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What Fiction are you reading this week, November 9, 2025? 16 hermetic Sunday 1 hr ago 8 297
What are the BEST BOOKS you've read in 2025? 2 hermetic Jan 2025 Jun 2025 3 1754
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I started Prophet Song by Paul Lynch the 2023 Booker Prize winner & I am a bit freaked out 2 irisblue Friday Monday 12 273
Forgive me if this is in bad taste, 6 A-Schwarzenegger Sep 26 Saturday 6 2626
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Lszl Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240 - unlocked Paris Review interview 0 dweller Oct 12 Oct 12 2 351
Fiction/nonfiction: Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards 2 cbabe Oct 11 Oct 11 5 338
The 15 most banned books in U.S. schools 2 hermetic Oct 6 Oct 6 15 706
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Children's literature can also have very young authors 2 cbabe Sep 28 Sep 28 2 546
My local library has a thing called "Shelf Awareness" where they have a different topic each month. 3 MIButterfly Sep 18 Sep 21 11 2344
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 14, 2025? 21 hermetic Sep 14 Sep 15 3 1076
DU fiction writers/readers: Explain when best to introduce a McGuffin v a Deus ex machina. 10 brush Sep 10 Sep 11 0 694
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Also nonfiction, crime, mystery: From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the biggest books of th 0 cbabe Sep 6 Sep 6 3 724
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 31, 2025? 40 hermetic Aug 31 Sep 5 7 1453
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Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels 3 cbabe Aug 16 Aug 21 5 656
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 17, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 17 Aug 20 3 1140
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What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 3, 2025? 14 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1051
1984 online 2 Zorro Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 665
Your best children's board books: 9 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 907
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I liked the Columbo TV series and still do. I haven't been able to find any fiction books about Columbo, 6 raccoon Jul 2025 Jul 2025 3 941
After an earlier post with references to Peter Fonda and his "Easy Rider" film, I got to thinking about a classic book.. 2 wcmagumba Jul 2025 Jul 2025 9 931
Author of GORKY PARK (1981) 4 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 938
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Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1068
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 15, 2025? 21 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 2023
If this is rude, inappropriate, forward, pushy, self-centered, illegal, or grossly out-of-line 14 A-Schwarzenegger Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 2048
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 8, 2025? 23 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 2167
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 768
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What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025? 8 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1487
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 25, 2025? 15 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 1928
Just finished Nether Station by Kevin j Anderson. 1 raccoon May 2025 May 2025 1 1024
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 18, 2025? 21 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 2347
Any Punch Magazine fans? 1 bif May 2025 May 2025 2 971
Message from author Louise Penny on Friday: 5 hermetic Feb 2025 May 2025 44 2533
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 11, 2025? 10 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 1893
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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 13, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1964
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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 6, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1849
This message was self-deleted by its author 5 defacto7 Mar 2025 Apr 2025 9 1574
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 30, 2025? 27 hermetic Mar 2025 Apr 2025 10 3386
This message was self-deleted by its author 6 defacto7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1674
Any other Phil Rickman fans here? 4 Scrivener7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1458
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 23, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 3304
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What Fiction are you reading this week, March 9, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 3599
Sitting on the bench at the Apple Store waiting for my turn for tech help 0 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1439
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 2, 2025? 14 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 2407
Joseph Wambaugh, cop-turned-best-selling-author, dies at 88 3 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 1535
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 23, 2025? 24 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 3484
Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books starting Feb. 26 5 IcyPeas Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 4931
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review - powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1289
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Thanks for the new hearts 0 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1094
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English writer's forgotten 'masterpiece' predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life 5 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 2575
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 2, 2025? 16 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 2901
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