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Polostan
Creating a cohesive novel that features nuclear physics, the sport of polo, the excitement of a world’s fair, and the dangers of unprotected sex is a gargantuan task. Stephenson leaves readers winded but satisfied.
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The Secret War of Julia Child
Written with flair and charm, Chambers’s novel really heats up whenever sex, danger, or dinner come into view. Any readers who enjoy fictional renderings of the private lives of famous women will want to peek into Julia Child’s psyche.
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The Lost Book of Bonn
Relying on well-researched facts about the Edelweiss Pirates, the 1943 Rose Street demonstration protesting the detention of intermarried Jewish men, and the astonishing work of the Monuments Men to recover looted art and books, Labuskes (The Librarian of Burned Books) has again hit the sweet spot in this story of passionate love, intense conflict, and ingenious resolution. Working with short, punchy chapters and a loosely connected timeline, she skillfully earns readers’ full attention.
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Mother Doll
Imagining the afterlife has resulted in unforgettable recent novels like George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo. Apekina’s hallucinatory use of occult communications transforms historical facts and emotional trauma into a phantasmagorical fable of Zhenia’s and Irina’s spiritual journeys. Balancing raucous hilarity with embedded pain, it may be the year’s weirdest one-of-a-kind read.
The Lies You Wrote
Women pathologists (Patricia Cornwell) and forensic anthropologists (Elly Griffiths) have starred in recent mysteries that appeared on best-of-the-year lists. Through her terrific new heroine, Labuskes has the fire and smarts to join them on the award dais.
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Night Train to Odessa
Grow’s novel can be ranked with Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated in capturing the essentials of modern Ukraine.
The House of Lincoln
Meticulously researched, brilliantly paced, and written for most levels of readers, this is the historical fiction genre at its very best.
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The President’s Wife
Wood’s book is a stately and dignified account that is beautifully leavened by intimate glimpses of Edith and Woodrow in their happiness, grief, anger, and optimism.
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The Librarian of Burned Books
Terrific research buttresses strong writing that will keep readers riveted. Molly Guptill Manning’s When Books Went to War and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 are great tandem reads for Labuskes’s latest.
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