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Powell's Best Books of 2016

Here is a list of Powell's Bookstore best books of the year 2016. How many of these books have you read?
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#1
Above the Waterfall (Ron Rash)
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Adulthood Is a Myth (Sarah Andersen)
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The After Party: Poems (Jana Prikryl)
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Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution (Brian Kenny)
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All That Man Is (David Szalay)
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All Tomorrow's Parties (Rob Spillman)
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Among Strange Victims (Daniel Saldaña París)
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Apocrypha Now (Mark Russell and Shannon Wheeler)
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The Art of Waiting (Belle Boggs)
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The Atomic Weight of Love (Elizabeth Church)
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life (William Finnegan)
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Barkskins (Annie Proulx)
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#13
Before the Feast (Sasa Stanisic)
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Beryl Bainbridge: Love by All Sorts of Means (Brendan King)
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The Best Worst Thing (Kathleen Lane)
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Beverly (Nick Drnaso)
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Body of Water (Chris Dombrowski)
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#18
The Border of Paradise: A Novel (Esmé Weijun Wang)
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Born to Run (Bruce Springsteen)
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Boy's Club (Matt Furie)
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Bucky F*Cking Dent (David Duchovny)
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Buffering (Hannah Hart)
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Career of Evil (Robert Galbraith)
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#24
Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet (Daisy Dunn)
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The Charmed Children of Rookskill Castle (Janet Fox)
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Children of Earth and Sky (Guy Gavriel Kay)
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Christodora (Tim Murphy)
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City of the Lost (Kelley Armstrong)
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City of Weird (Gigi Little)
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Commonwealth (Ann Patchett)
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Conversations in Jazz (Ralph J. Gleason)
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Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Dan Flores)
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Crooked Kingdom (Leigh Bardugo)
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The Dark & Bloody (Shawn Aldridge)
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The Day I Became a Bird (Ingrid Chabbert, Raúl Nieto Guridi)
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Death's End (Cixin Liu)
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Designing Your Life (Bill Burnett and Dave Evans)
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Dinosaurs: Fossils and Feathers (M.K. Reed)
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The Diver's Clothes Lie Empty (Vendela Vida)
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Dodgers (Bill Beverly)
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Dog Run Moon (Wink)
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Dolce Vita Confidential (Shawn Levy)
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A Doubter's Almanac (Ethan Canin)
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Dreams of Distant Shores (Patricia A. McKillip)
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The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary (Atef Abu Saif)
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Eileen (Ottessa Moshfegh)
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End of Watch (Stephen King)
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Envelope Poems (Emily Dickinson)
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Every Anxious Wave (Mo Daviau)
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Every Heart a Doorway (Seanan McGuire)
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#51
Everybody's Fool (Richard Russo)
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#52
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (Chris Cleave)
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Evicted (Matthew Desmond)
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Fates and Furies (Lauren Groff)
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Fellside (M. R. Carey)
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Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine (Diane Williams)
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (Jesmyn Ward)
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The Fireman (Joe Hill)
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Float (Anne Carson)
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#60
The Folly of Loving Life (Monica Drake)
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#61
Freedom in Congo Square (Carole Boston Weatherrford)
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#62
Future Sex (Emily Witt)
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#63
The Game of Love and Death (Martha Brockenbrough)
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A Gathering of Shadows (V.E. Schwab)
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#65
The Geek Feminist Revolution (Kameron Hurley)
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#66
A Gentleman in Moscow (Amor Towles)
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Girl in the Blue Coat (Monica Hesse)
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The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Kelly Barnhill)
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The Girls (Emma Cline)
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The Goblin's Puzzle (Andrew Chilton)
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Gold Fame Citrus (Claire Vaye Watkins)
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Good Morning Midnight (Lily Brooks-Dalton)
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Grief Is the Thing With Feathers (Max John Porter)
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The Guineveres (Sarah Domet)
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Hannah and Sugar (Kate Berube)
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (J.K. Rowling)
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The Hatching (Ezekiel Boone)
