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NPR Kansas City readers share their top titles for hot summer days

18 Jul 2025

We're one of the top titles selected by readers for KCUR (NPR in Kansas City Roundup).

"These Memories Do Not Belong to Us" by Yiming Ma (literary, science fiction)

In a near-future world controlled by the Qin Empire, the Mindbank technology allows people to record and share their memories, which also makes those memories susceptible to government bans, edits and erasures. A son inherits his mother’s memories, including some banned ones, and decides to share them before the government censors can catch up to him. Each memory is its own compelling story, but taken together, the reader is left to question: Why was this memory banned? And why was it saved?

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