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Here Are the 13 Books That Made the Booker Prize Longlist

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There’s a Zillion Things to See at the SF Art Book Fair

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A New Book Tracks the Case of a Murdered Teen Through a Broken Legal System

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An Eco-Journalist Takes on Big Tech in This Modern Twist on the Heist Novel

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Oakland’s Temescal Alley Gets Its First Book Festival

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How John Steinbeck Fueled the Lore of Big Sur’s ‘Dark Watchers’

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Book covers lined up in two rows of five: You Won’t Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters, by Rachel Aviv; Country People, by Daniel Mason; Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast, by Pamela Colloff; Cloudthief, by Nathaniel Rich; Data Empire: The Power of Information to Organize, Control, and Dominate, by Roopika Risam; It Will Come Back to You: Stories, by Sigrid Nuñez; They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy, by Lauren Collins; Yellow Pine, by Claire Vaye Watkins; Cool Machine, by Colson Whitehead; Beginning Middle End, by Valeria Luiselli.

10 New Books You Won’t Want to Miss in July

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Two pages of a graphic novel featuring a group of young teens talking in a car. One says they dreamed they were a boy.

‘Opting Out’ Is a Graphic Novel of 7th Grade Survival From the Author of ‘Gender Queer’

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‘Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep’ Is Full of Beautifully Written Grotesqueries

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NPR Staffers Share Their Favorite Fiction Reads of 2026 — So Far

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The Nonfiction Books NPR Staffers Have Loved So Far This Year

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5 Ways to Read More Books This Summer

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