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Top 10 Reads for Autumn 2018
Every month, Amazon staffers sift through hundreds of new books searching for gems. Here’s what Amazon editor Chris Schluep chose especially for Post readers. Fiction Transcription by Kate Akinson A...
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Top 10 Books for Holiday Giving
Fiction Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty In the latest novel from the author of Big Little Lies, nine strangers gather at a health resort, and all leave changed. Flatiron Books Paris Echo by...
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10 Best Winter Reads
Fiction The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker A mysterious illness causes people to fall into perpetual sleep in this eerie and beautiful novel by the author of the best-selling Age of Miracles....
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Andrew Zimmern Is Branching Out
Andrew Zimmern is the charming, loquacious, appropriately chubby chef and TV personality best known for his ability to consume the weirdest stuff you can imagine, ranging from the unusual (skate wing)...
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When Jeff Bezos unveiled the first Kindle in 2007, I ordered it straightaway. As a lifelong fetishist of the book, this didn’t quite feel right. But I withstood a surge of guilt about my small role in...
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The Creation of Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew struggled this way and that. She twisted and squirmed. She kicked and clawed. But she was powerless in the grip of the man. “Little wildcat! You won’t do any more scratching when I get...
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The Big Sleep Woke Up Noir Fans 80 Years Ago
Raymond Chandler didn’t invent hard-boiled detective fiction, but he certainly helped perfect it. Following in the footsteps of Gordon Young, Carroll John Daly and Dashiell Hammett, writers like...
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10 Best Books to Read This Spring
Fiction Cemetery Road by Greg Iles The suspense writer and author of the remarkable Natchez trilogy returns to weave a tale of friendship, betrayal, and dark secrets that threaten to destroy a small...
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10 Great Reads for Summer 2019
Fiction The Gold Hour by Beatriz Williams A young woman arrives in the Bahamas in 1941 to cover the duke and Duchess of Windsor for a society magazine but stumbles into a world of spies, lies, and...
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Top 10 Summer Reads for 2019
Fiction The Guest Book by Sarah Blake An intergenerational family saga set in Maine that examines what we inherit and what we forget. (Flatiron Books) Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane After a conflict...
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Considering History: Who Is American?
Conflicts and debates over American identity have made frequent appearances in the news in recent days. The Washington Post contrasted Tucker Carlson’s anti-immigration rant about Representative Ilhan...
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The Invention of the Beach Read
Oprah has made her picks for the best reads for the summer of 2019. So has the New York Times, National Public Radio, Quartz, actress Reese Witherspoon, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, and a legion of...
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The Ten Best Reads for Early Fall Days
Fiction Inland by Téa Obreht The award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger’s Wife returns with a mythical, mystical tale of the American West at the end of the 19th century. (Random House) The...
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In the midst of the second World War, American housewives — and likely their husbands — found a titillating distraction from the distressing news of combat overseas. It came in the form of a steamy...
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Reckoning with the #MeToo Movement: An Interview with Linda Hirshman
There was a whisper in one of my online communities. “My former manager is on the job market,” one tech woman wrote. “Since he’s leaving the company due to being put on a PIP (personal improvement...
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7 Greatest Modern American Horror Novels
The storytelling tradition of horror stretches back thousands of years across the myths and legends of practically every culture on Earth. Medieval writings featured monster stories, and the Gothic...
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Top Books for Holiday Gift Giving
Fiction The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern In The Night Circus author’s new novel, a student in Vermont uncovers a book filled with tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, nameless acolytes, and...
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10 Books for the New Year
Fiction My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell This story of a 14-year-old girl who becomes involved with her manipulative but magnetic teacher will be one of the big novels of the year. To quote...
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Top Ten New Reads for Spring
Fiction Apeirogon by Colum McCann Two fathers, one Palestinian and one Israeli, have both lost their daughters to violence. Their lives intertwine as they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for...
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10 Literary Classics Turn 50
As hard as it might be to believe, 1970 was 50 years ago. It was the decade of Watergate, the end of America’s involvement in Vietnam, the expansion of the women’s movement, and the rise of the gay...
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