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Updated a reading goal:

2025 Reading Goal

Read 52 books by December 31, 2025

Progress so far: 25 / 52 48%

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Near to the Wild Heart

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Near to the Wild Heartby

Clarice Lispector

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Near to the Wild Heart

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Near to the Wild Heartby

Clarice Lispector

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The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, The Red Notebook

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The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, The Red Notebookby

Paul Auster

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The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, The Red Notebook

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The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, The Red Notebookby

Paul Auster

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The Killer Inside Me

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The Killer Inside Meby

Jim Thompson

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The Killer Inside Me

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The Killer Inside Meby

Jim Thompson

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Near to the Wild Heart

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Near to the Wild Heartby

Clarice Lispector

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The Overstory

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The Overstoryby

Richard Powers

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?by

Jeanette Winterson

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Is Currently Reading

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?by

Jeanette Winterson

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The Boys of My Youth

Added to listNonfictionwith 15 books.

The Boys of My Youthby

Jo Ann Beard

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Amusing Ourselves to Death

The world in six songs

The Boys of My Youth

Abby Whiteside on Piano Playing: Indispensables of Piano Playing and Mastering the Chopin Etudes and Other Essays

A Poetry Handbook

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The Boys of My Youth

Added to listMemoirs Diarieswith 6 books.

The Boys of My Youthby

Jo Ann Beard

The Boys of My Youth

End to Torment: A Memoir of Ezra Pound, with the Poems from "Hilda's Book"

Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

Modern Nature

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Words Without Music

A Writer's Diary

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The Boys of My Youth

Finished Reading

The Boys of My Youthby

Jo Ann Beard

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No One Belongs Here More Than You

Added to listFavourite Short Story Collections with 5 books.

No One Belongs Here More Than Youby

Miranda July

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

Liars in Love

In Persuasion Nation

Birds of America

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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Added to listThe Seawith 5 books.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasuresby

The Sea, the Sea

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Modern Nature

The waves

The Winter of Our Discontent

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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasuresby

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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

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An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasuresby

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Smiling In Slow Motion

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Smiling In Slow Motionby

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The Boys of My Youth

Is Currently Reading

The Boys of My Youthby

Jo Ann Beard

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The Passion

Finished Reading

Jeanette Winterson

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Blow-Up and Other Stories

Blow-Up and Other Storiesby

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Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

Added to listFavourite Short Story Collections with 4 books.

Babylon Revisited and Other Storiesby

Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

Liars in Love

In Persuasion Nation

Birds of America

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The Passion

Is Currently Reading

Jeanette Winterson

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Liars in Love

Added to listFavourite Short Story Collections with 3 books.

Liars in Loveby

Richard Yates

Liars in Love

In Persuasion Nation

Birds of America

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