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Books Mentioned

• Feel Free by Zadie Smith (Penguin Press) Feb. 6th
• Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (Counterpoint) Feb. 6th
• All the Names They Used for God: Stories by Anjali Sachdeva (Spiegal and Grau) Feb. 20th
• What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson (FSG) Feb. 20th
• Awayland by Ramona Ausubel (Riverhead) March 6th
• The Gunners by Rebecca Kaufman (Counterpoint) March 20th
• Look Alive Out There by Sloane Crosley (MCD) April 3rd
• Legendary Ladies by Ann Shen (Chronicle Books) April 3rd

Honorable Mentions

• The Cruel Prince by Holly Black (Little, Brown Book for Young Jan. 2nd
• The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin (Putnam) Jan. 9th
• Winter by Ali Smith (Pantheon) Jan. 9th
• Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro (Grove Press) Jan. 9th
• The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey (Soho Press) (Jan. 9th) 
• Where the Line Bleeds by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner) Jan. 16th
• Brass by Xhenet Aliu (Random House) Jan. 23rd
• An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (Algonquin) Feb. 6th
• I Am I Am I Am by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf) Feb. 6th
• Force of Nature by Jane Harper (Flatiron) Feb. 6th
• Fresh Water by Akwaeke Emezi (Grove Press) Feb. 13th
• Dangerous Crossing by Ausma Zehanat Khan (Minotaur Books) Feb. 3th
• Happiness by Aminatta Forna (Atlantic) March 6th
• Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao (Flantiron) March 6th
• Ask Me about My Uterus by Abby Norman (Nation Books) March 6th
• Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote Tamirat (Henry Holt) March 13th
• The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead) April 3rd
• Circe by Madeline Miller (Little, Brown) April 10th
• West by Carys Davies (Scribner) by April 24th
• Tin Man by Sarah Winman (Putnam) May 15th
• Florida by Lauren Groff (Riverhead) June 5th
• Sick by Porochista Khakpour (Harper Perennial) June 5th

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