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This American Lit Unit 1: Foundations, First Contacts, and A City Upon a Hill
Or, how we're still living with the Puritans
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Books That Matter: Anika Jade Levy on THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
Listen now | The author of FLAT EARTH talks about the power of voice in fiction and what she wants to see in negative reviews
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How I spent my winter vacation in nine mini reviews
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The 2025 Paperback Reading Guide is here!
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A Mood Reader's Almanac 2025
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Reading in Public No. 32: Six things to know about Huck Finn before you read James
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Friday Mood Recs: Eight reading project ideas for 2026
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Friday Mood Recs: 50+ anticipated books for an epic fall literary season
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The 2024 Fall Fiction Compendium
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Friday Mood Recs: Eight reading project ideas for 2026
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What are your quintessentially American books?
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Ranked Reading Recap | December 2025
In which catching up on the books I missed leads to a wonderfully eclectic reading spree
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Friday Mood Recs: Most anticipated January releases
A funny family saga, a founding father biography, and fiction from favorite authors
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Reading in Public No. 92: Readerly reflection prompts and bookish in's and out's
And in's and out's still in?
Dec 31, 2025
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This Month in Books | December 2025
Reading each other's favorites and looking ahead to 2026
Dec 29, 2025
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2025 Reading Superlatives
The most surprising, inventive, disappointing, challenging (and more!) books we read this year
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