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Bring the House Down
Charlotte Runcie2025 selection · Fiction & literature
Bring the House Down
Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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