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[close] These are the named books: 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien 2 1984 by George Orwell 3 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 4 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 5 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 6 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 7 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 8 A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 9 The Lord of the Flies by William Golding 10 Hamlet by William Shakespeare 11 A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul 12 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 13 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 14 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 15 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 16 The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank 17 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 18 The Bible by Various 19 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 20 Ulysses by James Joyce 21 The Quiet American by Graham Greene 22 Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 23 Money by Martin Amis 24 Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling 25 Moby Dick by Herman Melville 26 The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 27 His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman 28 Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 29 Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 30 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 31 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon 32 On the Road by Jack Kerouac 33 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 34 The Way We Live Now by Antony Trollope 35 The Outsider by Albert Camus 36 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 37 Life of Pi by Yann Martel 38 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 39 The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 40 Man without Women by Ernest Hemingway 41 Gulliver´s Travels by Jonathan Swift 42 A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 43 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 44 Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe 45 One flew over the Cuckoo´s Nest by Ken Kesey 46 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 47 The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 49 The Divine Comedy by Alighieri Dante 50 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[close] This group is for Romance lovers of ANY type of Romance: Contemporary, Historical, Paranormal, Regency, etc.! February's SGoM: ♥ Older Woman/Younger Man Follow us on ! Do you need help finding a book for a challenge? Ask us! Or offer suggestions for others. If Challenges aren’t for you, please come & discuss different Romance genres, books, authors, series, etc.! Have fun!

[close] This is a book club for women who love to read and enjoy discussing books. Love of Reading is a place where you can relax and make yourself at home. We have monthly group readings as well as personal challenges, games and more. So have fun and please be kind and courteous to others while in the group.

[close] If you love to read romance novels, or just read, and you like reading challenges, come and join this group. If you look at your TBR list and don't know which book to start with, worry no more. We will give you a reason to. We have a variety of reading challenges, monthly book recommendations, buddy reads, book-and non-book-related discussions, author interviews/giveaways and plenty of fun and games to keep you entertain while hanging out with a bunch of people that love to read and talk about books. Happy Reading!

[close] In between my veins, a toxic madness survives, And within my heart, a deadly sadness thrives. They say that deep within the inner dwellings of the autumn forest an asylum lies. Once inhabited by the critically insane. The screams of those maddened souls still echo down the abandoned halls, stripped of any sign of life. They say that no one lives there but the spirits of those who spent their last breaths out of touch with the very fabric of reality. They're wrong. One hundred years after the asylum fell out of commission, a man by the name of Edgar Ravewood discovered the asylum. This man was of strange inquiry, and he banded a team of people who searched far and wide for those with unusual abilities, and took them there. After he passed, the asylum fell into the clutches of Blair Lilith Ravenwood, of whom had grown up there. There was an accident, it happened only ten years ago, every supernatural who'd been living there died at the hands of an experiment gone wrong. And Blair, saddened by the mishap, took to experimenting on herself. Eventually the experiments forced her into a state of hysteria, drove her mad, made her believe that there was a threat coming. She continued her father's work, gathering those with mystical powers, building an army to entertain her wild flights of fantasy.

[close] Hello, everyone! Welcome to The Reading Society! This group is aimed to anyone who would like to be part of a group focused on buddy reading. Every new member will be assigned to smaller group, which will be called a Society (i.e.: First Society, Second Society, etc.), in order to encourage a better communication between members reading a certain book. This will allow each member’s opinion to be heard and to improve relationships between buddy-readers. Each Society will have a leader who will guide the group’s discussion, and we’ll have a monthly poll for every Society’s “Book of the Month”. These polls will be allowed to have a write-in vote, so BOTM suggestions can be made, and you can only vote on your own Society’s poll. Each Society will have a General Chat and a “Book of the Month” Discussion Chat. There will also be a general chat, in which all the members of The Reading Society can introduce themselves or ask about anything book and group-related. If you’re interested in joining The Reading Society Book Club, don’t hesitate to press that “Join Group” button! Everyone is welcome! "Book are a uniquely portable magic." - Stephen King

[close] Let's get are read on with good friends, good food, and maybe some drinks.

[close] For any people who like (or would like) to read by a river -- real or of their own imagining...

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[close] A gentlemen's book club, for chaps whose blood runs hot. Of course ladies are allowed, need you ask, sir? We're neither Philistines nor ogres. That said, an unabashedly unreconstructed male perspective prevails, focussing on books with their nuts out: lots of swearing, derring-do, boasting and nose-picking. Occasional bits of staring silently off into the middle-distance are allowed, but otherwise we track extremely low on the emotional spectrum, and we're not good at explaining ourselves.

