<p>Top 50 Masterpieces of Medieval Literature</p><p>Unlock the rich and diverse world of medieval literature with our list of 50 masterpieces. From epic tales of heroism to timeless romances and spiritual writings, these works from the Middle Ages have shaped cultures and influenced storytelling traditions for centuries.</p><p>via <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@medievalists" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>medievalists</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2024/09/top-50-masterpieces-of-medieval-literature/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2024/09/top-50-masterpieces-of-medieval-literature/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2024/09/t</span><span class="invisible">op-50-masterpieces-of-medieval-literature/</span></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>Zelda Fitzgerald on F. Scott’s Writing</p><p>Zelda’s satirical review of F. Scott’s second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned, revealed much more than her wit.</p><p>By: Emily Zarevich via @JSTOR_Daily </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/zelda-fitzgerald-on-f-scotts-writing/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/zelda-fitzgerald-on-f-scotts-writing/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/zelda-fitzgera</span><span class="invisible">ld-on-f-scotts-writing/</span></a></p><p>The Beautiful and the Damned at PG:<br><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9830" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9830</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/literarycriticism/" rel="tag">#literarycriticism</a></p>
<p>The Barbellion Prize is coming back! This essential literary prize which “celebrates and promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness and disability” has been on hiatus but is now relaunching. They need help to raise funds to cover the cost of running the prize and welcome any donations, please spread the word!<br>“As with disability in general, the literature of disability and chronic illness is too commonly turned away from, leaving non-disabled readers ignorant of the profound difference experienced by many and disallowing a voice to chronically ill and disabled writers. All of the volunteers working to support the prize are motivated by a desire to celebrate difference as represented in literature and to effect positive social change via that representation.”</p><p><a href="https://barbellionprize.org/donate/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>barbellionprize.org/donate/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/chronicillness/" rel="tag">#chronicIllness</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#Disability</a> <a href="/tags/disabled/" rel="tag">#disabled</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/publishing/" rel="tag">#publishing</a> <a href="/tags/internationaldayofpersonswithdisabilities/" rel="tag">#InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities</a> <a href="/tags/idpwd/" rel="tag">#IDPWD</a> @disability <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>
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<p>Books On My Winter 2025-2026 to-Read List: <a href="https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-winter-2025-2026-to-read-list/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-winter-2025-2026-to-read-list/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesda</span><span class="invisible">y-books-on-my-winter-2025-2026-to-read-list/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/tbr/" rel="tag">#TBR</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/amreading/" rel="tag">#AmReading</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>The Hidden History of Women Game Designers</p><p>Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.</p><p>By: Carmel Raz </p><p><a href="https://daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-history-of-women-game-designers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-history-of-women-game-designers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-his</span><span class="invisible">tory-of-women-game-designers/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/games/" rel="tag">#games</a> <a href="/tags/womenhistory/" rel="tag">#womenhistory</a></p>
<p>📚 Merry Christmas, You Filthy Animal by: Meghan Quinn</p><p>There are two things you should know about Atlas 'Max' Maxheimer. One: he has the presence of a six-foot-four lumberjack with a knack for making people smile. Two: he lives and breathes the holidays. Not only is he the reigning victor of the annual to...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/merry-christmas-you-filthy-animal" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/merry-christmas-you-filthy-animal"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/merry-chri</span><span class="invisible">stmas-you-filthy-animal</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/contemporaryfiction/" rel="tag">#contemporaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/sports/" rel="tag">#sports</a></p>
<p>📚 The God of the Woods by: Liz Moore</p><p>Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And ...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/the-god-of-the-woods" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/the-god-of-the-woods"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/the-god-of</span><span class="invisible">-the-woods</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/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/psychologicalfiction/" rel="tag">#psychologicalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/literary/" rel="tag">#literary</a></p>
<p>📚 Honey and Spice by: Bolu Babalola</p><p>Sweet like plantain, hot like pepper. They taste the best when together...<br>Sharp-tongued (and secretly soft-hearted) Kiki Banjo has just made a huge mistake. As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar, she's made it her mission...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/honey-and-spice" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/honey-and-spice"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/honey-and-</span><span class="invisible">spice</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/romance/" rel="tag">#romance</a> <a href="/tags/contemporaryfiction/" rel="tag">#contemporaryfiction</a> <a href="/tags/womenfiction/" rel="tag">#womenfiction</a></p>
<p>📚 Snap by: Susin Nielsen</p><p>Frances Partridge, fifty-five, is a beloved children’s author. Geraint Blevins, forty-one, is an auto mechanic and devoted family man. Parker Poplawski, twenty-three, is just starting her career as a wardrobe assistant on a hit TV show. What do these people have in common?</p><p>Nothing, that’s what. Until...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/snap" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bookblabla.com/book/snap</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/friendshipfiction/" rel="tag">#friendshipfiction</a> <a href="/tags/familylife/" rel="tag">#familylife</a> <a href="/tags/generalfiction/" rel="tag">#generalfiction</a> <a href="/tags/humorous/" rel="tag">#humorous</a></p>