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The Heavenly Table: A Novel (Donald Ray Pollock)
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Here I Am (Foer)
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Hex (Thomas Olde Heuvelt)
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Hillbilly Elegy (J.D. Vance)
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Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi)
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Hot Dog Taste Test (Lisa Hanawalt)
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Hot Milk (Deborah Levy)
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If I Was Your Girl (Meredith Russo)
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I'll Tell You in Person (Chloe Caldwell)
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I'm Just a Person (Tig Notaro)
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid)
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Imagine Me Gone (Adam Haslett)
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In the Company of Women (Grace Bonney)
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In the Country We Love (Diane Guerrero)
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In My Humble Opinion: My So-Called Life (Soraya Roberts)
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In the Not Quite Dark: Stories (Dana Johnson)
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Innocents and Others (Dana Spiotta)
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The Invisible Library (Genevieve Cogman)
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Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education (Mychal Denzel Smith)
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It's What I Do (Lynsey Addario)
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Jazz Days (Roxanne Orgill)
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Jerusalem (Alan Moore)
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John (Annie Baker)
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King Baby (Kate Beaton)
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Larose (Louise Erdrich)
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The Latter Days: A Memoir (Judith Freeman)
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Learning to Swear in America (Katie Kennedy)
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Level Grind (Annie Bellet)
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Liar (Rob Roberge)
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The Life of Elves (Muriel Barbery)
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Little Labors (Rivka Galchen)
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Olivia Laing)
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Look (Solmaz Sharif)
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The Lost Time Accidents (John Wray)
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Love, H (Hettie Jones)
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Lovecraft Country (Matt Ruff)
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M Train (Patti Smith)
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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art (Virginia Heffernan)
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Marrow Island (Alexis M. Smith)
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Mickey (Chelsea Martin)
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The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time (Steven Sherrill)
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The Mirror Thief (Martin Seay)
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Monstress (Marjorie Liu)
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Mothering Sunday: A Romance (Graham Swift)
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The Mothers (Brit Bennett)
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Mr. Splitfoot (Samantha Hunt)
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My Name Is Lucy Barton (Elizabeth Strout)
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My Private Property (Mary Ruefle)
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My Struggle Book 5 (Knausgaard)
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Nameless (Grant Morrison)
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The Nest (Kenneth Oppel)
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Neurotribes (Steve Silberman)
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Never Flirt With Puppy Killers and Other Better Book Titles (Dan Wilbur)
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The Never-Open Desert Diner (James Anderson)
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Nicotine (Nell Zink)
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Night Sky With Exit Wounds (Ocean Vuong)
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Ninety-Nine Stories of God (Joy Williams)
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The Nix (Nathan Hill)
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No Knives in the Kitchens of This City (Khaled Khalifa)
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Nobody (Marc Lamont Hill)
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NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories (NOFX & Jeff Alulis)
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The Noise of Time (Julian Barnes)
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The Obelisk Gate (N.K. Jemison)
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Oh, Florida! (Craig Pittman)
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The Oldest Boy (Sarah Ruhl)
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Ollie's Ody (William Joyce)
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On the Edge (Rafael Chirbes)
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On the Edge of Gone (Corinne Duyvis)
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Ooko (Esmé Shapiro)
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Our Chemical Hearts (Krystal Sutherland)
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Our Souls at Night (Kent Haruf)
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Paper Girls (Brian K.Vaughan)
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Patience (Daniel Clowes)
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Patsy Walker, A.K.A. Hellcat! Volume 1: Hooked on a Feline (Kate Leth, Illustrated by Brittney Williams)
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Pax (Sara Pennypacker)
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Pigeon Tunnel (Lecarre)
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Plutona (Jeff Lemire, Emi Lenox, Jordie Bellaire)
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Pond (Claire-Louise Bennett)
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Present Over Perfect (Shauna Niequist)
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Prez (Mark Russell)
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Proxies (Brian Blanchfield)
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The Queen of Blood (Sarah Beth Durst)
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Radio Girls (Sarah-Jane Stratford)
