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The Lincoln Highway: A Novel

by Amor Towles

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The Lincoln Highway: A Novel by Amor Towles appears in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, rather long, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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