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Readers stack the books that fit. You find your next one.

Small, hand-picked stacks grouped by what you feel like reading, not the genre. Search someone's, or make your own.

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Cover of The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Drayfus

Sci-fi with great women, where being a woman isn't the whole point

Sharp, complicated heroines doing the actual work of the story — saving the ship, solving the puzzle, breaking the world. Sci-fi where the lead's gender doesn't decide what the book is about.

Wondrous Epic

4 months ago 25

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Drayfus

Books that change if you read them at 20 or at 40

The same words, a different person reading them and, a different book entirely. Stories that quietly wait for you to grow into what they were really saying.

Morally grey Bittersweet

2 months ago 16

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Cover of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

rubenfa

Non-fiction books that changed my life

Some people dismiss them as self-help. But some of these books can genuinely help you improve your life.

Wondrous Hopeful

3 months ago 70

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Cover of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Drayfus

Novels about famous women and the act they keep up

The public version of a woman, maintained at enormous cost. Stories about being looked at for a living, and who you get to be after.

Bittersweet Tender

3 wks ago 7

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Drayfus

Enemies to lovers where the hate is real first

Romance where they genuinely can't stand each other first. The insult lands long before the want does, and the turn costs them something.

Romantic Morally grey

2 months ago 5

Open Vote

Drayfus

Novels you finish in one sitting

Short enough to swallow whole, sharp enough that you won't want to put them down anyway. For an afternoon, a long train ride, or a night you don't want to sleep.

Heartwrenching Bittersweet

3 months ago 21

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