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Red City

by Marie Lu (Goodreads Author)

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The Gilded Ones

by Namina Forna (Goodreads Author)

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The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm

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Tara’s Quotes

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“Reading should be an enjoyable experience, not a chore.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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“remember what it felt like…being part of something bigger. Something that carries you along like a grain of sand. You can’t fight it—you don’t want to—because alone you are just one grain. Together you are the desert.”
― Saara El-Arifi, The Final Strife

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“Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason.”
― C.J. Leede, Maeve Fly

tags: female-empowerment, feminism, sexism

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“This industry is built on silencing us, stomping us into the ground, and hurling money at white people to produce racist stereotypes of us.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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The lovers of challenges — 468 members — last activity Sep 17, 2020 07:16PM
Hi there, here will be a group just fo people who love challenges! here we gonna have fun, take out some books from our TBR shelves thanks to challeng ...more

Quarantine Book Club — 823 members — last activity Jan 04, 2021 02:50PM
Hi there! I thought there was no better time to start a book club dedicated to spending our time inside reading! Everyone is welcome!

¡ POETRY ! — 22522 members — last activity May 04, 2026 06:38PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Literally Dead Book Club — 16520 members — last activity Feb 18, 2026 12:04PM
A mostly monthly book club (February-November) focused on thriller/mystery/horror hosted by BooksandLala and a rotating set of wonderful co-hosts! li ...more