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Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 6

2014 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | US | 544 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2014 Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell | UK | 336 | 2025 My Friends by Fredrik Backman | Sweden | 448 | 🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | My Review 2025 One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune | CAN | 400 | 2025 Confidential by Mikolaj Grynberg | Poland | 160 | 2025 The Words of Dr. L: & Other Stories by Karen Bender | US | 304 | 2025 Speaking in Tongues by J. M. Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos | South Africa | 144 | 2025 My Name Is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende | Chile | 301 | 2025 Dear Virginia, Wait for Me by Marcia Butler | US | 251 | 2025 A Woman in the Wild: A Novel (The Orpheus Trilogy) by Tad Crawford | US | 336 | 2025 A Senior Citizen's Guide to Life on the Run (Timeless Pastures Mystery) by Gwen Florio | US | 253 | 2025 The Missing Half by Ashley Flowers | US | 273 | 2025 Intersections by Karen F. Uhlmann | US | 288 | 2025 Romantic Friction by Lori Gold | US | 304 | 2025 The Rest ...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 5

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2015 A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | US | 448 | 2020 A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth: Stories by Daniel Mason | US | 240 | 🏆 2020 Telephone by Percival Everett | US | 232 | 🏆🏆 2020 The Book of V. by Anna Solomon | US | 320 | 2020 Four by Four by Sara Mesa | Spain | 230 | 2020 Sansei and Sensibility: Stories by Karen Tei Yamashita | US | 224 | 2020 All Adults Here by Emma Straub | US | 368 | 2020 These Women by Ivy Pochoda | US | 352 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2020 Cockfight by María Fernanda Ampuero | Ecuador | 94 | 2020 Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride | Ireland | 160 | 2020 Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin | ARG | 256 | 🏆 2020 Network Effect by Martha Wells | US | 350 | 🏆🏆🏆 2021 The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen | US | 248 | 🏆🏆 2022 Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris | UK | 280 | 2023 Ultramarine by Lucy Weldon | UK | 224 | 2026 Holloway: A Novel of Time Travel, Family, and Autism for Teens by Elana K. Arnold | US | 352 | 202...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 4

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2015 A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson | UK | 480 | 🏆 2021 Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman | US | 336 | 🏆🏆 2021 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead | US | 608 | 🏆🏆🏆 2021 Second Place by Rachel Cusk | CAN-UK | 192 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2021 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir | US | 496 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2021 Hoarders by Kate Durbin | US | 2021 Imagine Us, the Swarm by Muriel Leung | US | 120 | 🏆🏆🏆 2021 Echo tree by Henry Dumas | US | 416 | 2021 The Trojan Women: A Comic by Anne Carson and Euripides | CAN | 96 | 2021 Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing | UK | 349 | 2021 Secrets of Happiness by Joan Silber | US | 228 | 2021 The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel | US | 240 | 2021 The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly | US | 72 | 2021 Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon | US | 355 | 🏆 2023 La Tercera by Gina Apostol | PHIL | 480 | 2023 Water Music: A Cape Cod Story by Marcia Peck | US | 244 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2023 The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng | Malaysia | 320 | ...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 3

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2016 A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas | US | 641 | 2022 Book Lovers by Emily Henry | US | 416 | 🏆🏆 2022 Trust by Hernán Díaz | ARG-US | 416 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2022 The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara | CAN-US | 384 | 🏆🏆 2022 Companion Piece by Ali Smith | Scotland | 240 | 2022 Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman | US | 240 | 2022 Plans for Sentences by Renee Gladman | 176 | 2022 The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer | Uk | 304 | 2022 We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart | US | 224 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for May: https://fable.co/list/a5d1d8e4-c55f-49d2-a70f-dce76774ec64/share

Today in Bookish and Literary History, May 2

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1900 You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | 86 | 1957 A Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill | US | 106 | 1988 Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet | US | 82 | 2000 Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris | US | 288 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | My Review 2017 A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas | US | 720 | 🏆 2017 Into the Water by Paula Hawkins | UK | 368 | 🏆 2019 Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo | UK | 464 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2020 The End of Me by John Gould | CAN | 277 | 2023 The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese | US | 736 | 🏆 2023 Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah | US | 367 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2023 Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy | Ireland | 240 | 🏆 2023 Denison Avenue by Christina Wong | CAN | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2023 We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of] by Hannah Pittard | US | 224 | 2023 The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane | US | 304 | 2024 Enlightenment by Sarah Perry | UK | 400 | 🏆 2024 Sister ...