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What’s the JBC team reading this month? From dazzling new (and forthcoming!) releases to old favorites, here are the books on very top of our TBR piles.
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Naomi Firestone-Teeter, CEO
Tarantula by Eduardo Halfon
Marc Rothstein, COO
Dog by Yishay Ishi Ron, translated by Yardenne Greenspan
Kate Schmier, Director of Publishing Relations
A Complete Fiction by R. L. Maizes
Miri Pomerantz Dauber, Associate Director
Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together by Ilana Kurshan
Simona Zaretsky, Manager of Digital Content Strategy
Odessa by Gabrielle Sher
Jamie Betesh Carter, Nu Reads Program Director
Porcupines by Fran Fabriczki
Arielle Landau, Program and Partnerships Manager
The End of Romance by Lily Meyer
Suzanne Swift, Director of JBC Network
The Anatomy of Exile by Zeeva Bukai
Isadora Kianovsky, Membership & Engagement Associate
Isola by Allegra Goodman
Becca Kantor, Editorial Director
Old School by Tobias Wolff