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<p>📚 The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by: Kiran Desai</p><p>When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that served only to drive Sonia and Sunny apart.</p><p>Sonia, an aspiring novelist who recen...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-loneliness-of-sonia-and-sunny"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-loneli</span><span class="invisible">ness-of-sonia-and-sunny</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a></p>

When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that served only to drive Sonia and Sunny apart.

Sonia, an aspiring novelist who recently completed her studies in the snowy mountains of Vermont, has returned to her family in India. She fears that she is haunted by a dark spell cast by an artist to whom she had once turned for intimacy and inspiration. Sunny, a struggling journalist resettled in New York City, is attempting to flee his imperious mother and the violence of his warring clan. Uncertain of their future, Sonia and Sunny embark on a search for happiness together as they confront the many alienations of our modern world.

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is the sweeping tale of two young people navigating the many forces that shape their lives: country, class, race, history, and the complicated bonds that link one generation to the next. A love story, a family saga, and a rich novel of ideas, it is the most ambitious and accomplished work yet by one of our greatest novelists.

A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss

A transcendent triumph. not so much a novel as a marvel. The New York Times Book Review

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Can Bibliotherapy Heal the Pain of the World? <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://literature.cafe/post/26981063">See Original Page</a> </small>

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<p>When you're reading and someone assumes that means you're doing nothing and they can interrupt you.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>

At Vespers by Halle. A young woman looks up from reading a book. It's probably some religious thing, but I've cropped out the cross and I just like the intensity on her face.

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<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/TheThirdWish</a></p><p>Spies, aliens, trolls, wizards and a disowned prince use a time machine, to improve their place in history, but Levi Jacobs stands in their way, despite having just lost his parents in war. Will he stop them or will the time travelers kill his father at a pivotal moment, on which the fate of the galaxy hangs?</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefantasy/" rel="tag">#sciencefantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

(Left) The cover of The Third Wish, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

A wizard in a black robe that glitters with hints of gold stands on a mountain and looks down at a city of sky scrapers covered in greenery. In his shadow lurks a creature with glowing red eyes.

In the background, the sun is setting and stars are becoming visible.

(Right Background) Four images separated by black lines, with the silhouette of a woman wielding two swords laid over them. She's outlined in black and her interior is yellow clock-based imagery that spirals outward from the center.

The upper left quarter is a queen in a red, furred robe, wearing a gold and diamond crown. She has dark eyebrows and blond hair.

Upper right is a planet seen from orbit.

Lower left is a symbolic wire frame representation of the view inside a wormhole, in green and yellow.

Lower right is dandelions among grass.

The angle of the planet, one of the woman's swords, the yellow highlights of the wormhole and some of the dandelions form a line that draws the eye along a sweeping curve.

(Right Foreground) The following quote:

He admired the flawless beauty of the insane swordswoman’s fluid movements as Ida took desperate step after step, backwards!

He felt waves of mental energy pour off the panic-stricken troll, but the energy bounced right off of Nicole’s mind, as though she’d shut herself inside a solid, red-hot, steel box of rage!

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

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<p>"Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote<br>"The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,<br>And bathed every veyne in swych licour<br>Of which vertu engendred is the flour..."<br>Opening lines. The Canterbury Tales</p><p>~Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – October 25, 1400)</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

More details Portrait of Chaucer as a Canterbury pilgrim, Ellesmere manuscript of The Canterbury Tales. The Tale of Melibee „A yong man called Melibeus, myghty and riche, bigat upon his wyf, that called was Prudence, a doghter which that called was Sophie. Upon a day bifel that he for his desport is went into the feeldes hem to pleye. His wyf and eek his doghter hath he left inwith his hous...

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<p>Happy Public Domain Day 2026 (Jan. 1) from Duke Law School's Center for the Study of the Public Domain. To read more about the public domain</p><p>via Duke University School of Law</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f_k7fQPA&t=33s" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f_k7fQPA&t=33s"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9f_k</span><span class="invisible">7fQPA&t=33s</span></a></p><p>More information here:<br><a href="https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdo</span><span class="invisible">mainday/2026/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>

Public domain day 2026 montage.

