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Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 30

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1936 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell | US | 1037 | 🏆 | 🎥 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 2020 Love, Creekwood by Becky Albertalli | US | 128 | 2020 Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia | Canada | 320 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 🎥 2021 Mona at Sea by Elizabeth Gonzalez James | US | 270 | 2026 Small Comfort by Ia Genberg | Sweden | 303 | 🏆 2026 The Delivery by Gregg Hurwitz | US | 251 | 2026 The Au Pair by Teddy Wayne | US | 272 | 2026 Shades of Forever by Chris Kluwe | US | 415 | 2026 Chelsea Girls by Catherine Lloyd | US | 320 | 2026 Rules for Aging and Larceny by Julia London | US | 347 | 2026 Main Characters by Bobby Palmer | US | 410 | 🔗 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 29

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2021 Hell of a Book by Jason Mott | US | 323 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2021 Objects of Desire by Clare Sestanovich | 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 28

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2016 The Muse by Jessie Burton | UK | 416 | 2018 The Peacock Summer by Hannah Richell | UK | 400 | 2019 Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park | South Korea | 240 | 🏆🏆🏆 2022 The Angel of Rome by Jess Walter | US | 288 | 2022 Thrust by Lidia Yuknavitch | US | 352 | 2022 Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen | US | 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 27

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2023 Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo | Italy | 224 | 🏆 2023 The Imposters by Tom Rachman | UK | 352 | 2023 The Road to Roswell by Connie Willis | US | 416 | 🏆 2024 I Am Rebel by Ross Montgomery | UK | 240 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian (2019): A Review

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Title : Like a Love Story Author : Abdi Nazemian Publication Year : 2019 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐💫 Pages : 432 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : literary fiction, coming-of-age, queer, historical fiction, romance, young adult, LGBT Like a Love Story Abdi Nazemian’s book follows three friends — Reza, Judy, and Art — three outsider teenagers trying to survive high school, family expectations, first loves, and the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York. Reza is still navigating his sexuality and is not yet out, while Art is openly gay and politically active, refusing to hide himself even in a deeply homophobic and frightening historical moment. There was a great deal I appreciated in this novel. First, I found Nazemian’s portrayal of Reza, an Iranian immigrant who moved from Iran to Canada and then Canada, adjusting to a new life in America, especially moving. Reza has to navigate a new country, a new school, a new stepfather and stepbrother, and, most importantly, the painful process of under...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 26

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1997 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling | UK | 223 | 📽️ 2012 Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer | US | 368 | 2018 All We Ever Wanted by Emily Giffin | US | 352 | 🔗 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 25

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1997 Special Delivery by Danielle Steel | US | 240 | 2019 Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes | US | 304 | 2024 Bear by Julia Phillips | US | 304 | 🏆🏆 🔗 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 24

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2025 Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell | UK | 368 | 2025 As You Wish by Leesa Cross-Smith | US | 368 | 2025 El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott | US | 368 | 🏆 2025 Among Friends by Hal Ebbott | US | 320 | 2025 The House on Buzzards Bay by Dwyer Murphy | US | 288 | 2025 Room on the Sea by André Aciman | US | 272 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye by A.S. Byatt (1994): A Review

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Title : The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye Author : A.S. Byatt Publication Year : 1994 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 288 Source : ebook Genre : fairy tale, mythology, retelling A.S. Byatt’s The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye is a collection of fairy-tale retellings, many of which were originally published as parts of her other works. If I were rating the book based only on the first four stories, I would have gently placed it in the 2–3 star zone, closed the book, and gone off to stare dramatically out a window. I don’t just like retellings of fables, myths, and fairy tales — I love them. But I love them most when they are not dragged into the room by force, handed a microphone, and told, “Now give voice to the voiceless, immediately.” I especially love them when they parody the originals, because parody lets authors roast the past, the present, and possibly the future. As long as I am not the roastee, I am game. The first four stories, however, were… fine. Simple. Quiet. A littl...

