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+ General
* Introduce yourself
By Tadiana ✩Nigh… · 645 posts · 321 views
last updated 16 hours, 22 min ago
Another Christmas read?
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 8 posts · 14 views
last updated 12 hours, 26 min ago
This topic has been closed to new comments. Why misunderstandings happen online
By CindySR , Moderator · 1 post · 16 views
last updated Nov 10, 2025 10:27AM
What Retro books are you reading?
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 27 posts · 27 views
last updated Nov 09, 2025 05:52AM
Goodreads Bugs
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 10 posts · 19 views
last updated Nov 08, 2025 08:49PM
January 2025 Question Of The Month
By CindySR , Moderator · 29 posts · 30 views
last updated Nov 04, 2025 12:45AM
November 2025 Question of the Month
By CindySR , Moderator · 16 posts · 20 views
last updated Nov 03, 2025 11:39AM
February 2025 Question Of The Month
By CindySR , Moderator · 15 posts · 27 views
last updated Nov 02, 2025 06:29PM
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+ Book Pool
* Discussion for this group in 2026
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 64 posts · 29 views
last updated Nov 04, 2025 11:04AM
Book Pool 2025
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 388 posts · 88 views
last updated 17 hours, 9 min ago
Book Pool 2026
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 60 posts · 23 views
last updated Nov 17, 2025 01:17AM
Book Pool suggestion
By CindySR , Moderator · 2 posts · 13 views
last updated Nov 04, 2025 11:48AM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Book Pool 2024
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 578 posts · 109 views
last updated Dec 31, 2024 11:27AM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Book Pool 2023
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 673 posts · 103 views
last updated Dec 03, 2023 11:52AM
Book Pool 2023 reading options - extra challenges
By CindySR , Moderator · 12 posts · 51 views
last updated Jan 10, 2023 03:10PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Book Pool 2022.
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 389 posts · 104 views
last updated Dec 02, 2022 01:07PM
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+ Book Pool- Book Discussions
Lucia & Mapp discussion thread.
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 3 posts · 12 views
last updated Nov 10, 2023 11:11AM
The Swiss Summer
By Jackie · 3 posts · 17 views
last updated Oct 05, 2023 06:45AM
Penny Plain
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 15 posts · 17 views
last updated Jun 26, 2023 07:26AM
Angelique - Marquise of the Angels
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 2 posts · 13 views
last updated Feb 09, 2023 02:03PM
Purpose of this folder
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 1 post · 19 views
last updated Feb 09, 2023 01:35PM
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+ Author Pool
Author Pool 2026
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 55 posts · 22 views
last updated Nov 13, 2025 04:11PM
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+ Group Reads
Group Read 5th of October 2025 Thalia NON spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 11 posts · 18 views
last updated Oct 19, 2025 01:09PM
Group Read 5th of October 2025 Thalia SPOILERS thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 8 posts · 13 views
last updated Oct 16, 2025 12:25PM
Northbridge Rectory 5th of July 2025 read Spoiler thread!
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 8 posts · 15 views
last updated Jul 23, 2025 01:17PM
Northbridge Rectory 5th of July 2025 read No Spoiler
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 21 posts · 17 views
last updated Jul 20, 2025 05:16PM
Our Christmas Novel - Murder for Christmas 2024 spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 4 posts · 9 views
last updated Dec 31, 2024 07:21PM
Our Christmas Novel - Murder for Christmas 2024 non spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 8 posts · 12 views
last updated Dec 28, 2024 01:28PM
Christmas Short Story Week 2 - How Fear Departed the Long Gallery
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 11 posts · 10 views
last updated Dec 13, 2024 03:24PM
Christmas Short Story Week 1 - Afterward
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 11 posts · 10 views
last updated Dec 03, 2024 09:22PM
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+ Retro Children & YA Books
* Retro Children's Books
By Elinor · 338 posts · 218 views
last updated May 29, 2024 04:27PM
Swallowdale Group Read November 25 NO Spoilers thread.
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 7 posts · 11 views
last updated Nov 18, 2025 10:27AM
Swallowdale Group Read November 25 Spoilers thread.
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 1 post · 5 views
last updated Nov 04, 2025 07:59PM
Swallows and Amazons August 2025 Spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 20 posts · 15 views
last updated Oct 10, 2025 02:50PM
A possible children's book read?
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 21 posts · 28 views
last updated Sep 19, 2025 01:22PM
Swallows and Amazons August 2025 NO Spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 13 posts · 14 views
last updated Aug 08, 2025 12:26PM
Sister of the Bride Buddy read 20th July 2025
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 3 posts · 11 views
last updated Jul 19, 2025 06:35PM
YA read - Fifteen July 2021 No spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 9 posts · 17 views
last updated Jul 19, 2025 05:42PM
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+ M.M. Kaye - Fiction
* Trade Wind Background Information
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 31 posts · 60 views
last updated Dec 22, 2014 02:37PM
Death in Kashmir Group Read spoilers thread Apr 25
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 19 posts · 17 views
last updated Apr 15, 2025 01:17PM
Death in Kashmir Group Read No spoilers thread Apr 25
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 11 posts · 13 views
last updated Apr 09, 2025 11:58AM
Death in Zanzibar Spoilerland thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 45 posts · 41 views
last updated Sep 24, 2020 05:54PM
Death in Zanzibar Group Read No spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 60 posts · 46 views
last updated Sep 23, 2020 10:42AM
Trade Wind: Final Thoughts
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 29 posts · 54 views
last updated Sep 20, 2020 03:14PM
Trade Wind Chapters 27-31
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 54 posts · 58 views
last updated Sep 17, 2020 02:34PM
Trade Wind Chapters 21-26
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 2 posts · 34 views
last updated Sep 16, 2020 02:51PM
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+ Ask a Goodreads Librarian
This topic has been closed to new comments. * What this folder is for.
