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What Fiction are you reading this week, January 11, 2026? 8 hermetic Sunday Monday 7 435
What are the BEST BOOKS you've read in 2025? 4 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 4 3 2225
Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy 12 hermetic Jan 2018 Nov 2023 6 19511
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What Fiction are you reading this week, January 4, 2026? 16 hermetic Jan 4 Jan 5 5 482
Is Anyone Here Reading Dan Brown's - The Secret of Secrets?..... 4 global1 Jan 4 Jan 4 1 448
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 28, 2025? 5 hermetic Dec 28 Dec 28 5 622
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 21, 2025? 22 hermetic Dec 21 Dec 22 4 740
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 14, 2025? 22 hermetic Dec 14 Dec 22 5 772
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 3 403
Has anyone read Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon? 1 QED Dec 15 Dec 17 1 376
Let us gather at the river, and sing as we step into the stream. 0 rampartd Dec 16 Dec 16 3 365
Rainbows Wane 0 Rizen Dec 16 Dec 16 1 288
'This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion': 30 authors on the books they give to everyone 4 cbabe Dec 13 Dec 14 2 660
Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class 2 BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 12 Dec 12 8 592
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 7, 2025? 10 hermetic Dec 7 Dec 11 5 722
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 2 481
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 30, 2025? 22 hermetic Nov 30 Dec 2 8 986
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 16, 2025? 14 hermetic Nov 16 Dec 1 6 857
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 23, 2025? 19 hermetic Nov 23 Nov 28 9 981
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 9, 2025? 18 hermetic Nov 9 Nov 16 8 1021
The Fantasy Planet of Maraloco 1 rampartd Nov 12 Nov 12 0 559
I Just Finished Reading "Cooler Than Cool, the Life and Work of Elmore Leonard" 0 The Roux Comes First Nov 11 Nov 11 2 476
Booker Prize won by 'extraordinary' Flesh by David Szalay 0 cbabe Nov 11 Nov 11 4 497
I started Prophet Song by Paul Lynch the 2023 Booker Prize winner & I am a bit freaked out 2 irisblue Nov 7 Nov 10 12 596
Forgive me if this is in bad taste, 6 A-Schwarzenegger Sep 2025 Nov 8 6 3006
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 2, 2025? 34 hermetic Nov 2 Nov 6 9 1807
What Fiction are you reading this week, October 26, 2025? 14 hermetic Oct 26 Oct 27 5 978

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What Fiction are you reading this week, October 19, 2025? 19 hermetic Oct 19 Oct 27 5 1235
What Fiction are you reading this week, October 12, 2025? 33 hermetic Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 1858
Lszl Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240 - unlocked Paris Review interview 0 dweller Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 655
Fiction/nonfiction: Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards 2 cbabe Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 658
The 15 most banned books in U.S. schools 2 hermetic Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 1022
What Fiction are you reading this week, October 5, 2025? 14 hermetic Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 1277
Stephen King named most banned author in US schools 3 Goonch Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 855
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 21, 2025? 16 hermetic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 6 2478
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 28, 2025? 19 hermetic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 4 1449
Children's literature can also have very young authors 2 cbabe Sep 2025 Sep 2025 2 845
My local library has a thing called "Shelf Awareness" where they have a different topic each month. 3 MIButterfly Sep 2025 Sep 2025 11 2652
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 14, 2025? 21 hermetic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 1837
DU fiction writers/readers: Explain when best to introduce a McGuffin v a Deus ex machina. 10 brush Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 1167
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 7, 2025? 18 hermetic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 1794
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 3 986
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 31, 2025? 40 hermetic Aug 2025 Sep 2025 7 2327
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 24, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 1714
Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels 3 cbabe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 991
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 17, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 1751
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 10, 2025? 11 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1319
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 3, 2025? 14 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1515
1984 online 2 Zorro Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 980
Your best children's board books: 9 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 1347
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 27, 2025? 17 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1791
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 20, 2025? 28 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 2532
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 1307
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 1252
Author of GORKY PARK (1981) 4 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 1273
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 13 2025? 15 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1771
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 6, 2025? 10 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 1551

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What Fiction are you reading this week, June 29, 2025? 10 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 1699
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 22, 2025? 14 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 2100
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1380
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 15, 2025? 21 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 2715
If this is rude, inappropriate, forward, pushy, self-centered, illegal, or grossly out-of-line 14 A-Schwarzenegger Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 2536
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 8, 2025? 23 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 2807
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1047
Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn books, is it important to read them in order? 14 rzemanfl May 2025 Jun 2025 2 2806
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025? 8 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1894
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 25, 2025? 15 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 2524
Just finished Nether Station by Kevin j Anderson. 1 raccoon May 2025 May 2025 1 1299
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 18, 2025? 21 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 2967
Any Punch Magazine fans? 1 bif May 2025 May 2025 2 1254
Message from author Louise Penny on Friday: 5 hermetic Feb 2025 May 2025 44 2948
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 11, 2025? 10 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 2379
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 27, 2025? 16 hermetic Apr 2025 May 2025 4 3064
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 4, 2025? 14 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 5 2630
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 20, 2025? 18 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 3180
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 13, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 2480
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