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LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus (Penguin Random House, $37)

Hands down my most-loved book of 2022, this funny and feminist sweet-revenge story is about a scientist who accidentally becomes a TV star. It’s set in the 1960s, a time when if you were a woman with a brilliant scientific mind, you were highly unlikely to be encouraged. Beautiful Elizabeth Zott is thwarted at every turn. When she finds herself unemployed, she becomes the reluctant host of a

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