Last chance for a summer fling: The 10 best books of August 2020
Aug 24, 2020
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The 10 best books of August deliver rousing historic fiction, a quirky travelogue, a searing exposé, and the biography of a controversial government figure.
1. Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Irish-born writer Maggie O’Farrell vividly renders the home life of William Shakespeare in a historical novel named for the playwright’s son, whose death at age 11 may have prompted his father to write “Hamlet.”
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