
Paul Fisher
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Flight
Lynn Steger Strong
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Scatterlings
Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
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They’re Going to Love You
Meg Howrey
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The Grimkes
Kerri K. Greenidge
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The White Mosque
Sofia Samatar
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Case Study
Graeme Macrae Burnet
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A Heart That Works
Rob Delaney
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In Love
Amy Bloom
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Life Is Everywhere
Lucy Ives
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Hollywood
Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson
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Everything the Light Touches
Janice Pariat
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Beyond Measure
James Vincent
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How to Speak Whale
Tom Mustill
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James Purdy
Michael Snyder
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A Left-Handed Woman
Judith Thurman
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Ted Kennedy
John A. Farrell
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Cheap Land Colorado
Ted Conover
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Well of Souls
Kristina R. Gaddy
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The Magic Kingdom
Russell Banks
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The Huxleys
Alison Bashford
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
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Finale
D. T. Max
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The Escape Artist
Jonathan Freedland
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Shirley Hazzard
Brigitta Olubas
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Botticelli’s Secret
Joseph Luzzi
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A Shiver in the Leaves
Luther Hughes
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Suzuki
Eri Hotta
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Indigenous Continent
Pekka Hämäläinen
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Chip War
Chris Miller
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Number One Is Walking
Steve Martin and Barry Bliss
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Power Failure
William D. Cohan
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When We Were Sisters
Fatimah Asghar
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Stroller
Amanda Parrish Morgan
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Diaghilev’s Empire
Rupert Christiansen
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The Hero of This Book
Elizabeth McCracken
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Properties of Thirst
Marianne Wiggins
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The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan
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Arthur Miller
John Lahr
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Mr. B
Jennifer Homans
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The Other Side of Prospect
Nicholas Dawidoff
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The Beloved Vision
Stephen Walsh
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Can I Pet Your Dog?
Jeremy Nguyen
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American Midnight
Adam Hochschild
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Kiki Man Ray
Mark Braude
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Haven
Emma Donoghue
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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Maddie Mortimer
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The Joy of Quitting
Keiler Roberts
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I Love(ish) New York City
Ali Solomon
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Where Did My Roommate Put My Charger?
Sarah Kempa
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The Birdcatcher
Gayl Jones
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The Black Period
Hafizah Augustus Geter
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Master of the Two Left Feet
Richard Meyer
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Listening for Ghosts
David Rabe
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Liberation Day
George Saunders
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Marigold and Rose
Louise Glück
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The Slowworm’s Song
Andrew Miller
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Bridge to the Sun
Bruce Henderson
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The Chaos Machine
Max Fisher
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Some of Them Will Carry Me
Giada Scodellaro
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Love & Vermin
Will McPhail
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Dinosaurs
Lydia Millet
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Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
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The Portraitist
Steven Nadler
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By Hands Now Known
Margaret A. Burnham
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Burning Down the House
Andrew Koppelman
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Life Is Hard
Kieran Setiya
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Need to Know
Nicholas Reynolds
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Super-Infinite
Katherine Rundell
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Sacred Nature
Karen Armstrong
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Poūkahangatus
Tayi Tibble
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Lady Justice
Dahlia Lithwick
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Fen, Bog & Swamp
Annie Proulx
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The Waste Land
T. S. Eliot
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Ducks
Kate Beaton
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The Divider
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
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Giuliani
Andrew Kirtzman
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The Serpent Coiled in Naples
Marius Kociejowski
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Alive at the End of the World
Saeed Jones
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I Walk Between the Raindrops
T. C. Boyle
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Bliss Montage
Ling Ma
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Two Nurses, Smoking
David Means
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The Storm Is Here
Luke Mogelson
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Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth Strout
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Less Is Lost
Andrew Sean Greer
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The Furrows
Namwali Serpell
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[To] The Last [Be] Human
Jorie Graham
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Kick the Latch
Kathryn Scanlan
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If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery
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One Beautiful Spring Day
Jim Woodring
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One Person, One Vote
Nick Seabrook
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Laboratories Against Democracy
Jacob Grumbach
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No Land in Sight
Charles Simic
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Agent Josephine
Damien Lewis
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Last Letter to a Reader
Gerald Murnane
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The Last Resort
Sarah Stodola
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An Honest Living
Dwyer Murphy
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Brown Neon
Raquel Gutiérrez
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Girls They Write Songs About
Carlene Bauer
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All That Moves Us
Jay Wellons
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Putin
Philip Short
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Resistance
Halik Kochanski
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Gene Andrew Jarrett
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Pig Years
Ellyn Gaydos
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One’s Company
Ashley Hutson
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Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley
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I Used to Live Here Once
Miranda Seymour
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Hollywood Ending
Ken Auletta
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Picasso’s War
Hugh Eakin
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Everything I Need I Get from You
Kaitlyn Tiffany
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Drawn Together
Olivia de Recat
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Horse
Geraldine Brooks
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The Pope at War
David I. Kertzer
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Geography Is Destiny
Ian Morris
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Lapvona
Ottessa Moshfegh
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New and Selected Stories
Cristina Rivera Garza
Translated by Sarah Booker, Lisa Dillman, Francisca González Arias and Alex Ross
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Nevada
Imogen Binnie
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Rogues
Patrick Radden Keefe
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The Hangman and His Wife
Nancy Dougherty
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Keats
Lucasta Miller
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Fire Island
Jack Parlett
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Yield
Anne Truitt
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The Twilight World
Werner Herzog
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Tracy Flick Can’t Win
Tom Perrotta
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Streets of Gold
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan
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Six Walks
Ben Shattuck
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School Days
Jonathan Galassi
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Metaphysical Animals
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
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Adriatic
Robert D. Kaplan
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Avalon
Nell Zink
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Love Marriage
Monica Ali
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Fight Like Hell
Kim Kelly
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Stepping Back from the Ledge
Laura Trujillo
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Acts of Service
Lillian Fishman
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The Shores of Bohemia
John Taylor Williams
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Two Wheels Good
Jody Rosen
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What’s Good
Daniel Levin Becker
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Spin Dictators
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
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The Letters of Thom Gunn
Thom Gunn
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The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon
Bill McKibben
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The Last Days of Roger Federer
Geoff Dyer
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Life on the Rocks
Juli Berwald
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?
