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  • Ask Again, Yes

    By Mary Beth Keane

    Two young police officers buy houses next door to one another in the 1970s, unaware of how this simple decision will reverberate for generations. In the years and decades that follow, their families are linked by chance, love, and tragedy.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • If, Then

    By Kate Hope Day

    Residents of an Oregon neighborhood at the base of a volcano begin having visions of alternate versions of their lives. This novel is the perfect mix of inventiveness and good old-fashioned storytelling.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • The Power

    By Naomi Alderman

    Women and girls acquire a power that makes them the dominant sex. A new world order ensues.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • Heartburn

    By Nora Ephron

    Ephron’s only novel, written in 1983, is a gem. I return to it again and again for the brilliant one-liners. She could find humor in anything — even the dissolution of her marriage.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • Pachinko

    By Min Jin Lee

    The perfect novel to lose yourself in on a summer vacation, when you can read for hours at a stretch. Lee weaves a tale of several generations of one Korean family with a Dickensian mastery of the form.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • Le Divorce

    By Diane Johnson

    A young American woman goes to Paris to help her pregnant sister through an unexpected divorce. This novel, first published in 1997, is pure delight. It’s also bursting with insight about love, family, wealth, privilege, and cultural differences.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • Rhoda: A Life in Stories

    By Ellen Gilchrist

    I love everything Gilchrist writes. Her characters are vibrant and alive, and Rhoda is the best one of all. In this volume from 1995 we get all the Rhoda stories in chronological order, so we can watch her turn from a sassy and outspoken child into a brilliant and complicated woman.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • Waisted

    By Randy Susan Meyers

    Two successful women obsessed with their weight leave their lives and families behind to take part in an extreme weight-loss documentary. When the filmmakers who appear to offer them the opportunity they’ve always wanted turn out to be exploiting them, the women take matters into their own hands.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • Mrs. Kimble

    By Jennifer Haigh

    Haigh excels at telling one story from multiple points of view, complicating and deepening the narrative with each new chapter. In her unputdownable 2003 debut, we meet three women all married to the same man at different times.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • The Inseparables

    By Stuart Nadler

    Three generations of women in one family come to terms with changes in their lives and what it means to be female in America today.

    — J. Courtney Sullivan

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  • Blue Talk and Love

    By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

    These short stories explore girlhood from the 19th century to the present. Come for the references to Biggie Smalls, but stay for the beautifully realized, fictional biography of the real-life Millie and Christine McKoy, black enslaved conjoined twins searching for freedom.

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • Queenie

    By Candice Carty-Williams

    A young Jamaican British woman navigates career, family, and love in London. This novel pulls off a momentous move in fiction — a black female character who makes mistakes but still finds joy in the everyday. And it’s funny.

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • Theory

    By Dionne Brand

    A PhD candidate working on a dissertation falls in and out of love with three very different women. The unnamed narrator seems to be a very smart woman who continually gets everything all wrong, and it’s hilarious to observe.

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • American Spy

    By Lauren Wilkinson

    Marie Mitchell, a young black FBI agent in mid-1980s New York City, her career stalled by race and gender, becomes a Cold War spy in Africa for the CIA. Mitchell feels a conflicted loyalty to America, and this thriller grapples with questions of nation and belonging.

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • The Salt Eaters

    By Toni Cade Bambara

    Bambara is one of the greatest stylists in the English language. Originally published in 1980, her saga of a small black community in the South, a healer, and an attempted suicide grapples with the questions of our current moment: What does “self care” mean for those of us whom the world deems worthless?

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • Maud Martha

    By Gwendolyn Brooks

    This 1953 novel, the only one published by the esteemed poet, follows the life of Maud Martha, from girlhood to motherhood. Like all of the best fiction, Brooks gives us a fully realized woman on the page.

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • Notes from a Black Woman’s Diary: Selected Works of Kathleen Collins

    By Kathleen Collins

    Little known during her lifetime, Collins is one of America’s great, lost artists. This is a collection of her diary entries, stories, plays, and screenplays, a fascinating look at the creative mind of a brilliant writer and filmmaker, one who died at 46 in 1988 and is thankfully being rediscovered now.

