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Anyone else still reading Miss Read, Fairacre and Thrush Green?
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Have you noticed supermarket book sections getting smaller and less varied?
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Should I read Heart the Lover or Writers and Lovers first?
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Atmospheric literary fiction for autumn nights - recommendations
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A Tale Of Two Cities, Four Month Read Along. (Title edited by MNHQ at request of OP)
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The Names by Florence Knapp - discussion thread (with Spoilers)
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Jane Gardam
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Books which follow characters over many years?
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Goodreads Summer Encore reading challenge
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Anyone read A Better Life by Lionel Shriver?
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Favourite book covers of all time.
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The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn 99p today.
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Best Translation of Ovid's "Metamorphosis"
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The Rather Dated Book Club: Margery Sharp's 'Something Light'.
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The Chalet School
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Time Traveller’s Wife #2 is coming… this is not a drill!!
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Library books from your youth expunged from the shelves
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Book Recommendations
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What upcoming book releases are you most looking forward to reading?
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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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Ending with Balzac's Cousin Bette.
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What books have you bought in the last month?
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Middlemarch - are you reading/have you read it?
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Big fat juicy sagas
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Book recommendations if I enjoyed The Grace Year
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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - where is the comedy?
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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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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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Recommendations for year 9 dd
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Can anyone help me identify this mid century 'rural memoir' book? (not Elizabeth West)
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Jane Duncan 'My Friend...' books
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Little Spark by Jess Kidd
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Reading the wrong book on a holiday
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Henrietta by Sophie Irwin. An "official" Georgette Heyer Novel
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Airport paperbacks - specifically Land by Maggie O'Farrell
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Which book did you almost give up on but are glad you kept reading?
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50 Books Challenge 2026 Part Six
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Anyone read Sophie Hannah's No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done?
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Are audio books allowed?
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Novels with a similar feel to The Magic Apple Tree
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The Correspondent
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Wes Markin Whitby Novels
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