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What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 14, 2025? 21 hermetic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 3 4601
DU fiction writers/readers: Explain when best to introduce a McGuffin v a Deus ex machina. 10 brush Sep 2025 Sep 2025 0 2609
What Fiction are you reading this week, Sept. 7, 2025? 18 hermetic Sep 2025 Sep 2025 5 3867
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 1651
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 31, 2025? 40 hermetic Aug 2025 Sep 2025 7 6947
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 24, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 7 3951
Blue sky thinking: why we need positive climate novels 3 cbabe Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 1818
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 17, 2025? 20 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 3 4259
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 10, 2025? 11 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 2642
What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 3, 2025? 14 hermetic Aug 2025 Aug 2025 5 3202
Your best children's board books: 9 cbabe Jul 2025 Jul 2025 1 2526
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 27, 2025? 17 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 4015
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 20, 2025? 28 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 10 5604
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 2306
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 1946
Author of GORKY PARK (1981) 4 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 12 2096
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 13 2025? 15 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 5 3505
What Fiction are you reading this week, July 6, 2025? 10 hermetic Jul 2025 Jul 2025 6 2760
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 29, 2025? 10 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 6 2963
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 22, 2025? 14 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 3641
Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 2057
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 15, 2025? 21 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 5146
If this is rude, inappropriate, forward, pushy, self-centered, illegal, or grossly out-of-line 14 A-Schwarzenegger Jun 2025 Jun 2025 11 4129
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 8, 2025? 23 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 3 5376
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 1 1405
Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn books, is it important to read them in order? 14 rzemanfl May 2025 Jun 2025 2 4254
What Fiction are you reading this week, June 1, 2025? 8 hermetic Jun 2025 Jun 2025 4 2694
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 25, 2025? 15 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 3742
Just finished Nether Station by Kevin j Anderson. 1 raccoon May 2025 May 2025 1 1652
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 18, 2025? 21 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 4772

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Any Punch Magazine fans? 1 bif May 2025 May 2025 2 1550
Message from author Louise Penny on Friday: 5 hermetic Feb 2025 May 2025 44 3495
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 11, 2025? 10 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 6 3266
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 27, 2025? 16 hermetic Apr 2025 May 2025 4 4414
What Fiction are you reading this week, May 4, 2025? 14 hermetic May 2025 May 2025 5 3891
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 20, 2025? 18 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 4841
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 13, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 5 3231
RIP japple 28 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 137 8636
What Fiction are you reading this week, April 6, 2025? 9 hermetic Apr 2025 Apr 2025 6 2896
This message was self-deleted by its author 5 defacto7 Mar 2025 Apr 2025 9 2341
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 30, 2025? 27 hermetic Mar 2025 Apr 2025 10 7439
This message was self-deleted by its author 6 defacto7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 2504
Any other Phil Rickman fans here? 4 Scrivener7 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 2240
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 23, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 9 6645
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 16, 2025? 22 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 5223
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 9, 2025? 28 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 6641
Sitting on the bench at the Apple Store waiting for my turn for tech help 0 cbabe Mar 2025 Mar 2025 12 1892
What Fiction are you reading this week, March 2, 2025? 14 hermetic Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 3914
Joseph Wambaugh, cop-turned-best-selling-author, dies at 88 3 douglas9 Mar 2025 Mar 2025 13 2143
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 23, 2025? 24 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 5869
Amazon are changing the way you own your Kindle books starting Feb. 26 5 IcyPeas Feb 2025 Feb 2025 18 5761
Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts review - powerful, poignant and suffused with millennial dread 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1798
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 16, 2025? 21 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 5156
Thanks for the new hearts 0 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 1424
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 9, 2025? 32 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 7624
English writer's forgotten 'masterpiece' predicting rise of Nazis gets new lease of life 5 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 3302
What Fiction are you reading this week, February 2, 2025? 16 hermetic Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 4503
What Fiction are you reading this week, January 26, 2025? 24 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 6235
What Fiction are you reading this week, January 19, 2025? 36 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 8573
Snopes Fact Checks recent discussion of Octavia Butler's Eerily Correct descriptions of Current America 17 SorellaLaBefana Jan 2025 Jan 2025 90 7772

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The Magic Mountain 5 defacto7 Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 2245
What Fiction are you reading this week, January 12, 2025? 9 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 6 3151
Day of the Locust 2 Sequoia Jan 2025 Jan 2025 4 1863
What Fiction are you reading this week, January 5, 2025? 34 hermetic Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 8708
What Fiction are you reading this week, October 27, 2024? 10 hermetic Oct 2024 Jan 2025 5 3478
What are the BEST BOOKS you've read in 2024? 11 hermetic Jan 2024 Jan 2025 5 4998
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 22, 2024? 19 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 4568
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 29, 2024? 14 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 4027
A SPECIAL REQUEST 46 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 176 15698
What happened to Good Reads? Last week my reading challenge had 44 books, with cover pictures 0 yellowdogintexas Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 1635
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 15, 2024? 16 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 4507
The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone - especially in the age of Donald Trump 3 BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2024 Dec 2024 11 2478
Love you James Patterson 0 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 10 1598
Great Christmas novella: Brightly Shining by Ingvild Rishi 0 FSogol Dec 2024 Dec 2024 2 1470
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 8, 2024? 35 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 7845
The Guardian: The best fiction of 2024 2 cbabe Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 2013
What Fiction are you reading this week, December 1, 2024? 20 hermetic Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 5110
For those of you who, like me, can't get enough of book lists, here is a great one. 4 japple Nov 2024 Nov 2024 16 2374
What Fiction are you reading this week, November 24, 2024? 11 hermetic Nov 2024 Nov 2024 6 3624
Seedfolks Paul Fleischman , Judy Pedersen (Illustrator) 0 cbabe Nov 2024 Nov 2024 3 1527
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