Annotate‪d‬ Book Riot

How a gimmick to write more became one of the biggest literary events online.

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Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky

I’m Not Dying with You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones




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The affirming, surprising, and most of all lasting legacy of The Baby-Sitters Club.




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The Ventriloquists by E.R. Ramzipoor

Circe by Madeline Miller




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Someday by David Levithan

Yumi Sakugawa

RWBY After the Fall by E.C. Myers

The Baby-Sitters Club Club Podcast

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What if the whole world spoke the same language? How would it work? Who would be interested in speaking it? In this episode, the dream, the reality, and the hope that is Esperanto.




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Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett




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Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language by Esther Schor

Alex Miller's Esperanto YouTube Channel

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Sometimes people refer to a book they really liked as "life-changing." But what if you read a book, and it really did change your life in a big way? In this episode, stories of people reading books and making a big change.




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The Guest Book by Sarah Blake

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In this episode, the story of the interrupted literary career of Freido Lampe, and how his story reveals the underpinnings of the Nazi obsession with books and literature.




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We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal

Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde




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At the Edge of the Night by Freido Lampe, translated by Simon Beattie

The Book Thieves by Anders Rydell

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In a follow-up to our last episode, an extended conversation with Chris Wilson about what reading while in prison can do.

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