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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
★★★★· Published 2021· 801 pages· read 2021
Enormous and ambitious — generations of one Black American family threaded through centuries of history. Worth the commitment.
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Monday, Monday
Elizabeth Crook
Opens with the 1966 UT Austin tower shooting, then follows the lives it reshaped for decades. Quietly devastating.
★ 5The Other Bennet Sister
Janice Hadlow
Plain, overlooked Mary Bennet finally gets her own story, and it's lovely. If you're an Austen fan, this one's for you.
The Director
Daniel Kehlmann
A brilliant, unsettling novel about a real Austrian director who came home from Hollywood to make films under Goebbels. Kehlmann turns the compromises of art under fascism into something you can't look away from. Booker-shortlisted.