George Saunders is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the Man Booker Prize; Congratulations, by the way; Tenth of December, a finalist for the National Book Award; The Braindead Megaphone; and the critically acclaimed short story collections CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Pastoralia, and In Persuasion Nation. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University.
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Opening Heaven’s Door by Patricia Pearson
Seven Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Seven and a Half Lessons on the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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