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • In Search of Satisfaction

    By J. California Cooper

    This saga of two sisters, one born to a white mother, one born to a black one, their father a former slave, is an old-fashioned morality tale, happy to dwell on the naughty bits, with deliciously human villains.

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • How to Sit: A Memoir in Stories and Essays

    By Tyrese L. Coleman

    Bending genres, this inventive collection tests the lines between experience, family history, and fantasy. A beautiful exploration of the meaning of consciousness and memory through stages and relationships in a life, rendered in prose that is gorgeous, accessible, and always compelling.

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • Third Girl from the Left

    By Martha Southgate

    What would it feel like to be the pretty girl in the movie, the one with no lines, there for decoration? What is she thinking about while others stare at her? This novel answers that question through exploring three generations of women in one riven family, seduced by the power of movies and the film industry.

    — Kaitlyn Greenidge

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  • Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    By Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    How this nation’s futile pursuit of a more perfect union during Reconstruction never stood a chance against the vicious mendacity of white supremacy.

    — Renée Graham

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  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

    By Ibram X. Kendi

    A sorrowful and detailed biography of American racism, from its birth, life over the centuries, and why it remains alive and well to this day.

    — Renée Graham

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  • One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy

    By Carol Anderson

    Long before the Russians hacked our election, there was GOP-fueled voter suppression targeting marginalized communities and gutting democracy.

    — Renée Graham

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  • Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke

    By Peter Guralnick

    An incandescent biography of the seminal soul singer and civil-rights activist.

    — Renée Graham

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  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

    By Audre Lorde

    For many feminists, lesbians, and women of color — and those whose identities straddle all three — this remains our New Testament.

    — Renée Graham

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  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson

    By Robert Caro

    Someday, Caro will complete the fifth and final book of his monumental, multivolume, 30-plus years-in-the-making biography of the 36th president. Best start reading now.

    — Renée Graham

    A book cover for The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  • Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic

    By Sam Quinones

    Astonishing and critical to understanding how Big Pharma made millions and created an ongoing and lethal national tragedy.

    — Renée Graham

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  • The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

    By Rebecca Skloot

    A scientific detective story about an ill-fated African-American cancer patient whose stolen cells, known as HeLA, aided in numerous major medical discoveries over decades — a secret kept from her own family.

    — Renée Graham

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  • Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

    By Erica Armstrong Dunbar

    That’s Washingtons, as in George and Martha, who made the mistake of underestimating a black woman’s guile and her thirst for freedom.

    — Renée Graham

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  • Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

    By Roz Chast

    In this inimitable memoir, the New Yorker cartoonist tries to prepare her elderly parents — and herself — for their inevitable deaths. If you haven’t been on this impossible path already, you will.

    — Renée Graham

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  • The Library Book

    By Susan Orlean

    A 1986 fire at the Los Angeles Public Library inspired this graceful exploration of the importance of libraries and the quiet heroes who keep them going.

    — M.J. Andersen

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  • Young Men and Fire

    By Norman Maclean

    The Mann Gulch fire in Montana claimed a dozen firefighters’ lives in 1949. Maclean’s meticulous, gripping reconstruction doubles as a powerful meditation on mortality.

    — M.J. Andersen

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  • Negroland

    By Margo Jefferson

    The former Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic for The New York Times brings wit and urbanity to this elegant memoir of growing up talented and black in mid-century Chicago.

    — M.J. Andersen

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  • The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

    By Louis Menand

    William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles Peirce, John Dewey stand at the center of this compelling ensemble portrait of our intellectual forebears, and the ideas that continue to shape American thought.

    — M.J. Andersen

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  • The Fifth Risk

    By Michael Lewis

    This slim volume clarifying the current dangers to democracy posed by the current administration finds a surprising source of hope in federal bureaucrats.

