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Fiction

ALBliberal

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2. Calamity Club author Kathryn Stockett also wrote

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Sun Jul 12, 2026, 12:04 PM

12 hrs ago

The Help. Set in late 20s early 30s (Great Depression) very moving story with lots of humor for levity. Excellent historical referencing.

Truly outstanding. Making fried chicken dinner for my daughter’s book club on Friday.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, July 12, 2026? [View all] hermetic 12 hrs ago OP

"The River We Remember," by William Kent Krueger Bayard 12 hrs ago #1

Gosh, hermetic 11 hrs ago #4

And I rarely pay more than $5 for a hardback book in good shape, Bayard 1 hr ago #30

What a coincidence... I wrote about that book in last week's thread Number9Dream 7 hrs ago #29

No kidding? Bayard 1 hr ago #31

Calamity Club author Kathryn Stockett also wrote ALBliberal 12 hrs ago #2

That's nice of you hermetic 11 hrs ago #7

Been saving Lincoln in the Bardo Ponietz 11 hrs ago #3

Yeah, hermetic 11 hrs ago #5

Off the Grid/C J Box cbabe 11 hrs ago #6

Sounds good hermetic 11 hrs ago #15

Winter World.. by A.G. Riddle... MiHale 11 hrs ago #8

Sounds kind of scary hermetic 11 hrs ago #11

I have the individual books...reading #1 now. MiHale 11 hrs ago #14

Wow! Will do hermetic 11 hrs ago #16

Ordering Robopocalypse Bayard 1 hr ago #33

That sounds good Bayard 1 hr ago #32

Lawrence Of Arabia by Jeremy Wilson. byronius 11 hrs ago #9

How nice! hermetic 11 hrs ago #12

Whistler by Ann Patchett PittBlue 11 hrs ago #10

So do I hermetic 11 hrs ago #13

No horses yet! PittBlue 9 hrs ago #23

Good day, readers. Today chasing squirrels off bird feeder and mourning txwhitedove 10 hrs ago #17

rather get more badass of the week books. pansypoo53219 10 hrs ago #18

Bingeing Ian Rankin Rebus books Easterncedar 10 hrs ago #19

Good hermetic 9 hrs ago #20

"The Traveler" by Joseph Eckert intrepidity 9 hrs ago #21

Excellent! hermetic 9 hrs ago #22

Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo mentalsolstice 8 hrs ago #24

18 pounds? Ouch! hermetic 8 hrs ago #25

Weather forecasts Attilatheblond 8 hrs ago #26

🤣 Told my plant-killer daughter this is the deceptive weather season... txwhitedove 7 hrs ago #27

My location falls in a 'mountain rain shadow' Close enough to the storm blocking hunk of granite to be drier Attilatheblond 7 hrs ago #28