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Tag: best books 2021

  • Prof Patty
  • December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Best Books 2021 NY Times

Best Fiction and Non-Fiction Books of 2021 from the NY Times The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers No One Is Talking About This By Patricia Lockwood When We Cease to Und

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  • Prof Patty
  • December 15, 2021December 15, 2021

Shelf Awareness Best Books of 2021

FictionBewilderment by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton)Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters (One World)Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Dut

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