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Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 4

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2001 | 📖 Middle Age: A Romance by Joyce Carol Oates | United States | 480 pages | 🏆 | @joycecaroloates3146 2006 | 📖 Restless by William Boyd | United Kingdom | 336 pages | 🏆 | @williamboydnovelist 2012 | 📖 NW by Zadie Smith | United Kingdom | 296 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | 2018 | 📖 Summer Brother by Jaap Robben | Netherlands | 320 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | @jaap_robben 2024 | 📖 Cherrywood by Jock Serong | Australia | 400 pages | 🏆 |

Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 3

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1998 | 📖 The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel | United Kingdom | 208 pages | 🏆 | 2007 | 📖 Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee | South Africa | 231 pages | 🏆 | 2013 | 📖 The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee | South Africa | 288 pages | 🏆 | 2013 | 📖 Never Go Back by Lee Child | United Kingdom| 400 pages | 🏆🏆 | ✅ 2018 | 📖 Trust Me When I Lie by Benjamin Stevenson | Australia | 352 pages | @stevensonexperience 2019 | 📖 Dominicana by Angie Cruz | United States | 323 pages | 🏆🏆 | @angiecruz 2020 | 📖 Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze | United Kingdom | 336 pages | 🏆🏆 | 2020 | 📖 The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman | United Kingdom | 384 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @misterosman 2024 | 📖 Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner | United States | 416 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @realrachelkushner 2024 | 📖 Colored Television by Danzy Senna | United States | 277 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 2024 | 📖 The First Friend by Malcolm Knox | Australia | 416 pages | 2024 | 📖 Misinterpretation by...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 2

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1990 | 📖 Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd | United Kingdom | 416 pages | 🏆 | @williamboydnovelist 2009 | 📖 Heaven by Mieko Kawakami | Japan | 192 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | 2010 | 📖 Foster by Claire Keegan | Ireland | 101 pages | 🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ✅ | My Review | @clairekeeganfiction 2014 | 📖 The Children Act by Ian McEwan | United Kingdom | 224 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @ianmcewan.author 2014 | 📖 Personal by Lee Child | United Kingdom | 353 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | ✅ 2014 | 📖 The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell | United Kingdom | 624 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 2020 | 📖 Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason | New Zealand / United Kingdom | 352 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 2025 | 📖 About Time by David Duchovny | United States | 96 pages | @davidduchovny 2025 | 📖 All Things Under the Moon by Ann Yu-Kyung Choi | Canada | 320 pages | 2025 | 📖 Amity by Nathan Harris | United States | 320 pages | 🏆 | 2025 | 📖 Bad Juliet by Giles Blunt | Canada | 352 pages | @gilesbluntbooks 2025 | 📖 Boudicca's Daughter...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, September 1

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1773 | 📖 Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley | United States | 128 pages | 🏆 | 1913 | 📖 Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw | United Kingdom | 160 pages | 1952 | 📖 The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway | United States | 127 pages | 🏆🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ✅ 1955 | 📖 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov | Russia / United States | 331 pages | 🏆🏆 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ✅ 1982 | 📖 Naira Power by Buchi Emecheta | Nigeria / United Kingdom | 168 pages | 1990 | 📖 Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee | South Africa | 198 pages | 🏆🏆 | 1992 | 📖 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje | Canada | 320 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 1996 | 📖 We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates | United States | 454 pages | @joycecaroloates3146 2000 | 📖 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood | Canada | 640 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @therealmargaretatwood 2003 | 📖 The King of Capri by Jeanette Winterson | United Kingdom | 32 pages | 2004 | 📖 Case Histories by Kate Atkinson | United Kingdom | 310...

Today in Bookish and Literary History, August 31

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1837 | 📖 The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson | United States | 36 pages | 2020 | 📖 Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi | United States | 264 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | 2021 | 📖 My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones | United States | 405 pages | 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 | @stephengrahamjones 2023 | 📖 Momentum: Montessori, a Life in Motion by E.G. Slade | United States | 206 pages | 🏆 | 2025 | 📖 Hamlet by E. Hartt | United Kingdom | 175 pages |