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Thought our history might be of interest to some:

That is interesting. I think 2012 is when I joined? That sound about right.

>2 drneutron: Hmm... 2012 was my personal peak as well. The uptick during COVID is very interesting!

The 2023 American Authors Challenge organizational thread has been created; https://www.librarything.com/topic/346826

The British Author Challenge is up! https://www.librarything.com/topic/346901

Stasia has made the 2023 Board Games, Anyone? thread. It’s at: https://www.librarything.com/topic/346953

Come and share!

Another continuation from last year is the 2023 Here’s To Our Health thread. Come join in our efforts to get and stay healthier in the new year!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/346954

A place where we can record the "treasures" that we have picked up, whether from the local library or books purchased throughout the year:

This Just In!

>2 drneutron: I joined in 2011, during that peak of membership! I'm glad to see the curve heading upwards again.

I have created the thread for the group read of Anthony Trollope's The Belton Estate:

Here

All welcome!

The Nonfiction Challenge thread for January is up…

Prizewinners and Nominees in January!

And the Investigators Ancient and Modern group read is starting!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/347194

The January thread for our African Authors Challenge is up!

NORTH AFRICA - SAHARAN SANDS

The Discworld group read thread is up!

The January thread for the American Authors Challenge is up.

Children's Classics

Both the January Thread ( Rosemary Sutcliff and Fred D'Aguiar) and the Wildcard Thread (Doorstops) are up!

Have you heard? There’s a group read of the Discworld: Death Novels This year. One a month starting in February. Should be a blast!

Organizational Thread: https://www.librarything.com/topic/347265

SilverWolf28 has added a thread for those reading Louis L'Amour this year: https://www.librarything.com/topic/347550

The last chance to vote for the Quarters 1 and 2 group reads in the Geeks who love the Classics group is here! Deadline closes this Sunday.

Our nominations are:
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

If you would like to join us, please help us vote, and welcome! :)

https://www.librarything.com/topic/346119

We have a new 75ers' Organizing/Decluttering Support Group!

>21 drneutron: I need this so bad!

Readathon this weekend! Thanks, SilverWolf, for setting these up.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/347663

^I am hosting a Group Read of Horse by Geraldine Brooks in early February, if anyone else would like to join us. I know there are a lot of Brooks fans out there. I will start the G.R. thread later next week and mention it here.

>23 drneutron: You're welcome!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/347873

January-March group read for Faust by Goethe is up!
Feel free to join us here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/347827

The February African Authors Challenge thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/348039

This weekend's Readathon!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/348078

The February BAC thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/348109

Hear ye! Hear ye! The Group Read for Horse is up. I hope you can join us.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/348116#n8052214

Discworld group read starts on Feb 1. The book is Mort by Terry Pratchett

https://www.librarything.com/topic/347265#n8023987

New Thread Alert!

What Are We Watching?

And the February British Authors Challenge thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/348109

And a group read of Wallace Stegner’s Angle of Repose

The February American Authors thread is up here

The February Nonfiction Challenge thread is up!

Favorite Pastimes in February

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/348237

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/348418

>35 drneutron: Jim - when will the Angle of Repose be set up?

Thank you.

>40 m.belljackson: Here it is: https://www.librarything.com/topic/348080

Just a heads-up, everyone. We're heading out on vacation this evening, and my access to LT may be pretty spotty. I'll keep up as best I can for the rest of the month with new threads, etc, but will most definitely catch up within a day or two of getting back home on March 1st.

Plus, potential for a Singapore meetup, maybe even including a Cranswick or two, is looking pretty solid. There will be pictures! 😀

>42 drneutron:, Yay.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/348692

>42 drneutron: I am so jealous of the Singapore meetup it is not even funny!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/348863

The March British Author Challenge thread is up.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/348887

The March American Author Challenge thread is also up! Theme is Poetry.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/348966

And also the Nonfiction thread for March. Theme is Empires!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/349010

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/349027

A thread for those enjoying Demon Copperhead together!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/349040

The Wild Card thread for the American Authors Group Read is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/349107

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/349213

I’ve set up a thread for the “John Huston Film Fest”! This is a no-pressure, simply for fun group watching of some films directed by the great John Huston. Hope you join in!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/349424#n8094672

Karen O

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/349452

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/349607

The April British Author Challenge thread is up.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/349738

And also the April American Authors thread!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/349744

There will be a group read of Margaret Oliphant's Phoebe, Junior next month: I will be setting up the thread over the weekend. It will be conducted through the Virago group, but all welcome!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/349763

The April Africa Novel thread is up! This month, it’s the Horn of Africa:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/349799

The thread is now up for the group read of Margaret Oliphant's Phoebe, Junior:

Here

All welcome!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/349961

The April Nonfiction Challenge thread is up. Theme is The Sea in April: https://www.librarything.com/topic/350004

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/350101

In honor of Poetry Month, there's a Poetry Hunt going on! See this thread.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/350311

For anyone in the Los Angeles are, the L.A. Times Festival of Books is this weekend at USC!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/350466

I am not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this or not (this is a cross post from my own thread). Instead of choosing an author to read next year - last year I did Jane Austen and this year I am doing Marcel Proust - next year I am thinking of reading "War Literature" for want of a better term. I do not want stick to exclusively to one war, but read classics for those such as the Peloponnesian War (if there is such a thing!), the Civil War, the War of the Roses, etc.

Any input is welcome! Thanks, people.

