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As any reader who has spent most of 2020 in front of a screen knows, there’s something magical about holding a physical book in your hands — turning the pages, smelling the scent of fresh ink, and, not least, gazing at a stunning cover. From the whimsical to the poignant, here are twenty book covers from the past year that will stay with you as long as the words inside.
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The Tunnel by A. B. Yehoshua, translated by Stuart Schoffman
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The Book of V. by Anna Solomon
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The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
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Modern Kosher: Global Flavors, New Traditions by Michael Aaron Gardiner
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To Be a Man by Nicole Krauss
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish by Ilan Stavans and Josh Lambert
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Too Far From Home by Naomi Shmuel, illustrated by Avi Katz
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The Last Interview: A Novel by Eshkol Nevo, translated by Sondra Silverston
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, illustrated by Maira Kalman
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The Passover Haggadah: An Ancient Story for Modern Times by Tablet Magazine, illustrated by Shai Azoulay
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The Drive by Yair Assulin, translated by Jessica Cohen
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All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad
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Apeirogon by Colum McCann
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The Eight Knights of Hanukkah by Leslie Kimmelman, illustrated by Galia Bernstein
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Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth by Benjamin Taylor
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It’s My Life by Stacie Ramey
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The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata
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A Crowded Farmhouse Folktale by Karen Rostoker-Gruber, illustrated by Kristina Swarner
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