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Lockdown entertainment: Best books to read

By Dwight Garner, Parul Sehgal and Jennifer Szalai
New York Times·
19 mins to read

Looking for a new book to read during this lockdown period? The New York Times' staff critics give their choices of the best fiction and non-fiction works of last year to keep you entertained.

In the literary world, it has been a year of big, bold ambition. Novelists have stretched their canvases — writing a sentence that runs for a thousand pages; charting the fate of three families in Africa across four generations. Non-fiction writers have made riveting narrative from

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