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What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 14, 2025? 21 hermetic Sunday Monday 3 580
What are the BEST BOOKS you've read in 2025? 2 hermetic Jan 2025 Jun 2025 3 1505
Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy 12 hermetic Jan 2018 Nov 2023 6 18569
fadedroses- Fiction Book Series Authors (A-Z) [View all] 383 boston bean Dec 2011 Apr 2023 15 302439
My local library has a thing called "Shelf Awareness" where they have a different topic each month. 0 MIButterfly Thursday Thursday 11 2073
DU fiction writers/readers: Explain when best to introduce a McGuffin v a Deus ex machina. 10 brush Sep 10 Sep 11 0 383
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 7, 2025? 18 hermetic Sep 7 Sep 8 5 908
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 3 524
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 31, 2025? 40 hermetic Aug 31 Sep 5 7 852
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 24, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 24 Aug 31 7 714
Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels 3 cbabe Aug 16 Aug 21 5 417
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 17, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 17 Aug 20 3 710
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 10, 2025? 11 hermetic Aug 10 Aug 10 5 584
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 3, 2025? 14 hermetic Aug 3 Aug 6 5 710
1984 online 2 Zorro Jul 31 Jul 31 5 438
Your best children's board books: 9 cbabe Jul 28 Jul 28 1 619
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 27, 2025? 17 hermetic Jul 27 Jul 27 6 796
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 20, 2025? 28 hermetic Jul 20 Jul 24 10 1279
I liked the Columbo TV series and still do. I haven't been able to find any fiction books about Columbo, 6 raccoon Jul 23 Jul 23 3 671
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 14 Jul 14 9 732
Author of GORKY PARK (1981) 4 hermetic Jul 14 Jul 14 12 708
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 13 2025? 15 hermetic Jul 13 Jul 13 5 914
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 6, 2025? 10 hermetic Jul 6 Jul 6 6 852
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 29, 2025? 10 hermetic Jun 29 Jun 29 6 979
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 22, 2025? 14 hermetic Jun 22 Jun 25 5 1312
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 22 5 843
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 15, 2025? 21 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1611
If this is rude, inappropriate, forward, pushy, self-centered, illegal, or grossly out-of-line 14 A-Schwarzenegger Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 1736
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 8, 2025? 23 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 1809
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 593

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Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn books, is it important to read them in order? 14 rzemanfl May 2025 Jun 2025 2 1875
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025? 8 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1234
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 25, 2025? 15 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 1613
Just finished Nether Station by Kevin j Anderson. 1 raccoon May 2025 May 2025 1 829
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Any Punch Magazine fans? 1 bif May 2025 May 2025 2 774
Message from author Louise Penny on Friday: 5 hermetic Feb 2025 May 2025 44 2198
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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 27, 2025? 16 hermetic Apr 2025 May 2025 4 2147
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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 20, 2025? 18 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 2103
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RIP japple 28 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 136 4696
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 6, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1563
This message was self-deleted by its author 5 defacto7 Mar 2025 Apr 2025 9 1358
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 30, 2025? 27 hermetic Mar 2025 Apr 2025 10 2928
This message was self-deleted by its author 6 defacto7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1392
Any other Phil Rickman fans here? 4 Scrivener7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1224
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 23, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 2836
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What Fiction are you reading this week, March 9, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 3204
Sitting on the bench at the Apple Store waiting for my turn for tech help 0 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1226
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 2, 2025? 14 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 2142
Joseph Wambaugh, cop-turned-best-selling-author, dies at 88 3 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 1312
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 23, 2025? 24 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 3082
Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books starting Feb. 26 5 IcyPeas Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 4681
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review - powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1088
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 16, 2025? 21 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 2342
Thanks for the new hearts 0 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 914
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 9, 2025? 32 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 3321

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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 2291
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 2, 2025? 16 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 2534
What Fiction are you reading this week, January 26, 2025? 24 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 3248
What Fiction are you reading this week, January 19, 2025? 36 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 4206
Snopes Fact Checks recent discussion of Octavia Butler's Eerily Correct descriptions of Current America 17 SorellaLaBefana Jan 2025 Jan 2025 90 5108
The Magic Mountain 5 defacto7 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1454
What Fiction are you reading this week, January 12, 2025? 9 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 2029
Day of the Locust 2 Sequoia Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 1353
What Fiction are you reading this week, January 5, 2025? 34 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 3948
What Fiction are you reading this week, October 27, 2024? 10 hermetic Oct 2024 Jan 2025 5 2178
What are the BEST BOOKS you've read in 2024? 11 hermetic Jan 2024 Jan 2025 5 3630
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 22, 2024? 19 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 2592
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 29, 2024? 14 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 2518
A SPECIAL REQUEST 46 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 176 10034
What happened to Good Reads? Last week my reading challenge had 44 books, with cover pictures 0 yellowdogintexas Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 1291
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 15, 2024? 16 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 2860
The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone - especially in the age of Donald Trump 3 BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2024 Dec 2024 11 1829
Love you James Patterson 0 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 10 1209
Great Christmas novella: Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishi 0 FSogol Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 1111
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 8, 2024? 35 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 4604
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