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Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 17

1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum | US | 263 | 1979 The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta | UK-NIG | 226 | 2007 Walk the Blue Fields: Stories by Claire Keegan | Ireland | 192 | 2016 This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell | UK | 400 | 2022 You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories by Maggie Shipstead | US | 272 | 2022 Neruda on the Park by Cleyvis Natera | US | 336 | 2022 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub | US | 320 | 2022 Holding Her Breath by Eimear Ryan | Ireland | 256 | 2022 Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri | UK-US | 208 | 2022 The Red Arrow by William Brewer | US | 272 | 2022 Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance by Alison Espach | US | 2023 Joy by B.R.M. Evett | US | 409 | πŸ† 2026 The Seaside Book Club by Helen Rolfe | UK | 289 | πŸ”— Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 16

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2023 Yellowface by R. F. Kuang | US | 336 |πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2023 The Three of Us by Ore Agbaje-Williams | UK-Nigeria | 192 | 2023 King: A Life by Jonathan Eig | US | 688 | πŸ†πŸ† 2023 Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis | US | 320 | 2023 The Guest by Emma Cline | US | 290 | πŸ”— Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 15

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1711 An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope | UK | 28 | 2018 Milkman by Anna Burns | UK | 368 | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† 2025 Sunstruck by William Rayfet Hunter | UK-Jamaica | 384 | πŸ† 2025 Objects of Desire by Neil Blackmore | UK | 349 | 2025 Winter's End by Barbara Pronin | US | 277 | 2025 Mrs Spy by M. J. Robotham | AUS | 321 | πŸ”— Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share
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Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 14

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1925 Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | UK | 240 | 2013 Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Nigerian | 588 | πŸ†πŸ†πŸ† 2013 Inferno by Dan Brown | US | 480 | 2019 A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende | Chile | 384 | 2024 All Fours by Miranda July | US | πŸ† 2024 This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud | US | 448 | πŸ†πŸ† 2024 Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru | UK | 272 | 2024 We Were the Universe by Kimberly King Parsons | US | 288 | 2024 My First Book by Honor Levy | US | 224 | πŸ”— Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share
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Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (2021): A Review

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Title : Project Hail Mary Author : Andy Weir Publication Year: 2021 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 496 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : science fiction Awards : winner of the Dragon Award, Goodreads Choice Awards, Audie Award, & Seiun Award Best Translated Long Work; Finalist for the Canopus Award, Hugo Award, Xingyun Award, & Premio Italia International Science Fiction Novel Finally, I listened to PHM and joined the fan club. This book is ridiculous levels of fun. Our main guy, Ryland Grace, is basically a Deadpool-ish chaos ex-academic now a high school teacher, but with actual degrees, better manners, and a lab coat. He’s wildly scientific, absurdly resourceful, and somehow still spends half the book roasting himself so hard I was giggling out loud. The two “voices” of Grace—especially the self-deprecating one—had me belly-laughing while he’s out there, you know, casually trying to stop the end of the world on an interstellar field trip. Did I immensely enjoy the b...
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