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle (2024): A Review

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Title : On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) Author : Solvej Balle Publication Year : 2024 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 176 Source : ebook Genre : literary fiction, philosophical fiction Awards : Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle is a short, peculiar little book — “little” in the same way a black hole is little. Technically compact, yes, but once you’re inside, time stretches, reality collapses, and you begin questioning your sanity. At first, the title is terrifying. On the Calculation of Volume sounds like the sort of book that might suddenly ask you to solve for x or explain fluid dynamics. You think, “Please, God, don’t let this be about mathematics or physics.” Then you read the first parts, figure out what is actually happening, and immediately think, “You know what? Maybe mathematics would have been kinder.” That said, I absolutely loved the premise. I am a ...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 23

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1819 The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving | US | 392 | 📽️ 2020 Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman | US | 288 | 2020 Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert | UK | 400 | 🏆 | 2020 Nothing Can Hurt You by Nicola Maye Goldberg | US | 240 | 2026 Names Have Been Changed by Yu-Mei Balasingamchow | Singapore | 267 | 2026 Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison | US | 192 | 2026 Isis of Egypt: Goddess of Thrones by Malayna Evans | US | 320 | 📚 2026 Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein | US | 416 | 2026 It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell | UK | 384 | 2026 All We Hunger For by Anna Mercier | US | 400 | 2026 Agnes Lives! by Hallie Elizabeth Newton | US | 256 | 2026 Tata by Valérie Perrin | France | 627 | 2026 Nine Lives by Catherine Steadman | UK | 432 | 2026 Weddings by Danielle Steel | US | 254 | 2026 Don't Upstage the Body by Naomi Stephens | UK | 304 | 2026 When You Loved Me by Beatriz Williams | US | 433 | 2026 Worse Than Strangers by Kyleigh Leddy | US | 320 ...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 22

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2010 Family Ties by Danielle Steel | US | 320 | 2021 God Spare the Girls by Kelsey McKinney | US | 320 | 2021 Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor | US | 288 | 🏆 | 2023 The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue | Ireland | 320 | 🏆 | 2023 Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa | Japan | 96 | 🏆🏆🏆 | 🔗 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 21

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1843 The Gold-Bug by Edgar Allan Poe | US | 86 | ⭐⭐ | My Review | 📽️ 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling | UK | 766 | 🏆🏆🏆 | 📽️ 2022 Honey and Spice by Bolu Babalola | UK | 368 | 🏆🏆 | 2022 Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh | US | 320 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

There But For The by Ali Smith (2011): A Review

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Title : There But For The Author : Ali Smith Publication Year : 2011 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐💫 Pages : 288 Source : ebook Genre : literary fiction, queer Awards : longlisted for the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction There But For The is Ali Smith’s fifth novel, starring a man named Miles Garth, an "ethical consultant" who decides the most ethical thing he can do is…lock himself in a spare room in a stranger’s house and stay there. For a long time. Why does he do it? Why does he stop doing it? Smith refuses to tell us in any straightforward way, and as someone who agrees with Katherine Mansfield’s “I hate mystery” (quoted in epigraph), I was not exactly thrilled to be handed this particular knot and told, “Enjoy!” The book quickly wanders away from its human hermit and starts circling the lives of people who crossed paths with Miles at some point. He becomes less a character and more a rumor, the novel once heard and is still thinking about. Through them, Smith ruminates on time, sp...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 20

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2017 Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones | US | 112 | 🏆🏆 | 2023 The Glow by Jessie Gaynor | US | 320 | 2024 Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking by Han Smith | UK | 320 | 🏆 | 2024 The Silence In Between by Josie Ferguson | UK | 352 | 🏆 | 🔗 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 19

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1914 Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum | US | 272 | 📽️ 📚 1996 Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx | US | 384 | 🏆 2017 Minor Detail by Adania Shibli | Palestine | 112 | 🏆🏆🏆 | 🔗 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 18

