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Reposting this for @Andrew65 The idea is for the next 20 days post your top 20 series. So one series each day. I will have to noodle on this a bit then make my list. There are so many good series. I will have to narrow it down.

Andrew65 Me too! Got it down to 32 at the moment! Thanks for reposting. 😊👍 4y

Laughterhp Oo I wonder how many favorite series I have! 4y

TheSpineView @Andrew65 🙌 4y

TheSpineView @Laughterhp If you are like me, too many. I'll have to whittle it down. 4y

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InBooksILive

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@TheAromaofBooks #bookspin #bookspinbonanza

I am so up for the challenge of reading all 20 books in May! My best read in a single month is 16, so this will definitely be fun haha

Posting my list now so I don't forget to later! Trying to get my unread kindle books down a bit cause I have a ton, so I have an entire ebook list for May lol excited for this challenge!

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Good luck!! 5y

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InBooksILive

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My #BookSpin list for April! Excited for another round to start. Didn't change the list much; just swapped in books for the last month's chosen numbers.
@TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great list!! Glad to have you back for another round!! 5y

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MrBook

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This is books that have older protagonists. Remember, there isn‘t a single Litten old enough to qualify as “older” 😉🤫🤗.

Close-up 2/2.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

Scochrane26 I‘ve read several of these. My favorite is Prodigal Summer. 5y

revenge4porgy Definitely not me! I haven‘t read any of these! 😎 5y

ljuliel Major Pettigrew , the Vicarage one , News of the World ..Remains of the Day. (edited) 5y

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ljuliel Nobody‘s Fool , Hendrik Groen , The Summons. The Things About Elsie .. Harold Fry. (edited) 5y

Andrew65 I‘ve read five of these and would also add the partner book to Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce, such great books!

The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: A Novel

rwmg 6 5y

mollyrotondo I‘ve only read 2 😬 Old man and the sea and The 100 year old man. Loved 100 year old man. Cannot say the same for Old man and the sea. Not a Hemingway fan 5y

MemoirsForMe Only 2: Ove and Old Man. But more are on my TBR. 5y

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MrBook

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New book list 😊! Been awhile. This is books that have older protagonists. There isn‘t a single Litten old enough to qualify as “older” 😉🤫🤗.

Close-up 1/2.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

MaggieCarr I really enjoyed Arthur Pepper, The Lido & Ove. 5y

Scochrane26 I haven‘t read any on this list, but I did love the Lonesome Dove series when I was little. 5y

RenePenn A Man Called Ove 5y

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ju.ca.no I‘ve read Don Quijote and I have the Housekeeper and the Professor on my TBR pile at home :) Don Quijote was somewhat tidious though, but Inwas quite young when I read it, maybe that‘s why I didn‘t enjoy it that much 5y

ljuliel Fried Green Tomatoes........ , Lonesome Dove , Major Pettigrew....... 👵🏼 👵🏼 👵🏼 5y

Andrew65 Only Ove on this one, but read 4 others on the other part of the list. 5y

rwmg Elizabeth is Missing and Major Pettigrew's Last Stand 5y

ATB Last sentence in post... good save! 😀 5y

MemoirsForMe Fried Green Tomatoes and The Holy Man. Loved them both! 🙌🏻 5y

MaleficentBookDragon What about my favorite book

Britt-Marie Was Here

AmyG Angle of Repose is one of my most favorite books. 5y

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arubabookwoman

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New book from Ammie today. I can't wait to peruse.

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MrBook

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The second-half of my #TearJerker introductory list for the #ReadWithMrBook February prompt! 😊

Have you read any of these and concur? Any L-Z suggestions you would add?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

BarbaraTheBibliophage I never cry when I read, but this one had me bawling.

The Nightingale

Nikki_E Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

Crazeedi Read 3! 5y

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Scochrane26 Several of these. Definitely When Breath Becomes Air, The Kite Runner, The Song of Achilles, Me Before You. I‘ve read some others on the list. (edited) 5y

TheSpineView Just 3. 5y

rwmg 7 5y

Butterfinger I teach fifth so I read a lot of children's lit. Christopher Paul Curtis -

The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963

Butterfinger Another one.

Elijah of Buxton

Butterfinger A refugee story

The Breadwinner

RenePenn I‘ve read 9 of those.

