King County Library System Best Books

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The King County Library System (KCLS) has released its 2023 Best Books list. The annual list reveals KCLS’ top 125 books of the year and includes 25 titles in each of the following categories: show more fiction, nonfiction, children, teen — and, new this year — audiobook.

Best Books are nominated by KCLS librarians and staff members who, collectively, read thousands of books each year. A selection committee then reviews the submissions and determines the final list. The 156 nominations received this year span a range of genres, from history to fantasy and science fiction.

“KCLS is thrilled to present our 2023 Best Books list," stated KCLS Director of Collection Management Services Tracey Thompson. "We’re pleased to offer the new audiobook category this year, and we hope you enjoy all of these fantastic titles as much as we did!” show less
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Years:
All, 2023 (126), 2022 (100), 2021 (100), 2020 (100), 2019 (100), 2018 (100), 2017 (100), 2016 (100), 2015 (84), 2014 (26), 2013 (42), 2012 (42), 2011 (37), 2010 (32), 2009 (25), 2008 (26), 2007 (24)
Announced:
December 2023: 2023 Recent
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Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Audiobooks2023
Warrior Girl Unearthed by Angeline Boulley
Audiobooks2023
Promise Boys by Nick Brooks
Audiobooks2023
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
Audiobooks2023
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Audiobooks2023
When You Wish Upon a Lantern by Gloria Chao
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Honey, Baby, Mine by Laura Dern
Audiobooks2023
Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy
Audiobooks2023
Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide by Rupert Holmes
Audiobooks2023
Chenneville: A Story of Loss, Murder, and Vengeance by Paulette Jiles
Audiobooks2023
We Are All So Good at Smiling by Amber McBride
Audiobooks2023
The Quiet Tenant: A novel by Clemence Michallon
Audiobooks2023
Sunshine Nails: A Novel by Mai Nguyen
Audiobooks2023
You Are Here: Connecting Flights by Ellen Oh
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Pageboy: A Memoir by Elliot Page
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Fractal Noise by Christopher Paolini
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Spare by Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
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Heroes of Havensong: Dragonboy by Megan Reyes
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The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening by Ari Shapiro
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Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
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Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale
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The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto
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When the World Didn't End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner
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Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls
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An American Story by Kwame Alexander
Children's Books2023
The Yellow Handkerchief (El Pañuelo Amarillo) by Donna Barba Higuera
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In the Night Garden by Carin Berger
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Woo Hoo! You're Doing Great! by Sandra Boynton
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The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey by Jason Chin
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Global: One Fragile World. an Epic Fight for Survival. by Eoin Colfer
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We Still Belong by Christine Day
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Spanish Is the Language of My Family by Michael Genhart
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I'm From by Gary R. Gray Jr.
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Remember by Joy Harjo
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My Powerful Hair by Carole Lindstrom
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Once Upon a Book by Grace Lin
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The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh
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Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martin
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Just Jerry: How Drawing Shaped My Life by Jerry Pinkney
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My Baba's Garden by Jordan Scott
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Stickler Loves the World by Lane Smith
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Simon and the Better Bone by Corey R. Tabor
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Parachute Kids: A Graphic Novel by Betty C. Tang
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The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas
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A Land of Books: Dreams of Young Mexihcah Word Painters by Duncan Tonatiuh
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Bea Wolf by Zach Weinersmith
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The Dark Lord's Daughter by Patricia C. Wrede
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Nell Plants a Tree by Anne Wynter
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Slowly Slowly by Toni Yuly
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Mrs. Nash's Ashes by Sarah Adler
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The Wind Knows My Name by Isabel Allende
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama
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Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
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To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
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Maame by Jessica George
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How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
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Happy Place by Emily Henry
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Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
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The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
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Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
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Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
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Lone Women by Victor LaValle
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I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai
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The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
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Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
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Summer Reading by Jenn McKinlay
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The September House by Carissa Orlando
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The Shamshine Blind by Paz Pardo
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Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
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Ink Blood Sister Scribe by Emma Törzs
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Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea
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The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
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Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
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Ghost Music by An Yu
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What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
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Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
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Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel
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The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth by Jermaine FOWLER
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Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep--Friends by Marisa G. Franco PhD
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You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths about Fat People by Aubrey Gordon
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder by David Grann
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On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory by Thomas Hertog
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Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis
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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher
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Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life by Dacher Keltner
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You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
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Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha Lapointe
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A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing by Emily Lynn Paulson
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When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
