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What Fiction are you reading this week, January 4, 2026? 16 hermetic Sunday Monday 5 360
What are the BEST BOOKS you've read in 2025? 4 hermetic Jan 2025 Sunday 3 2161
Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy 12 hermetic Jan 2018 Nov 2023 6 19426
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The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror - review roundup 2 cbabe Yesterday Yesterday 5 303
Many schools don't think students can read full novels any more. That's a tragedy 3 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 8 365
Is Anyone Here Reading Dan Brown's - The Secret of Secrets?..... 4 global1 Sunday Sunday 1 386
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What Fiction are you reading this week, December 21, 2025? 22 hermetic Dec 21 Dec 22 4 621
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 14, 2025? 22 hermetic Dec 14 Dec 22 5 718
From Dr Seuss to All Quiet on the Western Front: 19 books to help you find hope, sense and resistance in difficult times 2 cbabe Dec 21 Dec 21 3 367
Has anyone read Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon? 1 QED Dec 15 Dec 17 1 349
Let us gather at the river, and sing as we step into the stream. 0 rampartd Dec 16 Dec 16 3 338
Rainbows Wane 0 Rizen Dec 16 Dec 16 1 260
'This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion': 30 authors on the books they give to everyone 4 cbabe Dec 13 Dec 14 2 610
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class 2 BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 12 Dec 12 8 558
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 7, 2025? 10 hermetic Dec 7 Dec 11 5 656
Does anyone know of a fiction book about a fictitious rock band that takes off from the "Paul is dead" story? 2 raccoon Dec 6 Dec 6 2 442
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 30, 2025? 22 hermetic Nov 30 Dec 2 8 898
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 16, 2025? 14 hermetic Nov 16 Dec 1 6 783
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 23, 2025? 19 hermetic Nov 23 Nov 28 9 890
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 9, 2025? 18 hermetic Nov 9 Nov 16 8 937
The Fantasy Planet of Maraloco 1 rampartd Nov 12 Nov 12 0 528
I Just Finished Reading "Cooler Than Cool, the Life and Work of Elmore Leonard" 0 The Roux Comes First Nov 11 Nov 11 2 448
Booker Prize won by 'extraordinary' Flesh by David Szalay 0 cbabe Nov 11 Nov 11 4 466
I started Prophet Song by Paul Lynch the 2023 Booker Prize winner & I am a bit freaked out 2 irisblue Nov 7 Nov 10 12 562
Forgive me if this is in bad taste, 6 A-Schwarzenegger Sep 2025 Nov 8 6 2966
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 2, 2025? 34 hermetic Nov 2 Nov 6 9 1686
What Fiction are you reading this week, October 26, 2025? 14 hermetic Oct 26 Oct 27 5 896
What Fiction are you reading this week, October 19, 2025? 19 hermetic Oct 19 Oct 27 5 1157

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What Fiction are you reading this week, October 12, 2025? 33 hermetic Oct 12 Oct 15 5 1754
Lszl Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240 - unlocked Paris Review interview 0 dweller Oct 12 Oct 12 2 625
Fiction/nonfiction: Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards 2 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 624
The 15 most banned books in U.S. schools 2 hermetic Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 970
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Stephen King named most banned author in US schools 3 Goonch Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 819
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 21, 2025? 16 hermetic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2405
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Children's literature can also have very young authors 2 cbabe Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 812
My local library has a thing called "Shelf Awareness" where they have a different topic each month. 3 MIButterfly Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 2619
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 14, 2025? 21 hermetic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1725
DU fiction writers/readers: Explain when best to introduce a McGuffin v a Deus ex machina. 10 brush Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1104
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 7, 2025? 18 hermetic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 1720
Also nonfiction, crime, mystery: From a new Thomas Pynchon novel to a memoir by Margaret Atwood: the biggest books of th 0 cbabe Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 960
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 31, 2025? 40 hermetic Aug 2025 Sep 2025 7 2168
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 24, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1650
Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels 3 cbabe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 952
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 17, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1680
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 10, 2025? 11 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1282
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 3, 2025? 14 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1467
1984 online 2 Zorro Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 936
Your best children's board books: 9 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 1304
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 27, 2025? 17 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1720
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 20, 2025? 28 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 2436
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 1268
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 1220
Author of GORKY PARK (1981) 4 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1229
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 13 2025? 15 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1711
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 6, 2025? 10 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1507
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What Fiction are you reading this week, June 22, 2025? 14 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 2024
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1342
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 15, 2025? 21 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 2656
If this is rude, inappropriate, forward, pushy, self-centered, illegal, or grossly out-of-line 14 A-Schwarzenegger Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 2484
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 8, 2025? 23 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 2739
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1022
Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn books, is it important to read them in order? 14 rzemanfl May 2025 Jun 2025 2 2713
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025? 8 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1848
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 25, 2025? 15 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 2448
Just finished Nether Station by Kevin j Anderson. 1 raccoon May 2025 May 2025 1 1272
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 18, 2025? 21 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 2913
Any Punch Magazine fans? 1 bif May 2025 May 2025 2 1226
Message from author Louise Penny on Friday: 5 hermetic Feb 2025 May 2025 44 2903
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 11, 2025? 10 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 2341
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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 20, 2025? 18 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 3112
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 13, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 2439
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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 6, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 2253
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