One Summer

j9brown Where the Red Fern Grows was the first book I can remember making me actually cry as I read it. I think it would still get me if I picked it up again! 5y

Andrew65 Read 5 of these. 5y

cherinium I've read 8 of those for sure and there's one I'm not sure about. I do agree that those are all capable of bringing tears. This one will choke you up for sure if you have a heart for elephants and their plight. I almost couldn't finish the book, because I was crying so hard.

The White Bone: A Novel

EadieB I‘ve read 15 of them! 5y

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MrBook

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With #ReadWithMrBook‘s February prompt being #TearJerker, I thought I‘d re-share my introductory book list of year-jerkers! 😊

The first-half of my list! 😊

Have you read any of these and concur? Any A-L suggestions you would add?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

Beatlefan129 When I read this one I sobbed like a baby:

The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel

ravenlee I never thought about Crime and Punishment being a tearjerker. 5y

Scochrane26 The art of racing in the rain—cried in my car to the audiobook 5y

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Butterfinger Why is Anne considered a tearjerker? Or are the three asterisks for the series? I know the last one in the series (Rilla of Ingleside) was pitiful? 5y

Butterfinger I definitely cried with the Book Thief and Anne Frank's Diary? I need to clarify. I didn't understand why Anne of Green Gables was sad? 5y

TheSpineView 4 on this list. 5y

rwmg 5 5y

BookNAround @Butterfinger When Matthew dies, I bawled like a baby. 5y

BookNAround My spoiler above is for Anne of Green Gables. 5y

Butterfinger I had forgotten @BookNAround thank you. This may have to be my choice. Apparently, it has been too long. 5y

LiteraryinPA What do the asterisks mean? 5y

MrBook @LiteraryinLititz , great question! It signifies that the book is an installment in a series. I usually try to pick the first book in the series, but sometimes based on the theme I‘ll pick one that falls somewhere else. I have to rely on many others for this one since I haven‘t read it (yet 😉), but the Harry Potter example is a very popular criteria choice for this particular list. (edited) 5y

MrBook @Butterfinger , I haven‘t read Anne since I was a kid, but the entire series came up regularly as such. Perhaps it‘s her situation, and perhaps later installments made readers more sad? 5y

Butterfinger @MrBook I had forgotten. This is definitely my choice. I am going to reread it. I feel like an idiot. 5y

MrBook @Butterfinger , idiot thou art not nor hath been nor shall be. 🤗 5y

Hooked_on_books I don‘t think Anna Karenina is a tear-jerker. For me, if there‘s a dog, and the dog dies, I cry. Where the Red Fern Grows was probably the first one that did that to me. Seventh grade, I believe. 5y

GatheringBooks should definitely be in there

A Little Life

Andrew65 Read 4 of these. 5y

cherinium I've read 6 of these. It's funny,I never realized I was such a reader of sad books... 😭 5y

EadieB I‘ve read 11 of these! 5y

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GatheringBooks

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#QuotsyJan20 Day 30: #Inane

TK-421

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MrBook

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The #ReesesBookClub selections 2/2.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

ljuliel Little Fires Everywhere. , Eleanor Oliphant. 5y

Mdargusch A few. I tend to like the books she chooses. 5y

Lynnsoprano The Alice Network is excellent. Of course, how could I not pick that up?😂 5y

rwmg The Alice Network 5y

Gissy I only read Eleonor Oliphant is Completely fine but there are many books in my physical tbr in that list waiting to be read😳 5y

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MrBook

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New book list! All of the #ReesesBookClub selections, 1/2.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

ljuliel The Cactus. 5y

Qpri From Scratch (a bit too high on romance/emotion for me) and Daisy Jones & The Six (pretty awesome! fictional version of Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain). 5y

Gissy I read One Day in December 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 4/4 of my #FamilySaga list. Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

rwmg Sarum and Things Fall Apart. I've read the Bronte version of Wuthering Heights but not Hardy's. I've never liked him. 5y

RamsFan1963 The Sword of Shannara 5y

Lcsmcat @rwmg I don‘t think Hardy wrote a version of Wuthering Heights. I like his writing and have read a lot of his work. 5y

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mcctrish Ooo making a list of a list ❤️ 5y

