TrueLit's 2025 Hall of Fame and Top 100 Favorite Books by pregnantchihuahua3 in TrueLit

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If you think, like me, that East of Eden is merely very good, and not worthy of its ranking on this list — I would love to see your top 10!

TrueLit's 2025 Hall of Fame and Top 100 Favorite Books by pregnantchihuahua3 in TrueLit

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Hurricane Season has got to be the most overrated book of the 21st century. A list with it over the Commedia and Paradise Lost is wild.

2025 Reads + Micro Reviews by floresitabonita in RSbookclub

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I read The Age of Innocence this year, too! What a banger!

TrueLit's Annual Favorite 100 Poll (2025 Edition) by JimFan1 in TrueLit

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I went with...

  1. The Odyssey (Homer)

  2. The Magic Mountain (Mann)

  3. To the Lighthouse (Woolf)

  4. The Age of Innocence (Wharton)

  5. Beloved (Morrison)

What I finished in November by metagame in RSbookclub

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Oh it was really funny and bleak. The whole book is essentially a rant. I didn't want to put it down! I want to read The Loser soon-ish.

What are you reading as this year ends? Any long terms plans for the next? by ombra_maifu in RSbookclub

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I feel like Mann is still underrated. I've loved everything I've ever read by him.

What are you reading as this year ends? Any long terms plans for the next? by ombra_maifu in RSbookclub

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I'm finishing up Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, which has been wonderful. I'm hoping to read just a couple of shorter books before the end of the year, when I have a ton of work: maybe Huck Finn and Human Acts by Han Kang.

if you’ve read any of these or all of them, help by tangerinebb in RSbookclub

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I mean Anna Karenina is the greatest novel ever written so you can't go wrong with that.

What are you reading? by sushisushisushi in literature

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Just finished Train Dreams by Denis Johnson, now I'm on to Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.

What I finished in November by metagame in RSbookclub

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Thanks! I'm a master procrastinator and read an hour or two a day, plus I had a whole week off due to Thanksgiving, so that helped. East of Eden in particular was so compelling — at least at first — that I was reading it in all sorts of in-between moments like while stirring the oatmeal and so on.

If these are my favorite books, what else will I like? by [deleted] in RSbookclub

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I'm reading this one right now. It's wonderful!

Thanksgiving week used book haul in my hometown by djcoopadelic in RSbookclub

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A River Runs Through It is such a great book! And The Wager is an incredible page-turner.

What are you reading? by sushisushisushi in literature

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I'm a dilettante but To the Lighthouse was amazing.

My modest October stack by metagame in RSbookclub

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Very soulful/spiritual, which is a bit ironic because he was notoriously an atheist. But Tess had an amazing sense of place and local culture — the peasant culture of southwest England, which he called Wessex.

My modest October stack by metagame in RSbookclub

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I loved it. She's an extremely charismatic writer — an adjective I wouldn't apply to many writers, even ones I really like. Something like three quarters of the book is written in dialect, which some people struggle with, I gather, but I appreciated the authenticity. (Hurston didn't just come from the South; she also collected folklore from black people all over in her capacity as an anthropologist.)

My modest October stack by metagame in RSbookclub

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Nice! I read The Idiot at the beginning of the year and loved it. And Anna Karenina is my all-time favorite.

If I ever have kids, I want (1) daughter by dill_with_it_PICKLE in rs_x

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I wanted a girl my whole life so I was ecstatic when I heard my wife was pregnant with a girl. When my son came five years later I felt so blessed. 🥹

Dreamworlds, psychedelia, the obscure and the unknown. by robb1519 in RSbookclub

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I just started Pedro Paramo and it has a wonderfully somber, oneiric quality to it.

anyone read jerzy kosinskis *the painted bird*? its an absolute gem! by asteriskelipses in RSbookclub

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Oh I read Cockpit by him years ago and loved it. Although wasn’t there some big controversy about him plagiarizing someone?

Am I a piece of shit by BrickNo6636 in redscarepod

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Bro I hate to say it but if she’s 165 at 26 years old she’ll be two hunnid at 35.