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Welcome to the marginalia for North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.

In case you’re new here, this is the collaborative equivalent of scribbling notes onto the margins of your book. Share your thoughts, favourite quotes, questions, or more here.

Please be mindful of spoilers and use the spoiler tags appropriately. To indicate a spoiler, enclose the relevant text with the > ! and ! < characters (there is no space in-between). Just like this one: >!a spoiler lives here!<

In order to help other readers, please start your comment by indicating where you were in your reading. For example: “End of chapter 2: “

Happy reading and see you at the first discussion on Friday July 3rd.

Hi all,

Over at r/bookclub, we are going to be reading North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, staring July 3rd, we would love you to join us! Link to the schedule is below!

[Schedule] North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell : r/bookclub

Welcome to the third discussion of The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai.  Today we are discussing chapters 17 (1986) - 25 (1986 – ‘turn the radio up’).  Next week u/toomanytequieros will lead the last discussion, covering chapters 26 (2015) - 34 (July 15th 1986 – ‘lets get you lying down’).

Links:

Schedule

Marginalia

Discussion questions are in the comments below, but feel free to add your own.

Hello book lovers. I am excited to announce our July core reads of 2026 will be.......

Guttenberg

1st place - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/512710.North\_and\_South)

• 2nd place Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy (11 votes behind 1st)

3rd place - Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (1 vote behind 2nd)

Mystery/ thriller

1st place

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16335.The\_Mystery\_of\_the\_Blue\_Train

• 2nd place - Butter by Asako Yuzuki(1 vote behind 1st)

3rd place - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (3 votes behind 2nd)

*These books will be added onto the Wheel of books, and the care of the warden of the wheel u/Joinedformyhubs and Thor!!!

So will you be joining us for one (or both) of these reads?

Happy reading bookclubbers 📚

(Apologies for the formatting, Reddit just isn't playing ball)

Hey readers, the nominations are in, and it is now time to make sure your preference wins, so be sure to head on over to

the Guttenberg nomination and voting post here

and the mystery/ thriller nomination and voting post here,

and upvote all the books you would read with r/bookclub if they were to win.

24(ish) hours remain at the time of posting...go...do it now!!!

Happy upvoting! 📚🌍

Hello all!
Welcome to the July 2026 Core Reads voting. Our first July topic is **Guttenberg**.

This is the voting thread for

#Guttenberg

Voting will be open for four days, ending on June 13, 11.00 PDT/14.00 EDT/20.00 CEST. The selection will be announced by June14

#For this selections, here are the requirements:

- **under** 500 Pages
- No previously read selections
- Available in the Public Domain

Please check the previous selections. Quick search by author here to determine if your selection is valid.

Nominate as many titles as you want (one per comment), and vote for any, **and all**, of the nominations you'd participate in if they were to win

Here's the formatting frequently used, but there's no requirement to include a book blurb or link to Storygraph, Wikipedia or other (just don't link to sales links at Amazon, spam catchers will remove those)

The generic selection format:

/[Title by Author]/(links)

(Without the /s)

Where a link to Storygraph, Wikipedia, or other summary of your choice is included (but not required)

Happy Nominating and Happy upvoting! 📚

(For more nominations and voting head to the July mystery/ thriller nomination post)

#Note - If you suspect that a nomination does not fit the specifications you can report this and note that comment "Does not fit Specifications". The mod team will review it and approve or delete accordingly. Any comments on the validity of other users' nominations will be removed immediately.

Hello all!

Welcome to the July 2026 Core Reads voting. Our second July topic is **Mystery/ thriller**.

This is the voting thread for

#Mystery/ thriller

Voting will be open for four days, ending on June 13, 11.00 PDT/14.00 EDT/20.00 CEST. The selection will be announced by June 14

#For this selections, here are the requirements:

- Under 500 Pages
- No previously read selections
- Classified as a mystery or thriller

Please check the previous selections. Quick search by author here to determine if your selection is valid.

Nominate as many titles as you want (one per comment), and vote for any, **and all**, of the nominations you'd participate in if they were to win

Here's the formatting frequently used, but there's no requirement to include a book blurb or link to Storygraph, Wikipedia or other (just don't link to sales links at Amazon, spam catchers will remove those)

The generic selection format:

/[Title by Author]/(links)

(Without the /s)

Where a link to Storygraph, Wikipedia, or other summary of your choice is included (but not required)

Happy Nominating and Happy upvoting! 📚

(For more nominations and voting head to the July Guttenberg novel nomination post)

#Note - If you suspect that a nomination does not fit the specifications you can report this and note that comment "Does not fit Specifications". The mod team will review it and approve or delete accordingly. Any comments on the validity of other users' nominations will be removed immediately.

Welcome to the marginalia for The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

In case you’re new here, this is the collaborative equivalent of scribbling notes onto the margins of your book. Share your thoughts, favourite quotes, questions, or more here.

Please be mindful of spoilers and use the spoiler tags appropriately. To indicate a spoiler, enclose the relevant text with the > ! and ! < characters (there is no space in-between). Just like this one: >!a spoiler lives here!<

In order to help other readers, please start your comment by indicating where you were in your reading. For example: “End of chapter 2: “

Happy reading and see you at the first discussion on Wednesday, June 10^(th).

Welcome to the second discussion of our first Read the World trip to Azerbaijan with Ali and Nino by Kurban Said.  We are discussing chapters 10-20 this week.  Next week, u/nicehotcupoftea will lead the final discussion.

Here are some useful links:

• Schedule
• Marginalia

Discussion questions are in the comments but feel free to add your own.

Welcome to our third discussion of Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista.  This week, we are discussing chapters 8-10.  Next week u/nicehotcupoftea will take us through the last section.

You can find the full discussion Schedule here, and the Marginalia is here for all your note scribbling needs.

Questions are in the comments to get you started but please feel free to add your own questions and insights.