Here are the titles that have already been suggested to me by Anita and Paul:

Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
The Red Collar by Jean-Christophe Rufin
Salt of the Earth by Józef Wittlin
War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans
Private Peaceful by Michael Mopurgo
Regeneration by Pat Barker
A Long Engagement
A Long, Long Way
Death of a Hero
Her Privates We
Parade's End
Undertones of War
In Parenthesis

ETA: Recommendations from Peggy
The Daughter of Mars
Into the Silence

>70 alcottacre:
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
The Memoirs of George Sherston by Siegfried Sassoon
Strange Meeting by Susan Hill
How Many Miles to Babylon? by Jennifer Johnston
The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
The Charioteer by Mary Renault
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
Look Down in Mercy by Walter Baxter
Their Finest Hour and a Half by Lissa Evans
Slaughterhouse-Five and Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

The May British Authors Challenge thread is up. We'll be reading the works of Jan Morris and R. F. Delderfield.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/350529

>70 alcottacre: Some war-themed books I recommend (these are all fiction):

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (about the Sri Lankan civil war)
Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce (some are more on the horror side of the U.S. Civil War, but are very good)
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk (set during WWII)
Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener (also WWII, and the basis for the musical "South Pacific")

Here's a list for war-themed reading:

The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning WWII
The Girls of Atomic City by Denise Kiernan WWII
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque WWI
Rise to Rebellion by Jeff Shaara American Revolution
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac WWII
Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe novels Napoleonic Wars
The Loyal Son by Daniel Mark Epstein American Revolution
This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust U.S. Civil War
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Spanish Civil War
A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes Russian Revolution

>71 amanda4242: >73 ocgreg34: >74 laytonwoman3rd: Thank you, Amanda, Greg, and Linda! I will add them to the list that I am compiling.

The May thread for the African Authors Challenge is up! Theme this month is African Nobel Winners.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/350564

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/350624

For those of you within driving distance of Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA, come to the Gaitherbsurg Book Festival on Saturday, May, 20, 2023, where I will be stationed at the BookCrossing tent hoping to give away *hundreds* of FREE books along with my fellow Bookcrossers. I'll be there wearing my name tag (SqueakyChu, of course!).
https://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/350767

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/350931

Here's the Memorial Day readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/351075

The June British Authors Challenge thread is up.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/351129

And the June American Authors Challenge thread:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/351161

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/351187

The June African Authors thread is up!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/351192

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/351336

For those who take part in the annual Joplin meet up - and those who would like to - there is now a discussion thread up to discuss possible date changes: https://www.librarything.com/topic/351351

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/351550

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/351696

There will be a group read of Anthony Trollope's The Claverings next month; I will post back here when the thread is up.

The July American Authors thread is up! This month - US Presidents as Authors

https://www.librarything.com/topic/351857

Here's the Fourth of July readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/351865#n8176378

The July British Authors Challenge thread is up. July's authors are Nadifa Mohamed and Tom Holt/KJ Parker.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/351882

The July African Novel Challenge is up - CHINUA ACHEBE & BEN OKRI

The thread is now up for the group read of Anthony Trollope's The Claverings:

Here

All welcome!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/352063

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/352222

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/352404

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/352566

The August British Authors Challenge thread is up.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/352665

The August African Author Challenge thread is up!

This month the topic is Francophone books!

https://www.librarything.com/topic/352728

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/352748

The August thread in the American Authors Challenge is active. https://www.librarything.com/topic/352677#n8199804

FYI: from the admins: "Attention Thingamabrarians and Littens: LibraryThing and Litsy have been experiencing an outage impacting loading of some web content, including cover images, over the night and into this morning. The issue should be mostly resolved on the web and LibraryThing app, but we are still working on the Litsy app. Stay tuned for updates, and please reach out to us at info@librarything.com or litsy@librarything.com with specific concerns."

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/352884

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353058

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353193

The September British Authors Challenge thread is up.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/353268

LibraryThing Birthday Treasure Hunt is here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353286

September's African Novel Challenge is up and we are visiting Southern Africa:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/353344#n8220666

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353351

The September thread for the American Authors Challenge is now live. It's women (or ladies, as you prefer) in crime this month.

>113 laytonwoman3rd: The only time I even slightly like the use of lady is where gentleman would be used for a man. Women write. Ladies behave.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353486

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353633

The Joplin meet up thread is here: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353769

We are meeting up earlier this year than ever before and I hope to see a lot of 75ers there!

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353833

There will be a group read in October addressing both Elizabeth Gaskell's Curious, If True, a collection of five short stories, and George Eliot's novella, The Lifted Veil.

The plan is to extend this group project into November, so that each individual story is given equal weight.

I will be setting up the thread over the weekend and will post here again when it is up.

The project will be run through the Virago group, but all welcome!

>119 lyzard: Ooh, that sounds interesting. I can't promise I'll be able to join in but I'll at least keep an eye on the group read.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/353988

October's AFRICAN NOVEL CHALLENGE is up.
Featured this month are Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Scholastique Mukasonga.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/354018

>120 PawsforThought:

Very welcome either way. :)

The October British Authors Challenge thread is up. We'll be reading the works of Monica Ali and Dennis Wheatley.

https://www.librarything.com/topic/354029#

The thread is now up for the group read of Elizabeth Gaskell's Curious, If True and George Eliot's The Lifted Veil - here.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/354158

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse.

Here's the next readathon: https://www.librarything.com/topic/354324

Jane Fancher and Cj Cherryh are talking about their newest book. "The date is Wednesday, October 18 at 7 PM ET (that's 4 PM where they reside). DEFIANCE, their latest novel in the FOREIGNER series, is being released that week, and we are quite thrilled to have this dynamic team make their NYRSF Readings debut..
NYRSF can be watched LIVE at https://.facebook.com/groups/NYRSF.Readings or at https://youtube.com/streams. (We have discovered fewer glitches on the YouTube feed.)"

>129 ronincats: I've got holds on Defiance wherever possible!