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The Allure of Chanel

by Paul Morand

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

King: A Life by Jonathan Eig

de Kooning: An American Master by Annalyn Swan & Mark Stevens

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

Supermac by DR Thorpe

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig

de Kooning: An American Master
by Annalyn Swan & Mark Stevens

Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
by Safiya Sinclair

Supermac
by DR Thorpe

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage