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[ October 11, 2026 ] Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 Pt 2 News & Events Curated Reading Lists
[ October 7, 2026 ] Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2026 Pt 1 News & Events Curated Reading Lists
[ October 5, 2026 ] Night of a Thousand Hells Intan Paramaditha Review Adult Fiction
[ October 2, 2026 ] Pity Piety Mercy Antonio Galetta Review Adult Fiction
[ September 29, 2026 ] Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month Top 5 Monthly Picks
[ September 25, 2026 ] Adrift in the South Xiao Hai Review Adult Fiction
[ September 24, 2026 ] The Bookshop of Forbidden Books Marc Levy Review Adult Fiction
[ September 19, 2026 ] Eden at Dawn Karim Kattan Review Adult Fiction
[ September 14, 2026 ] Brothers Jackie Thomae Review Adult Fiction
[ September 10, 2026 ] How to Make a Woman & Our Life in the Forest Marie Darrieussecq Review Adult Fiction

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A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare BookBlast® Book Club Podcast

January 6, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

A Dictator Calls is based around Stalin’s alleged three-minute telephone call to Boris Pasternak in 1934. Who better than Kadare to write about it, given how he navigated the oppressive environment of communist Albania under […]

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Clara Reads Proust Stéphane Carlier Book Club Podcast

January 3, 2025 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Set in part in a hairdresser’s salon in regional France, Clara Reads Proust by Stéphane Carlier is an engaging and unusual novel about how reading Proust changes a young woman’s life for the better. Some […]