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What Fiction are you reading this week, November 16, 2025? 9 hermetic 16 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 6 246
What are the BEST BOOKS you've read in 2025? 2 hermetic Jan 2025 Jun 2025 3 1780
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What Fiction are you reading this week, November 9, 2025? 18 hermetic Nov 9 Yesterday 8 353
The Fantasy Planet of Maraloco 1 rampartd Wednesday Wednesday 0 266
I Just Finished Reading "Cooler Than Cool, the Life and Work of Elmore Leonard" 0 The Roux Comes First Tuesday Tuesday 2 196
Booker Prize won by 'extraordinary' Flesh by David Szalay 0 cbabe Tuesday Tuesday 4 226
I started Prophet Song by Paul Lynch the 2023 Booker Prize winner & I am a bit freaked out 2 irisblue Nov 7 Monday 12 301
Forgive me if this is in bad taste, 6 A-Schwarzenegger Sep 26 Nov 8 6 2660
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 2, 2025? 34 hermetic Nov 2 Nov 6 9 810
What Fiction are you reading this week, October 26, 2025? 14 hermetic Oct 26 Oct 27 5 498
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Lszl Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240 - unlocked Paris Review interview 0 dweller Oct 12 Oct 12 2 372
Fiction/nonfiction: Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards 2 cbabe Oct 11 Oct 11 5 357
The 15 most banned books in U.S. schools 2 hermetic Oct 6 Oct 6 15 721
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Stephen King named most banned author in US schools 3 Goonch Oct 4 Oct 4 6 540
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 21, 2025? 16 hermetic Sep 21 Sep 29 6 1925
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 28, 2025? 19 hermetic Sep 28 Sep 28 4 944
Children's literature can also have very young authors 2 cbabe Sep 28 Sep 28 2 562
My local library has a thing called "Shelf Awareness" where they have a different topic each month. 3 MIButterfly Sep 18 Sep 21 11 2362
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 14, 2025? 21 hermetic Sep 14 Sep 15 3 1113
DU fiction writers/readers: Explain when best to introduce a McGuffin v a Deus ex machina. 10 brush Sep 10 Sep 11 0 717
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 7, 2025? 18 hermetic Sep 7 Sep 7 5 1317
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 3 740
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 31, 2025? 40 hermetic Aug 31 Sep 5 7 1501
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 24, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 24 Aug 31 7 1174
Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels 3 cbabe Aug 2025 Aug 21 5 679

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What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 17, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 20 3 1175
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 10, 2025? 11 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 923
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 3, 2025? 14 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1076
1984 online 2 Zorro Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 679
Your best children's board books: 9 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 931
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 27, 2025? 17 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1176
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 20, 2025? 28 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 1787
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 3 956
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 9 950
Author of GORKY PARK (1981) 4 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 953
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 13 2025? 15 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1262
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 6, 2025? 10 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1136
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 29, 2025? 10 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 1283
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 22, 2025? 14 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1614
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1081
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 15, 2025? 21 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 2073
If this is rude, inappropriate, forward, pushy, self-centered, illegal, or grossly out-of-line 14 A-Schwarzenegger Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 2069
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 8, 2025? 23 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 2186
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 783
Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn books, is it important to read them in order? 14 rzemanfl May 2025 Jun 2025 2 2265
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025? 8 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1508
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 25, 2025? 15 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 1964
Just finished Nether Station by Kevin j Anderson. 1 raccoon May 2025 May 2025 1 1042
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 18, 2025? 21 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 2382
Any Punch Magazine fans? 1 bif May 2025 May 2025 2 989
Message from author Louise Penny on Friday: 5 hermetic Feb 2025 May 2025 44 2558
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 11, 2025? 10 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 1917
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 27, 2025? 16 hermetic Apr 2025 May 2025 4 2501
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 4, 2025? 14 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 5 2119
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 20, 2025? 18 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 2535

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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 13, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 2004
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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 6, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1870
This message was self-deleted by its author 5 defacto7 Mar 2025 Apr 2025 9 1589
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 30, 2025? 27 hermetic Mar 2025 Apr 2025 10 3444
This message was self-deleted by its author 6 defacto7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1700
Any other Phil Rickman fans here? 4 Scrivener7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1477
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 23, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 3341
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 16, 2025? 22 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 2958
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 9, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 3621
Sitting on the bench at the Apple Store waiting for my turn for tech help 0 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1457
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 2, 2025? 14 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 2432
Joseph Wambaugh, cop-turned-best-selling-author, dies at 88 3 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 1557
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 23, 2025? 24 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 3517
Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books starting Feb. 26 5 IcyPeas Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 4951
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review - powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1304
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 16, 2025? 21 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 2802
Thanks for the new hearts 0 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1110
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 9, 2025? 32 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 3915
English writer's forgotten 'masterpiece' predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life 5 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 2602
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