What Washington Reads – Roll Call

What Washington Reads

By Roll Call Staff

Posted April 11, 2013 at 5:11pm

The top five hardcover fiction books this week at Politics and Prose bookstore:

1. The Burgess Boys
by Elizabeth Strout

2. The Accursed
by Joyce Carol Oates

3. Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson

4. The Golden Egg
by Donna Leon

5. All That Is
by James Salter

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