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Viet Thanh Nguyen Recommends "The Land at the End of the World"

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The author of "The Sympathizer" recommends António Lobo Antunes' novel.

Jacqueline Woodson Recommends "If Beale Street Could Talk"

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The author of "Another Brooklyn" recommends a James Baldwin novel she says belongs on everyone's bookshelf.

George Saunders Recommends "I Will Bear Witness"

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The author of "Lincoln in the Bardo" recommends Victor Klemperer's two-volume diary that reads as a slow-motion picture of what the Holocaust looked like before it was known Holocaust.

Philip Glass Recommends "The Wayfinders" by Wade Davis

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Composer Philip Glass says he was transported by "The Wayfinders" - Wade Davis' celebration of indigenous cultures.

Jeff VanderMeer Recommends "The Kills"

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The author of "Borne" and the Southern Reach Trilogy recommends Richard House's novel about soldiers tasked with burning waste in the remote reaches of Iraqi desert.

Jeff VanderMeer Recommends "Brodeck's Report"

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The author of "Borne" and the Southern Reach Trilogy recommends Phillippe Claudel novel about a small town murder and the winding investigation into the culprit.

Andy Weir Recommends "Ready Player One"

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The author of "The Martian" recommends Ernest Cline's virtual reality adventure, now a motion picture.

Kazuo Ishiguro on "Prayers for the Stolen"

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The recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature recommends Jennifer Clement's novel about teenage girls surviving the violence of cartel-controlled Mexican border villages in "Prayers for the Stolen."

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A.O. Scott Recommends "The Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson"

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New York Times film critic A.O. Scott recommends the collected writings of film critic Otis Ferguson, a pioneer of the language of film criticism and advocate for all the types of labor that go into filmmaking.