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Essay Collections to Make You Think Deeply About Life

As fall settles in around us, the air gets chillier and the desire to curl up with a good book gets stronger. Beach-reading season has come and gone, and maybe […]

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A Q&A with Scott W. Berg, author of The Burning of the World

In The Burning of the World, author Scott W. Berg details the enthralling story of the Great Chicago Fire and the power struggle over the city’s reconstruction in the wake […]

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Learn More about Maggie O’Farrell’s Paperback Books

You may know Maggie O’Farrell from her bestselling novel, Hamnet, but if that’s the only book of hers you’ve read, you are in for a treat!   In celebration of […]

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Must-Read Celebrity Memoirs

Celebrity memoirs can often provide a behind-the-scenes look to the lives of the rich and famous, but the best books in the genre offer more than simple gossip and tabloid-ridden […]

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Do Tell Author Lindsay Lynch on Total Immersion in a Complicated Era

There are many approaches to writing historical fiction, most involve research, but Do Tell author Lindsay Lynch took things to another level. Do Tell brings readers behind the scenes of […]

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9 Unconventional Love Stories

The path to love rarely follows a straight line, and no one knows that better than the authors that appear on our list of seven unconventional love stories. Check out […]

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8 of Our Favorite Flawed Female Protagonists

Swan Huntley’s debut novel, We Could Be Beautiful, is a spellbinding psychological thriller about a wealthy woman who has everything, yet can trust no one.

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Fascinating Books About Female Spies

Have you ever wondered if you have what it takes to become a spy? We have the books for you! From biographies and memoirs of women who worked as secret […]

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Kala Author Colin Walsh on the Epiphany that Changed Everything

Some authors always knew they wanted to write, but for others, like Colin Walsh, the path to a debut novel was a little more meandering. We at The Reading Group […]

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Armchair Adventurer: Divided Cities—A Journey of Farewell through Eastern Europe

Armchair Adventurer: Divided Cities—A Journey of Farewell through Eastern Europe

In Goodbye, Eastern Europe, Jacob Mikanowski describes the defining and redefining of multiple borders of ancestral land and personal identity in a region that has never fully existed but is […]

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