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My Bold Prediction Was Wrong! Night Watch Takes the Pulitzer for Fiction, 2024

Eating crow…

Melissa Gouty in Literature Lust

The Hobbit Hole, something to celebrate on national Tolkien Reading Day!

How to Return to Childhood: Read The Hobbit on National Tolkien Reading Day

Thank you, Mrs. Handy

Melissa Gouty in Literature Lust

Are You Grieving? You Should Definitely Read Fresh Water for Flowers

Valerie Perrin’s novel

Melissa Gouty in Literature Lust

How to be a Great Writer: 4 Powerful Insights from Marilyn Robinson

Better. Bolder. Braver. Kinder.

Melissa Gouty in Literature Lust

Old yellow house in the woods.

One Bold Prediction: North Woods Will Win the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Daniel Mason’s novel is…

Melissa Gouty in Literature Lust

What’s a King’s Harem Really Like? Read the Novel, Jewel of Persia

Roseanna M. White’s historical…

Melissa Gouty in Literature Lust

Looking for a Smart, Mature Heroine? Read the Novel, Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon’s Historical Fiction

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Start The Year With Three Stories Featuring Animals

A stray cat, a cute penguin and a smart octopus —…

Melissa Gouty in Literature Lust

How Brooks’ Novel MARCH Uses Little Women as a Springboard for a Pulitzer

Geraldine Brooks’ spin-off

Melissa Gouty in Literature Lust

Painting: Young Girl Reading by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1770

Am I Perpetuating a Harmful Myth If I Buy a “Reading Woman” Calendar?

I want a “Reading People”…

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