Chab256 I've read TKAMB, Wuthering Heights, We Were the Mulvaneys, Z...The Thornbirds is on the TBR... 5y

needleminding Sing, Unburied, Sing & TKAMB 🖤 5y

ljuliel Thorn Birds, TKAM , We were the Mulvaneys. . (edited) 5y

EadieB I‘ve read: Things Fall Apart, The Thorn Birds, To Kill A Mockingbird, White Teeth, Wuthering Heights. 5y

Auntynanny Sarum, Things Fall Apart, and To Kill a Mockingbird 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 3/4 of my #FamilySaga list. Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

rwmg Joy Luck, LOTR, and My Family & Other Animals 5y

RamsFan1963 Lord of the Rings, of course 5y

Chab256 I didn't like the Nest, but Lonesome Dove is on the TBR 5y

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needleminding Kindred 🖤 I guess I need to get on family sagas. Haha 5y

Panic70 The Joy Luck Club. ❤️ 5y

ljuliel Lonesome Dove , Roots 5y

EadieB Joy Luck Club, Kristen Lavransdatter, Middlesex, The Namesake, 100 years of Solitude. 5y

Auntynanny The Joy Luck Club, Kindred, and 100 Years of Solitude 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 2/4 of my #FamilySaga list. Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

rwmg 5 from this part 5y

RamsFan1963 Dune and A Game of Thrones 5y

Chab256 Loved Gone With the Wind and East of Eden 5y

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rubyslippersreads ❤️ GWTW and The Forsyte Saga. 5y

ljuliel House of the Sprits, The Good Earth , Gone With the Wind , Family Matters, Fair and Tender Ladies, Empire Falls, East of Eden. (edited) 5y

EadieB East of Eden, Empire Falls, Fall of Giants, The Godfather, TheGoldfinch, Gone With The Wind, The Good Earth, The House of Spirits, 5y

Gissy House of Spirits 5y

Auntynanny East of Eden, Fall of Giants, Game of Thrones, The Godfather, Homegoing, and I, Claudius 5y

Auntynanny Also Gone With the Wind 5y

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MrBook

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New book list 😊! This has books that focus on the multi-generational story of a family or connected families. As always, it‘s only introductory, the three asterisks signify it‘s part of a series, and the list is focused on what‘s available to patrons from my library‘s shelves.

Close-up 1/4 of my #FamilySaga list. Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

rwmg Brideshead, Jalna, and Commonwealth 5y

RamsFan1963 The Bastard. Not my usual reading material, belongs to my mother, I read it one summer when i was in a reading slump. 5y

rubyslippersreads ❤️❤️❤️ the Jalna series. 5y

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ljuliel The Bastard , plus the other 7 books in that series. Back about 38 years ago if my math is correct. I remember which house we lived in. 5y

EadieB An American Marriage, And The Mountains Echoed, The Corrections. 5y

Auntynanny Just The Covenant for this one 5y

amber_ldsmom I‘ve only read six of the entire list. 😕 5y

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 6/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

quirkyreader I have read some of the books on this list. 5y

Scochrane26 I think I‘m going to read Varina because I already own it.

Varina

Tove_Reads Stoner is one of my all time faves! 5y

DGRachel Stoner and Vicious are amazing. I‘ve read a couple others, too, but those are my faves from this list. 5y

RamsFan1963 Timeline, Tripwire and Watchmen. I own a copy of We on my TBR shelves 5y

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 5/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

quirkyreader Possession was a good story. 5y

ljuliel Possession, Rebecca 5y

Shemac77 Shantaram was fantastic! 5y

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 4/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

RamsFan1963 Only Necromancer 5y

Rissreads My January book isn't on this list! 5y

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 3/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 2/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

RamsFan1963 Dune, and I have a TBR copy of Cryptonomicon. 5y

DebReads4fun I read Gilead and lived it! 5y

rubyslippersreads I‘m among the minority who ❤️

Emma

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 1/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

Amiable “Americanah” was one of my favorites of the past decade. 5y

Gissy I will go with a short trashy book😂 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 4/4 of my real life adapted into fictional biography list.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists #FictionalBiographies

ljuliel Roots 5y

rwmg Wolf Hall 5y

Andrew65 Roots and Wolf Hall. 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 3/4 of my real life adapted into fictional biography list.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists #FictionalBiographies

