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5 great book picks for gift-giving this holiday season

The sheer, staggering variety of the book world in 2017 presents endless bookish possibilities for gift-giving – very much including the time-honored tradition of gift-giving to yourself. The year saw a blast of biographies of American presidents, a blast of top-notch fiction, and a blast of books commemorating the centenary of the Russian revolutions. But there were hundreds of outstanding titles in other genres, books ranging from dancing memoirs to dystopian vegan food guides – plenty

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