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The Raven King (Maggie Stiefvater)
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Raymie Nightingale (Kate DiCamillo)
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The Reader (Traci Chee)
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Rebel Genius (Michael Dante Dimartino)
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The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial (Maggie Nelson)
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The Remnants (Robert Hill)
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Revulsion: Thomas Bernhard in San Salvador (Horacio Castellanos Moya)
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Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches From Turkey, Syria, and Iraq (Sarah Glidden)
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The Romanovs (Simon Sebag Montefiore)
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Saga Volume 6 (Brian K. Vaughan)
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Salt to the Sea (Ruta Sepetys)
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Svetlana Alexievich,)
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The Secret Loves of Geek Girls (Hope Nicholson)
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Security (Gina Wohlsdorf)
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The Seven Good Years (Etgar Keret)
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Sex Object (Jessica Valenti)
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Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, From the Seventies to the Twenty-First Century (Simon Reynolds)
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Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman (Lindy West)
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Slade House (David Mitchell)
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The Small Backs of Children (Lidia Yuknavitch)
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Smoke (Dan Vyleta)
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So Sad Today (Melissa Broder)
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Someone Please Have Sex With Me (Gina Wynbrandt)
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The Soul of an Octopus (Sy Montgomery)
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The Sound of Gravel (Ruth Wariner)
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Mary Beard)
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Success and Luck (Robert H. Frank)
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Sudden Death (Álvaro Enrigue)
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The Summer That Melted Everything (Tiffany Mcdaniel)
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Summerlong (Peter S. Beagle)
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The Sun Is Also a Star (Nicola Yoon)
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Swan Riders (Erin Bow)
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Swing Time (Zadie Smith)
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#194
The Sympathizer (Viet Thanh Nguyen)
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Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil: The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown (Lezley McSpadden)
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Tell the Wind and Fire (Sarah Rees Brennan)
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Tender (Belinda McKeon)
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They All Saw a Cat (Brendan Wenzel)
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This Invitational Life (Steve Carter)
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This Savage Song (Victoria Schwab)
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#201
Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings (Stephen O'Connor)
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Three Dark Crowns (Kendare Blake)
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Tomie (Junji Ito)
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Tranquility (Billy Sparrow)
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The Trespasser (Tana French)
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#206
Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw (Elissa Altman)
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Sebastian Junger)
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Truthwitch (Susan Denard)
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The Tsar of Love and Techno (Anthony Mara)
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A Tyranny of Petticoats (Jessica Spotswood)
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The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
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Undermajordomo Minor (Patrick Dewitt)
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Upstream (Mary Oliver)
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The Vegetarian (Han Kang)
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Vinegar Girl (Anne Tyler)
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The War That Saved My Life (Kimberly Brubaker Bradley)
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We Are the Ants (Shaun David Hutchinson)
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We Found a Hat (Jon Klassen)
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We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation (Jeff Chang)
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We Love You, Charlie Freeman (Kaitlyn Greenidge)
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The Whale (Mark Beauregard)
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What Belongs to You (Garth Greenwell)
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What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours (Helen Oyeyemi)
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What Is Obscenity? (Rokudenashiko)
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Where I Lost Her (T. Greenwood)
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While the City Slept (Eli Sanders)
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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Carol Anderson)
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White Sands: Experiences From the Outside World (Geoff Dyer)
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#229
The Wicked + the Divine: Commercial Suicide (Gillen)
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The Witch of Lime Street (David Jaher)
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#231
The Woman in Cabin 10 (Ruth Ware)
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The Wonder (Emma Donoghue)
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The Wrath and the Dawn (Renee Ahdieh)
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Writing My Wrongs (Shaka Senghor)
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You Will Know Me (Megan Abbott)
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Zero K (Don Delillo)
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