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Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

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Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

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The Complete Stories

by Clarice Lispector

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Beth’s Quotes

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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“Insanity is contagious.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

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“Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

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“In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

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The Next Best Book Club — 25917 members — last activity 6 hours, 49 min ago
Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more

The Seasonal Reading Challenge — 9095 members — last activity 47 minutes ago
Do you want to broaden your reading horizons and discover new books, authors and genres? Do you love reading challenges? Do you live for competition? ...more

Literary Lushes — 10 members — last activity Apr 14, 2020 03:59PM
Literary Lushes is a book club for ladies in Louisville, Kentucky who love to read a variety of literature and enjoy drinking the occasional beverage.

Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge — 26834 members — last activity 3 hours, 12 min ago
An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more

The Bowie Book Club — 447 members — last activity Sep 14, 2025 02:24PM
This book club was created in honor of the extraordinary artist and avid reader David Bowie. May all fans rejoice in some of the literary works that h ...more

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