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2021 selection · Fiction & literature
Outlawed: A Novel
Outlawed: A Novel by Anna North appears in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, historical fiction, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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