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<p>📚 The Fellowship of the Ring by: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien</p><p>The Dark Lord Sauron, an utterly evil and powerful being, is stirring again after a long period of dormancy. He will soon dominate all of Middle-earth if he is not stopped. The key to Sauron&#x27;s defeat is Frodo, nephew and heir to Bilbo Baggins--he has the One Ring into which Sauron deposited much of his power. If th...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-fellowship-of-the-ring" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-fellowship-of-the-ring"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-fellow</span><span class="invisible">ship-of-the-ring</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></p>

<p>Endre Ady was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1877.</p><p>Some of his notable poetry collections include &quot;Új versek&quot; (New Poems, 1906), &quot;A Holnap&quot; (Tomorrow, 1908), and &quot;A halottak élén&quot; (At the Head of the Dead, 1918).</p><p>Books by Endre Ady at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/39489"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/39489</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1862.</p><p>Charles Dodgson sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice&#x27;s Adventures Underground to Alice Liddell.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27</span><span class="invisible">s_Adventures_in_Wonderland</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Liddell"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Li</span><span class="invisible">ddell</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19002" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/19002</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson</p><p>&quot;A Look Inside the Poet’s Personal Life and the Making of Her Mythical Reclusiveness&quot;</p><p><a href="https://lithub.com/open-me-carefully-emily-dickinsons-intimate-letters-to-susan-huntington-dickinson/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lithub.com/open-me-carefully-emily-dickinsons-intimate-letters-to-susan-huntington-dickinson/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lithub.com/open-me-carefully-e</span><span class="invisible">mily-dickinsons-intimate-letters-to-susan-huntington-dickinson/</span></a></p><p>Books by Dickinson at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/996" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/996"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/996</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a></p>

<p>French and American writer, journalist and pianist Ève Curie was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1904.</p><p>She is best known for writing a biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1937). Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse Jr., did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88ve_Curie" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88ve_Curie"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%88ve</span><span class="invisible">_Curie</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>Book Review: The Gryphon King by Sara Omer<br>A monster-filled secondary-world fantasy that takes its cues and worldbuilding inspirations from points east of the Bosporus Strait<br><span class="h-card"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@Princejvstin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Princejvstin</span></a></span> has our review<br><a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-gryphon-king-by-sara-omer.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/book-review-gryphon-king-by-sara-omer.html"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/</span><span class="invisible">book-review-gryphon-king-by-sara-omer.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/review/" rel="tag">#review</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#bookreview</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon</p>

<p><a href="/tags/speakingoutofplace/" rel="tag">#SpeakingOutOfPlace</a> welcomes <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> cinéaste and author <a href="/tags/julianbravenoisecat/" rel="tag">#JulianBraveNoisecat</a> to talk about his new book, <a href="/tags/wesurvivedthenight/" rel="tag">#WeSurvivedTheNight</a></p><p><a href="https://speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18448008-indigenous-surviving-thriving-and-love-a-conversation-with-julian-brave-noisecat" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.com/2084729/episodes/18448008-indigenous-surviving-thriving-and-love-a-conversation-with-julian-brave-noisecat"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">speakingoutofplace.buzzsprout.</span><span class="invisible">com/2084729/episodes/18448008-indigenous-surviving-thriving-and-love-a-conversation-with-julian-brave-noisecat</span></a><br><a href="/tags/firstnations/" rel="tag">#FirstNations</a> <a href="/tags/nativeamericans/" rel="tag">#NativeAmericans</a> <a href="/tags/oraltraditions/" rel="tag">#oralTraditions</a> <a href="/tags/coyotestories/" rel="tag">#coyoteStories</a> <a href="/tags/survivance/" rel="tag">#survivance</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</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>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1893.</p><p>Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story &quot;The Adventure of the Final Problem&quot;, published in The Strand Magazine, that Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on 4 May 1891. </p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/834" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/834</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1924.</p><p>The New York Times published evidence from Edwin Hubble stating that the Andromeda Nebula, previously believed to be part of the Milky Way, is in fact another galaxy.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hubble"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Hu</span><span class="invisible">bble</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54776" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/54776"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/54776</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/astronomy/" rel="tag">#astronomy</a></p>

<p>📚 Dear Debbie by: Freida McFadden</p><p>Debbie Mullen is losing it. For years, she has compiled all of her best advice into her column, Dear Debbie, where the wives of New England come for sympathy and neighborly advice. Through her work, Debbie has heard from countless women who are ignored, belittled, or even abused by their h...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/dear-debbie" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/dear-debbie"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/dear-debbi</span><span class="invisible">e</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#women</a></p>

<p>In November 1909.</p><p>E. M. Forster&#x27;s science fiction short story &quot;The Machine Stops&quot; is published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review. The story was republished in Forster&#x27;s The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.</p><p>The Eternal Moment at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/72890" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/72890</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>British Library Exhibit Reveals Lives of Medieval Women</p><p>By Madeleine Muzdakis </p><p><a href="https://mymodernmet.com/british-library-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_term=11212024&amp;utm_medium=email" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mymodernmet.com/british-library-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_term=11212024&amp;utm_medium=email"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mymodernmet.com/british-librar</span><span class="invisible">y-medieval-women/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&amp;utm_content=link&amp;utm_source=convertkit&amp;utm_term=11212024&amp;utm_medium=email</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>

