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2016 selection · Fiction & literature
The Sport Of Kings
The Sport Of Kings by C.E. Morgan appears in NPR’s 2016 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather long, family matters, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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