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• Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

  Boo, Katherine

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  Winner of the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among many others.

• Leadership in Turbulent Times

  Goodwin, Doris Kearns

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  While you wait for the newest, try "Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream" or "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism.," or any other of Goodwin's books.

• An American Marriage

  Jones, Tayari

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  Currently (summer 2018) one of our Peak Picks!

• Unsheltered

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  While you wait, try any of Kingsolver's novels or essays.

• These Truths

  a History of the United States

  Lepore, Jill, 1966-

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  While you wait, try "The Secret History of Wonder Woman."

• Tell Me How It Ends

  An Essay in Forty Questions

  Luiselli, Valeria, 1983-

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  An essay collection structured around the 40 questions she translates and asks undocumented Latin American children facing deportation.

• Behold the Dreamers

  a Novel

  Mbue, Imbolo

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  A lovely portrait of a Cameroonian immigrant family in New York City on the eve of the Great Recession. The New York Times called it a “big-hearted novel.”

• Feel Free

  Essays

  Smith, Zadie

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  Essays that explore politics, libraries (!), and global warming. If you’re feeling like reading fiction, try Smith's "On Beauty."

• In Love & Trouble

  Stories of Black Women

  Walker, Alice, 1944-

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  If you know her best for "The Color Purple," try this story collection or look at her nonfiction, including "The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm’s Way" or "In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens:…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Don't Call Us Dead

  Poems

  Smith, Danez

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  Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. The New Yorker says that Smith’s “poems are enriched to the point of volatility, but they pay out, often, in sudden joy.”

• Dancing in Odessa

  Kaminsky, Ilya, 1977-

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  A debut poetry collection by this Russian immigrant (who wrote these poems in English).

• Brain Fever

  Poems

  Hahn, Kimiko, 1955-

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  You’re in for a treat if you haven’t yet read Hahn’s poetry, which Bloomsbury Review called “a welcome voice of experimentation and passion.”

• The New Testament

  Brown, Jericho

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  “To read Jericho Brown’s poems is to encounter devastating genius,” said Claudia Rankine, and we agree.

• Shelf Talk: #BookBingoNW2018: A SAL author

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  There is no shortage of ideas for the Book Bingo challenge to read a Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) author. SAL has been bringing writers to Seattle for three decades (here is the complete list), so there are literally hundreds of options (continue…Read moreRead more of this annotation