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    Tremble, puny book awards, before the awesome power of Obama’s memoir.

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    Here are the best reviewed books of the week!

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    Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift has won the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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    There’s only one novelist on TIME’s list of 2020’s most influential people. . . again.

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    Fairy Tales

    Natalie Portman’s upcoming children’s book is a collection of “gender-safe” fairy tales.

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    Here’s the longlist for the 2020 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize.

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    The first reviews of Their Eyes Were Watching God ranged from positive to hostile.

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    Here’s the longlist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction.

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    Bryan Washington’s Lot has won the NYPL’s Young Lions Fiction Award.

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    Here’s the longlist for this year’s National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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