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Praise for How Beautiful We Were
Unforgettable…It is a masterful novel by a spellbinding writer engaged with the most urgent questions of our day.
David Ebershoff, bestselling author of The Danish Girl

Praise for Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration,
Reminiscent of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy, Miller’s well-argued book delivers a scarifying account of law gone awry.
Kirkus, starred review

Praise for The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
This radiant book will not only change your life, but perhaps even save it.
Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Big Magic

Praise for Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
A devastating, revelatory book.
Washington Post

Praise for The Daughters of Kobani
Lemmon has shown us unequivocally what female leadership can do for a society. It is breathtaking to behold.
Sebastian Junger, author of Tribe and War

Praise for The Flight Attendant
Bohjalian is an unfaltering storyteller who crosses genres with fluidity, from historical fiction to literary thrillers… a read-in-one-sitting escapade that is as intellectually satisfying as it is emotionally entertaining.
Booklist

Praise for Apeirogon
All I can really tell you is, read McCann’s book. It’s an important book. It’s quite possibly a great book.
Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours

Praise for The Resisters
At its heart, the novel is about the act of resistance and its attendant forces of courage and hope.
Diana Abu-Jaber, author of The Language of Baklava

Praise for Writers & Lovers
King captures the agita of an early-life crisis and the eccentricities of a writer’s life, spiking the narrative with wit, sumptuous imagery and hilarious skewerings of literary elitism.
People

Praise for Sorry for You Trouble
Once again, virtuoso Ford deftly sails the seas and storms of consciousness.
Booklist (starred review)

Praise for The Beautiful No
[C]hock-full of honesty, wisdom, and insights that tap into some of the most challenging aspects of living a full and complete life.
Forbes

Praise for The Lucky Star
This big, underwater-lit novel returns Vollmann’s work to the dive bars and gender-fluid clubs of San Francisco . . . Vollmann admirably captures the pull of vulnerability and invention, how sex can be, in the right space, a powerful way to know one’s self, and ultimately, how much each of his characters here needs a space to be themselves.
Lit Hub, Most Anticipated 2020