EadieB I've read Loving Frank, The Paris Wife and Room. I own Mason & Dixon, The Master and Nefertiti. 5y

rwmg The October Horse 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 2/4 of my real life adapted into fictional biography list.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists #FictionalBiographies

EadieB I've read: Drood, Girl with the Pearl Earring, Invention of Wings, Lilac Girls. 5y

ljuliel Homer & Langley. and Invention of Wings. 5y

rwmg Girl With a Pearl Earring,
I, Claudius,
Lily of the Nile 5y

Andrew65 Genghis Khan Books, Hannibal books and Girl with a Pearl Earring. Strongly recommend Ben Kane books. 5y

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MrBook

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New book list 😊! Real people adapted into fictional biographies 😁. There are quite a lot out there!

Close-up 1/4.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists #FictionalBiographies

EadieB I've read: The Air You Breathe, American Wife, Circling the Sun, Doc. 5y

ljuliel Circling the Sun and Doc. 5y

rwmg Burr 5y

Andrew65 Circling the Sun. 5y

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 6/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

rwmg Timeline and Twilight 5y

JanuarieTimewalker13 I read Timeline about 15 years ago, it was good! 5y

AmyG Stoner was excellent. And yes, Timeline was very good. (edited) 5y

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Texreader Texas! Of course! And Utopia. 5y

Deblovestoread I've read 5 with Stoner and Tinkers being the best. 5y

Scochrane26 There‘s several on these lists that I‘ve read & several are on my tbr. I prob won‘t decide until January. 5y

RamsFan1963 Timeline, Tripwire and Watchmen 5y

Andrew65 Tripwire, Texas. 5y

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 5/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

rwmg 4 from this section 5y

JanuarieTimewalker13 I‘ve only read Room and Speak, both good! 5y

Texreader Rebecca 5y

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StaceGhost Shogun was sooo good in that I sometimes contemplate certain scenes years later with a morbid fascination 5y

umbrellagirl Rebecca 5y

Andrew65 Quentins, Rebecca. 5y

ljuliel I‘ve read Rebecca ( fantastic ). and. Possession , a struggle, but good. 5y

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 4/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

Curiouser_and_curiouser Ive read Matilda, Misery and Outlander. I've just bought Middlemarch so it's on my TBR, as is Orlando. 5y

rwmg Middlemarch 5y

rwmg Outlander and Middlesex are on my virtual TBR shelf 5y

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JanuarieTimewalker13 I‘ve read Kindred, Matilda and Middlesex. Middlesex was outstanding. 5y

Texreader Kindred, Matterhorn, Misery, and Outlander 5y

StaceGhost Middlemarch changed my life 5y

umbrellagirl Matilda, Middlemarch, Middlesex, Outlander, Orlando 5y

Andrew65 Matilda and Outlander, a bit of a difference between these books. 😂 (edited) 5y

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 3/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

Curiouser_and_curiouser 1Q84, almost, must finish last quarter. 5y

rwmg Hamlet, Inferno and Ivanhoe 5y

JanuarieTimewalker13 Homegoing, amazing, and loved IT 5y

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Texreader It. 5y

StaceGhost Loved Homegoing and Horrorstör equally but in vastly different ways 5y

Andrew65 Only Homegoing from this list. 5y

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MrBook

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A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 2/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

rwmg 5 from this section 5y

JanuarieTimewalker13 Dracula and Emma 😀 5y

Texreader Dracula and Emma 5y

StaceGhost DUNE ♥️🥰😎 5y

Andrew65 Dracula. 5y

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MrBook

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New list 😁! One-word titles. A short introductory list to help you get some ideas for the January prompt. 👍🏻

Close-up 1/6. Have you read any of these?

