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5 Essential Linked Story Collections That Are Better Than Novels

5 Essential Linked Story Collections That Are Better Than Novels

From Sherman Alexie to Alice Munro, and More

By Baird Harper | September 8, 2017

10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)

10 College Courses to Read Along With This Semester (From Your Couch)

Object Lessons in Vicarious Reading

By Emily Temple | September 6, 2017

How Women Experience Beauty: A Reading List

How Women Experience Beauty: A Reading List

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The Ultimate Preview: The Most Recommended Books of Fall

The Ultimate Preview: The Most Recommended Books of Fall

A Reading List of Reading Lists

By Emily Temple | September 5, 2017

15 Books You Should Read This September

15 Books You Should Read This September

A Reading List for the Changing of the Seasons

By Literary Hub | September 1, 2017

5 Books Making News This Week: Prizewinners and Personalities

5 Books Making News This Week: Prizewinners and Personalities

Karl Ove Knausgaard, Daniel Handler, Lawrence P. Jackson, and More

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Exempt From Certain Physical Laws: 8 Books That Will Make You Love Tennis

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Ann Patchett Considers the Back List of Six Big Fall Writers

By Ann Patchett | August 24, 2017

100 Books Across America: Fiction and Nonfiction for Every State in the Union

100 Books Across America: Fiction and Nonfiction for Every State in the Union

A Reading List for Your Last-Second Literary Road Trip

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5 Books Making News This Week: Technology, Buddhism, and Thrillers

Ellen Ullman, Robert Wright, Christopher Bollen, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | August 22, 2017

An Existential Reading List for Your End Times' Crisis

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Anne Gisleson Suggests Some Texts for the Long, Dark Night of the Soul

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5 Books Making News This Week: Erotic Adventures and the End of the World

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Benjamin Percy: 5 Books That Feed My Techno-Paranoia

Benjamin Percy: 5 Books That Feed My Techno-Paranoia

What If the Machines Have Already Taken Over?

By Benjamin Percy | August 7, 2017

10 Female Killers in Fiction

10 Female Killers in Fiction

The Transgressive Pleasure of the Literary Murderess

By Emily Temple | August 4, 2017

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