National Book Awards Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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To Throw Away Unopened by musician, filmmaker and writer @viv_albertine is an unflinchingly honest and fearless dissection of what makes us us, one woman’s obsession with the truth - about family, power and her identity as a rebel and outsider. https://t.co/60AW7cVwsK https://t.co/2O5Ym9n5Ya

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by @harari_yuval explores the present, navigating today’s most urgent issues and asking whether we can maintain our focus in the face of constant change https://t.co/1Q7YFZtKSl https://t.co/rBm46M7nzx

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In Sarah Perry’s Melmoth Helen Franklin is still haunted by something she did 20 years ago but when a strange manuscript comes into her possession she wonders if she may be haunted by something more sinister https://t.co/kp57bVTS7d https://t.co/3DCWlVeoE7

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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2 by @efavilli and @francescavallo features the stories of 100 more amazing and inspiring women and girls https://t.co/I4uetwAz9B https://t.co/aZqvfQnInG

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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by @renireni is a frank , refreshing and powerful exploration of race relations exploring everything from erased black history to the intersection of race and class https://t.co/Ug7UDORGMG https://t.co/6yfjEU9dj4

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Things a Bright Girl Can Do by @Sally_Nicholls charts three young women suffragettes through rallies and marches, in drawing rooms and prison cells as they fight for votes for women https://t.co/TkSbOCfG1d https://t.co/48GXyus7CU

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Munich by @Robert___Harris casts a new light on how the Munich Agreement came about over a handful of days in September 1938 told through the eyes of two mid-ranking officials who had been friends before history made them enemies #NationalBookAwards https://t.co/OiuxqABn2i https://t.co/C2xOq35xy7

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Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by @ben_brooks contains 100 amazing stories of real life men from Stormzy to Grayson Perry to Lionel Messi to King George VI - all of whom lived their lives to the beat of their own drum, all inspiring, all daring to be different https://t.co/b1I9hFV1NB

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Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by @ben_brooks contains 100 amazing stories of real life men from Stormzy to Grayson Perry to Lionel Messi to King George VI - all of whom lived their lives to the beat of their own drum, all inspiring, all daring to be different https://t.co/b1I9hFV1NB