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Each month,Boris Kachkaoffers nonfiction and fiction book recommendations.

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You should read as many of them as possible.

See his picks fromlast month.

The students of Chibok were lucky; an education for poor Nigerian girls was vanishingly rare.

The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead

Then Islamists kidnapped more than 250 of them en masse.

If she fails, her son dies.

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The Need, by Helen Phillips (Simon & Schuster, July 9)

Beneath the Tamarind Tree: A Story of Courage, Family, and the Lost Schoolgirls of Boko Haram, by Isha Sesay (Dey Street, July 9)

The Chain, by Adrian McKinty (Mulholland, July 9)

Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo (Avid Reader Press, July 9)

Costalegre, by Courtney Maum (Tin House, July 22)

Lady in the Lake, by Laura Lippman (William Morrow, July 23)