Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By
Claire Dederer
Claire Dederer
2023 • 289 pages

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9 books

Reto 2024

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Mina
Akira, Vol. 1
Akira, Vol. 2
In the Dream House
Las malas
Por el camino de Swann
Le Paysan De Paris
El adversario

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189 books

Nonfiction

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Tara
Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas: The Film, the Art, the Vision
Where Am I Now?
Alan Turing: the enigma
Why Not Me?
The Story of Stuff
Crying in H Mart

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12 books

Hollywood Books

Jay-Kirk
Jason
The Deer Park
The studio
Interior Chinatown
The Day of the Locust
What Makes Sammy Run?
Play It as It Lays
You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again

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44 books

Owned

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Matthew Rasnake
The Long Cosmos
The Lost Cause
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Love Is a Dog from Hell
The Dharma Bums
The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet

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50 books

Dnf

Cherryplums
Katy
Eileen
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
The Road
Let the Right One In
A Certain Hunger
We Had to Remove This Post

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30 books

Owned

yungfortitude
Jake SquireSupporter
A Clash of Kings
A Game of Thrones
Slaughterhouse 5
Nine Stories
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Sympathizer
Meditations

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67 books

Tried But Couldnt Finish

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Kate
Cyteen
Wanderlust
Her smoke rose up forever
Throne of Glass
The Great Book of Amber
Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America
Book of Soups: More than 100 Recipes for Perfect Soups

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1,164 books

Prn

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Paul Nadeau
Who Is Rich?
The Rules Do Not Apply
Other Russias
The Idiot
Priestdaddy
Revolutionary Road
The Satanic Verses

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221 books

Next Level

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Paul Nadeau
Whip Smart: A Memoir
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories
But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Hard Rain Falling

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49 books

Literary Criticism

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Travis West
Literary Wonderlands: A Journey Through the Greatest Fictional Worlds Ever Created
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
The Caped Crusade
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008
Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture

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19 books

2024

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Travis West
Witchfinder General
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
Do You Remember Being Born?
Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy
I'm Glad My Mom Died
The Suicide Motor Club

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140 books

Memoir

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Susan Scribner
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Bossypants
Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Why Not Me?
Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink
No Land's Man

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62 books

Movies Tv

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Susan Scribner
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made The Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
I'll Be There For You: The One about Friends
I Like to Watch
But Enough About Me

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65 books

Mental Health

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Susan Scribner
Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
Solutions and Other Problems
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are
Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Yes & I Love You

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78 books

Non Fiction

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Susan Scribner
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents--and Ourselves
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Moneyball
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
I Wear the Black Hat

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Spiritomb
Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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32 books

Arts

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Spiritomb
The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era
On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing
Just my type
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Pentagons and Pentagrams: An Illustrated History
Skirts: Fashioning Modern Femininity in the Twentieth Century
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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56 books

Moral Philosophy

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Spiritomb
Honouring and Admiring the Immoral: An Ethical Guide
Moral Blindness: The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person
Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
War Is a Racket
Neuroexistentialism

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77 books

250 To 350

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zoeoz
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Beloved
Recursion
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
All My Puny Sorrows
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

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904 books

Nonfiction

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Katie
Citizen: An American Lyric
Negroland
Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous
Modern Romance
Why Not Me?
The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup
The Last Act of Love

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119 books

Short Stories

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Katie
Drown
No One Belongs Here More Than You
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Birds of America
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Nine Stories
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
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