    — M.J. Andersen

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  • Coming into the Country

    By John McPhee

    For those who missed the cruise, McPhee serves up Alaska from every conceivable angle. A work to savor from a master stylist.

    — M.J. Andersen

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  • In Cold Blood

    By Truman Capote

    The 1959 slaying of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kan., put Capote on the path to the literary fame he craved. With its incisive portrait of two killers, Capote’s spellbinding account revolutionized nonfiction writing.

    — M.J. Andersen

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  • Southern Lady Code

    By Helen Ellis

    How to be nasty in the nicest possible way. Teenage boys are exempted from thank-you note writing in this collection of humorous essays.

    — M.J. Andersen

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  • Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

    By Jim Holt

    Revisit the big questions in the company of a congenial writer who makes quantum mechanics as accessible as Saint Augustine.

    — M.J. Andersen

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  • The Satapur Moonstone

    By Sujata Massey

    The second in this much-honored series again finds Bombay’s only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, battling racism and sexism when a royal death unsettles 1922 India.

    — Clea Simon

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  • Metropolis

    By Philip Kerr

    The late Kerr’s final moody noir presents the origin story of homicide detective Bernie Gunther in 1928 Berlin, a melancholy parting gift setting up new readers for the rest of this devastating series.

    — Clea Simon

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  • If She Wakes

    By Michael Koryta

    Left conscious but unable to move (and incorrectly thought by docs to be in a vegetative state) after an apparent hit-and-run, Maine college student Tara Beckley relies on insurance investigator Abby Kaplan to understand — and save both their lives.

    — Clea Simon

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  • Unto Us A Son Is Given

    By Donna Leon

    In his 28th outing, Commissario Guido Brunetti once again tempers an investigation — this time of a gay, retired art dealer — with both social commentary and love for his native Venice, without losing sight of the crime’s essential inhumanity.

    — Clea Simon

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  • The 7½ deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

    By Stuart Turton

    Trapped in a “Groundhog Day’’ world, Aiden Bishop awakes each morning in the body of a different witness to the shooting death of a young woman, leaving him struggling to remember clues so he can solve the crime and break the dizzying cycle.

    — Clea Simon

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  • An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

    By Helene Tursten, translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy

    Eighty-eight-year-old Maud freely dispatches greedy neighbors, selfish lovers, and potential thieves in four linked stories that push elderly empowerment to grimly funny heights in this Swedish cult favorite.

    — Clea Simon

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  • John Woman

    By Walter Mosley

    The creator of the Easy Rawlins books tackles allegory and self-definition in the unconventional tale of Cornelius Jones, who reinvents himself as John Woman, a professor of “deconstructivist history” with a dark past that just won’t stay buried.

    — Clea Simon

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  • The Darkest Secret

    By Alex Marwood

    As Mila takes in her father’s funeral, she flashes back to her sister’s disappearance 12 years earlier and begins to piece together the dark, twisted (and often funny) connections.

    — Clea Simon

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  • Crime and Punctuation

    By Kaitlyn Dunnett

    Spend a summer in the Catskills with freelance editor Mikki Lincoln, as she researches the correlation between a murder in a manuscript and the death of her client in this small-town cozy.

    — Clea Simon

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  • Girl Waits With Gun

    By Amy Stewart

    Stewart’s restrained tone and note-perfect characters deepen and enliven this sassy historical saga, based on the life of Constance Kopp who, in 1914, became New Jersey’s first female deputy sheriff.

    — Clea Simon

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  • Mistress of the Art of Death

    By Ariana Franklin

    Neither women nor science had it easy in medieval England, but Adelia, the title forensic pathologist, faces down charges of witchcraft to solve a murder and kickstart this great series.

    — Clea Simon

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  • The Kill Artist

    By Daniel Silva

    Silva’s series hero, Gabriel Allon, an Israeli art restorer dragged back into intelligence work to tackle terrorism, has reliably defined beach read since his fast-paced 2000 debut.

