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Book cover for The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

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Dickens suggested a new twist: that the advance of civilization produced barbarity as an unavoidable waste product, as essential to its metabolism as the gleaming spires and cultivated thought of polite society. The barbarians weren’t ...more

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“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

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2016 Reading Challenge — 91 members — last activity Nov 17, 2017 05:30AM
Welcome to the 2016 Reading Challenge!

Boston Scifi Fantasy Book Club — 77 members — last activity Sep 28, 2018 07:46AM
monthly meetup for science fiction and fantasy book discussion. We have been meeting at various locations since 2010. We think we have found a home wi ...more

Rust Belt Reads — 15 members — last activity Jan 01, 2017 09:15PM
Discovering the rust belt through literature with a focus on Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and everywhere in between. Will include literature by author ...more

The Next Best Book Club — 25895 members — last activity 19 hours, 44 min ago
Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more

The Seasonal Reading Challenge — 9078 members — last activity 5 hours, 9 min ago
Do you want to broaden your reading horizons and discover new books, authors and genres? Do you love reading challenges? Do you live for competition? ...more

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