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A Man Called Ove

Fredrik Backman

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Sweden

A miserable man is interrupted from dying by his neighbors.

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Camera Lucida

Roland Barthes

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When looking becomes longing.

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Counting by 7s

Holly Goldberg Sloan

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Her parents died. She counts by 7s. She finds her people.

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Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton

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South Africa

Two fathers. One act of violence. No winners.

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Each Little Bird That Sings

Deborah Wiles

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She grew up in a funeral home. She thought she understood death.

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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Erika L. Sánchez

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Her perfect sister died. Now Julia has to be the good one.

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I Must Say

Martin Short

I Must Say cover

Martin Short: chaos in a bow tie.

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I'll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson

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Twins. Three years. Something broke them apart. Both of them tell it.

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Long Way Down

Jason Reynolds

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His brother was shot. He has a gun. The elevator goes down.

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Look Inside No One Is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood

Look Inside No One Is Talking About This cover

The first half is the portal. The second half is what it costs.

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M Train

Patti Smith

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A love letter to lost time and black coffee.

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Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult

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The novel that asks who made the shooter.

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Season of Anomy

Wole Soyinka

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Nigeria

Nigeria's Nobel laureate, writing through a genocide.

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Sing, Unburied, Sing

Jesmyn Ward

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North America

Mississippi road trip. The living and the dead, together.

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Sky Burial

Xinran

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China

A Chinese woman spends thirty years searching for her husband in Tibet.

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The Astonishing Color of After

Emily X.R. Pan

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Taiwan

Her mother died. She became a bird. Leigh goes to Taiwan to find her.

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The Coquíes Still Sing

Karina Nicole González

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Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico, after the storm. Still here.

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The Rabbit Listened

Cori Doerrfeld

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When comfort sounds like silence.

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The Return

Hisham Matar

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Libya

Back to Libya after the revolution. Where's his father?

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The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

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Nepal

Nepal. A zoologist. A snow leopard. A grief that needs walking out.

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The Sorrow of War

Bảo Ninh

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Vietnam

Vietnam won the war. Here is what winning cost.

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To Live

Yu Hua

To Live cover
China

One man. Every catastrophe of modern China. He survives them all.

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To the End of the Land

David Grossman

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Israel

A mother walks Israel to avoid the news of her son.

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Two Boys Kissing

David Levithan

Two Boys Kissing cover

Two boys break a kissing record. The AIDS generation watches.

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