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28 New Books to Read in June: Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Daniel Kraus and More

Novels by Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell and Dave Eggers; memoirs by Jill Biden and Laverne Cox; sci-fi adventures by a Pulitzer Prize winner; and more.

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NYT Books and Literature

28 New Books to Read in June: Ann Patchett, Maggie O’Farrell, Daniel Kraus and More

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘1873,’ by Liaquat Ahamed

In “1873,” the historian and financier Liaquat Ahamed traces the political consequences of booming markets that left a lot of people behind.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘1873,’ by Liaquat Ahamed

NYT Books and Literature

Book Surfaces 120 Years After a San Francisco Library Lost Almost Everything

A book of poetry that survived the catastrophic 1906 earthquake and fire has been returned to the Mechanics’ Institute.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Surfaces 120 Years After a San Francisco Library Lost Almost Everything

NYT Books and Literature

Test Your Memory of These Books That Changed the World

Try this short quiz on written works that were persuasive enough to influence American life and law.

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NYT Books and Literature

Test Your Memory of These Books That Changed the World

NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom’

A collection of Harold Bloom’s letters details the working life of one of America’s most influential intellects.

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NYT Books and Literature

Book Review: ‘The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom’

NYT Books and Literature

Joana Avillez Revisits Her Waterfront Childhood

Joana Avillez took six years to illustrate a new edition of Joseph Mitchell’s “The Bottom of the Harbor,” which captures the salty New York neighborhood of her youth.

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NYT Books and Literature

Joana Avillez Revisits Her Waterfront Childhood