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2017 selection · Fiction & literature
The Idiot
The Idiot by Elif Batuman appears in NPR’s 2017 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, it’s all geek to me, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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