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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
Denis Johnson
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Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Jesmyn Ward
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The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
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Kudos
Rachel Cusk
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Feel Free
Zadie Smith
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Anything is Possible
Elizabeth Strout
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Moonglow
Michael Chabon
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Grant
Ron Chernow
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Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
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Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
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Swing Time
Zadie Smith
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Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday
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H Is for Hawk
Helen Macdonald
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The Mars Room
Rachel Kushner
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Commonwealth
Ann Patchett
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
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Florida
Lauren Groff
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There There
Tommy Orange
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders an…
David Grann
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Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen
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The Idiot
Elif Batuman
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The Incendiaries
R O Kwon
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The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison
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A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
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Get in Trouble
Kelly Link
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Essays

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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
Alexander Chee
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Memoir

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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Daniel Mendelsohn
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Freshwater
Akwaeke Emezi
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Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
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White Tears
Hari Kunzru
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Calypso
David Sedaris
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The Friend
Sigrid Nunez
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay
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Winter
Ali Smith
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Traged…
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The Ninth Hour
Alice McDermott
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Memoir

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Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood
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Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?
Kathleen Collins
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