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The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan LethemRead about another entry on the list.
Set in Brooklyn in the '70s and '80s, when gentrification existed in a hard-to-imagine future, this pop culture–soaked coming-of-age novel grapples with issues of race and class and family as it flirts with comic book–inspired magic realism. It even has a magic ring.
--Marshal Zeringue