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How To Change Your Mind: What The New Science Of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, And Transcendence
Michael Pollan · 2018 · 2 honors
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Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs · 2018 · 2 honors
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The Great Believers
Rebecca Makkai · 2018 · 2 honors
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American Prison
Shane Bauer · 2018 · 1 honor
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Asymmetry
Lisa Halliday · 2018 · 1 honor
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Educated
Tara Westover · 2018 · 1 honor
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Frederick Douglass
David W. Blight · 2018 · 1 honor
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The Perfect Nanny
Leila Slimani · 2018 · 1 honor
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There There
Tommy Orange · 2018 · 1 honor
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Washington Black
Esi Edugyan · 2018 · 1 honor