The Achilles Trap
Steve Coll
The New Yorker
Best books of 2024
The New Yorker’s books of 2024: 24 main picks and 316 more recommendations, across fiction, poetry and nonfiction.
Main picks
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All Fours
Miranda July
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The Anthropologists
Ayşegül Savaş
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The Burning Earth
Sunil Amrith
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Challenger
Adam Higginbotham
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
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Forest of Noise
Mosab Abu Toha
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The Freaks Came Out to Write
Tricia Romano
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Health and Safety
Emily Witt
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Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
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James
Percival Everett
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Knife
Salman Rushdie
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LatinoLand
Marie Arana
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The Light Eaters
Zoë Schlanger
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Madness
Antonia Hylton
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The Mighty Red
Louise Erdrich
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Modern Poetry
Diane Seuss
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My Friends
Hisham Matar
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Patriot
Alexei Navalny
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Reagan
Max Boot
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Rejection
Tony Tulathimutte
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Also recommended
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Paper of Wreckage
Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo
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Mixed Signals
Rebecca Charbonneau
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The Lives of Spiders
Ximena Nelson
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Distinguishing Piss from Rain
Glenn Ligon
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Gabriel’s Moon
William Boyd
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Portal
Tracy Fuad
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Catalina
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
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We Have Never Been Woke
Musa al-Gharbi
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Only in America
Richard Bernstein
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Giant Love
Julie Gilbert
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Havoc
Christopher Bollen
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Anima
Kapka Kassabova
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The Invention of Good and Evil
Hanno Sauer
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The Black Utopians
Aaron Robertson
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Blue
Rachel Louise Moran
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More Than Pretty Boxes
Carrie M. Lane
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Rental House
Weike Wang
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Every Valley
Charles King
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The Migrant’s Jail
Brianna Nofil
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Empire of Purity
Eva Payne
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The Rest Is Memory
Lily Tuck
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The World with Its Mouth Open
Zahid Rafiq
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Valley So Low
Jared Sullivan
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Ingrained
Callum Robinson
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The Impossible Man
Patchen Barss
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Family Romance
Jean Strouse
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Blood Test
Charles Baxter
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Selected Amazon Reviews
Kevin Killian
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Golden Years
James Chappel
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Burdened
Ryann Liebenthal
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The Indian Card
Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz
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Linguaphile
Julie Sedivy
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Giant Robot
Eric Nakamura
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By the Fire We Carry
Rebecca Nagle
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The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages
Shane Bobrycki
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The Icon and the Idealist
Stephanie Gorton
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Women’s Hotel
Daniel M. Lavery
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Stranger Than Fiction
Edwin Frank
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Kent State
Brian VanDeMark
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Quarterlife
Devika Rege
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How the New World Became Old
Caroline Winterer
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The Repeat Room
Jesse Ball
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Disrupted City
Manan Ahmed Asif
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Flint Kill Creek
Joyce Carol Oates
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Q&A
Adrian Tomine
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The Brothers Grimm
Ann Schmiesing
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Model Home
Rivers Solomon
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Letters
Oliver Sacks
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The Barn
Wright Thompson
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When the Ice Is Gone
Paul Bierman
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Playing Possum
Susana Monsó
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Bright I Burn
Molly Aitken
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The Irish Republican Brotherhood 1914–1924
John O’Beirne Ranelagh
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Good Reasonable People
Keith Payne
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Shakespeare’s Tragic Art
Rhodri Lewis
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The Book of George
Kate Greathead
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Undivided
Hahrie Han
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Highway Thirteen
Fiona McFarlane
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The Hidden Globe
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
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Lovely One
Ketanji Brown Jackson
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The Right to Oblivion
Lowry Pressly
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The Notebook
Roland Allen
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Sunday
Olivier Schrauwen
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Enlightenment
Sarah Perry
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The Sequel
Jean Hanff Korelitz
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John Lewis
David Greenberg
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Paradise Bronx
Ian Frazier
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Scaffolding
Lauren Elkin
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I Will Do Better
Charles Bock
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Do Something
Guy Trebay
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Abortion in the Age of Unreason
Warren M. Hern
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Homeland
Richard Beck
