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1+ week, 6+ day ago  (10+ words) Not reading the books on this list? Big mistake. HUGE!...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago  (7+ words) Think you know your romantic fantasy books?...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (18+ words) From Where The Wild Things Are to Little Bear — how well do you know your children’s classics?...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (13+ words) It was the best of times, it was the worst of something something......

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (205+ words) “I found myself in the basement of rock bottom, but this book, this painfully poignant book, helped to pull me up and out of the devastating darkness.”...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (654+ words) The Pulitzer-winning author of Less has crafted a breezy confection of fish-out-of-water wit, insecurity and self-discovery set in an Italian paradise‘There’s a place in Italy in need of someone. Why don’t you look into that?” Inspired by his two-year…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (916+ words) From a young age, the author was told that one of her ancestors had drawn some of the first maps of Ireland. Then she found a photograph, and embarked on a journey to discover his story Every family has its…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1104+ words) "I remember the first time I read this book, I was sitting in a cafe reading a particularly meaningful part, and tears were streaming down my face. The waitress came over and asked, in a very concerned tone, 'Are you…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (211+ words) This compendium of 49 of Britain’s threatened species features lyrical prose poems evoking each bird’s unique qualities and beautiful recordings of their distinctive calls The Book of Birds delivers a stark warning in its introduction about the “great thinning of the…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (332+ words) Hum, Helen Phillips’ third novel, featuring a woman whose job is taken by a humanoid robot, is a terrifying look into a future where AI rules and nature is scarce A novel featuring a protagonist whose job is taken by…...