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The Chalet School
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Read What You Own 2026
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50 Books Challenge 2026 Part Six
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The Correspondent
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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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Book recommendations
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Favourite book covers of all time.
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Please recommend writers like Elizabeth Bowen
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Best translation of The Odyssey for a first-time classics reader
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Les Miserables read-a-long 2026 | Deuxième Partie (2)
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Anyone else frustrated by Hartley in Irish Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea?
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Reading Children's Books as an Adult
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📚 'Rather Dated' January: Philip Larkin's 'Jill'📚
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26ish books 2026
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What books are you and your children reading from the library?
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New Jane Casey
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📚The Mumsnet 'Rather Dated' Book Group - All welcome to join📚
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Women in Translation month
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Free, or 99p kindle prime bargains.
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Miss Read books.
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Cazalet chronicle help. Spoilers.
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Critics chide Austen for mentioning money so much in her novels...
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That moment when the book turns terrible
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Books to read on stifling, lazy summer days
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Meaning of abbreviation ‘BBs’ in a 1940s Book
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📚 The Rather Dated Bookclub: Nevil Shute's 'Pied Piper' 📚
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Sandwich by Catherine Newman
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Recommendations from you lovely lot please?
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If you read 50+ books a year, how do you do it?
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Can anyone recommend a short story collection for a 14 year old?
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My year with Stella...
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Can anyone recommend any science fiction books?
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What next for book-obsessed DD16 who has “read everything worth reading”
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Anyone read The Names?
110
Emily Wilson’s The Odyssey
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Churning out A.I. biography
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Fiction set in pre 1989 Berlin?
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What are we reading on our holidays?
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Book icks
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Crime thriller suggestions for mum
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Autobiography corner -come join me!
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Anyone read I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman?
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Booker Prize 2026 Predictions
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Favourite Lisa Jewell thrillers and other thriller recommendations?
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Yesteryear
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I can't read fiction
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Patricia Highsmith
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MN Readalong : Homer’s The Odyssey in 2026
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Novels with a similar feel to The Magic Apple Tree
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Your views on Kristin Hannah narrator for these 3 books
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