Matt

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Matt’s favorite books

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Dune by Frank Herbert

A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

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Matt’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (112)
currently-reading‎ (2)

read‎ (300)
book-club-reads‎ (68)

recommends‎ (44)
audible‎ (19)

pitch‎ (8)
pitched-failures‎ (4)

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Matt is Currently Reading

Beautyland

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by Marie-Helene Bertino (Goodreads Author)

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The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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Matt’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Book of Form and Emptiness

The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

Does this sound familiar? Maybe you’ve seen this kind of cruelty emerging and even helped it along, or maybe you’ve just been quietly complicit and watched as the bigotry spread, or maybe you’ve been targeted, too. You know how it goes—

2025 Reading Challenge

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2025 Reading Challenge

Matt has read 26 books of his goal of 20!

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Matt’s Year In Books

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Matt’s 2024 Year in Books

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Damian McNicholl

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Favorite Genres

Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Mystery, Science, Science fiction, and Thriller

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