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message 1: by Almeta (last edited Oct 25, 2025 06:37PM) (new)
Oct 25, 2025 05:22PM

Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11493 comments starry-night
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree
with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.
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Januaey

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november

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PACKING HEAT


HISSY-FIC


GET A ROOM


BUMP IN THE NIGHT

UNUSAL SELLING POINT

DYING TO READ



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You Look Mahvelous

Ugly Once a Month Pretty the Rest of the Time

Genres

A List as Long as My Arm

You'll Love This One! Toppler


You'll Love This One!

Mystery, Crime and Thriller Group

EVERYONE Has Read This But Me


message 4: by Almeta (last edited Oct 25, 2025 06:47PM) (new)
Oct 25, 2025 05:58PM

Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11493 comments
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Simply the Best

Goodreads Choice Awards and other Book Awards


NARRARTORS
Simon Vance
Grover Gardner
Simon Prebble
Anfre Holland (black voice)
Michael Page
Scott Brick
James Marsters
Richard Poe
Will Patton
George Guidall
Alexander Adams
Adam Lazarre-White
Ben Onwukwe
Cassandra Campbell
Rosario Dawson
Moniqua Plante
Mozhan Navabi
Eunice Wong
Sally Phillips
Gildart Jackson

AUTHORS
Stephen King
Spencer Quinn a.k.a. Peter Abrahams
Nathan Lowell
Anne Perry William Monk series
Colin Cotterill
Alexander McCall Smith
Roger Zelazny
Jack Williamson
Alix E. Harrow
Tananarive Due
Ashley Elston
G. M. Malliet
Aaron Elkins
Louise Douglas
Gillian Flynn
Tana French
S.J. Watson
B.A. Paris
Sophie Hannah
Sheldon Lord (Pseudonym, Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake)

I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2026
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I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2024
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2023
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2022
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2021
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2020
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2019
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2018
I GAVE IT FIVE STARS in 2017

You'll love this one!~ member since Oct 19, 2011
Books Stephen King Recommends ~ member since Mar 26, 2011
Challenge Yourself ~ member since Dec 14, 2011
Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group ~ member since Jan 06, 2011
Crazy Challenge Connection ~ member since Jul 24, 2012
Around the World ~ member since Dec 15, 2012
Vaginal Fantasy Book Club ~ member since Aug 26, 2013
EVERYONE Has Read This but Me ~ member since Jun 26, 2017
2020 Reading Challenge Group ~ member since November 21, 2019
Game Night ~ member since December 23, 2019
Turn of a Page ~ member since May 12, 2022
A Million More Pages ~ member since May 24, 2022


message 5: by Almeta (new)
Oct 25, 2025 06:00PM

Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11493 comments photo stephenking_zpsx0m8g3al.png
SAI KING RECOMMENDS
The light of stars is so damn stark.
When I look up, I fill with fear.
If all we have is what lies here,
this lonely world, this troubled place,
then cold dead stars and empty space…
Well, I see no reason to persevere,
No reason to laugh or shed a tear,
No reason to sleep or ever to wake.
No promises to keep, and none to make.
And so, at night I still raise my eyes,
to study the clear but mysterious skies
that arch above us as cold as stone.
Are you there, God? Are we alone?
The Book of Counted Sorrows


Here's the the top 100 books, taken from the official list of David Bowie

Interviews With Francis Bacon by David Sylvester
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
Room At The Top by John Braine
On Having No Head by Douglass Harding
Kafka Was The Rage by Anatole Broyard
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
City Of Night by John Rechy
The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Iliad by Homer
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Tadanori Yokoo by Tadanori Yokoo
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Inside The Whale And Other Essays by George Orwell
Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood
Halls Dictionary Of Subjects And Symbols In Art by James A. Hall
David Bomberg by Richard Cork
Blast by Wyndham Lewis
Passing by Nella Larson
Beyond The Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto
The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
In Bluebeard’s Castle by George Steiner
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
The Divided Self by R. D. Laing
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Infants Of The Spring by Wallace Thurman
The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf
The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin
Nights At The Circus by Angela Carter
The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodieby Muriel Spark
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Puckoon by Spike Milligan
Black Boy by Richard Wright
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
Darkness At Noon by Arthur Koestler
The Waste Land by T.S. Elliot
McTeague by Frank Norris
Money by Martin Amis
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Strange People by Frank Edwards
English Journey by J.B. Priestley
A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Day Of The Locust by Nathanael West
1984 by George Orwell
The Life And Times Of Little Richard by Charles White
Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock by Nik Cohn
Mystery Train by Greil Marcus
Beano (comic, ’50s)
Raw (comic, ’80s)
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm And Blues And The Southern Dream Of Freedom by Peter Guralnick
Silence: Lectures And Writing by John Cage
Writers At Work: The Paris Review Interviews edited by Malcolm Cowley
The Sound Of The City: The Rise Of Rock And Roll by Charlie Gillete
Octobriana And The Russian Underground by Peter Sadecky
The Street by Ann Petry
Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Last Exit To Brooklyn By Hubert Selby, Jr.
A People’s History Of The United States by Howard Zinn
The Age Of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
The Coast Of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
The Bridge by Hart Crane
All The Emperor’s Horses (aka Peking Story) by David Kidd
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Earthly Powers by Anthony Burgess
The 42nd Parallel by John Dos Passos
Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders
The Bird Artist by Howard Norman
Nowhere To Run The Story Of Soul Music by Gerri Hirshey
Before The Deluge by Otto Friedrich
Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
The American Way Of Death by Jessica Mitford
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Teenage by Jon Savage
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Viz (comic, early ’80s)
Private Eye (satirical magazine, ’60s – ’80s)
Selected Poems by Frank O’Hara
The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Maldodor by Comte de Lautréamonth
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders by Lawrence Weschler
Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Transcendental Magic, Its Doctine and Ritual by Eliphas Lévi
The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Leopard by Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
A Grave For A Dolphin by Alberto Denti di Pirajno
The Insult by Rupert Thomson
In Between The Sheets by Ian McEwan
A People’s Tragedy by Orlando Figes
Journey Into The Whirlwind by Eugenia Ginzburg


message 9: by Almeta (new)
Oct 25, 2025 06:04PM

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message 10: by Almeta (last edited Oct 25, 2025 06:55PM) (new)
Oct 25, 2025 06:05PM

Almeta (menfrommarrs) | 11493 comments


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message 11: by Roz (new)
Oct 26, 2025 06:57AM

Roz | 4557 comments Given the amount of time it must take to set up this thread, I can understand getting an early head start. Looking forward to perusing your book choices.


message 12: by Janice, Moderator (new)
Oct 26, 2025 08:25AM

Janice (jamasc) | 60129 comments Good thing you left space for the 2026 annual challenge. All shall be revealed end of November.


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