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Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.

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The Best Books of the Year (So Far)

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“A Lucky Man,” by Jamel Brinkley (May 1, Graywolf)

“Last Stories,” by William Trevor (Viking, May 15)

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“Spring,” by Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. by Ingvild Burkey (Penguin Press, May 8)

“The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World,” by Simon Winchester (Harper, May 8)

“Last Stories,” by William Trevor (Viking, May 15)

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