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Lit Hub's 65 Favorite Books of the Year

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Out of Mesopotamia Cover Image

Out of Mesopotamia (Hardcover)

By Salar Abdoh
$26.95
ISBN: 9781617758607
Availability: Backordered
Published: Akashic Books - September 1st, 2020
Leave the World Behind: A Novel Cover Image

Leave the World Behind: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Rumaan Alam
$23.79
ISBN: 9780062667632
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Published: Ecco - October 6th, 2020
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains Cover Image

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains (Hardcover)

By Kerri Arsenault
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250155931
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Published: St. Martin's Press - September 1st, 2020
In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials Cover Image

In Memory Of: Designing Contemporary Memorials (Hardcover)

By Spencer Bailey, David Adjaye (Contributions by)
$69.95
ISBN: 9781838661441
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Published: Phaidon Press - October 28th, 2020
We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel Cover Image

We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Quan Barry
$26.95
ISBN: 9781524748098
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Published: Pantheon - March 3rd, 2020
The Vanishing Half: A Novel Cover Image

The Vanishing Half: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Brit Bennett
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525536291
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 2nd, 2020
Parakeet: A Novel Cover Image

Parakeet: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Marie-Helene Bertino
$26.00
ISBN: 9780374229450
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - June 2nd, 2020
The Historians: Poems Cover Image

The Historians: Poems (Hardcover)

By Eavan Boland
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324006879
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 13th, 2020
What Happens at Night Cover Image

What Happens at Night (Hardcover)

By Peter Cameron
$26.00
ISBN: 9781948226967
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Published: Catapult - August 4th, 2020
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Cover Image

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Hardcover)

By Heather Clark
$40.00
ISBN: 9780307961167
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Published: Knopf - October 27th, 2020
When No One Is Watching: A Thriller Cover Image

When No One Is Watching: A Thriller (Paperback)

By Alyssa Cole
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062982650
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - September 1st, 2020
The Nancy Reagan Collection Cover Image

The Nancy Reagan Collection (Paperback)

By Maxe Crandall
$19.00
ISBN: 9781733038416
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Published: Futurepoem - September 15th, 2020
Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir Cover Image

Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Lacy Crawford
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316491556
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - July 7th, 2020
Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems Cover Image

Postcolonial Love Poem: Poems (Paperback)

By Natalie Diaz
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450147
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Published: Graywolf Press - March 3rd, 2020
Suppose a Sentence Cover Image

Suppose a Sentence (Paperback)

By Brian Dillon
$17.95
ISBN: 9781681375243
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Published: New York Review Books - September 22nd, 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel Cover Image

The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Akwaeke Emezi
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525541608
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 4th, 2020
Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic Cover Image

Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic (Hardcover)

By Eric Eyre
$28.00
ISBN: 9781982105310
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Published: Scribner - March 31st, 2020
The Constant Rabbit: A Novel Cover Image

The Constant Rabbit: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jasper Fforde
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593296523
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Published: Viking - September 29th, 2020
The Park Cover Image

The Park (Paperback)

By John Freeman
$17.00
ISBN: 9781556595950
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - May 5th, 2020
Cleanness Cover Image

Cleanness (Hardcover)

By Garth Greenwell
$26.00
ISBN: 9780374124588
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - January 14th, 2020
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World Cover Image

What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World (Hardcover)

By Sara Hendren
$27.00
ISBN: 9780735220003
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 18th, 2020
The Harpy Cover Image

The Harpy (Hardcover)

By Megan Hunter
$26.00
ISBN: 9780802148162
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Published: Grove Press - November 3rd, 2020
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance Cover Image

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (Hardcover)

By Zora Neale Hurston
$25.99
ISBN: 9780062915795
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Published: Amistad - January 14th, 2020
The Unseen Cover Image

The Unseen (Paperback)

By Roy Jacobsen, Don Shaw (Translator), Don Bartlett (Translator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781771963190
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Published: Biblioasis - April 21st, 2020
Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel Cover Image

Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel (Paperback)

By Julian K. Jarboe
$15.00
ISBN: 9781590216927
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Published: Lethe Press - March 5th, 2020
Trouble the Saints: A Novel Cover Image

Trouble the Saints: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Alaya Dawn Johnson
$26.99
ISBN: 9781250175342
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Published: Tor Books - July 21st, 2020
A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems Cover Image

A Certain Clarity: Selected Poems (Paperback)

By Lawrence Joseph
$18.00
ISBN: 9780374539344
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 23rd, 2021
Luster: A Novel Cover Image

Luster: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Raven Leilani
$26.00
ISBN: 9780374194321
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 4th, 2020
Vesper Flights Cover Image

Vesper Flights (Hardcover)

By Helen MacDonald
$27.00
ISBN: 9780802128812
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Published: Grove Press - August 25th, 2020
A Burning: A novel Cover Image

A Burning: A novel (Hardcover)

By Megha Majumdar
$25.95
ISBN: 9780525658696
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Published: Knopf - June 2nd, 2020
Animal Spirit: Stories Cover Image

Animal Spirit: Stories (Hardcover)

By Francesca Marciano
$25.95
ISBN: 9781524748159
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Published: Pantheon - June 16th, 2020
Deacon King Kong: A Novel Cover Image

Deacon King Kong: A Novel (Hardcover)

By James McBride
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735216723
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Published: Riverhead Books - March 3rd, 2020
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Hurricane Season (Paperback)

By Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (Translated by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811230735
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Published: New Directions - October 6th, 2020
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (Page-Barbour Lectures) Cover Image

Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (Page-Barbour Lectures) (Hardcover)

