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Don’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Don’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Don Trowden
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Normal Family
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No One Ran to the Altar
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All the Lies We Live (3) (Normal Family Trilogy)
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The What vs. The Who
When I founded Publerati ten years ago, one of my core guiding principles was to help The What regain lost power versus The Who. (I’m not talking about the British rock band.)
What do I mean by this? In our loud age of celebrity culture, reality television, and cable news, quietly excellent novels by unknown people have little hope of being published. Agents are looking for people with a large foll
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In My Friends by Fredrik Backman, a world of adolescent pain and humor is set in motion through the auction of a famous artist’s painting. The author satirizes the world of wealthy art collectors, high school art teachers, and critics of all the arts ...more |
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"If you take a look at my book review on my blog here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2025/08/0... you'll understand why this book has just jumped directly to the top of my "Best of 2025" list! O.M.G."
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"I love the remote setting of a small community on an island off the coast of Maine. Having lived on the coast myself I fully understand the huge variation between life during the winter, and the busy summer tourist season.
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| A Million More Pages: A (Reading) Life of Crime | 88 | 162 | Aug 01, 2022 09:38PM |
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
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“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”
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Amazon Kindle
— 11775 members
— last activity Apr 19, 2026 08:10AM
For readers using the Amazon Kindle ebook device.
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 320938 members
— last activity 2 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Classic Literature book club
— 79 members
— last activity Nov 11, 2013 01:01AM
The purpose of this book club will be to start focusing and reading all the classics that readers tend to forget about. We get enough advertisement on ...more
Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge
— 26927 members
— last activity 1 hour, 2 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
Musicians And Music Lovers
— 1325 members
— last activity Apr 17, 2026 04:25AM
This is where we will post our videos, and our songs.
Goodreads Authors/Readers
— 56448 members
— last activity 1 hour, 43 min ago
This group is dedicated to connecting readers with Goodreads authors. It is divided by genres, and includes folders for writing resources, book websit ...more
Catching up on Classics (and lots more!)
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The world is made up of two kinds of people: first, those who love classics, and second, those who have not yet read a classic. Be bold and join us as ...more
Black Girls Read!
— 8611 members
— last activity Apr 19, 2026 02:27PM
A group for African-American women to share, discuss and recommend quality books by and for other African-Americans.
Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon
— 4441 members
— last activity 4 hours, 32 min ago
Our next readathon will be April 18-19, 2026. We'll start reading at 8am Eastern Time April 18th, and end at 8am April 19th.. ...more
2026 Big Book Challenge
— 797 members
— last activity Apr 04, 2026 03:44PM
Have some larger books to read this year? This is the place to share those. You set your own goal as to the number of books to read, or just keep trac ...more