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 2 posts · 10 views
last updated Nov 05, 2025 12:28AM
Plz add this edition
By Neer · 3 posts · 8 views
last updated Nov 17, 2025 09:03PM
Plz add this book: Last Confession
By Neer · 4 posts · 4 views
last updated Nov 16, 2025 11:15AM
Plz add this book
By Neer · 3 posts · 4 views
last updated Nov 16, 2025 10:56AM
Plz add this book: Creatures of an Hour
By Neer · 4 posts · 5 views
last updated Nov 15, 2025 10:45AM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Plz add this book: The Mystery of Vincent Dane by Mrs. Victor Rickard
By Neer · 2 posts · 4 views
last updated Nov 14, 2025 12:00PM
Plz add this book: Clive Ryland
By Neer · 4 posts · 5 views
last updated Nov 13, 2025 10:15AM
Acceptable Sources for Book Data
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 1 post · 9 views
last updated Nov 13, 2025 09:28AM
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+ Trading Post
This topic has been closed to new comments. * What this folder is for!
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 2 posts · 17 views
last updated Oct 07, 2025 06:48AM
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+ Non Fiction Group Reads
A Chelsea Concerto April 2024 Spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 7 posts · 12 views
last updated Apr 21, 2024 07:45AM
A Chelsea Concerto April 2024 Non spoiler thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 19 posts · 18 views
last updated Apr 11, 2024 02:54PM
Jan 25th 2021 Group Read A Time to Dance No Time to Weep Part 2 The Cockatoo - Epilogue
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 23 posts · 13 views
last updated Feb 11, 2021 09:42AM
Jan 25th 2021 Group Read A Time to Dance No Time to Weep Part 1 Prologue-Calcutta Dust
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 15 posts · 21 views
last updated Jan 30, 2021 10:17PM
Group Read November 2019.Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 29 posts · 14 views
last updated Nov 23, 2019 04:11PM
May 2019 Group Read The Sun in the Morning Part 5(Unwillingly to school- Appendix)
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 12 posts · 12 views
last updated Jul 13, 2019 08:50PM
May 2019 Group Read The Sun in the Morning Foreword - Part 2 (The Silver Sails)
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 14 posts · 14 views
last updated Jun 08, 2019 04:24PM
May 2019 Group Read The Sun in the Morning Part 3(Mornings at Seven)- Part Four(Peacocks & Lilies)
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 20 posts · 12 views
last updated May 29, 2019 03:01PM
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+ Buddy reads
A City Of Bells - June 2021 read Spoilers thread!
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 8 posts · 17 views
last updated Jun 17, 2021 12:49PM
A City Of Bells - June 2021 read No spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 26 posts · 25 views
last updated Jun 14, 2021 12:18PM
The Castle on the Hill - March/April 2021
By Tadiana ✩Nigh… · 30 posts · 28 views
last updated Apr 19, 2021 09:30AM
Bel Lamington November 2020 SPOILERS thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 8 posts · 20 views
last updated Dec 25, 2020 02:19PM
Bel Lamington November 2020 No Spoilers thread
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 12 posts · 22 views
last updated Nov 12, 2020 06:00AM
My Friend Flicka Chapters 1-19
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 15 posts · 15 views
last updated Oct 03, 2020 05:16PM
Thunderhead Chapters 1-17
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 16 posts · 11 views
last updated Aug 20, 2020 09:44AM
My Friend Flicka Chapters 20-36
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 30 posts · 11 views
last updated Aug 18, 2020 05:49PM
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+ Poets' Corner
Purpose of this folder
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 4 posts · 6 views
last updated Oct 07, 2019 01:16AM
Sidney Keyes
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 4 posts · 9 views
last updated Oct 07, 2019 01:15AM
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+ Archives
Reading Calendar - 2025
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 22 posts · 37 views
last updated Oct 08, 2025 08:46AM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Upcoming reads
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 6 posts · 19 views
last updated Apr 15, 2025 12:34PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. how about some Christmas reads? We have a result - kind of!
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 21 posts · 48 views
last updated Oct 17, 2024 12:40PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Group Reads for 2024
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 13 posts · 55 views
last updated Apr 05, 2024 11:48AM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Book suggestions and buddy read planning
By Tadiana ✩Nigh… · 1488 posts · 313 views
last updated Jul 09, 2023 07:12PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Do we want to read another Thirkell? Edit: We do!
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 14 posts · 17 views
last updated Jun 18, 2023 09:32AM
This topic has been closed to new comments. I received a suspicious message yesterday
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 10 posts · 23 views
last updated Apr 30, 2023 09:28PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Unexpected error message.
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 1 post · 14 views
last updated Feb 28, 2023 12:29PM
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