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What Fiction are you reading this week, October 12, 2025? 31 hermetic Sunday 22 hrs ago 5 440
What are the BEST BOOKS you've read in 2025? 2 hermetic Jan 2025 Jun 2025 3 1623
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Stephen King named most banned author in US schools 3 Goonch Oct 4 Oct 4 6 365
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 21, 2025? 16 hermetic Sep 21 Sep 29 6 1746
Forgive me if this is in bad taste, 4 A-Schwarzenegger Sep 26 Sep 28 5 2458
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 28, 2025? 19 hermetic Sep 28 Sep 28 4 699
Children's literature can also have very young authors 2 cbabe Sep 28 Sep 28 2 423
My local library has a thing called "Shelf Awareness" where they have a different topic each month. 3 MIButterfly Sep 18 Sep 21 11 2239
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 14, 2025? 21 hermetic Sep 14 Sep 15 3 876
DU fiction writers/readers: Explain when best to introduce a McGuffin v a Deus ex machina. 10 brush Sep 10 Sep 11 0 538
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 7, 2025? 18 hermetic Sep 7 Sep 8 5 1095
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 3 627
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 31, 2025? 40 hermetic Aug 31 Sep 5 7 1076
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 24, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 24 Aug 31 7 917
Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels 3 cbabe Aug 16 Aug 21 5 533
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 17, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 17 Aug 20 3 915
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 10, 2025? 11 hermetic Aug 10 Aug 10 5 711
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 3, 2025? 14 hermetic Aug 3 Aug 6 5 852
1984 online 2 Zorro Jul 31 Jul 31 5 550
Your best children's board books: 9 cbabe Jul 28 Jul 28 1 754
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 27, 2025? 17 hermetic Jul 27 Jul 27 6 947
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 20, 2025? 28 hermetic Jul 20 Jul 24 10 1480
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 3 812
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 9 835

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Author of GORKY PARK (1981) 4 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 824
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 13 2025? 15 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 1079
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Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 951
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 15, 2025? 21 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1799
If this is rude, inappropriate, forward, pushy, self-centered, illegal, or grossly out-of-line 14 A-Schwarzenegger Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 1877
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 8, 2025? 23 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 1993
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 681
Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn books, is it important to read them in order? 14 rzemanfl May 2025 Jun 2025 2 2056
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025? 8 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 1362
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 25, 2025? 15 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 1788
Just finished Nether Station by Kevin j Anderson. 1 raccoon May 2025 May 2025 1 929
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 18, 2025? 21 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 2168
Any Punch Magazine fans? 1 bif May 2025 May 2025 2 870
Message from author Louise Penny on Friday: 5 hermetic Feb 2025 May 2025 44 2384
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 11, 2025? 10 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 1754
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What Fiction are you reading this week, April 20, 2025? 18 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 2292
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 13, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 1830
RIP japple 28 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 136 4910
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 6, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 1725
This message was self-deleted by its author 5 defacto7 Mar 2025 Apr 2025 9 1463
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 30, 2025? 27 hermetic Mar 2025 Apr 2025 10 3136
This message was self-deleted by its author 6 defacto7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1521
Any other Phil Rickman fans here? 4 Scrivener7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1338
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 23, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 3048
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 16, 2025? 22 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 2706

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What Fiction are you reading this week, March 9, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 3435
Sitting on the bench at the Apple Store waiting for my turn for tech help 0 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1340
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 2, 2025? 14 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 2299
Joseph Wambaugh, cop-turned-best-selling-author, dies at 88 3 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 1427
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 23, 2025? 24 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 3296
Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books starting Feb. 26 5 IcyPeas Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 4812
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review - powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1182
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 16, 2025? 21 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 2537
Thanks for the new hearts 0 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1004
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 9, 2025? 32 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 3584
English writer's forgotten 'masterpiece' predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life 5 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 2417
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 2, 2025? 16 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 2723
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What Fiction are you reading this week, January 19, 2025? 36 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 4440
Snopes Fact Checks recent discussion of Octavia Butler's Eerily Correct descriptions of Current America 17 SorellaLaBefana Jan 2025 Jan 2025 90 5286
The Magic Mountain 5 defacto7 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1575
What Fiction are you reading this week, January 12, 2025? 9 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 2185
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What Fiction are you reading this week, January 5, 2025? 34 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 4203
What Fiction are you reading this week, October 27, 2024? 10 hermetic Oct 2024 Jan 2025 5 2322
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