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If Sinclair Lewis isn't the best Minnesota author, who is?
Inspired by a new list, we're curious about your favorites. Louise Erdrich? Kate DiCamillo? Marcie Rendon?
Review: Talking Volumes writer Viet Thanh Nguyen says he's 'A Man of Two Faces'
NONFICTION: The Pulitzer Prize winner examines the double bind many immigrants find themselves in.
Review: Scary new book is a sequel to Shirley Jackson's 1959 'The Haunting of Hill House'
FICTION: Elizabeth Hand's "A Haunting on the Hill" keeps the scares coming in a creepy, deserted mansion.
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When a killer stalks 'Bright Young Women,' why do their stories get lost?
FICTION: Jessica Knoll's novel, inspired by Ted Bundy's crimes, puts the women at its center.
Supposedly scary, 'The Night House' just tries too hard
FICTION: The latest from Jo Nesbø is a change of pace, for better and mostly worse.
Benjamin Percy and Nathan Hill talk books, Minnesota
They're debuting novels "The Sky Vault" and "Wellness."
Talking Volumes author Ann Patchett on Kate DiCamillo, 'Cats' and the novel that went disastrously wrong
The best-selling author says all her books are about the same thing.
A huge lie tests the friendship of two men who love one woman in Ron Rash's 'The Caretaker'
FICTION: A gripping novel about a shocking act of deception that keeps two lovers apart during the Korean War era.
Could you be Minneapolis' first poet laureate?
Now hiring: The city and the Loft are searching for an advocate for poetry.
Generational trauma dogs a family in 'ardent, ambitious' 'The Unsettled'
FICTION: A mother and son struggle to create new lives in Ayana Mathis' novel.
Four girls go to the beach but just three come back in novel 'Penance'
FICTION: An insightful look at the causes and consequences of our true crime obsession.
Despite poverty and a few missteps, 'This Indian Kid' turned out pretty well
NONFICTION: Star Tribune copy editor Eddie Chuculate's memoir is the "charming" tale of a triumph over long odds.
7 shocking books about real-life fires — in Hinckley, Minn., Chicago and Montana
NONFICTION: Scott W. Berg's "The Burning of the World," about the Great Chicago Fire, joins an exceptional list.
'Of Time and Turtles' has lots to teach us about compassion and nature
NONFICTION: Sy Montgomery's tale of turtle rescues is a cousin to her "The Soul of an Octopus."
A historical look at the men and women who helped us understand pandemics
NONFICTION: Simon Schama's "Foreign Bodies" eloquently maps the historical breakthrough of epidemiology.
A formerly enslaved woman gets her revenge in 'Beyond the Door of No Return'
FICTION: Notebooks left behind by a French botanist shed light on a dark period in Senegalese history.
Murder-solving octogenarians solve crimes in 'The Last Devil to Die'
FICTION: Richard Osman's "Thursday Murder Club" series keeps getting better.
A mother and child desperately search for shelter after the Civil War in 'Night Watch'
FICTION: The chaos of war is reflected in the lives of Jayne Anne Phillips' memorable characters.