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“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.”
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“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
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“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― The Fountainhead
Literary Fiction by People of Color
— 13354 members
— last activity 15 hours, 5 min ago
This can include genre fiction that is literary (e.g. speculative fiction, historical fiction, etc.), as long as it's written by a person of color (Af ...more
Mystery Madness
— 802 members
— last activity May 14, 2026 09:29PM
March Mystery Madness Participants Group Welcome! This is a group for Mystery readers, particularly participants of the March Mystery Madness Readath ...more
Black Coffee
— 3066 members
— last activity May 06, 2026 04:15PM
This group focuses on books written by or about black people from all continents in many different genres though we focus on historical fiction and cl ...more
#ReadSoulLit Read Along- Tar Baby
— 123 members
— last activity Mar 16, 2018 09:30AM
This group is reading and discussing Tar Baby as a read along in honor of Black History Month!
Mocha Girls Read
— 7080 members
— last activity May 13, 2026 07:36PM
We are a group of black women who love to read, want to read more and meet like-minded women. #mochagirlsread Join Us in person: https://www.meetup.c ...more
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