Who is the Canadian-American who got his break on American TV by hosting the game show The Wizard of Odds and whose pronunciation of the word "genre" has been shared widely on social media?
Winner of the 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction. A meditation on race in America as well as a personal story, framed as a letter to the author's teenage son.
A version of this list appears in the August 9, 2020 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings reflect sales for the week ending July 25, 2020.
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