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists
#ReadWithMrBook #1WordTitle

rwmg Beowulf and Candide 5y

JanuarieTimewalker13 Candide....last millennium..lol...like way back in the 80s 5y

Texreader Anthem, Beowulf, and Candide — all back in the 80s 5y

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StaceGhost Americanah is one of the best books I‘ve ever read 5y

Scochrane26 I agree @StaceyAnneHoffer 5y

umbrellagirl Atonement, Beloved, Beowulf 5y

NovelGirl82 I‘m so excited for this fun challenge this year! Beowulf and Beloved are two of my favorite books. I read them both in high school English and fell in love with them. 5y

Andrew65 None of these 🤔 5y

ljuliel I e read Atonement , but can‘t remember a blooming thing about it. 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 5/5 of my #Memoir list! 😊

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

BkClubCare I have read 5 of these and all quite good 5y

ljuliel Tuesday‘s With Morrie , When You Are Engulfed in Flames. 5y

Crazeedi Read 2, 1 on my shelf 5y

rwmg Year of Living Biblically 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 4/5 of my #Memoir list! 😊

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

ljuliel Shot in the Heart was absolutely terrific. 6 stars. 5y

DGRachel I‘m not a fan of memoirs as a general rule, but I did enjoy Persepolis.

Persepolis

rwmg Out of Africa, Persepolis. I started Running with Scissors but gave up after the first chapter 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 3/5 of my #Memoir list! 😊

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

BkClubCare So many good ones! 5y

ljuliel Liar‘s Club, one of my all time favorites. 5y

Crazeedi 1 5y

Viji Loved Lab girl 5y

rwmg Night 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 2/5 of my #Memoir list! 😊

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

BkClubCare 9 of this list. Didn‘t realize I‘ve read so many 5y

ljuliel A Girl Named Zippy ( I‘ve worn this out listening to it ), Glass Castle , Heartbreaking Work....yada yada (. Didn‘t like this at all. Yuk) , and Hillbilly Elegy. Thanks for the list @MrBook. You‘re a pal. (edited) 5y

Crazeedi Read 3! 5y

rwmg Educated and I Am Malala 5y

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MrBook

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I‘ve made another book list 😊. Yes, I know there are a ton of books not on here, lol—it‘s only introductory ☺️. I also make these for my library patrons, so 95% of these need to be available for them 😁. So, here‘s close-up 1/5 of my #Memoir list! (Here ya go, @ljuliel ! 🤗)

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

ljuliel Oh boy ! Thanks ! I‘ll take a look-see 😁 5y

BkClubCare 7 on this list. Wow 5y

ljuliel Angela‘s Ashes , Borne a Crime and Anne Frank off this list. (edited) 5y

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Crazeedi Read 2! 5y

DGRachel Born a Crime was phenomenal on audiobook. It‘s the audiobook I recommend to everyone regardless of genre preferences. 5y

rwmg A Child Called "It" 5y

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MrBook

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Close-up 4/4 of my #Victorian Literature book list!
😊

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

Auntynanny The Scarlet Letter, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 5y

LittleBug The Scarlet Letter, A Study in Scarlet, Treasure Island, Twenty thousand Leagues, Uncle Tom‘s Cabin. Most of them so long ago that I barely remember them though🙈 5y

Christy2318 The Scarlet Letter (UGH), Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Soulless ❤️, Vanity Fair ❤️, Wuthering Heights 5y

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ljuliel Shadow Country , Tenant of Wildfell Hall , Treasure Island , Woman in White. ***. @MrBook .... just curious how does Shadow Country fit in with this category ? It doesn‘t remind me of the rest . It doesn‘t seem like it‘d fit in a Victorian book list. (edited) 5y

Scochrane26 @Christy2318 That is also my feeling about Scarlet Letter 😂 I‘ve also read Wuthering heights, Walden, Uncle Tom‘s Cabin, a Study in Scarlet, Strange Case of the Alchemist‘s Daughter, Jekyll & Hyde. If Alchemist‘s Daughter is on here, then the Lady Sherlock series & other spin-offs of Holmes should be listed. 5y

MrBook @ljuliel It takes place over the course of late 1800s and first decade of the 1900s, and the Victorian Era runs 1837-1902. I saw it on a list and thought the same, lol, but it qualifies as much of it is based on true historical events that occurred in the late era. 5y

MrBook @Scochrane26 I only have so much room on my introductory list 😆🙌🏻, and AD would be a good jumping off point for the others. 5y

ljuliel Thanks @MrBook ... I was just trying to figure out how a bunch of folks who lived back in the Everglades in the swamps would have been called a Victorian book. I guess I had a different picture of what that‘d mean. I pictured the big old houses , ladies in long pretty dresses , etc. 😊 5y

Scochrane26 @MrBook True. The Sherlock, Dracula, & Frankenstein spin-offs & retellings could be a whole list. 5y

MrBook @ljuliel 😆👏🏻🙌🏻 I hear ya! One tends to think of the British Isles, and maybe France and some other parts of Europe. I included some of the bigger and more well-known American counterparts to expand the picture a bit. 😊 5y

MrBook @Scochrane26 Now you gave me another idea! 😆🙌🏻🍻 5y

TheSpineView 6 on this list. I wish I could say more than that. 5y

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Close-up 3/4 of my #Victorian Literature book list!
😊

Have you read any of these?!