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2013 The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell | UK | 256 | 2013 The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman | UK | 181 | 🏆🏆 |  🎥 2014 Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | Uganda | 442 | 🏆🏆 2019 The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali | US-Iran | 336 | 🏆 |⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | My Review | 🎥 2019 Big Sky by Kate Atkinson | UK | 352 | 🎥 2023 I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore | US | 208 | 🏆 2024 Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi | Nigeria | 288 | 2024 The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley | UK | 512 | 🎥 🔗 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 17

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1958 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe | Nigeria | 224 | 🎥 2018 Fairview by Jackie Sibblies | US | 120 | 🏆 2025 Love Forms by Claire Adam | Trinidad and Tobago | 320 | 🏆 2025 The Sisters by Jonas Khemiri | Sweden | 656 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 2025 How to Dodge a Cannonball by Dennard Dayle | US-Jamaica | 336 | 2025 The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey | US | 240 | 2025 Ecstasy by Ivy Pochoda | 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 16

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2020 Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch | UK | 288 | 2020 The Lightness by Emily Temple-Wood | US | 288 | 2020 The Margot Affair by Sanaë Lemoine | FR-AUS | 336 | 2020 Morningside Heights by Joshua Henkin | US | 304 | 2026 Voyagers by Meg Charlton | US | 320 | 2026 Good Company by Kate Christensen | US | 256 | 2026 We Are Gathered Here Today by Bobby Finger | US | 320 | 2026 Ghost-Eye by Amitav Ghosh | US | 336 | 2026 Romantic Hero by Kirsty Greenwood | UK | 367 | 🎥 2026 Liberty Street by Heather Marshall | CAN | 464 | 2026 Good at Being Alive by Elizabeth O'Roark | US | 368 | 2026 The Frenzy: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates | US | 316 | 2026 Given Away by Nahid Rachlin | US-Iran | 304 | 2026 The Three Coffin Problem by Lavie Tidhar | ISR | 306 | 2026 Together We See by Ari Tison | US | 320 | 🔗 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 15

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1893 Beyond the Bayou by Kate Chopin | US | 12 | ⭐⭐⭐ | My Review 1974 All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward | US | 349 | 🎥 2021 The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris | US | 368 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2021 The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee | UK | 304 | 2021 Essays Two by Lydia Davis | US | 592 | 2023 Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan | Ireland | 224 | 2023 The Geometer Lobachevsky by Adrian Duncan | Ireland | 208 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

Women without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur (1989): A Review

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Title : Women without Men Author : Shahrnush Parsipur Publication Year: 1989 (translation 1998, 2011, 2026) Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 Pages : 192 Source : ebook @storytel.tr Genre : literary fiction, Magical Realism Awards : longlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men creates a magical world where the supernatural and the real intertwine to expose how women in 1950s Iran are suffocated by patriarchy, religion, and the confines of the domestic sphere. The novel follows five women from different social backgrounds whose paths converge in a garden in Karaj. Each woman suffers under patriarchy in a distinct way and each ultimately takes a different path and reaches a different kind of ending. The book does offer a form of closure for each character, but not an easy or triumphant emancipation. Some remain entangled in, or even complicit with, patriarchal structures—either by internalizing them or learning to manipulate them for survival. What I ...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 14

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1965 A Spaniard in the Works by John Lennon | UK | 96 | 2022 The World As We Knew It: Dispatches From a Changing Climate | 288 | 2022 Horse by Geraldine Brooks | US-Australia | 401 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2022 The Novelist by Jordan Castro | US | 208 | 2022 The Men by Sandra Newman | US | 272 | 2022 The Twilight World by Werner Herzog | GR | 144 | 2022 Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky | US | 240 | 🔗 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 13

