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评语：recommended by helen Macdonald, the author of "H is for Hawk"

评语：recommended by Nicola Griffith, the author of "Hild"

评语：Recommended by the author of "The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games."

评语：recommended by Malcolm Gladwell. A law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Zimring has had a long academic career examining policing, gun violence, crime rates, and the social factors that interact with each of them.

评语：Nature writer and adventurer Robert Macfarlane has given away one book more than any other volume.

评语：For decades, Stanley Crouch has cut a singular path through American culture. Once an aspiring jazz musician and alter a noted cultural critic, he was friends with Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray, and later an intellectual mentor to Wynton Marsalis.

评语：Cheryl Strayed especially appreciates writers who combine honesty with emotional intensity - writers who reveal themselves unflinchingly on the page.

评语：recommended by The author of "Another Brooklyn" Jacqueline Woodson

评语：recommended by Kazuo Ishiguro - a harrowing tale about young children who are abducted in the midst of Mexico drug wars

评语：Author Ruth Zozeki drew from "Kamikaze Diaries," a collection of writings left behind by the young soldiers who dies on suicide missions. They represent a generation of brilliant, highly educated young students who were conscripted into the army and ordered not just to kill but to die.

评语：Author Petina Gappah recommends a book she explains is "The most African of Jane Austen's novels." Her reason why is a look at women in African today told through the eyes of two novelists: a Zimbabwean in 2020 and English women in 1818."

评语：Given the hyper-realism of author Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle,", you might be surprised to hear that the formative books of his childhood were filled with magic and imaginary worlds. He said " Earthsea" fantasy series shaped him as an early reader.

评语：recommended by Ross Gay, because he's fascinated by the process of collecting and by the impulse to document everyday life.

评语：recommeded by Eula Bliss

评语：recommended by Yuval Norah Harari - author of "Sapiens," "Homo Deus," and "21 Lessons for the 21st Century". It wasn't a novel, a memori, or even a history book that changed his world. It was a book about chimpanzees.

评语：Recommended by Margaret Atwood

评语：recommended by Lorrie Moore

评语：Tommy Orange recommended