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Auntynanny Les Miserables, Little Women and Oliver Twist 5y

LittleBug Only Oliver Twist! Did start Little Women once upon a time...🧐 5y

ljuliel Little Women ( 👎🏼), Oliver Twist , Moonstone , Observations , Quincunx , Possession. (edited) 5y

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Scochrane26 On this list, only Little Women & Picture of Dorian Gray. Read it a few yrs ago, & it may be my fave classic besides Jane Austen. 5y

TheSpineView Dickson and Whitman of course and Oliver Twist. 5y

wordslinger42 North and South is on my list for this winter! The adaptation that the BBC did is my eternal favorite 💜 5y

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Close-up 2/4 of my #Victorian Literature book list!
😊

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

Auntynanny Dangerous Fortune, Dracula, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Hound of the Baskervilles and Jane Eyre 5y

LittleBug The French Lieutenant‘s..., The Hound of the Baskervilles, Journey to the Center of the World. 5y

ljuliel David Copperfield , Gillespie and I ( 🌟) , Journey to the Center of the Earth , Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (edited) 5y

Scochrane26 Dracula, Far from the Madding Crowd, Heart of Darkness, Jane Eyre 5y

TheSpineView Dracula and David Copperfield. I have been meaning to read Jonathon Strange 5y

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My next book list is done 😁! This one is #Victorian Literature. Close-up 1/4.

Have you read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

Auntynanny Agnes Grey, Alias Grace, Anna Karenina, Count of Monte Cristo and Crime and Punishment 5y

LittleBug Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 5y

ljuliel Huck Finn, Alias Grace , Alice in Wonderland , Count of Monte Cristo (edited) 5y

Scochrane26 Alias Grace, Huck Finn, Anna K, Poe 5y

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Close-up 3/3 of my #UrbanFantasy List. What do you think?

Have you read any of these authors‘ works?!

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BookmarkTavern Seanan McGuire and Daniel José Older are both amazing! 5y

Hooked_on_books Bravo! Lots of women on the list! I like it. 5y

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Close-up 2/3 of my #UrbanFantasy List. What do you think?

Have you read any of these authors‘ works?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

BookmarkTavern Love Max Gladstone! And Neil Gaiman! 5y

Jesstifies Gaiman, Hamilton and Harris 5y

rwmg I've read American Gods and Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and too many by Charlaine Harris to list 5y

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Possibly the most debated subgenre list, lol. An hour-long conversation at the library today 😆. Opinions are all over the map online between authors, critics, publishers, and bloggers—for example, some think Harry Potter definitely qualifies and some think absolutely not 😳🙈. #ContemporaryFantasy, #ParanormalRomance, and other sub-genres, help muddle things 😆. Well, here‘s #UrbanFantasy, for what it‘s worth.

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BookmarkTavern YEESSS! Ben Aaronovitch! 5y

rwmg Ben Aaronovitch 5y

CoffeeK8 Great list! 5y

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Part 4/4 of my #Hardboiled #Mystery Authors List. 😊

Have you read any of their books?!

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Leftcoastzen Stout,Willeford ,and Woolrich. 5y

Hooked_on_books Do you know what your list is missing? Women. There are only 4 women listed here. Surely we can come up with more hard-boiled women authors than this. Patricia Cornwell, Sara Paretsky, Gillian Flynn, Attica Locke, etc (edited) 5y

MrBook @Hooked_on_books You‘re right 👍🏻. I‘ve noticed trends over time as I‘ve compiled my dozens and dozens of lists. This list has few women. The psychological suspense one has few men. The cozy mysteries have hardly any men at all. Sci fi is mostly men. Romance is nearly all women. Espionage/spy lit is mostly men. “Chick Lit” is mostly all women. I don‘t have an answer for it, why do you think these trends exist? (edited) 5y

