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    The best nonfiction books to gift literature lovers this holiday season

    by Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times Nov 19, 2021 2 minutes

    It’s commonly assumed that some books, especially bulky nonfiction, are designed to be gifted on a holiday, given pride of place on a bookshelf and never opened.

    For those who have other plans, the following 10 books are the opposite (with perhaps one exception). They are enticing, pleasurable and insightful — stories of people, places and ideas at least as rich in the telling as fiction can be. Read on for books that demand to be read.

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