    — Clea Simon

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  • Fingersmith

    By Sarah Waters

    When Sue Trinder, an orphaned “fingersmith,” or thief, is recruited for a con but falls for her heiress victim, igniting twists and complications in this Victorian London mystery that leave Dickens in the dust.

    — Clea Simon

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  • The Neon Rain

    By James Lee Burke

    The first of Burke’s positively poetic Dave Robicheaux books introduces the New Orleans detective at his lowest — battling alcoholism and PTSD — until a murder case involving a young prostitute starts his long slog toward recovery.

    — Clea Simon

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  • A is for Alibi

    By Sue Grafton

    We lost Grafton in 2017 before she could complete her alphabet series, but the Kinsey Millhone we met in her 1982 debut remains a fresh and fiercely feminist protagonist worth revisiting.

    — Clea Simon

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  • All the Dreams We’ve Dreamed: A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago’s West Side

    By Rus Bradburd

    The author, a former basketball coach turned college English professor, tries to find solutions, solace, and redemption in this story about a series of Chicago shooting deaths and how it affected a high school basketball team and one of its coaches, who was left paralyzed after a mistaken-identity shooting. That the school and the coach played a role in the documentary “Hoop Dreams’’ figures in.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Ball Four

    By Jim Bouton

    As a major league pitcher, Bouton was a good writer, but if there was a humor hall of fame, he’d be elected on the first ballot. This behind-the-scenes tell-all was outrageous when it was first published in 1970. It’s still lots of laughs, but it doesn’t seem so dangerous any more.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time

    By Ian O’Connor

    No one can really penetrate the steel wall that separates the Patriots coach from the rest of the us, but O’Connor went to great effort to compile as complete of profile as possible.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Big Game: The NFL in Dangerous Times

    By Mark Leibovich

    This is all you need to know: The author told the Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy: “I don’t know why the guys let me in the way they did.’’ Those guys are Tom Brady, Robert Kraft, Jerry Jones, Donald Trump, and others. Great original information.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • The Cost of These Dreams: Sports Stories and Other Serious Business

    By Wright Thompson

    One could make the argument that Thompson is the best sportswriter working today. This is a collection of his best work at ESPN (its dearly departed magazine and website). Every story is both off-the-beaten path (from the curious death of former basketball star Tony Harris in the Brazilian jungle to champion wrestler Dan Gable’s battle to save his sport to the suffering of Ted Williams’s lone surviving child) and top notch.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Dogged Victims of Inexorable Fate: A Love-Hate Celebration of Golfers and Their Game

    By Dan Jenkins

    Jenkins died last March, but his admirers will never forget him. He was one of the best sportswriters ever, combining acerbic humor and incredible observation powers. This is a collection of his golf stories for Sports Illustrated. My favorite: “The Glory Game at Goat Hills.’’

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Football for A Buck: The Crazy Rise and Crazier Demise of the USFL

    By Jeff Pearlman

    Who remembers this defunct football league? Thankfully, Pearlman, who has been obsessed with it since childhood and now gives a full and humorous account of its life and death. Donald Trump was one of the owners, and he’s a big part of this story.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • K: A History of Baseball in 10 Pitches

    By Tyler Kepner

    Kepner, one of our most foremost baseball writers, traces the evolution of the game through the development of pitches — fastback, curveball, etc. His interviews with some of the best practitioners of each make for great inside baseball.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics and What Matters in the End

    By Gary M. Pomerantz

    The Celtics dynasty is endlessly fascinating, especially these two dynamic players and personalities, Bob Cousy and Bill Russell. In these pages, Cousy, an incredibly thoughtful person, expresses remorse in not doing enough to acknowledge or help Russell deal with racial issues.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • The Miracle of Saint Anthony: A Season with Coach Bob Hurley and Basketball’s Most Improbable Dynasty

    By Adrian Wojnarowski

    Woj does all his writing on Twitter these days, breaking NBA news for ESPN, but over the years he also demonstrated his mastery of longer forms as in this tale of a high school basketball coach who earned his way to the hall of fame with his successful tough-love approach.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Orr: My Story