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Hooked_on_books I think much of it is what women have been permitted to do historically being slow to expand outward. I have a history in medicine, wherein it is typical to see many more women in nursing, pediatrics, etc, and many fewer in surgical specialties, especially neurosurgery and orthopedics. I don‘t think it‘s that women don‘t want to participate in these fields or write these kinds of books but that women “don‘t” do those things. ⬇️ (edited) 5y

Hooked_on_books Which has made it much harder for women to break into these areas. The key is to give women opportunities, support, and indeed, mentions on this kind of list, to make it more normalized. This goes for people of color as well, of course. After all, if your patrons don‘t see books by women and POCs represented on lists, they won‘t read them. And then things never improve. 5y

Hooked_on_books And there are great authors out there in every genre who are women, POCs, or both. 5y

MrBook @Hooked_on_books That makes sense to me. It‘s a good conversation to have. The unfair stereotypes hinder a great deal of artistic and broader-cultural flourishing. It‘s not right for authors to use pseudonyms on those grounds 😕. 5y

Hooked_on_books A good conversation, indeed. After all, when you‘re not the subject of something, it can be much harder to see it. Thus I can share my experiences with sexism with you to make them more visible, since I‘m female. Pseudonyms are a tough one. Historically women used them to get read at all, and I think they linger especially in those genres wherein women historically have less representation. But it‘s a tough call as to whether they hinder. 5y

Hooked_on_books This is a really interesting take on this issue in literature specifically: https://www.bustle.com/p/a-breakdown-of-by-the-book-columns-shows-that-male-auth... 5y

MrBook @Hooked_on_books I always appreciate any Litten‘s constructive input 😁🤗. I think I should repeat that more often, lol, maybe folks are hesitant to add their thoughts. 5y

Hooked_on_books That‘s too bad. I‘m never hesitant to share, though not always certain my input is appreciated! 😆 I‘m glad you‘re amenable to the conversation. I‘ve dealt with so much sexism that it‘s made me quite the ardent feminist. 5y

MrBook @Hooked_on_books I‘m always glad to hear what others have to say. Littens aren‘t belligerent, thank goodness 👍🏻👍🏻. Readers are leaders, right? 😎🙌🏻😌 5y

Hooked_on_books Totally! 5y

rwmg And it is so important to actually count. I was under the impression that I read roughly equal amounts of male and female authors but the first year I counted it was about 3 male-authored books for every female-authored book. I made a particular effort the next year to give female authors priority and got the reverse figure, but unless I make a particular effort my reading is still only 30% female-authored. 5y

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Part 3/4 of my #Hardboiled #Mystery Authors List. 😊

Have you read any of their books?!

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AvidReaderandGeekGirl I‘ve read some James Patterson 5y

Jesstifies Greg Rucka! He's done some awesome comics and graphic novels. They just made one, Stumptown, into a tv show too. Just aired last week I think. He's pretty rad and up here in the PNW as well.

Stumptown Volume 1

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DivineDiana And three James Patterson books.

rwmg Ellis Peters is hardboiled? I would have said softboiled if not downright cosy (edited) 5y

MrBook @rwmg , according to Otto Penzler, and I take that man‘s word as gold. 😆🙌🏻 5y

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Part 2/4 of my #Hardboiled #Mystery Authors List. 😊

Have you read any of their books?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

DivineDiana

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

DivineDiana

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

faithx5 I read Dorothy Hughes‘ In a Lonely Place because I love the movie. The book was kind of nauseating, the main guy was so amoral (the movie changes a lot from the book). 5y

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With my book lists, I‘ve shared mystery authors whose works fall under the mystery categories of: general thriller-suspends, espionage/spy lit, psychological suspense, and cozy. Now for #hardboiled! 😁

Part 1/4 of my #Hardboiled #Mystery Authors List. 😊

Have you read any of their books?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksLists

DivineDiana

You Will Know Me: A Novel

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Close-up 7/7 of #PsychologicalSuspense.

Any favorite authors for you?!

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vivastory I like CJ Tudor, although I was a bit disappointed with her most recent book 5y

Sleepswithbooks Your lists of psychological suspense authors is freaking awesome!!! Thank you for introducing so many new names for me to explore 🤗 5y

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