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The Independent promotes a global literary community by publishing intelligent, informed articles about the world of books from publishers large and small. With Washington, DC, as our base, we engage readers with daily reviews and features, and support writers through our annual Washington Writers Conference and other regional events.

July 2022 Reviews & Mentions VIEW LIST (5 BOOKS)
Plunder: Napoleon's Theft of Veronese's Feast
DRAFTED, A Memoir of the '60's
The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond
Here for the Drama
Book Lovers
June 2022 Reviews & Mentions VIEW LIST (48 BOOKS)
Ordinary Monsters
First and Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future
Jackie & Me
Horse
Things Fall Apart
Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy
Shoko's Smile: Stories
Before Central Park
Jobs for Girls with Artistic Flair
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Kalmann
We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America

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May 2022 Reviews & Mentions VIEW LIST (49 BOOKS)
Duende
Cult Classic
Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis
The New Builders: Face to Face with the True Future of Business
You Have a Friend in 10a: Stories
These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems
As She Appears
Salka Valka
Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945
Dark Tourist: Essays
The Orchard
Ma and Me: A Memoir
Positive Vibrations: Politics, Politricks and the Story of Reggae
Frieda's Song

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April 2022 Reviews & Mentions VIEW LIST (41 BOOKS)
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
Vile Spirits
The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
Violets
Thin Places
Take My Hand
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
Antes Que Isla Es Volcán / Before Island Is Volcano
Girl's Guide to Leaving
The Invisible Siege: The Rise of Coronaviruses and the Search for a Cure
The Temps
When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Sedating Elaine
A Long Petal of the Sea

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March 2022 Reviews & Mentions VIEW LIST (42 BOOKS)
The Damage Done
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
Athens: City of Wisdom
Surviving Deep Waters: A Legendary Reporter's Story of Overcoming Poverty, Race, Violence, and His Mother's Deepest Secret
Border Less
Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
Let the Dead in
The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands
Secret Identity
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships
Ocean State
North to Paradise: A Memoir
Middlemarch
Life Without Children: Stories

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February 2022 Reviews & Mentions VIEW LIST (32 BOOKS)
Broken (in the Best Possible Way)
Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
Red Burning Sky: A WWII Novel Inspired by the Greatest Aviation Rescue in History
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Swimmers
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
The Violin Conspiracy
Stepmotherland
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
Black Cloud Rising
Tony Hillerman: A Life
Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life

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January 2022 Reviews & Mentions VIEW LIST (33 BOOKS)
I Am Golden
Darryl's Dream
Ready for the Spotlight!
Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash
Go Back to Where You Came from: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
Anthem
Villette
American Comics: A History
Bars for Days
Mouth to Mouth
The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
Defenestrate

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Our 51 Favorite Books of 2021 VIEW LIST (50 BOOKS)
A Long Way from Douala
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
The Pastor
Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai
Admit This to No One: Collected Stories
My Monticello: Fiction
The Body Scout
Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption
Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
The Book of Form and Emptiness
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
Matrix
Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South
The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

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December 2021 Reviews & Mentions VIEW LIST (42 BOOKS)
Luckenbooth
Strange Fruit: Racism and Community Life in the Chesapeake-1850 to the Present
Ferryman
Sensation: The Madonna, the Mayor, the Media, and the First Amendment
These Precious Days: Essays
Bei Bei Goes Home: A Panda Story
Strut, Baby, Strut
Stacey's Extraordinary Words
L.A. Weather
An Impossible Love
The Centrist Solution: How We Made Government Work and Can Make It Work Again
Nazaré
Peter Cabot Gets Lost
John Lewis: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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November 2021 Reviews & Mentions VIEW LIST (43 BOOKS)
The Heartbreak Bakery
Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court
Home for the Holidays: A Little Book about the Different Holidays That Bring Us Together
This Little Dreidel
Jan Brett's the Nutcracker
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
The Wrong End of the Telescope
Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine
Case Histories
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
Carry the Dog
The Hidden Child
Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)

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