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Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 4

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2005 On Beauty by Zadie Smith | UK | 446 | 🏆🏆🏆 2009 How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall | UK | 289 | 2018 The President is Missing by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson | US | 528 | 2018 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins | US | 400 | 2019 On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong | US-Vietnam | 256 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2024 Fire Exit by Morgan Talty | US | 256 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2024 Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky | UK | 384 | 2024 Enlightenment by Sarah Perry | UK | 528 | 🏆 2024 Godwin by Joseph O'Neill | Ireland | 288 | 🏆 2024 The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan | US | 224 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 3

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1969 The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle | US | 26 | 2003 Sunset in St. Tropez by Danielle Steel |US | 213 | 2005 The Knight of Sainte-Hermine by Alexandre Dumas | FR | 1296 | 2008 When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris | US | 323 | 2014 Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King | US | 405 | 🏆 2025 Be Gay, Do Crime by Emily R. Austin & etl | CAN | 203 | 2025 Flashlight by Susan Choi | US | 464 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2025 Endling by Maria Reva | CAN | 352 | 🏆🏆🏆 2025 Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid | US | 352 | 2025 The Slip by Lucas Schaefer | US | 496 | 🏆🏆 2025 We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cámara | Argentine | 256 | 🏆 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 2

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1959 Lysergic Acid by Allen Ginsberg 2015 A Field Guide to Awkward Silences by Alexandra Petri | US | 320 | 2015 Finders Keepers by Stephen King | US | 434 | 2020 Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why by Alexandra Petri | US | 240 | 2020 The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett | US | 352 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2020 A Burning by Megha Majumdar | IND | 304 | 🏆🏆 2020 All I Ask by Eva Crocker | CAN | 320 | 🏆 2020 The Diamond House by Dianne Warren | CAN | 384 | 🏆🏆 2020 Parakeet by Marie-Helene Bertino | US | 240 | 🏆 2020 Magnetized: Conversations with a Serial Killer by Carlos Busqued | Argentine | 192 | 2020 Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy by Edward Ball | US | 416 | 2020 The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore | US-Liberia | 272 | 2026 A Pair of Aces by Marie Benedict | US | 399 | 2026 How to Lose Yourself Completely by Peter Bognanni | USA | 352 | 2026 Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim | US | 368 | 2026 Meeting New People by Daniel M. Lavery |...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 1

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1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde | Ireland | 304 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1981 The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan | UK | 128 | 1983 The Wrestling Match by Buchi Emecheta | UK-Nigeria | 74 | ⭐⭐ 1986 Wanderlust by Danielle Steel | US | 512 | 1994 Barrel Fever and Other Stories by David Sedaris | US | 208 | 2004 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris | US | 272 | 🏆 2006 My Animal Life by Maggie Gee | UK | 232 | 2016 Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang | China | 608 | 2021 The Locked Door by Freida McFadden | US | 320 | 2021 Assembly by Natasha Brown | UK | 112 | 🏆 2021 Find Us by Benjamin Stevenson | AUS | 159 | 2021 The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin | US | 288 | 🏆🏆 2021 The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris | US | 368 | 2021 With Teeth by Kristen Arnett | US | 304 | 2021 The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien | US | 416 | 🏆 2021 Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford | US | 224 | 🏆 2026 Westerly by Susan Donovan Bernhard | US | 386 | 2026 Two L...