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[close] 2017 is a year for action. It’s more important than ever that American women try to understand each other in the face of such partisan division, and that we come together in the quest for social justice and equality. That means making calls to your representatives. That means marching for things you care about. That means making your voice heard and lifting each other up. That means educating yourself about experiences outside your own. Reading has been proven to promote empathy and understanding, and we believe that reading broadly is one small step in mending the divides of our nation. The books we will read will encompass a broad range of American experiences; we’ll read about Muslim-Americans, Latinos, African-Americans, LGBTQ+ individuals, undocumented immigrants, white working class women, and more. Because all of these people are American, and all of their stories are American stories. We'll be discussing the books during the last week of the month — so get your copy and get reading now!

[close] SOS: Serious Overload of Series is the place to find and chat about your favorite Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy series. Share your favorites and find new ones! Addicted to fantasy series? Here your series addiction will be celebrated! Love challenges? We host monthly, quarterly and yearly challenges as well as team challenges such as Bookshelf Bingo, which was created here! We also spotlight and discuss one book a month and one series a year. Join our BookShelf Bingo alert group so you don't miss out on future rounds! Look for SOS @

[close] Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading as many books and essays about equality as I can get my hands on. There is so much amazing stuff out there! Funny, inspiring, sad, thought-provoking, empowering! I’ve been discovering so much that, at times, I’ve felt like my head was about to explode… I decided to start a Feminist book club, as I want to share what I’m learning and hear your thoughts too. The plan is to select and read a book every month, then discuss the work during the month’s last week (to give everyone time to read it!). I will post some questions/quotes to get things started, but I would love for this to grow into an open discussion with and between you all. Whenever possible I hope to have the author, or another prominent voice on the subject, join the conversation. If you fancy it, please join up and participate. Everyone is welcome. I would be honoured! Emma x

[close] This group was created to connect lovers of stories across the internet with their characters and plotlines, dreams and recommendations. Bibliophiles unite, and challenges abound. Come one, come all. All you need to join is a desire to read. HAPPY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO FOR LOVE OF A BOOK Click here to find out how to win Anniversary Prizes Come play with us! Monthly Horoscope Book Rec's Travel Agent Challenge Annual Challenges Check out all of the new February Challenges HERE ADVANCED READING OPPORTUNITIES Find New Books to Check Out HERE

[close] Welcome to Universe Unite. For those of you that have been in this group before, you might notice that things have changed. This group's previous RPs are gone, but it's being converted to more than that! Enjoy conversations with friends, as well as creating characters for fun RPs, and share your work with all your fellow group members. Make polls, add book recommendations to the shelf and laugh at silly memes. Have fun and get feedback. Fandom characters are allowed in RP as well as completely original characters! Creative freedom is encouraged here. If you see something missing that you think should be included, suggest it to the mods! We love suggestions that could make the group better.

[close] It began long ago, centuries, with three werewolf packs. The Solar, Eclipse, and Lunar. They coexisted warily but peacefully. Until a rogue decided to stir things up. He kidnapped the Solar Alpha's daughter and the Lunar Alpha's son. The reaction was instantaneous. Each pack blamed the Eclipse, who were the only ones with no one missing, and a vicious war broke out. With two on one, the Eclipse pack was crushed. And now, they are no more. With Solar's harsh temper and Lunar's righteous fury at the loss of their Royal, the formerly proud Eclipse Pack was forced into slavery.

[close] Do you want to broaden your reading horizons and discover new books, authors and genres? Do you love reading challenges? Do you live for competition? Do you have a hard time deciding what you want to read next? Or do you simply enjoy discussing books with fellow readers? Each season (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) presents a new challenge with a series of reading related tasks. Each task is assigned a point level and then it's up to you to decide which tasks you'll attempt (or if you want to try to finish them all!) and then find and read the books that fit. It’s a fun way to stretch your reading radius and discover new books, authors, and genres. But be careful…it’s addictive! Your to-be-read shelf may never be the same! Begun by Cynthia in The Next Best Book Club, the SRC has grown through the participation of its members. To find out more about how the Seasonal Reading Challenge works, and how YOU can be a part of it, check out The Seasonal Reading Challenge Explained and Getting Started.

