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Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect on the Jan. 28 edition of Bill's Books:

• "Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News," by Kevin Young
• "Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires" by Shomari Wills
• "Oliver Loving," by Stefan Merrill Block

Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect on the Jan. 14 edition of Bill's Books:

• "The Prague Sonata," by Bradford Morrow
• "The Maze at Windermere," by Gregory Blake Smith
• "Oliver Loving," by Stefan Merrill Block
• "A State of Freedom," by Neel Mukherjee

Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect on the Dec. 31 edition of Bill's Books:

• "Pachinko," by Min Jin Lee
• "Lincoln in the Bardo," by George Saunders
• "Anything Is Possible," by Elizabeth Strout
• "My Absolute Darling," by Gabriel Tallent
• "Grant," by Ron Chernow

Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect on the Dec. 24 edition of Bill's Books:

• "France is a Feast: The Photographic Journey of Paul and Julia Child," by Alex Prud’homme and Katie Pratt
• "Obama: An Intimate Portrait," by Pete Souza
• "The Vietnam War: An Intimate History," by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
• "Annie Leibovitz: Portraits: 2005-2016," by Annie Leibovitz and‎ Alexandra Fuller 
• "The Odyssey," by Homer, translation by Emily Wilson

Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect on the Dec. 3 edition of Bill's Books:

• "Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder," by Caroline Fraser
• "Future Home of the Living God: A Novel," by Louise Erdrich
• "Highbrow, Lowbrow, Brilliant, Despicable: Fifty Years of New York Magazine," by The Editors of New York Magazine
• "The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy," by Justin Spring

Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect in the Nov. 5 edition of Bill's Books:

• "In the Midst of Winter," by Isabel Allende
• "Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel," by Francine Klagsbrun
• "Ali: A Life," by Jonathan Eig
• "Grant," by Ron Chernow 
• "Leonardo da Vinci," by Walter Isaacson
• "The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy," by Justin Spring

Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect in the Oct. 22 edition of Bill's Books:

• "Uncommon Type: Some Stories," by Tom Hanks. 
• "I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street," by Matt Taibbi
• "The Floating World," by C. Morgan Babst

Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect in the Oct. 8 edition of Bill's Books:

• "Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York," by Roz Chast
• "Manhattan Beach: A Novel," by Jennifer Egan
• "Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II," by Lisa Mundy
• "The Child Finder," by Rene Denfeld

Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect on the Sept. 24 edition of Bill's Books:

• "Forest Dark," by Nicole Krauss
• "Little Fires Everywhere," by Celeste Ng
• "A Legacy of Spies," by John Le Carre
• "The World of Tomorrow," by Brendan Mathews

Greetings, readers! Here's a sneak peek of what to expect on the Sept. 3 edition of Bill's Books:

• "My Absolute Darling," by Gabriel Tallent
• "Stay with Me," by Ayobami Adebayo
• "The Burning Girl," by Claire Messud
• "Sing, Unburied, Sing," by Jesmyn Ward

Greetings, readers! This week on Bill's Books, Bill Goldstein has a special treat: He's talking about his own book, "The World Broke in Two", which comes out this week.

• "A House Among the Trees," by Julia Glass
• "The Lying Game," by Ruth Ware
• "The Stars in Our Eyes," by Julie Klam
• "Who Is Rich?" by Matthew Klam

• "A Life of Adventure and Delight," by Akhil Sharma
• "Bed-Stuy is Burning," by Brian Platzer
• "Hunger," by Roxane Gay
• "Off the Cliff," by Becky Aikman

• "The Chalk Artist," by Allegra Goodman
• "The Destroyers," by Christopher Bollen
• "The Weight of the Ink," by Rachel Kadish 
• "Young Radicals," by Jeremy McCarter

• "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI," by David Grann
• "Magpie Murders," by Anthony Horowitz
• "Defectors, A Novel," by Joseph Kanon

• Edan Lepucki's Woman No. 17
• And Jill Santopolo's The Light We Lost, a wonderfully romantic debut
• The short brilliant novel to read in one day
• And the nonfiction book, by David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, a superb historical true crime, and so much more than that

• "My Life with Bob- Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues” by Pamela Paul
• “Between Them: Remembering my Parents” by Richard Ford
• “The Leavers” by Lisa Ko.

• "Anything Is Possible: A Novel," by Elizabeth Strout
• "No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel," by Stephanie Powell Watts 
• "The Nix," by Nathan Hill

• "The Gatekeepers" by Chris Whipple
• "Marlena" by Julie Buntin
• “The Women in the Castle" by Jessica Shattuck.

• "Word for Word; The Secret Life of Dictionaries," by Kory Stamper
• "My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life," by Peter Gethers
• "The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency," by Chris Whipple
• "The Forbidden Garden," by Ellen Herrick