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9 Excellent Spring Reads

BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

SURVIVAL MATH

by Mitchell S. Jackson

A potent book that revels in the author’s truthful experiences while maintaining the jagged-grain, keeping-it-a-100, natural... Full review >

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BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

ALL THE LIVES WE EVER LIVED

by Katharine Smyth

A work of incisive observation and analysis, exquisite writing, and an attempt to determine if there is “any revelation that... Full review >

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THRILLER & SUSPENSE

AMERICAN SPY

by Lauren Wilkinson

There’s an honorable, unsung tradition of African-American novelists using the counterspy genre as a metaphor for what... Full review >

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FICTION

THE GOLDEN TRESSES OF THE DEAD

by Alan Bradley

Perhaps the most consistently hilarious adventure of the alarmingly precocious heroine, who’s capable of confiding in her... Full review >

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FICTION

THE DRAGONFLY SEA

by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

A gorgeous novel of Africa's entanglement with the wider world. Full review >

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FICTION

GINGERBREAD

by Helen Oyeyemi

A strange, shape-shifting novel about the power of making your own family. Full review >

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