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2019 selection · Fiction & literature
The New Me
The New Me by Halle Butler appears in NPR’s 2019 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, fiction, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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