Author Andrew Martin shares the three books he thinks everyone should read. His fantastic new novel Down Time is available everywhere now, via Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

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Down Time by Andrew Martin https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9780374617066

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9781585673261

The Collected Stories of Grace Paley https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9780374530280

Unforgiving Years by Victor Serge https://bookshop.org/a/120498/9781590172476

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