2026 Reading Challenge

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  • #1
    Anne Tyler
    “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
    ― Anne Tyler
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    Jorge Amado
    “The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .”
    ― Jorge Amado, Gabriela, clavo y canela
    1669 likes

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    Honoré de Balzac
    “All happiness depends on courage and work.”
    ― Honoré de Balzac
    tags: courage, happiness, work
    2776 likes

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  • #4
    Dan Brown
    “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
    ― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
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  • #5
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
    ― Guy de Maupassant
    tags: books
    2848 likes

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  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: clarity, honesty, oscar-wilde, words, writing
    329 likes

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  • #7
    Anna Deavere Smith
    “Each person has a literature inside them.”
    ― Anna Deavere Smith
    1779 likes

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  • #8
    Jo Walton
    “I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”
    ― Jo Walton, Among Others
    375 likes

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  • #9
    Saul Bellow
    “Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
    ― Saul Bellow, Herzog
    tags: life
    2110 likes

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  • #10
    Susan Sontag
    “Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”
    ― Susan Sontag
    tags: attention, eagerness
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    Theodore Dreiser
    “Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.  Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.”
    ― Theodore Dreiser
    tags: inadequacy-of-words, words, writing
    134 likes

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  • #12
    Edward Gibbon
    “The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
    ― Edward Gibbon
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  • #13
    Mitch Albom
    “The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    136 likes

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  • #14
    Sherwood Anderson
    “Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved.”
    ― Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio
    tags: courage, love, strength
    53 likes

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  • #15
    Paulo Coelho
    “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
    tags: inspirational
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, power-of-words
    2110 likes

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  • #17
    George R.R. Martin
    “A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
    246 likes



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