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1863 Erewhon Part 1 by Samuel Butler | UK | 240 | 1991 Wise Children by Angela Carter | UK | 256 | 2022 The Inmate by Freida McFadden | US | 388 | 2023 The Mythmakers by Keziah Weir | US | 368 | 2023 Mater 2–10 by Hwang Sok-yong | South Korea | 486 | 🏆 2023 The Forbidden Territory of a Terrifying Woman by Molly Lynch | CAN-Ireland | 288 | 🏆 2023 Maddalena and the Dark by Julia Fine | US | 304 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

The Story of Antigone by Ali Smith (2011): A Review

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Title : The Story of Antigone Author : Ali Smith Publication Year : 2011 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 100 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : retelling, Greek Mythology, Historical fiction, YA, Children Who better than Ali Smith to give Greek mythology a cheeky twist, turning it on its head by letting a crow do the talking and a dog sit quietly, presumably thinking about snacks? In this wild retelling, we, the readers, are mere spectators in a feathery soap opera where a mama crow narrates the story of Antigone to the dog (not us). It’s such an unconventional choice that you might forget you are navigating a tragedy—until you find yourself laughing at the crow's perspective on humans. They seem so dramatic and tragic, yet the crow can't help but wonder how delicious they would be if only they weren’t so busy wallowing in their own misery! After reading a few of Ali Smith’s books, I thought I had a grasp on her quirky style and themes. But just when I felt like I was in the...

The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman (2017): A Review

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Title : The Deal of a Lifetime Author : Fredrik Backman Publication Year : 2017 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 65 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : literary fiction, novella I’ll keep this short, just like the book itself. I listened to the audiobook while trying to stay awake amidst the turbulence of my exhaustion—and I might’ve dozed off about 13 times. When I finally came to, I realized I had accidentally finished it. Oops! From what I can piece together—like a jigsaw puzzle missing half its pieces—it was an emotional saga about a guy who was seriously considering sacrificing his existence to save a random kid. I mean, talk about overthinking things! It's all very touching, but honestly, it felt flatter than my plane seat after a long flight. So, that’s about it!

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 11

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1687 Crusoe arrives in England. 2023 Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke | US | 320 | 🏆 2023 The Madwomen of Paris: by Jennifer Cody Epstein | US | 336 | 🏆 2024 The Housemaid is Watching by Freida McFadden | US | 402 | 2024 Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe | US | 304 | 🏆 2024 Ask Me Again by Clare Sestanovich | US | 303 | 2024 One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon | US-Jamaica | 272 | 2024 Beautiful Days: Stories by Zach Williams | US | 240 | 🏆 2024 Gretel and the Great War by Adam Ehrlich Sachs | US | 224 | 2024 Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour | US-Iran | 320 | 🔗 Check this list for Today in Bookish History for June: https://fable.co/list/2067ba4d-156b-4ab9-9cc3-350565bf7a9b/share

A Long Winter by Colm Tóibín (2006): A Review

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Title : A Long Winter Author : Colm Tóibín Publication Year : 2006 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 144 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : literary fiction, historical fiction, novella I picked up A Long Winter because I needed a short audiobook for a trip. The audiobook was short. The winter inside it was not. It felt endless. This is one of those compact Irish novels/novellas where nothing is wasted and nothing lets you breathe. In a small village in the Catalan Pyrenees, Miquel’s mother disappears into the snow and never returns. Everyone more or less agrees she is dead, somewhere under the drifts, and life is simply expected to continue. Miquel and his father are left to endure a winter that feels more like a sentence than a season. The language is stripped down, almost bare, but every line carries an impossible weight. Grief is not announced; it just seeps into everything. The poverty, the broken family, the silence between father and son, the isolation, the sense that nothing ...