By Daniel Mendelsohn
$19.95
ISBN: 9780813944661
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Published: University of Virginia Press - September 8th, 2020
A Children's Bible: A Novel Cover Image

A Children's Bible: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Lydia Millet
$25.95
ISBN: 9781324005032
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - May 12th, 2020
Earthlings Cover Image

Earthlings (Hardcover)

By Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)
$26.00
ISBN: 9780802157003
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Published: Grove Press - October 6th, 2020
The Cactus League: A Novel Cover Image

The Cactus League: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Emily Nemens
$27.00
ISBN: 9780374117948
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - February 4th, 2020
These Violent Delights: A Novel Cover Image

These Violent Delights: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Micah Nemerever
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062963635
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Published: Harper - September 15th, 2020
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments Cover Image

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura (Illustrator)
$25.00
ISBN: 9781571313652
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Published: Milkweed Editions - September 8th, 2020
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form Cover Image

Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Hardcover)

By Sianne Ngai
$35.00
ISBN: 9780674984547
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Published: Belknap Press - June 16th, 2020
Hamnet Cover Image

Hamnet (Hardcover)

By Maggie O'Farrell
$26.95
ISBN: 9780525657606
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Published: Knopf - July 21st, 2020
Quotients Cover Image

Quotients (Hardcover)

By Tracy O'Neill
$27.00
ISBN: 9781641291118
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Published: Soho Press - May 12th, 2020
Weather: A novel Cover Image

Weather: A novel (Hardcover)

By Jenny Offill
$23.95
ISBN: 9780385351102
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Published: Knopf - February 11th, 2020
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Cover Image

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X (Hardcover)

By Les Payne, Tamara Payne
$35.00
ISBN: 9781631491665
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Published: Liveright - October 20th, 2020
These Women: A Novel Cover Image

These Women: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Ivy Pochoda
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062656384
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Published: Ecco - May 19th, 2020
The Law of Lines: A Novel Cover Image

The Law of Lines: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Hye-young Pyun, Sora Kim-Russell (Translated by)
$24.99
ISBN: 9781948924962
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Published: Arcade - May 5th, 2020
The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time Cover Image

The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time (Hardcover)

By Hugh Raffles
$30.00
ISBN: 9780804197991
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Published: Pantheon - August 25th, 2020
Follow Me to Ground: A Novel Cover Image

Follow Me to Ground: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Sue Rainsford
$25.00
ISBN: 9781982133634
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Published: Scribner - January 21st, 2020
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel Cover Image

The Ministry for the Future: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Kim Stanley Robinson
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316300131
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Published: Orbit - October 6th, 2020
Crystal Clear: Reflections on Extraordinary Talismans for Everyday Life Cover Image

Crystal Clear: Reflections on Extraordinary Talismans for Everyday Life (Hardcover)

By Jaya Saxena
$16.99
ISBN: 9781683692034
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Published: Quirk Books - December 29th, 2020
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir Cover Image

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Jenn Shapland
$22.95
ISBN: 9781947793286
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Published: Tin House Books - February 4th, 2020
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs Cover Image

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs (Hardcover)

By Sarah Smarsh
$22.00
ISBN: 9781982157289
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Published: Scribner - October 13th, 2020
You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories Cover Image

You Will Never Be Forgotten: Stories (Paperback)

By Mary South
$15.00
ISBN: 9780374538361
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Published: FSG Originals - March 10th, 2020
The Lightness: A Novel Cover Image

The Lightness: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Emily Temple
$26.99
ISBN: 9780062905321
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Published: William Morrow - June 16th, 2020
How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Arab Congress of 1920, the Destruction of the Syrian State, and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism Cover Image

How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Arab Congress of 1920, the Destruction of the Syrian State, and the Rise of Anti-Liberal Islamism (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth F. Thompson
$30.00
ISBN: 9780802148209
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - April 21st, 2020
Barn 8: A Novel Cover Image

Barn 8: A Novel (Paperback)

By Deb Olin Unferth
$16.00
ISBN: 9781644450154
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Published: Graywolf Press - March 3rd, 2020
I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories Cover Image

I Hold a Wolf by the Ears: Stories (Hardcover)

By Laura van den Berg
$26.00
ISBN: 9780374102098
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - July 28th, 2020
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) Cover Image

How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) (Paperback)

By Jerald Walker
$19.95
ISBN: 9780814255995
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Published: Mad Creek Books - October 30th, 2020
How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel Cover Image

How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel (Hardcover)

By C Pam Zhang
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525537205
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Published: Riverhead Books - April 7th, 2020
Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Cover Image

Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy (Hardcover)

By David Zucchino
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ISBN: 9780802128386
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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - January 7th, 2020
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World Cover Image

Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World (Paperback)

By John Freeman (Editor)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143133926
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Published: Penguin Books - August 4th, 2020
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry Cover Image

When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry (Paperback)

By Joy Harjo (Editor), LeAnne Howe (With), Jennifer Elise Foerster (With)
$19.95
ISBN: 9780393356809
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - August 25th, 2020
The Nature of Desert Nature (Southwest Center Series ) Cover Image

The Nature of Desert Nature (Southwest Center Series ) (Paperback)

By Gary Paul Nabhan (Editor)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780816540280
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Published: University of Arizona Press - November 10th, 2020
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish Cover Image

How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (Hardcover)

By Ilan Stavans (Editor), Josh Lambert (Editor)
$29.99
ISBN: 9781632062628
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Published: Restless Books - January 21st, 2020
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology Cover Image

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology (Hardcover)

By Kevin Young (Editor)
$45.00
ISBN: 9781598536669
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Published: Library of America - October 20th, 2020
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