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1/1/2021: What James McBride Wants You to Read

Five Books Whose Stories Are as Memorable as Their Prose by James McBride.
From Booklist online: We invited the six 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence finalists to share lists of books that have resonated with them. Here’s what James McBride, author of the Carnegie Fiction Shortlist title "Deacon King Kong" [now in paperback] wants you to read.

The article online here.

Books: 
Deacon King Kong: A Novel Cover Image

Deacon King Kong: A Novel (Paperback)

By James McBride
$17.00
ISBN: 9780735216730
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 2nd, 2021
Apeirogon: A Novel Cover Image

Apeirogon: A Novel (Paperback)

By Colum McCann
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812981933
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Published: Random House Trade - February 2nd, 2021
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel Cover Image

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel (Paperback)

By Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translated by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525541349
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 11th, 2020
The Friend: A Novel Cover Image

The Friend: A Novel (Paperback)

By Sigrid Nunez
$16.00
ISBN: 9780735219458
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 5th, 2019
A Man Called Ove: A Novel Cover Image

A Man Called Ove: A Novel (Paperback)

By Fredrik Backman
$17.00
ISBN: 9781476738024
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Published: Washington Square Press - May 5th, 2015
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance Cover Image

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Paperback)

By Carolyn Forché
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525560395
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Published: Penguin Books - February 11th, 2020