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Book cover for Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
White evangelicals have pieced together this patchwork of issues, and a nostalgic commitment to rugged, aggressive, militant white masculinity serves as the thread binding them together into a coherent whole. A father’s rule in the home is ...more
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Thomas Mann
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

Daniel Pennac
“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
Daniel Pennac

Alice Hoffman
“Books may well be the only true magic.”
Alice Hoffman

Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
Frank Zappa

35919 Literary Exploration — 1574 members — last activity Mar 09, 2026 12:09PM
Want to explore different genres? Each month we pick a different Literary book, to read and discuss. Books are picked by members via a poll.
58291 Pulp Fiction — 1921 members — last activity Mar 21, 2026 07:24PM
Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
166408 The Literati — 34 members — last activity Jan 19, 2019 02:09PM
“L'intellectuel est quelqu'un qui se mêle de ce qui ne le regarde pas.” – Jean-Paul Sartre We seek the answers to life and the world around us. We s ...more
1009030 100BestWIT — 75 members — last activity Sep 02, 2020 03:16PM
With the release of the 100 Best WIT list we thought it might be fun to dedicate a Goodreads group to the list...maybe even read the list in its entir ...more
206623 Existential Book Club — 1506 members — last activity Mar 14, 2026 01:34AM
This a book club for anybody interested in reading existentialist literature and fiction. Every month I'll be putting up a new text either by an exist ...more
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