Richard White
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The Revenge of Power
Moisés Naím
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Everything Abridged
Dennard Dayle
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Either/Or
Elif Batuman
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Dress Code
Véronique Hyland
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Journeys to Heaven and Hell
Bart D. Ehrman
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Little Rabbit
Alyssa Songsiridej
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Essential Labor
Angela Garbes
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Ancestor Trouble
Maud Newton
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In the Early Times
Tad Friend
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Eleutheria
Allegra Hyde
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Vagabonds!
Eloghosa Osunde
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Serenade
Toni Bentley
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Activities of Daily Living
Lisa Hsiao Chen
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Homesickness
Colin Barrett
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I’m More Dateable Than a Plate of Refried Beans
Ginny Hogan
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The Premonitions Bureau
Sam Knight
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La Nijinska
Lynn Garafola
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How Strange a Season
Megan Mayhew Bergman
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Glory
NoViolet Bulawayo
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Didn’t We Almost Have It All
Gerrick Kennedy
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire
Alice Walker
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The Trees Witness Everything
Victoria Chang
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Making History
Richard Cohen
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Winslow Homer
William R. Cross
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The Genesis Machine
Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel
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Woman, Eating
Claire Kohda
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Whole Earth
John Markoff
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Mercy Street
Jennifer Haigh
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Let There Be Light
Liana Finck
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The Believer
Sarah Krasnostein
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The Pages
Hugo Hamilton
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The Subplot
Megan Walsh
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A Childhood
Harry Crews
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Animal Person
Alexander MacLeod
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The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
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Riverman
Ben McGrath
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My Fourth Time, We Drowned
Sally Hayden
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Run and Hide
Pankaj Mishra
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Dream-Child
Eric G. Wilson
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The White Girl
Tony Birch
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Butler to the World
Oliver Bullough
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Aurelia, Aurélia
Kathryn Davis
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Otherlands
Thomas Halliday
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Last Call at the Hotel Imperial
Deborah Cohen
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Let’s Get Physical
Danielle Friedman
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Every Good Boy Does Fine
Jeremy Denk
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Sweat
Bill Hayes
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Defenestrate
Renée Branum
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Civil Rights Queen
Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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The Naked Don’t Fear the Water
Matthieu Aikins
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Be Pregnant
Eugenia Viti
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The Trials of Harry S. Truman
Jeffrey Frank
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Foreverland
Heather Havrilesky
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The Door-Man
Peter M. Wheelwright
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Born of Lakes and Plains
Anne F. Hyde
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The Turning Point
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
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What’s So Funny?
David Sipress
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Sex and the Single Panda
Dahlia Gallin Ramirez
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White Lies
A. J. Baime
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The Torqued Man
Peter Mann
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The Founders
Jimmy Soni
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Free Love
Tessa Hadley
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Florine Stettheimer
Barbara Bloemink
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American Shtetl
Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers
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Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama
Bob Odenkirk
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Rebels Against the Raj
Ramachandra Guha
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Eating to Extinction
Dan Saladino
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You Don’t Know Us Negroes
Zora Neale Hurston
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Black Cloud Rising
David Wright Faladé
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Index, a History of the
Dennis Duncan
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Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
Brian Cox
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The Great Mrs. Elias
Barbara Chase-Riboud
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Last Resort
Andrew Lipstein
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Pure Colour
Sheila Heti
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Cold Enough for Snow
Jessica Au
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All the Flowers Kneeling
Paul Tran
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The Method
Isaac Butler
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Home/Land
Rebecca Mead
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Very Cold People
Sarah Manguso
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The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson
Chris Joyner
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Speak Not
James Griffiths
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Bibliolepsy
Gina Apostol
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The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
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Buster Keaton
James Curtis
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Thank You, Mr. Nixon
Gish Jen
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Worn
Sofi Thanhauser
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The Fortune Men
Nadifa Mohamed
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Joan Is Okay
Weike Wang
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The Secret Listener
Yuan-tsung Chen
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The Stars Are Not Yet Bells
Hannah Lillith Assadi
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South to America
Imani Perry
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The Uninnocent
Katharine Blake
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The Swank Hotel
Lucy Corin
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Camera Man
Dana Stevens
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Free
Lea Ypi
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The Urge
Carl Erik Fisher
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I Came All This Way to Meet You
Jami Attenberg
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Lost & Found
Kathryn Schulz
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Aftermath
Preti Taneja
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Pushing Cool
Keith Wailoo
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