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Sonny Boy
Al Pacino
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Vox Ex Machina
Sarah A. Bell
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Q
Craig Brown
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Stolen Pride
Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Charm
Julia Sonnevend
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Concerning the Future of Souls
Joy Williams
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Taming Silicon Valley
Gary F. Marcus
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Ina Garten
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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
Katherine Bucknell
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Life and Death of the American Worker
Alice Driver
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Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
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The Sons of El Rey
Alex Espinoza
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An Honest Woman
Charlotte Shane
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Final Cut
Charles Burns
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How to Build a Fashion Icon
Law Roach
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Twenty Years
Sune Engel Rasmussen
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Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
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The Wisdom of Sheep
Rosamund Young
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Monet
Jackie Wullschläger
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How to Leave the House
Nathan Newman
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Entitlement
Rumaan Alam
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Headshot
Rita Bullwinkel
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Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
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The Missing Thread
Daisy Dunn
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Colored Television
Danzy Senna
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Life as No One Knows It
Sara Imari Walker
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Impossible Creatures
Katherine Rundell
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Playground
Richard Powers
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Bright Objects
Ruby Todd
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My First Book
Honor Levy
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Playing with Reality
Kelly Clancy
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On the Edge
Nate Silver
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The Secret Life of the Universe
Nathalie A. Cabrol
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The Coin
Yasmin Zaher
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Living on Earth
Peter Godfrey-Smith
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Fierce Desires
Rebecca L. Davis
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A Passionate Mind in Relentless Pursuit
Noliwe Rooks
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Turning to Stone
Marcia Bjornerud
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Why Animals Talk
Arik Kershenbaum
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The Rich People Have Gone Away
Regina Porter
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Grown Women
Sarai Johnson
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The Importance of Being Educable
Leslie Valiant
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Hitler’s People
Richard J. Evans
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Sea Level
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
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The Bookshop
Evan Friss
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The Salt of the Universe
Amy Leach
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Someone Like Us
Dinaw Mengestu
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Hum
Helen Phillips
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The Safekeep
Yael van der Wouden
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All That Glitters
Orlando Whitfield
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Charlie Hustle
Keith O’Brien
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The Long Run
Stacey D’Erasmo
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Fifteen Cents on the Dollar
Louise Story and Ebony Reed
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Circle of Hope
Eliza Griswold
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Devil’s Contract
Ed Simon
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Swift River
Essie Chambers
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Godwin
Joseph O’Neill
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Keeping the Faith
Brenda Wineapple
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Fire Exit
Morgan Talty
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Thom Gunn
Michael Nott
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Private Revolutions
Yuan Yang
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Double Exposure
Robert Sullivan
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Loving Sylvia Plath
Emily Van Duyne
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The Garden Against Time
Olivia Laing
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The Winner
Teddy Wayne
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Triumph of the Yuppies
Tom McGrath
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Glory Days
Simon Rich
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The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
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The Bluestockings
Susannah Gibson
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Gretel and the Great War
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
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They Called It Peace
Lauren Benton
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The Friday Afternoon Club
Griffin Dunne
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Long Island Compromise
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
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In Tongues
Thomas Grattan
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Woman of Interest
Tracy O’Neill
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Other Rivers
Peter Hessler
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Consent
Jill Ciment
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Night Flyer
Tiya Miles
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Cue the Sun!
Emily Nussbaum
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The Work of Art
Adam Moss
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The Struggle for Taiwan
Sulmaan Wasif Khan
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The Coast Road
Alan Murrin
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Combee
Edda L. Fields-Black
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Frostbite
Nicola Twilley
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On Call
Anthony Fauci M.D.
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Long Island
Colm Tóibín
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Ask Me Again
Clare Sestanovich
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Parade
Rachel Cusk
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Cosmic Connections
Charles Taylor
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Orwell’s Ghosts
Laura Beers
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Bird Milk and Mosquito Bones
Priyanka Mattoo
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Attachments
Lucas Mann
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Caledonian Road
Andrew O’Hagan
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The C.I.A.
