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All About Books
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

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Non Fiction Book Club
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Myth America by Kevin M. Kruse

Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green

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The Baseball Book Club
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For Love of a Book
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Never too Late to Read Classics
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The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Adolescent by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Nothing But Reading Challenges
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Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
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Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry

No Name by Wilkie Collins

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Reading Until Infinity
594 members — last activity Jan 29, 2026 01:06PM
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Game Night
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The History Book Club
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Author Birthday Bambinos
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The Life of a Book Addict
12140 members — last activity Jan 27, 2026 06:59AM
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Crazy Challenge Connection
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The Challenge Factory
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Goodreads Librarians Group
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A Million More Pages
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The Seasonal Reading Challenge
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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

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On The Same Page
480 members — last activity 3 hours, 39 min ago
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Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club
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Old Books, New Readers
2461 members — last activity Jan 20, 2026 05:03PM
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The Book Vipers
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Coffee & Books
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Around the World in 80 Books
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BACK<<<to the CLASSICS
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Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

A Dance to the Music of Time, Complete Set by Anthony Powell

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2026 Reading Challenge
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Bookish Nerds :D
48 members — last activity Jan 16, 2018 03:43PM
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Around the Year in 52 Books
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Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge
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SciFi and Fantasy Book Club
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The Lathe of Heaven

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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Lorna Doone

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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Cr...

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Brian Goldstone

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No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Jo...

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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)

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Diana Wynne Jones

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The Little Prince

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)

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Agatha Christie

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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

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Shanna Tan (Translator)

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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Gabrielle Zevin

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Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)

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The Goldfinch

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Don't Look Now and Other Stories

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Daphne du Maurier

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

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R.A. Dick (pseudonym),

Josephine Leslie

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The Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Godkiller (Fallen Gods, #1)

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Station Eternity (The Midsolar Murders, #1)

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The Last One at the Wedding

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Forest Of The Hanged

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The End of the Affair

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Project Hail Mary

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Hamnet

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Maggie O'Farrell

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Between the Acts

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Mrs. Dalloway

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The Jewel of Seven Stars

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The Second Sex

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Simone de Beauvoir,

H.M. Parshley (Translator & Editor)

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Phantastes

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George MacDonald

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Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)

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Anthony Trollope

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Jacques the Fatalist

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Etruscan Places

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Villette

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Charlotte Brontë

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White Fang

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The House on the Strand

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Daphne du Maurier

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Heart of the West

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The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the ...

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Cormac McCarthy

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The Incredible Journey

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Sheila Burnford

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Dom Casmurro

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Machado de Assis

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The Midwich Cuckoos

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Daniel J. Boorstin (Introduction)

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Time and the Gods

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Lin Carter (Introduction)

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Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

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Anthony Trollope,

Ruth Rendell (Editor)

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The Lost Steps

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Alejo Carpentier,

Harriet de Onís (Translator)

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The Charwoman's Shadow

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Giant

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The Invincible

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The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig

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Anthea Bell (Translator)

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Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #4)

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Anthony Trollope

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving

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The Canoe and the Saddle: A Critical Edition

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Theodore Winthrop

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Our Mutual Friend

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Charles Dickens

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The Human Comedy

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William Saroyan

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Babbitt

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The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

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A Woman Killed With Kindness

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The Goblin Reservation

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Clifford D. Simak

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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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Wuthering Heights

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Pauline Nestor (Editor/Introduction),

Lucasta Miller (Preface)

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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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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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The Phantom of the Opera

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Justine (The Alexandria Quartet, #1)

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Lawrence Durrell

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The House of Ulloa

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Emilia Pardo Bazán,

Paul O'Prey (Translator)

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Return From the Stars

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Stanisław Lem,

Barbara Marszal (Translator)

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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo

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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

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Leonora Carrington,

Kathryn Davis (Introduction)

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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudde...

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The Peregrine

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Robert Macfarlane (Introduction)

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Wilderness Essays

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A Long Fatal Love Chase

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Louisa May Alcott

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Aesop’s Fables

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Legends of the Fall

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The Doctor's Wife

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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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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The Kraken Wakes

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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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Tau Zero

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The Bluest Eye

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Mrs. Mike (Mrs. Mike, #1)

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Benedict Freedman,

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The Beauty and the Beast

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Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve,

MinaLima (Illustrator)

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Maurice

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Klee Wyck

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Kathryn Bridge (Introduction)

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