A collage celebrating Public Domain Day 2026, featuring iconic 1930 works entering the public domain: "All Quiet on the Western Front," Marx Brothers' "Animal Crackers," early Mickey Mouse cartoons, "The Little Engine That Could," "As I Lay Dying," Nancy Drew mysteries, "The Cat Who Went to Heaven," "King of Jazz," "The Maltese Falcon," Betty Boop cartoons, "I Got Rhythm," "The Murder at the Vicarage," "Dream a Little Dream of Me," "Ash Wednesday," Blondie comics, and "Morocco" starring Marlene Dietrich.

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

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<p>A psychoanalyst’s desire for a saner world</p><p>In Civilization and its Discontents, Sigmund Freud turned his psychoanalytic attention from the troubles of the individual to those of the world.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/16/a-psychoanalysts-desire-for-a-saner-world/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/16/a-psychoanalysts-desire-for-a-saner-world/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/16/a-psychoanalysts-desire-for-a-saner-world/</span></a></p><p>Freud at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/391"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/391</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/psychoanalysis/" rel="tag">#psychoanalysis</a></p>

Sigmund Freud in a portrait photograph by Ferdinand Schmutzer, 1926

The black and white image shows the elderly psychoanalyst in formal attire with his distinctive white beard, intense gaze, and contemplative expression, seated with a watch chain visible across his vest—an iconic representation of the founder of psychoanalysis.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud#/media/Datei:Sigmund_Freud_1926.jpg

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<p>So, putting the book down where you finish reading it until it organically evolves into a pile of books doesn't count as "arranging"? Rude! 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://lemmy.world/u/books" rel="nofollow">@books</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@humor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>humor</span></a></span> @humor@lemmy.world @aiop <br> <br><a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#Book</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookmemes/" rel="tag">#BookMemes</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#Memes</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#Humor</a> <a href="/tags/humour/" rel="tag">#Humour</a><br><a href="/tags/novel/" rel="tag">#Novel</a> <a href="/tags/novels/" rel="tag">#Novels</a> <a href="/tags/bookshelf/" rel="tag">#Bookshelf</a> <a href="/tags/mastobooks/" rel="tag">#Mastobooks</a> <a href="/tags/booksofmastodon/" rel="tag">#BooksofMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/bookworm/" rel="tag">#Bookworm</a> <a href="/tags/bookwyrm/" rel="tag">#Bookwyrm</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/booklove/" rel="tag">#BookLove</a> <a href="/tags/fantasybooks/" rel="tag">#FantasyBooks</a></p>

A meme with pictures of six diffrent bookshelves.

Caption: How do you arrange your books?

1. HEIGHT
2. PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE
3. COLOR
4. STACKED
5. ALPHABETICAL
6. CHRONDLOGIAL

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<p>The ratio of words written by Kafka to words written about Kafka is estimated to be about 1:10,000,000. Is anything left to say?</p><p>by Jared Marcel Pollen</p><p><a href="https://libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/kafkainc/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="libertiesjournal.com/online-articles/kafkainc/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">libertiesjournal.com/online-ar</span><span class="invisible">ticles/kafkainc/</span></a></p><p>Kafka at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1735"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/1735</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

First page of Kafka's Letter to His Father.

The document shows aged paper with a cream or beige tone, typical of early 20th-century stationery that has yellowed over time. The page appears to be standard letter-size paper with some visible wear, creases, and aging marks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka#/media/File:De_Kafka_Brief_an_den_Vater_001.jpg

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<p>Killing Stella. By Marlen Haushofer. 1958. (Translated by Shaun Whiteside) </p><p>In 1950s Austria, you are a housewife with kids, when an acquaintance dumps her 19 year old daughter with you for a year; the daughter is innocuous but your household is so fragile, and you are managing your own internal storm of mundane familial relationships, that the friends’ daughter is caught in the invisible crossfire.</p><p>4 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈 🐈 🐈 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a> <a href="/tags/austria/" rel="tag">#austria</a></p>

Yellow book cover with two “x”s on it

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<p>📚 Norwegian Wood by: Haruki Murakami</p><p>Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces ther...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/norwegian-wood" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/norwegian-wood"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/norwegian-</span><span class="invisible">wood</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/literaryfiction/" rel="tag">#literaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/mediatiein/" rel="tag">#mediatiein</a></p>

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.

Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.

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<p>Heated Rivalry. By Rachel Reid.</p><p>You are a star hockey player just out of high school, when you meet your fellow rookie and nemesis, a Russian player, and you and he will go on to challenge each other on the ice and in the bed FOR 8 YEARS, which it turns out is longer than either of you can stand.</p><p>4 of 5 library cats 🏒 🏒 🏒 🏒 </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/gay/" rel="tag">#gay</a> <a href="/tags/lgbtq/" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a> <a href="/tags/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/xxx/" rel="tag">#xxx</a></p>

Book cover featuring two hockey players facing off

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<p>Apuleius was a 2nd-century Roman writer whose most famous work, The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses), still feels vivid, and surprisingly modern.</p><p>It is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive complete.</p><p>Inside the novel is also the famous tale of Cupid and Psyche, one of the most beautiful love stories to come down from antiquity.</p><p>The Golden Ass is one of the best gateways into the ancient world.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/apuleius/" rel="tag">#Apuleius</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

Apuleius

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<p>finished reading <a href="https://eggplant.place/search?r=1&q=https://reviewdb.app/book/5hXIs6JnwMoQ0hzU9ZhfhU" rel="nofollow">We Are the Stars</a> 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 <br>by Gina Chick.</p><p>That wild woman who captivated us on Alone Australia is the product of genes, a generous upbringing, and intense tempering in the crucible of life. A remarkable range of life experience, and an impressive capacity to learn & evolve from life's challenges. Heavy on nebulous metaphor, but fitting. I envy her capacity to inhabit her emotions & body so fully.</p><p><a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a> <a href="/tags/aloneaustralia/" rel="tag">#AloneAustralia</a> <a href="/tags/alonetv/" rel="tag">#AloneTV</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://aus.social/@wildwoila" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WildWoila</span></a></span> @wildwoila@wyrms.de<br></p>

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<p>New Books I’m Looking Forward to This Year: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-new-books-im-looking-forward-to-this-year/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-weekly-blogging-challenge-new-books-im-looking-forward-to-this-year/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/wednesday-week</span><span class="invisible">ly-blogging-challenge-new-books-im-looking-forward-to-this-year/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/tbr/" rel="tag">#TBR</a> <a href="/tags/nonfiction/" rel="tag">#Nonfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#Fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/wednesdayweeklybloggingchallenge/" rel="tag">#WednesdayWeeklyBloggingChallenge</a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

Book cover for Phases: a Memoir by Brandy Norwood. Image on cover is a close-up photo of her face as she wears a blue silk garment and gazes thoughtfully off into the distance.

Book cover for Onward: Climate Fiction to Inspire Hope by Erin Entrada. Image on cover is a drawing of two birds sitting at the mouth of a cave whose entrance is shaped like an hourglass. Beyond the birds there are numerous tree branches and a calm body of water, perhaps a sea.

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<p>Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915)</p><p>A female uptopia....</p><p><a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/herland/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="publicdomainreview.org/collection/herland/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicdomainreview.org/collect</span><span class="invisible">ion/herland/</span></a></p><p>"Herland" at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

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<p>📚 Kindred by: Octavia E. Butler</p><p>"I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm."</p><p>Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: pro...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/kindred" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/kindred</a></p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/libraries/" rel="tag">#libraries</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/historical/" rel="tag">#historical</a></p>

"I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm."

Dana’s torment begins when she suddenly vanishes on her 26th birthday from California, 1976, and is dragged through time to antebellum Maryland to rescue a boy named Rufus, heir to a slaveowner’s plantation. She soon realizes the purpose of her summons to the past: protect Rufus to ensure his assault of her Black ancestor so that she may one day be born. As she endures the traumas of slavery and the soul-crushing normalization of savagery, Dana fights to keep her autonomy and return to the present.

Blazing the trail for neo-slavery narratives like Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Water Dancer, Butler takes one of speculative fiction’s oldest tropes and infuses it with lasting depth and power. Dana not only experiences the cruelties of slavery on her skin but also grimly learns to accept it as a condition of her own existence in the present.

