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The Chalet School 2 - Still talking about it a century later!
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50 Books Challenge 2026 Part Seven
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The Rather Dated Book Club: Margery Sharp's 'Something Light'.
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26ish books 2026
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Reading Children's Books as an Adult
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The Chalet School
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Les Miserables read-a-long 2026 | Deuxième Partie (2)
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What are you currently reading, how do you feel about it, and what's next on the list? Part 2
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Time Traveller’s Wife #2 is coming… this is not a drill!!
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Has anyone read Solvej Balles' "On the Calculation of Volume"?
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What new book release are you looking forward’s to?
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Any recommendations for really good psychological thrillers?
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The Hallmarked Man: does it get better?
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Library books from your youth expunged from the shelves
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Book Recommendations
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My year with Stella...
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John Boyne. Which book should I start with?
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What upcoming book releases are you most looking forward to reading?
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📚The Mumsnet 'Rather Dated' Book Group - All welcome to join📚
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Booker Prize
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Public Service Announcement - Bill Bryson audiobook that I'd never heard of!
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If you read 50+ books a year, how do you do it?
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Favourite book covers of all time.
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Have you noticed supermarket book sections getting smaller and less varied?
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Ending with Balzac's Cousin Bette.
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Atmospheric literary fiction for autumn nights - recommendations
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What books have you bought in the last month?
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Autobiography corner -come join me!
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Middlemarch - are you reading/have you read it?
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Anyone else still reading Miss Read, Fairacre and Thrush Green?
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Big fat juicy sagas
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Goodreads Summer Encore reading challenge
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Book recommendations if I enjoyed The Grace Year
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Read What You Own 2026
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Books like fourth wing but from a men’s pov!
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Anyone read A Better Life by Lionel Shriver?
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - where is the comedy?
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Should I read Heart the Lover or Writers and Lovers first?
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Penelope Lively : is anyone else a fan of her novels and short stories?
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Christopher Berry-Dee Allegations
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If I liked Adrian Mole what else will I like?
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Freida McFadden fans! What ones have you read and would recommend?
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Liane Moriarty - last one standing - have I already read it??!
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MN Readalong : Homer’s The Odyssey in 2026
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How do you get through books you hate?
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Time travel books
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What was the last book you read that really got to your heart?
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Blind date with a book for hospital ward.
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Books which follow characters over many years?
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Recommendations for year 9 dd
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