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    30 best books of 2017

    Dec 04, 2017 4 minutes

    FICTION:

    Dark at the Crossing
    By Elliot Ackerman
    Knopf, 256 pp.
    Set against the war in Syria, this National Book Award-nominated novel by former US Marine Elliot Ackerman focuses on the actions of characters caught up in the chaos of fighting. (CSMonitor.com review, 2/2/17)

    Lincoln in the Bardo
    By George Saunders
    Random House, 368 pp.
    This 2017 Man Booker Prize winner by acclaimed short story writer George Saunders juxtaposes a family tragedy – the death of President Abraham Lincoln’s son – with the national tragedy of the Civil War.
    (CSMonitor.com review, 2/27/17)

    By Angie Thomas Balzer + Bray, 464 pp.This dark but excellent young adult novel

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