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The Best Books of 2024 Winners!

created by vincoug on 19/01/2025 at 16:42 UTC - 1748 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

171 comments

Weekly FAQ Thread February 23, 2025: Which contemporary novels do you think deserve to become classics?

created by AutoModerator on 23/02/2025 at 12:00 UTC - 16 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

47 comments

The ‘tsundoku’ phenomenon, or how we’ve normalized collecting books we’ll never read

created by No-Strawberry-5804 on 25/02/2025 at 14:28 UTC - 1576 upvotes (https, english.elpais.com)

293 comments

Books you can't traditionally read

created by amadeus451 on 26/02/2025 at 04:22 UTC - 32 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

38 comments

Bebbington: 'Freedom to read' is crucial to a healthy society

created by PeanutSalsa on 25/02/2025 at 16:16 UTC - 285 upvotes (https, ottawacitizen.com)

4 comments

An Autobiography that Surprised You With How Good It Was

created by most-royal-chemist on 25/02/2025 at 13:33 UTC - 166 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

311 comments

Regardless of whether you end up enjoying it or not, do you ever read something just to "get it over with" and be able to weigh in on books that frequently get brought up?

created by Mind101 on 25/02/2025 at 11:21 UTC - 173 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

180 comments

I'm finding reading to be a lot less fun than it used to be.

created by maxwell-cady on 25/02/2025 at 20:12 UTC - 32 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

51 comments

How Art Spiegelman and 'Maus' changed comics and how we understand Holocaust literature

created by drak0bsidian on 25/02/2025 at 00:08 UTC - 1341 upvotes (https, www.wnyc.org)

67 comments

The International Booker Prize 2025 Announcement

created by shergillmarg on 25/02/2025 at 14:15 UTC - 95 upvotes (https, thebookerprizes.com)

25 comments

Any JG Ballard fans?

created by MarcRocket on 25/02/2025 at 17:22 UTC - 36 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

31 comments

An Israeli raid of a famous Palestinian bookstore stokes censorship fears

created by annonymous_bosch on 25/02/2025 at 00:16 UTC - 819 upvotes (https, www.npr.org)

102 comments

Check out r/bookclub's line up for March

created by fixtheblue on 25/02/2025 at 18:48 UTC - 25 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

6 comments

What personal eccentricity of yours can make it hard for you to enjoy certain books or character types?

created by Jerswar on 26/02/2025 at 07:27 UTC - 2 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

0 comments

Straight Guy Reading Romance

created by Montecatini on 24/02/2025 at 12:40 UTC - 446 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

522 comments

"Menacing Mothers" in Books

created by sunny-spring24 on 25/02/2025 at 19:27 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

3 comments

What are your thoughts on Milan Kundera?

created by Justsome_bloke on 24/02/2025 at 19:42 UTC - 64 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

59 comments

"The Woman in the Dunes" by Kobo Abe - a bleak and unsettling book

created by keepfighting90 on 24/02/2025 at 14:53 UTC - 98 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

24 comments

I had to drop "a hundred years of solitude" because it made me sick

created by SebaWDK on 23/02/2025 at 18:25 UTC* - 4345 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

980 comments

Do NOT Sleep on Dungeon Crawler Carl

created by Mounta1anmama on 24/02/2025 at 00:03 UTC - 1369 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

458 comments

Simple Questions: February 25, 2025

created by AutoModerator on 25/02/2025 at 10:00 UTC - 2 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

17 comments

What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: February 24, 2025

created by AutoModerator on 24/02/2025 at 11:00 UTC - 131 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

814 comments

These Books Are Absolutely Unreadable. That’s the Point. (Gift Article)

created by zsreport on 24/02/2025 at 12:15 UTC - 91 upvotes (https, www.nytimes.com)

7 comments

The Hunter by Richard Stark

created by Strange-Avenues on 24/02/2025 at 18:21 UTC - 16 upvotes (https, www.reddit.com)

13 comments

Virginia Woolf Would Want You to Read Harry Potter: But maybe fiction is out of style?

created by drak0bsidian on 26/02/2025 at 02:46 UTC - 0 upvotes (https, ireadthisovershabbos.substack.com)

6 comments