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The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins
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The Dress Diary: Secrets from a Victorian Woman's Wardrobe by Kate Strasdin
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Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar
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Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika Wilbur
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Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli
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Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South by Jaha Nailah Avery
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Blood Debts by Terry J. Benton-Walker
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The Stolen Heir by Holly Black
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Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow
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Reggie and Delilah's Year of Falling by Elise Bryant
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Ander and Santi Were Here by Jonny Garza Villa
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Spice Road by Maiya Ibrahim
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The Davenports by Krystal Marquis
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Your Freedom, Your Power: A Kid's Guide to the First Amendment by Allison Matulli
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Those Who Helped Us by Ken Mochizuki
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The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich by Deya Muniz
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Different for Boys by Patrick Ness
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Imposter Syndrome and Other Confessions of Alejandra Kim by Patricia Park
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Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham
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Lion's Legacy by L. C. Rosen
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A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
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The Next New Syrian Girl by Ream Shukairy
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Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater
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An Echo in the City by K. X. Song
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¡Ay, Mija! (A Graphic Novel): My Bilingual Summer in Mexico by Christine Suggs
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Darkhearts by James L. Sutter
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She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
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Brooms by Jasmine Walls
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That Self-Same Metal by Brittany N. Williams
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The Tide Pool Waits by Candace Fleming
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H Is for Harlem by Dinah Johnson
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Honestly Elliott by Gillian McDunn
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School Is Wherever I Am by Ellie Peterson
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The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
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Powwow Day by Traci Sorell
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I Love You Because I Love You by Muon Thi Van
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Kapaemahu by Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
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The Year We Learned to Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
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When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
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Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds
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Trust by Hernan Diaz
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The Fervor by Alma Katsu
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This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
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Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
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French Braid by Anne Tyler
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Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
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Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
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Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
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The Carbon Footprint of Everything by Mike Berners-Lee
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This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It by Tabitha Carvan
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Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
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Two Heads: A Graphic Exploration of How Our Brains Work with Other Brains by Uta Frith
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber
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I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán
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Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West by Anne F. Hyde
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Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
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The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Liu Simu
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The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
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The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet by Nell McShane Wulfhart
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These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
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Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
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Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters by Jessica P. Pryde
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Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
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How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
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Helltown: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman
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Cabin Fever: The Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Airlines Flight Attendant by Mandy Smith
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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
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The worth of water : our story of chasing solutions to the world's greatest challenge by Gary White
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
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Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf
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Himawari House by Harmony Becker
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Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
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Sunny G's Series of Rash Decisions by Navdeep Singh Dhillon
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Huda F Are You? by Huda Fahmy
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Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace Fleming
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Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao
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Boys I Know by Anna Gracia
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Icebreaker by A. L. Graziadei
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The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson
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One for All by Lillie Lainoff
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A Magic Steeped in Poison by Judy I. Lin
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Year of the Reaper by Makiia Lucier
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Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore
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Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by Yamile Saied Méndez
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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh
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Northwind by Gary Paulsen
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You Truly Assumed by Laila Sabreen
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Victory. Stand! Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith
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All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
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Nothing Burns as Bright as You by Ashley Woodfolk
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The Shark Book by Steve Jenkins
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Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos
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Wishes by Muon Thi Van
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Infinite Country by Patricia Engel
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Matrix by Lauren Groff
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