Meghan O’Rourke, Zaina Arafat, Philippa Gregory, and more: 20 new books out today!

We’re easing out of one of the biggest-fiction-books-falls I’ve ever encountered. It was nearly relentless, the huge, hotly anticipated novels that were flying off printing presses and into our waiting hands. We’re tapering off, slightly, at least in that genre,

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