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1
No One Is Talking About This: A Novel
Patricia Lockwood · 2021 · 2 honors
2
On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed · 2021 · 2 honors
3
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood – Youth – Dependency
Tove Ditlevsen · 2021 · 2 honors
4
How Beautiful We Were
Imbolo Mbue · 2021 · 1 honor
5
How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith · 2021 · 1 honor
6
Intimacies
Katie Kitamura · 2021 · 1 honor
7
Invisible Child
Andrea Elliott · 2021 · 1 honor
8
Red Comet
Heather Clark · 2021 · 1 honor
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers · 2021 · 1 honor
10
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut · 2021 · 1 honor