    By Bobby Orr

    Orr is the most admired athlete in Boston history (and one of the legends of his sport), and here he gives us his view of his early life in Canada, meteoric career, crippling knee injuries, and devastating discovery that his trusted agent had left him nearly destitute. This is a must-read for Boston sports fans, especially avid followers of the Bruins.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Ride The White Horse: A Checkered Jockey’s Story of Racing, Rage and Redemption

    By Eddie Donnally

    A little-known book by a little-known jockey, this gripping memoir nearly strains credulity but is hard to put down. It involves sex abuse, drug use, religious visions, eventual triumph, and even a near-death experience crossing paths with Whitey Bulger and his fellow gangsters when a fixed race goes bad.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend

    By Larry Tye

    Tye is an incredible reporter, and he seems to unearth every last detail about Page, the practically mythical pitcher from the Negro Leagues who finally got a shot to play Major League Baseball when he was past his prime. Sad and uplifting at the same time.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South

    By Andrew Maraniss

    Wallace was the first African American to play basketball in the Southeastern Conference and this vividly details the pain he endured as a trailblazer during a critical time in the civil rights era. He’s a true hero.

    — Joe Sullivan

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  • Where’d You Go, Bernadette

    By Maria Semple

    At once a coming-of-age tale and a woman-on-the-verge story, the novel follows 14-year-old Bee (Emma Nelson) as she tries to solve the mystery of what happened to her mother, Bernadette Fox (Cate Blanchett), who goes missing on an Antarctic cruise. Aug. 16 release.

    — Lillian Brown

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  • It

    By Stephen King

    First came the 1986 novel, then the namesake film, and now “It Chapter Two,’’ the movie sequel based on the second half of the King horror masterpiece. It takes place 27 years later, and the scattered members of the Losers Club get back together to defeat the clown monster, Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård reprising the role), once and for all. Sept. 6 release.

    — Lillian Brown

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  • The Woman in the Window

    By A.J. Finn

    Amy Adams (fresh off “Sharp Objects”) plays the agoraphobic Dr. Anna Fox whose life is shattered when she gazes out the window one night and witnesses a horrific event in the Russell family home across the street. Oct. 4 release.

    — Lillian Brown

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  • The Goldfinch

    By Donna Tartt

    Theo Decker’s (Ansel Elgort) life is upended at age 13 when his mother is killed in a terrorist bombing at an art museum, and he steals a famous painting amid the chaos. Theodore spirals into a life of crime and art theft in this decade-long, coming-of-age story. Oct. 11 release.

    — Lillian Brown

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  • The Good Liar

    By Nicholas Searle

    Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) hopes to con wealthy widow Betty McLeish (Helen Mirren) out of a few million dollars, but the tables turn when Roy realizes that he’s falling for Betty, and then again when he realizes that Betty isn’t exactly whom he thinks she is. Nov. 15 release.

    — Lillian Brown

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  • The Rhythm Section

    By Mark Burnell

    The first in the Stephanie Patrick thriller series provides the origin story for the prostitute turned assassin (Blake Lively) intent on avenging the death of her family after she discovers the plane crash that killed them was a terrorist attack. Nov. 22 release.

    — Lillian Brown

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  • Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

    By T.S. Eliot

    Much of the buzz surrounding the upcoming “Cats” Broadway musical movie, based on the whimsical Eliot poems, involves the all-star cast: Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, and Idris Elba will share the screen with fellow felines James Corden, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Rebel Wilson. Dec. 20 release.

    — Lillian Brown

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  • Little Women

    By Louisa May Alcott

    Greta Gerwig’s much anticipated adaptation, which was filmed in Massachusetts, chronicles the lives of the four March sisters: Jo (Saoirse Ronan), Meg (Emma Watson), Amy (Florence Pugh), and Beth (Eliza Scanlen), and their neighbor Laurie (Timothée Chalamet). Dec. 25 release.

    — Lillian Brown

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