Five or Flop: the Best (and Worst) Historical Fiction Has to Offer
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Welcome to Five or Flop, a podcast for the best (and worst) historical fiction has to offer! Each week, we'll be reading and reviewing a different historical fiction book on a scale from flop to five. Make sure to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok @fiveorflop_pod for all the latest updates!
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Silence by Shusaku Endo: Flopostasy
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows: Epistolary Novels Are Not a Flop
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver: The Gospel of Flop
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell: The Four United Flops
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon: Flop in a Box
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie: The Flop of a Ka-Priest
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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The Dance Tree by Kiran Millwood Hargrave: The Third Amendment Is Not a Flop
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid: Houston, We Have a Flop
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson: Badass Feminists, Badass Flops
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Reviewing The Handmaiden: Our Final Flop Film
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Watching The Color Purple: No Flops Here!
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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The Five or Flop Awards: Ranking Four Seasons of Prizewinners
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Watching The Letter: The Flopverse of W. Somerset Maugham
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker: Season Four Has Finished Flopping
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Jews Queers Germans by Martin Duberman: The Most Notorious Flop on the Pod
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters: Fine or Flop?
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia: Everything’s Flop Babe
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng: Flopping on the Veranda
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: Flop Dog Stands
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta: Flopping in a Feminist Modern Way
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall: Premise Five, Practice Flop
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Cantoras by Caro de Robertis: Erin's Flight Flops Again
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel: How Do You Say Flop in French?
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue: Finally Free From Flops
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May 27, 2025 |
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The Persian Boy by Mary Renault: Alexander the Flop
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May 20, 2025 |
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The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar: An Unprecedented Number of Flops in NYC
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May 13, 2025 |
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Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher: Camelflop
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May 06, 2025 |
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Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon: Floppy Bottom
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Somehow Five AND Flop: HBO's Dear America Film Adaptations
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Flop for Making Us Cry: Watching Ashes in the Snow
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Five Cast, Flop Soundtrack: The Catherine, Called Birdy Movie
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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The Fives and Flops to Rule Them All: A Complete Podcast Ranking
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Royal Diaries Part Two: Final Grade is Flop
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Royal Diaries Part One: Princess of Flops
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis: Grace, Erin, and the Flopping Fives of the Podcast!!!!!
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix: Fire Safety is Not a Flop
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Seven Little Australians by Ethel Turner: Our Hosts' First Flop
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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Distant Waves by Suzanne Weyn: Tesla’s Flop Machine
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Magic Tree House by Mary Pope Osborne: Becoming a Magic Flopbrarian
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson: Too Many Flops in the Flop Cart
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys: Winter in Flopberia
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The Davenports by Krystal Marquis: Cars Five, Carriages Flop
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein: Code Name Flop
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Dear America Part Two: Across the Wide and Flopsome Prairie
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Dear America Part One: Get These Flops a Happy Ending
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan: Leaving Your Estate to the Flop Society
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Catherine Called Birdy by Karen Cushman: The Feast Day of Saint Flop
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Johnny Tremain by Ester Forbes: One if by Land, Two if by Flop
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss: Newbery Medals and Newbery Flops
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson: The British Are Flopping
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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Josefina, An American Girl by Valerie Tripp: Flop-ecita the Goat
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Mini Series Review: Apple TV, You Will Pay for Your Flops
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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Water for Elephants: You Can Bring an Elephant to Water But You Can’t Make it Flop
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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The Other Boleyn Girl Movie Review: A Cast of Fives in a Film of Flops
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Bridgerton Season Three Review: These Flops Can’t Compare to Kanthony
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus: Flopping at Five, Followed by Supper at Six
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Babel by R.F. Kuang: Flopping in Five Different Languages
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak: Steal Fives Not Flops
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: Can States Stop Flopping?
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory: Flop to the Top
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan: Flopping With One Hand
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich: Horse Flop???
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini: For You, A Thousand Flops Over
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez: Flops in the Time of Fives
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah: The Flop Bowl
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May 28, 2024 |
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Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Women are Fives, Men are Flops
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May 21, 2024 |
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Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn: The Secrets of Lady Whistleflop
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May 14, 2024 |
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee: Not the Step-Dad but the Dad Who Didn't Flop
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May 07, 2024 |
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Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller: Topping or Flopping?
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: The Sea of Flops
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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RWA and Little Free Libraries: Book World Flops
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Flop by Nature: Season One Character Birth Chart Analysis
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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From Five to Flop: The Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Movie
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton: The Flop in Our Stars
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: The Curse of Flopmoore Manor
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi: One Twin's a Five, One Twin's a Flop
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Violeta by Isabel Allende: Pandemics, Bad Boyfriends, and Other Flops
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlflop
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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The Spy by Paulo Coelho: Its Only Crime Was Being a Flop
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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The Cartographer's Secret by Tea Cooper: X Marks the Flop
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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A Land Remembered by Patrick D. Smith: Erin’s Flop Florida Education
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: Not Even a Little Flop
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras: The Tree that Makes You Flop
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See: Finding Out Your Old Same is a Flop
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell: To Flop or Not To Flop
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Trailer: Five or Flop
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Dec 04, 2023 |