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Real life librarian on the hunt for something to make me feel as alive as I did when I was tearing through the Twilight saga for the first time.

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British & Irish Classic Literature
Dark Academia
Level 7
Gothic Literature
Classic Literature from the United States
Critically Acclaimed Memoirs
My Taste
A Discovery of Witches (All Souls, #1)
The Secret History
If It Makes You Happy
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
Rebecca
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The Iliad & the OdysseyA Wizard’s Guide to Defensive BakingWhite Lies: How the South Lost the Civil War, Then Rewrote the HistoryThe Rose Bargain

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The Iliad & the Odyssey

The Iliad & the Odyssey

Homer Homer

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  • Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much
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    I need this actress to narrate my whole life in the background. Her voice is magical.

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  • New at this!

    I really haven’t read this genre before and wanna give it a try any recommendations from which of these books I should start from.🩶

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  • Wrapup + App Speed

    Happy New Year everyone! A few small but important announcements:

    • 2025 Wrapped: You can find this on the Stats tab of your profile. There's a link that says "2025 Wrapped" above Achievements. EDIT 1/1/26 4:45pm CT - I paused 2025 wrapped generation temporarily to help with server load. Once things stabilize in a bit (max a few hours) I will turn it back on.
    • Site/App Speed: We have a lot of new readers joining us today and importing their libraries from SG and GR. Between this, and folks generating their 2025 Wrapped, our severs our working overtime. This is a temporary slowdown in speed; things will go back to normal once imports and wrapups slow down. For all our new readers: our server response times are usually half a second!! This is an anomaly due to traffic.

    Thanks for the patience everyone!

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  • Les Misérables
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    this is my first “project” book of 2026: where i take as long as I need to read a biggggg book/classic to try and keep my attention span intact and help use my brain more. Also learn more words and just read things I don’t typically read and so find it harder to fly through!!!

    I’ve wanted to read this book for ages- and yes this was exacerbated by the guy who does the Hugh Jackman parody singing on tiktok- so I’m super excited to give it a try🥰

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  • Suggestion

    Since the Odyssey is here, it only feels fitting that the Illiad should be too

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    Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

    Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)

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  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
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  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
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    I thought about bursting into tears. The mad feeling had receded, and what it left was a hot itchy feeling behind my eyes.

    I feel this so hard, it's so frustrating and uncomfortable to get angry to the point of tears. Too bad I'm a giant crybaby, so it happens more often than I'd like to admit lol. It's so interesting at this point in my life to read a book from the pov of a 14 year old girl, and be like, I see you girl!! Been there done that!

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  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
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    First YA read in a long time. Young me was a huge Lemony Snicket fan and probably would have loved this. The humor so far is great!

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  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
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    Oh boy these cops are just as incompetent as real ones.

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  • A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking
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    Going about the day and making sweet buns next to a dead girl is unhinged.

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    A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

    A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking

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