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The Fifth Season

by N.K. Jemisin

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The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, seriously great writing, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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