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Hamnet
Maggie O’Farrell · 2020 · 3 honors
2
A Children's Bible: A Novel
Lydia Millet · 2020 · 2 honors
3
A Promised Land
Barack Obama · 2020 · 2 honors
4
Deacon King Kong: A Novel
James McBride · 2020 · 2 honors
5
Hidden Valley Road: Inside The Mind Of An American Family
Robert Kolker · 2020 · 2 honors
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The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Brit Bennett · 2020 · 2 honors
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Homeland Elegies
Ayad Akhtar · 2020 · 1 honor
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
James Shapiro · 2020 · 1 honor
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Uncanny Valley
Anna Wiener · 2020 · 1 honor
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War
Margaret MacMillan · 2020 · 1 honor