[close] Welcome to my Alternate Universe (AU) for J.K. Rowlings Wizarding World! The roleplay is set after The Cursed Child around the year 2025 (see plot) when all of the books characters have graduated. We are an Advanced RP Group, meant for semi to multi-para roleplay. We ask that you be at least 14 to join, but message a mod for possible exemptions (Cannon characters won't come into RP, but relations may be possible if believable to already established timeline) Group Ratings: Language: PG (Mild-No cursing. Exceptions: Hell) Sexual Content: PG to PG-13 (Suggestive, but not graphic-See Mod for clarity) Violence: R (Violent, but purposeful. No sensless violence for the sake of violence) [Note: Timeline is based on this; warning contains all the spoilers for the cursed child and Harry Potter Books: http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/696169/Harry-Potter-Cursed-Child-timeline-JK-Rowling-time-travel-Albus-Severus-Scorpius-Delphi ] This groups creator is a Christian and as such certian content is not allowed. See rules for full description and know that you do not have to be a Christian to roleplay, but simply follow the rules and respect the wishes of its creator. Any Questions please PM GuardianWolfKim [Note: All source materials come from http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page ] You must have read or seen all of the Harry Potter Books/Movies. And preferably The Cursed Child as well. [Note: Stories that emerge in here may be incorporated into my fanfiction so please. Be aware by writing here you agree to let me use story ideas. I will NOT use original characters unless permission is given) “By yourself you’re unprotected. With a friend you can face the worst. Can you round up a third? A three-stranded rope isn’t easily snapped.” ‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭4:12‬ ‭MSG‬‬ http://bible.com/97/ecc.4.12.msg Theme Song: "Coat of Arms" Jonathan Thulin https://youtu.be/euUHtA_Blrc

[close] I began this group in January 2015 to support fellow indie authors by featuring them on my website blog. Since then it has turned into a great resource of helpful tips, marketing resources, and just overall support for all indie authors. You're welcome to join our group as long as you contribute and are encouraging in your comments. Please note, in order to fully enjoy our group and make it the best Self Publishing Resource that it can be, we ask that you give as much as you take. If you want your books to be read, read other Indie Author books. If you want help, give help in return. This is how Support for Indie Authors can be the Ultimate Self Publishing Resource and Indie Author Support Group. Please take a moment to read through our Read Me Topics under each Folder Category in order to get a better grasp of our guidelines and where you should you post your questions/comments/etc. Thank you all and Welcome to Support for Indie Authors! Don’t forget to sign up for our newsletter by visiting http://www.supportindieauthors.com/subscribe/ Sincerely, Ann Livi Andrews *Riley stole this from GG because everyone asks this question.* Bookwhack: Think about bookwhack as bird droppings. Everyone is having a picnic. The sun is shining. The food is good. The conversation is flowing. Then, suddenly a bird flies down and leaves a dropping, ruining the day for everyone. Bookwhacking is doing the same with your book. Going into threads and dropping your book name or cover or blurb without being invited to do so. You fly over, drop the bomb. and leave. Sometimes you stay to add a short comment but the sole purpose of it is to make people think you actually had something to say. In other words, it's finding any reason to push your book in the face of people who were not expecting it.

[close] This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underreported issues of our era. All you need is an enquiring mind and a desire to gain or share “underground knowledge”. This is also a place for readers to discuss the controversial topics explored in The Underground Knowledge Series – which includes the non-fiction books Genius Intelligence, Medical Industrial Complex & Bankrupting the Third World – by James Morcan & Lance Morcan.

[close] Starting Monday, January 9, 2017 we will be reading THE BONE SEASON by Samantha Shannon, followed by THE MIME ORDER starting January 30th to prepare for the release of THE SONG RISING on March 7th. Please see the discussion board for schedule and details.

[close] We offer love, compassion & kindness to create a better world. We read books by & about people who have done this profoundly...Martin L. King, Gregory Boyle, Adam Kahane, Gandhi, Burt Berlowe, & our moderator Caroline Cottom. Our members are from Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Uganda, New Zealand, Australia, Maldives, Canada, U.K., U.S., Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Armenia, Albania, Russia, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, and more!

[close] This is the reading club hosted by Colleen Houck, the author of the NYT bestselling series TIGER'S CURSE & the NYT bestselling novel REAWAKENED. Once a month we will be reading and discussing one book that Colleen selects and, if occasion permits, she will host a live chat here with the author of the book.

[close] This is the reading club hosted by a group of YA writers called The YA Story Sisters. Once a month we will be reading and discussing one book selected by the group, and when possible there will be a live chat here with the author.