Hugh Wilford
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Hey, Zoey
Sarah Crossan
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Cull of the Wild
Hugh Warwick
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Committed
Suzanne Scanlon
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Beautiful Days
Zach Williams
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The Playbook
James Shapiro
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Catland
Kathryn Hughes
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I Cannot Control Everything Forever
Emily C. Bloom
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Matrescence
Lucy Jones
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Vagabonds
Oskar Jensen
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The Other Olympians
Michael Waters
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The Invention of the Darling
Li-Young Lee
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A Body Made of Glass
Caroline Crampton
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Growth
Daniel Susskind
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Little Seed
Wei Tchou
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Book Two
Emil Ferris
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They Came for the Schools
Mike Hixenbaugh
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The Ministry of Time
Kaliane Bradley
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Liberalism as a Way of Life
Alexandre Lefebvre
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Natural Magic
Renée Bergland
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Tits Up
Sarah Thornton
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The Art of Dying
Peter Schjeldahl
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Whale Fall
Elizabeth O’Connor
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Free and Equal
Daniel Chandler
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Women and the Piano
Susan Tomes
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Dogland
Tommy Tomlinson
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Revolusi
David Van Reybrouck
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Piglet
Lottie Hazell
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Lucky
Jane Smiley
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The Invention of Prehistory
Stefanos Geroulanos
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Shakespeare’s Sisters
Ramie Targoff
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This Strange Eventful History
Claire Messud
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Limitarianism
Ingrid Robeyns
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How to Baby
Liana Finck
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Rough Trade
Katrina Carrasco
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Life Wants You Dead
Evan Waite
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Leaving
Roxana Robinson
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An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
Jamaica Kincaid
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Neighbors and Other Stories
Diane Oliver
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H Is for Hope
Elizabeth Kolbert
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All the Campus Lawyers
Louis H. Guard and Joyce P. Jacobsen
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A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
Anthony Bale
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All Things Are Too Small
Becca Rothfeld
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On Giving Up
Adam Phillips
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Ian Fleming
Nicholas Shakespeare
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Rabbit Heart
Kristine S. Ervin
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The Book of Love
Kelly Link
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The Limits
Nell Freudenberger
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Cocktails with George and Martha
Philip Gefter
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Cahokia Jazz
Francis Spufford
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The Wide Wide Sea
Hampton Sides
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The Tower
Flora Carr
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My Beloved Life
Amitava Kumar
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Ours
Phillip B. Williams
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Worry
Alexandra Tanner
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Whiskey Tender
Deborah Jackson Taffa
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Out of the Darkness
Frank Trentmann
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I Heard Her Call My Name
Lucy Sante
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Bitter Water Opera
Nicolette Polek
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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution
Jane Kamensky
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Takeover
Timothy W. Ryback
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Ashoka
Patrick Olivelle
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Pax Economica
Marc-William Palen
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Here in Avalon
Tara Isabella Burton
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The Age of Revolutions
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
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Help Wanted
Adelle Waldman
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Wild Houses
Colin Barrett
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No Judgment
Lauren Oyler
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The Road from Belhaven
Margot Livesey
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Martyr!
Kaveh Akbar
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Errand into the Maze
Deborah Jowitt
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A Map of Future Ruins
Lauren Markham
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Goodbye Russia
Fiona Maddocks
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The Fetishist
Katherine Min
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Survivors
Hannah Durkin
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Held
Anne Michaels
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Byron
Andrew Stauffer
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Remembering Peasants
Patrick Joyce
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Carson McCullers
Mary V. Dearborn
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In Ascension
Martin MacInnes
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Smoke and Ashes
Amitav Ghosh
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The Riddles of the Sphinx
Anna Shechtman
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Reading Genesis
Marilynne Robinson
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Fourteen Days
The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston
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Our Moon
Rebecca Boyle
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2020
Eric Klinenberg
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Bitter Crop
Paul Alexander
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To Be a Jew Today
Noah Feldman
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Life on Earth
Dorianne Laux
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The Adversary
Michael Crummey
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Splinters
Leslie Jamison
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Alphabetical Diaries
Sheila Heti
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Twilight Territory
Andrew X. Pham
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The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
Joan Acocella
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Spinoza
Ian Buruma
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If Love Could Kill
Anna Motz
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Filterworld
Kyle Chayka
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Melancholy Wedgwood
Iris Moon
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The Taft Court
Robert C. Post
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Wrong Norma
Anne Carson
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Why We Read
Shannon Reed
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Come and Get It
Kiley Reid
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Twinkind
William Viney
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Poor Deer
Claire Oshetsky
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Disillusioned
Benjamin Herold
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Nonfiction
Julie Myerson
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Tripping on Utopia
Benjamin Breen
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Witchcraft
Marion Gibson
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Behind You Is the Sea
Susan Muaddi Darraj
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Who Owns This Sentence?
David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu
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American Zion
Benjamin E. Park
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Unshrinking
Kate Manne
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The Rebel’s Clinic
Adam Shatz
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Erotic Vagrancy
Roger Lewis