Where stories about American slavery are often gratuitous, reducing its horror to explicit violence and brutality, Kindred is controlled and precise. (New York Times).

Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. ("You have to read them.")

The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1892.</p><p>The first collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine (June 1891–June 1892), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is published by George Newnes in London; it includes Doyle's favourite, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", which was originally published in February.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adve</span><span class="invisible">ntures_of_Sherlock_Holmes</span></a></p><p>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1661</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Illustration of the Sherlock Holmes short story The Speckled Band, which appeared in The Strand Magazine in February, 1892. Original caption was "WHICH OF YOU IS HOLMES?"

Sidney Paget (1860 - 1908)

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<p>🤔 The most effective "escape" from the world's problems?</p><p>It's not alcohol🍸 , drugs💊 , gambling🎲 , or a shopping spree🛍️ , <br> it's reading a book.📗<br> <br>Opening the front cover of a book 📖 is like walking through a doorway to another world. <br>📚 </p><p><a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#MentalHealth</a></p>

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<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1926.</p><p>The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne first appears, published by Methuen in London.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_(book)#" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh_(book)#"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-t</span><span class="invisible">he-Pooh_(book)#</span></a></p><p>Winnie-the-Pooh's entrance into the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2022 was noted by several news publications, generally in the context of a greater Public Domain Day article.</p><p><a href="https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2022/#fn6text" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2022/#fn6text"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdo</span><span class="invisible">mainday/2022/#fn6text</span></a></p><p>Winnie-the-Pooh at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

First edition cover

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Looking for a book to fall asleep to (selection inside)

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<p>The ecstatic swoon</p><p>As Stendhal knew, the reason for art is to make you feel. Do not try to grasp the artwork: allow it to grasp you instead</p><p>by Robert D Zaretsky</p><p><a href="https://aeon.co/essays/what-stendhal-says-about-the-purpose-and-promise-of-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=048e2ed722-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="aeon.co/essays/what-stendhal-says-about-the-purpose-and-promise-of-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=048e2ed722-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aeon.co/essays/what-stendhal-s</span><span class="invisible">ays-about-the-purpose-and-promise-of-art?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=048e2ed722-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_12_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#art</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

Portrait de Stendhal par Ducis, 1835, Bibliothèque Sormani, Milan. Portrait mélancolique.

An 1835 oil portrait of French writer Stendhal by Johan-Nepomuk Ender (attributed to Ducis), housed at the Bibliothèque Sormani in Milan. The melancholic portrait shows the author of "The Red and the Black" in dark formal attire against a muted green background, holding an elegant walking stick, capturing his contemplative demeanor during his mature years.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stendhal_par_Ducis.jpg

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<p>OH MY GOD 🤣 </p><p>A novel just came out in which a tradwife influencer wakes up in 1805 and suddenly has to live the real life she's been selling online, raw milk and all!</p><p>All hail YESTERYEAR by Caro Claire Burke.</p><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/238226942-yesteryear" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.goodreads.com/book/show/238226942-yesteryear"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.goodreads.com/book/show/23</span><span class="invisible">8226942-yesteryear</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

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<p>"Call me Ishmael."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1851.</p><p>Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.</p><p>In the October 1851 issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine "The Town Ho's Story" was published, with a footnote reading: "From 'The Whale'. The title of a new work by Mr. Melville, in the press of Harper and Brothers, and now publishing in London by Mr. Bentley."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dic</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p><p>Moby-Dick at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/15" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/15</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

The whale or Moby Dick (half-title page), Herman Melville, 1851

Herman Melville and one more author - State Library of New South Wales, [https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK2oZrBwKZ/l3gXqDvw8yl0N DSM/813.3/M531/2A1

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<p>Book Review: Will This Be a Problem? The Anthology: Issue V (edited by Somto Ihezue and Olivia Kidula)<br>A unique collection of hauntingly engaging and imaginative stories<br> <br>Ann Michelle Harris has our review at the NOAF blog:<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-will-this-be-problem.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-will-this-be-problem.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-will-this-be-problem.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> <a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

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