<p>Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made for a Monastic Dining Hall?</p><p>A new study offers a fresh way of thinking about one of the most famous works of medieval art by asking a deceptively simple question: where was the Bayeux Tapestry originally meant to be seen? </p><p><a href="https://www.medievalists.net/2025/12/bayeux-tapestry-monastic-dining-hall/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.medievalists.net/2025/12/bayeux-tapestry-monastic-dining-hall/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.medievalists.net/2025/12/b</span><span class="invisible">ayeux-tapestry-monastic-dining-hall/</span></a></p><p>Original article:<br><a href="https://academic.oup.com/histres/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hisres/htaf029/8377922?login=false" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="academic.oup.com/histres/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hisres/htaf029/8377922?login=false"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/histres/advan</span><span class="invisible">ce-article/doi/10.1093/hisres/htaf029/8377922?login=false</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/old_manuscripts/" rel="tag">#old_manuscripts</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a></p>
<p>Great essay by Andrew Liptak on the loss of mass market paperbacks - "there are fewer opportunities to buy stories from new authors, and fewer places for people to encounter books in their everyday lives." </p><p><a href="https://www.andrewliptak.com/mass-market-paperback-novels-publishing-books/?ref=transfer-orbit-newsletter" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.andrewliptak.com/mass-market-paperback-novels-publishing-books/?ref=transfer-orbit-newsletter"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.andrewliptak.com/mass-mark</span><span class="invisible">et-paperback-novels-publishing-books/?ref=transfer-orbit-newsletter</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/publishing/" rel="tag">#publishing</a></p>
<p>Ogden Nash makes a splash</p><p>Ogden Nash found success after The New Yorker hired him in 1930, launching a long career of humorous, playful verse. His earliest published poems enter public domain pretty soon.<br> <br>By John Mark Ockerbloom</p><p><a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/03/ogden-nash-makes-a-splash/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/03/ogden-nash-makes-a-splash/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">everybodyslibraries.com/2025/1</span><span class="invisible">2/03/ogden-nash-makes-a-splash/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomaindaycountdown/" rel="tag">#publicDomainDayCountdown</a></p>
<p>"La reconnaissance a la mémoire courte."</p><p>Swiss philosopher & politician Benjamin Constant was born <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1767. Author of numerous essays on political & religious issues, he also wrote psychological novels, such as Le Cahier rouge and Adolphe.</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5256" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5256"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/5256</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1875, poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke is born</p><p>Rilke "was an Austrian poet and novelist. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the German language. His work is viewed by critics and scholars as possessing undertones of mysticism, exploring themes of subjective experience and disbelief."</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_M</span><span class="invisible">aria_Rilke</span></a></p><p>Rilke at PG:</p><p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/846" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/846"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho</span><span class="invisible">r/846</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>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>
<p>Ebook and paperback: <a href="https://books2read.com/FeyFighters" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>books2read.com/FeyFighters</a></p><p>Two soldiers on opposite sides, pixie Commander Stargazer Candleflash and human Sergeant Edwin Harris, find their fates forever entwined, first by revenge, but as they crash together in a dangerous rainforest, they’re forced to work together, just to survive. Will they make it or will their bickering get them killed?</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>
<p>Was once again reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin's daily schedule, and why this woman was an icon on every single level.</p><p><a href="/tags/ursulakleguin/" rel="tag">#UrsulaKLeguin</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/book/" rel="tag">#book</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a></p>
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<p>📚 Sky Full of Elephants by: Cebo Campbell</p><p>One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receive...</p><p><a href="https://bookblabla.com/book/sky-full-of-elephants" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="bookblabla.com/book/sky-full-of-elephants"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bookblabla.com/book/sky-full-o</span><span class="invisible">f-elephants</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>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>
<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>
<p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1922.</p><p>T. S. Eliot founds The Criterion magazine, with the first appearance of his poem The Waste Land. This will be first fully published in book form by Boni & Liveright in New York in December.</p><p>Eliot's goal was to make it a literary review dedicated to the maintenance of standards and the reunification of a European intellectual community.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Criterion"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crit</span><span class="invisible">erion</span></a></p><p>The Waste Land at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/1321</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>
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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>
<p>"Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow."</p><p><a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> in 1848.</p><p>Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life is published anonymously by Chapman & Hall in London in two volumes.</p><p>Gaskell was paid £100 for the novel. The publisher Edward Chapman had had the manuscript since the middle of 1847.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barton" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barton"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bar</span><span class="invisible">ton</span></a></p><p>Mary Barton at PG:<br><a href="https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2153" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>gutenberg.org/ebooks/2153</a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a></p>
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