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It Could Have Been Her

by Lisa Jewell (Goodreads Author)

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The Death of Us

by Abigail Dean (Goodreads Author)

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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales

by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

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“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: francois-rabelais, last-words

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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

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Perustopia Book Club — 16564 members — last activity Jun 09, 2026 07:03PM
Hello everybody! Regan and I are teaming up and decided to make a book club where we can all read awesome books together each month! We will also hav ...more

The Feminist Orchestra Bookclub — 4576 members — last activity Jul 01, 2026 02:00PM
Discover and recommend more feminist reads here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/96419.The_Feminist_Orchestra_Potential_Reading_List We're also o ...more

Daphne Du Maurier Project — 276 members — last activity Dec 26, 2020 07:18AM
Reading all of Daphne Du Maurier's works in publication order ...more

The Under-Hyped Readathon! — 561 members — last activity Sep 06, 2016 07:12PM
Basically, there has been a lot of talk on Booktube, and the internet in general, about the shifting community and the difference between hyping books ...more