<p>You can never have enough cat manuals 😻</p><p><a href="/tags/catsofmastodon/" rel="tag">#CatsOfMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a></p>

<p>What I Read in 2025: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/what-i-read-in-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/what-i-read-in-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/what-i-read-in</span><span class="invisible">-2025/</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/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</a></p>

<p>Li &quot;Memórias do Subsolo&quot;</p><p><a href="https://gmgall.net/books/memorias-do-subsolo/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="gmgall.net/books/memorias-do-subsolo/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gmgall.net/books/memorias-do-s</span><span class="invisible">ubsolo/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#Russia</a></p>

<p>The Inquisitive Biologist looks back at 2025 and picks his five favourite books. Palaeontology, aerobiology, speleology, degrowth, and geomicrobiology top this year&#x27;s list.</p><p><a href="https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inquisitivebiologist.com/2025/</span><span class="invisible">12/31/year-list-the-inquisitive-biologists-top-5-reads-of-2025/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookoftheyear/" rel="tag">#BookOfTheYear</a> <a href="/tags/bookreview/" rel="tag">#BookReview</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#Scicomm</a> <a href="/tags/paleontology/" rel="tag">#Paleontology</a> <a href="/tags/palaeontology/" rel="tag">#Palaeontology</a> <a href="/tags/aerobiology/" rel="tag">#Aerobiology</a> <a href="/tags/historyofscience/" rel="tag">#HistoryOfScience</a> <a href="/tags/sciencehistory/" rel="tag">#ScienceHistory</a> <a href="/tags/histsci/" rel="tag">#HistSci</a> <a href="/tags/speleology/" rel="tag">#Speleology</a> <a href="/tags/caves/" rel="tag">#Caves</a> <a href="/tags/lechuguilla/" rel="tag">#Lechuguilla</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#Economics</a> <a href="/tags/degrowth/" rel="tag">#Degrowth</a> <a href="/tags/microbiology/" rel="tag">#Microbiology</a> <a href="/tags/geology/" rel="tag">#Geology</a> <a href="/tags/geomicrobiology/" rel="tag">#Geomicrobiology</a> <a href="/tags/edgarallanpoe/" rel="tag">#EdgarAllanPoe</a> <a href="/tags/eapoe/" rel="tag">#EAPoe</a> <a href="/tags/biography/" rel="tag">#Biography</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#Literature</a> <a href="/tags/goth/" rel="tag">#Goth</a> <a href="/tags/gothic/" rel="tag">#Gothic</a> <a href="/tags/horror/" rel="tag">#Horror</a> <a href="/tags/scienceconvention/" rel="tag">#ScienceConvention</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefair/" rel="tag">#ScienceFair</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@markwitton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>markwitton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonupress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>princetonupress</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@princetonnature" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>princetonnature</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Carl_Zimmer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@timparrique" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timparrique</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://sauropods.win/@TetZoo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TetZoo</span></a></span> <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/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1930.</p><p>American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first writer from the United States to receive the award.</p><p>Sinclair Lewis Nobel Lecture:<br><a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lite</span><span class="invisible">rature/1930/lewis/lecture/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/nobelprize/" rel="tag">#nobelprize</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/free/" rel="tag">#Free</a> @ <a href="/tags/smashwords/" rel="tag">#Smashwords</a>: <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1897925" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.smashwords.com/books/view/1897925"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.smashwords.com/books/view/</span><span class="invisible">1897925</span></a></p><p>Hungry and hunting alone, a goblin boy meets a bouncing, blue slime and assumes it will be dinner. Naturally, the slime has other ideas, and the boy gets his hind-end handed to him by what’s supposed to be one of the weakest monsters of the forest.</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/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/goblin/" rel="tag">#goblin</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/audiobook/" rel="tag">#audiobook</a> <a href="/tags/eoysale25/" rel="tag">#EOYSale25</a> <a href="/tags/ebook/" rel="tag">#ebook</a> <a href="/tags/sale/" rel="tag">#sale</a> <a href="/tags/books2read/" rel="tag">#books2read</a> <a href="/tags/indiebooks/" rel="tag">#indiebooks</a></p>

<p>One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. By Ken Kesey.</p><p>You’re a half-Native guy in a mental hospital (it’s the 1950s) for 20 years, when a complete asshole conman white dude shows up thinking he can control everything; since he has little regard for his own life or that of others he succeeds in the way a wrecking ball succeeds in its task.</p><p>2 of 5 library cats 🐈 🐈</p><p>CW: hate speech, racism, misogyny, cultural appropriation </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> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/mentalhealth/" rel="tag">#mentalhealth</a></p>

<p>📚 Deep Freeze by: Michael C. Grumley</p><p>The accident came quickly. With no warning. In the dead of night, a precipitous plunge into a freezing river trapped everyone inside the bus. It was then that Army veteran John Reiff’s life came to an end. Extinguished in the sudden rush of frigid water.</p><p>There was no expecta...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/deep-freeze" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/deep-freeze"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/deep-freez</span><span class="invisible">e</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/thrillers/" rel="tag">#thrillers</a> <a href="/tags/technologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#technologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/suspensefiction/" rel="tag">#suspensefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a></p>