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Never too Late to Read Classics
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

The Lost Steps by Alejo Carpentier

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Non Fiction Book Club
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Bonk by Mary Roach

Alexandria by Islam Issa

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The Baseball Book Club
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Men's Book Club
1041 members — last activity Mar 06, 2026 02:40AM
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Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
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The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

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The book you like most
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Adapting novels into films directed on Hollywood sets
2489 members — last activity Mar 17, 2026 11:15PM
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Ariel

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The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the...

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Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We...

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Stanislas Dehaene

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The Invincible

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Giant

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The Custom of the Country

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Notes of a Native Son

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The Chrysanthemums

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Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #4)

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Anthony Trollope

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Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

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Jul 01 in Non Fiction Book Club view »

The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

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Anthea Bell (Translator)

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The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition

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Theodore Winthrop

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A Woman Killed With Kindness

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Daughter of the Hills: A Woman's Part in the Co...

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Deborah S. Rosenfelt (Afterword)

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The Goblin Reservation

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Clifford D. Simak

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The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

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Babbitt

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving

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The Human Comedy

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William Saroyan

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Our Mutual Friend

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Charles Dickens

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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Wuthering Heights

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Pauline Nestor (Editor/Introduction),

Lucasta Miller (Preface)

Aug 01 in Never too Late to Read Classics view »

Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

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Lawrence Durrell

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The Small House at Allington (Chronicles of Bar...

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Anthony Trollope,

Julian F. Thompson (Introduction)

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Return From the Stars

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Stanisław Lem,

Barbara Marszal (Translator)

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The Phantom of the Opera

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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

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The House of Ulloa

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Emilia Pardo Bazán,

Paul O'Prey (Translator)

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The Doctor's Wife

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden ...

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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

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Leonora Carrington,

Kathryn Davis (Introduction)

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Wilderness Essays

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Aesop’s Fables

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The Peregrine

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Robert Macfarlane (Introduction)

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A Long Fatal Love Chase

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Louisa May Alcott

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Legends of the Fall

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The Kraken Wakes

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The Bluest Eye

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Tau Zero

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Mrs. Mike (Mrs. Mike, #1)

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Benedict Freedman,

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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Wha...

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Nathaniel Philbrick

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The Last Chronicle of Barset (Chronicles of Bar...

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Anthony Trollope,

Sophie Gilmartin (Editor)

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Maurice

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The Beauty and the Beast

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Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve,

MinaLima (Illustrator)

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Klee Wyck

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Kathryn Bridge (Introduction)

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