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The Ideas of March
What can we celebrate this mid-March? Settling debts? St. Patrick’s Day? Daylight Savings Time? This group of books includes some eye-opening...
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Women and History: Pasts, Presents and Futures
To usher in Women’s History Month, we have a political satire set in a fictional African country quietly controlled by women; a favorite English...
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Fringe Benefits
This week we welcome in a stellar debut from a Southern Black writer, a dystopian novel in which Japan no longer exists, artistic awakening from...
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Ambiguous Attachments
The following works explore attachments in many forms—to family, country, lovers and spouses. To their great credit, these six writers, whose...
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Strange Pages
As we continue into Black History Month, we are treated to Marlon James’s second episode in his Dark Star trilogy, as well as uncollected work...
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Love! Music! Heresy!
February is an often-gloomy month. Thankfully we offer you a mélange of love, music and two epics—one historical novel concerning mysticism...
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Families Matter
This week we celebrate Black History Month with an exciting addendum to Toni Morrison’s oeuvre—a posthumous standalone story with an introduction...
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Traveling, through Time and Space
Trips to the Philippines, Italy and Cuba; sci-fi from a Nigerian American fan favorite; and a memoir by a bestselling Booker Prize-winning writer
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Singular Characters
Jumpstart your January reading with books that just won’t let up, whether due to eccentric lead characters, a plot that drives you forward into...
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New Beginnings
Welcome to 2022. Was your New Year’s resolution to read more this year? Perhaps you received a Center for Fiction Gift Card you want to redeem?