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The Best Book for this period is The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer!

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The Best Book for this period is The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James!

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The Best Book for this period is The Night Ship by Jess Kidd!

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The Best Book for this period is To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara!

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For this period, there’s a tie for Best Book: A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson and Hester by Margaret Oliphant!

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The Best Book of the last ten is Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead!

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The Best Book for this period is Red Island House by Andrea Lee!

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The Best Book for this period is Mohawk by Richard Russo!

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The Best Book of the last ten is Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen!

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The Best Book of the last ten is The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld!

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