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It’s the perfect time to escape into a book. Arts editor Judith Pereira and Western Arts Correspondent Marsha Lederman on the book trends this year, the silver lining of the pandemic’s effect on independent booksellers, and what you should cozy up and read. All the books mentioned in this episode (in order): Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann Fight Night by Miriam Toews The Strangers by Katherena Vermette Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout All’s Well by Mona Awad Matrix by Lauren Groff We Want What We Want by Alix Ohlin Bewilderment by Richard Powers Astra by Cedar Bowers Care Of by Ivan Coyote Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen What Strange Paradise by Omar el Akkad Return of the Trickster by Eden Robinson Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder On Animals by Susan Orlean Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker Middlemarch by George Elliot |