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Est. 2025 · A Readers' Society
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A fellowship devoted to the great, impossible, exhausting classics that most people claim to have read and none dare to finish.
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Five candidates have been nominated by the membership. Each member receives one vote.
Finding a Common Misery
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Select the days between April 23-29 you're available to discuss A Tale of Two Cities, Book 2 .
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The Canon
Greatest books of all time
01
Moby Dick
33
02
Les Misérables
46
03
The Brothers Karamazov
41
04
The Iliad
43
05
Faust
30
06
Paradise Lost
22
07
War and Peace
47
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Ulysses
38
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Crime and Punishment
40
10
In Search of Lost Time
36
11
The Portrait of a Lady
28
12
One Hundred Years of Solitude
48
13
Metamorphoses
35
14
Hamlet
50
15
The Count of Monte Cristo
44
16
The Epic of Gilgamesh
39
17
Being There
18
18
Red Badge of Courage
20
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A Hero of Our Time
24
20
Madame Bovary
32
21
Divine Comedy
45
22
Slaughterhouse-Five
37
23
Grapes of Wrath
34
24
Dead Souls
25
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The Master and Margarita
42
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Middlemarch
35
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Beloved
41
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The Decameron
27
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The Red and the Black
26
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Heart of Darkness
31
Est. 2025 · A Readers' Society
Performative
Performative
Reader
◆
We don't merely read books. We inhabit them — aloud, together, in voices borrowed from the dead. A fellowship devoted to the great, impossible, exhausting classics that most people claim to have read and none dare to finish.
Scroll onward
Democratic Ordeal
Vote for
Vote for
Our Next Reading
Five candidates have been nominated by the membership. Each member receives one vote. Agony is expected.
Finding a Common Misery
When Can
When Can
You Attend?
Select the dates you're available. We'll find the evening that causes the least collective inconvenience.
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The Canon
30 Books