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REVIEWS, RECOMMENDATIONS, AND RUMINATIONS
on some of the most transformative books of the last hundred years
Nonfiction
Peruse the list of books—click on a title to read a review.
Nicholson Baker
All That is Solid Melts Into Air
Marshall Berman
Eric R. Kandel
Amitava Kumar
Geraldine Brooks
A Swim in the Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
Edmund de Waal
Patti Smith
Jared Diamond
Patti Smith
Dave Eggers
Patti Smith
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Tara Westover
Jeffrey Greenblatt
Maja Haderlap
Virginia Woolf
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
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