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Things MentionedThe New York Times’s Best Books of the 21st Century

Books Discussed

The Guest List - Lucy Foley

Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America - Erik Larson

Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

The Reformatory - Tananarive Due, Chosen by Stephen Graham Jones NYTs

It Will Only Hurt For a Moment - Delilah S. Dawson

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story - Olga Tokarczuk, Trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Curdle Creek - Yvonne Battle-Felton

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