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Slow reads in 2025:

• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• The Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel

• The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell

• A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

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• War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

  A slow read of Tolstoy’s masterpiece, a chapter a day for 361 days. Join the daily chat and read weekly summaries, background and analysis.

• The Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel

  Join hundreds of readers on a slow read of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy. Read around 40 pages a week over one year, from Putney to Tower Hill: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light.