Companion Piece by Ali Smith (2022): A Review

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Title : Companion Piece Author : Ali Smith Publication Year : 2022 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 230 Source : book Genre : literary fiction, COVID, Pandemic Ali Smith’s Companion Piece (2022) is very much a COVID novel—but, being Ali Smith, it’s also absolutely not just a COVID novel. Our main character, Sandy Gray (Sand), is a kind of awkward, artsy nerd trying to deal with her father’s hospitalization right in the middle of the pandemic. So yes, there are masks and lockdowns and hospitals, but there’s also Smith doing what Smith does best: taking the narrative, twisting it into a Möbius strip, and then asking you to walk on it in the dark. This is peak Smithian territory: strange timelines, slippery characters, and a narrator you’re never entirely sure you should trust. Here she pushes it even further—so far that you start wondering whether all of it actually happened. Did Sand really experience that bizarre intrusion of the past? Or is she just inventing stories to survive the suf...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 10

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2025 Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal | UK | 384 | 🏆 2025 King of Ashes by S. A. Cosby | US | 352 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2025 Ancestors: Grievers Trilogy, Book 3 by Adrienne Maree Brown | US | 256 | 2025 So Far Gone by Jess Walter | US | 272 | 🏆 🔗 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 9

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2014 Virginia Woolf in Manhattan by Maggie Gee | UK | 476 | 2020 You Exist Too Much by Zaina Arafat | US-Palestine | 263 | 🏆 2020 Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars. by Joyce Carol Oates | US | 789 | 2020 Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier | US-Korea | 208 | 🏆 2020 The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante | Italy | 336 | 2026 The Animal Room by Lauren Acampora | US | 384 | 2026 Cages by Chantel Acevedo | US-Cuba | 256 | 2026 The Daffodil Days by Helen Bain | UK | 304 | 2026 Pool House by Mary H.K. Choi | US | 336 | 2026 Freedom: Essays by Zinzi Clemmons | US | 256 | 2026 A Sense of Occasion by Brodie Crellin | UK | 365 | 2026 The Unmagical Life of Briar Jones by Lex Croucher | UK | 464 | 2026 Contrapposto by Dave Eggers | US | 415 | 2026 Rasputin Swims the Potomac by Ben Fountain | US | 407 | 2026 Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer | US | 270 | 2026 Lost in the Summer of '69: A Novel by Eliza Knight | US | 400 | 2026 Obstetrix by Naomi Kritzer | US | 208 | 2026 Nymph ...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, June 8

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1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell | UK | 256 | 2001 Love by Jeanette Winterson | UK | 128 | 2021 Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch by Rivka Galchen | CAN-US | 288 | 2021 Animal by Lisa Taddeo | US | 336 | 2023 The Bee Sting by Paul Murray | Ireland | 656 | 🏆🏆🏆 🔗 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 7

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1798 Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus | UK | 172 | 2020 Last One to Leave by Benjamin Stevenson | AUS | 155 | 2022 Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan | US | 256 | 🏆 2022 Greenland by David Santos Donaldson | Bhama-US | 326 | 2022 Exalted by Anna Dorn | US | 293 | 2022 More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez | US | 448 | 2022 Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley | US | 277 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2022 Woman of Light by Kali Fajardo-Anstine | US | 336 | 2022 Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley | US | 304 | 2022 Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta | US | 272 | 2022 The Seaplane on Final Approach by Rebecca Rukeyser | US | 288 | 🔗 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 6

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2023 Open Throat by Henry Hoke | US | 161 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | My Review 2023 The Dissident by Paul Goldberg | RUS-US | 432 | 2023 All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby | US | 338 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 2023 Translation State by Ann Leckie | US | 432 | 🏆 2023 Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck | GR | 336 | 🏆🏆 2023 My Murder by Katie Williams | US | 304 | 2024 Parade by Rachel Cusk | CAN-UK | 208 | 🏆 2024 Gender Theory by Madeline Docherty | Scotland | 186 | 2024 The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry | Ireland | 256 | 2024 Mother Naked by Glen James Brown | UK | 265 | 2024 Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu | ROM | 672 | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 🔗 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 5

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1851 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe | US | 629 | 2018 There There by Tommy Orange | US | 304 | 🏆🏆 🔗 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 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 |...