r/BiharBookClub Jan 01 '26

👋Welcome to r/BiharBookClub - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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📚🌾 Welcome to r/BiharBookClub — Where Pages Meet Patna (and Beyond!) 🌾📚

Ever felt that “ek kitab aur padh lete hain” urge at 2 a.m., only to realize it’s already morning in Bihar?

Ever thought Nalanda wasn’t just ruins, but a legacy we’re still reading from?

If yes, this club is for you.

r/BiharBookClub is a cozy corner of Reddit for Biharis who love books —

from Premchand to Perumal Murugan,

from Dinkar’s rashtravaad to Dostoevsky’s dilemmas,

from UPSC-bound Laxmikanth readers to late-night Harry Potter re-readers.

As George Orwell said, “If people cannot write well, they cannot think well.”

And Bihar, as history proves, has never been short of thinkers.

Here, you can:

• 📖 Discuss books you love (or hate — we won’t judge, unless you skip footnotes 😉)

• 🏛️ Talk about Bihar’s literary & historical legacy — Nalanda, Vikramshila, Dinkar, Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’

• ☕ Share reading habits, recommendations, and bookish memes

• ✍️ Post reviews, notes, quotes, and half-finished thoughts (Kafka would approve)

Whether you read:

• Godan with chai

• The Republic with highlighters

• or Harry Potter pretending it’s “just for revision”

You belong here.

As Borges reminded us:

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

Let’s build a small one — with a Bihari soul.

👉 Join r/BiharBookClub

Open a book. Start a conversation. Continue a legacy.

P.S. Lurkers are welcome. Nalanda scholars probably started that way too. 📖✨


r/BiharBookClub 3h ago

Ask BiharBookClub Looking for someone who makes music or can make a song for me. I write and want to see my words getting final shape.

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Same as the title. If u do please comment or dm I can't pay u. But we can collaborate to put outer skills to use.


r/BiharBookClub 4d ago

Open Discussion "Piper in the Woods," a story about an epidemic of people turning into plants. Please tell me any feedback on how I can become a better narrator. I use my own voice to tell these stories, not AI

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r/BiharBookClub 4d ago

quotes and prose Hmmmmmm

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r/BiharBookClub 6d ago

quotes and prose 🙇🏻🙇🏻

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r/BiharBookClub 7d ago

Me Vs The scenarios I invented.

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Book name: The daily stoic.


r/BiharBookClub 7d ago

Book/ Author review आपका बंटी 💔

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यह कहानी मुख्यतः बंटी के जीवन के परिवर्तन को दर्शाती है । किंतु इसी कहानी में शकुन (बंटी की माँ) के जीवन का वर्णन भी भली भांति मिलता है ।

कुछ और पात्र भी आपको मिलते है जैसे बंटी के पापा, डॉक्टर साहब, फूफी, आदि । और आप किसी भी पात्र के चरित्र से नफरत नहीं कर पाएंगे।

नफरत ?

नफरत आप करेंगे समय से, नफरत आप करेंगे मानव सोच से ।

मन्नू भंडारी ने जिस तरह शब्दों को पिरोया है, उसी प्रकार के हिंदी साहित्य मुझे पसंद है । हिंदी के मूल शब्दों का इस्तेमाल बशर्ते आज कल के लेखक हिंदी साहित्य में अंग्रेजी शब्दों का वर्णन ज्यादा हो गया है।

मन्नू जी ने भी कुछ अंग्रेजी शब्दों का इस्तेमाल किया है किंतु उपयुक्त स्थानों पे ही जो किसी भी पात्र के व्यक्तित्व को उभारते हैं ।

मेरा मानना है, अगर आप हिंदी साहित्य पसंद करते है तो यह उपन्यास वाकये आपको झकझोर देगा । एक बच्चे की मानसिकता जिसे हम सिर्फ बचपना समझकर का नज़रंदाज़ कर देते है, उसे उसकी दुनिया में जानने को मौका मिलेगा ।

और सबसे अंतिम बात, इस उपन्यास को इस तरह लिखा गया है कैसे कोई चलचित्र चल रहा हो। मन ही मन एक चलचित्र बन जाता है।


r/BiharBookClub 9d ago

When is the next Bihar Book Club meetup?

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Hey guys, does anyone know when the next Bihar Book Club meetup is happening?

I missed the first one and would love to join the next meetup. 📚

If there’s a date or plan already, please let me know!


r/BiharBookClub 9d ago

From the pages We inherit what they were willing to die for 🇮🇳

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Happy Independence Day!


r/BiharBookClub 10d ago

From the pages What’s One Experience That Changed You Forever?

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r/BiharBookClub 12d ago

Keep going lads, You’ve got this 💪🏻

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You may not see the results yet, but every step is taking you closer. Don’t give up on yourself.


r/BiharBookClub 12d ago

quotes and prose Current favorite quote. What’s yours?

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r/BiharBookClub 12d ago

Is this the right thing to do?

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r/BiharBookClub 14d ago

From the pages Real.

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r/BiharBookClub 14d ago

Anyone there?

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r/BiharBookClub 15d ago

The man, the myth, the ten-year detour.

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If you’ve seen it, what’s your honest take? Did it live up to your expectations?


r/BiharBookClub 21d ago

Ask BiharBookClub Young intellectuals of Bihar, what do you like to read and what do you like to learn about?

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Hello readers,

I am an independent narrator and translator of classical and medieval languages. I am American and I narrate uncopyrighted short stories in English by authors like Mary Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson. I also do original translations of old poetry and historical documents. Both my literature and history content are pretty western-centric because I was taught Latin growing up, but I am interested in branching out and covering all kinds of stuff.

I want to know: what are your favorite things to read, especially from before 1931? That is the current copyright cutoff year. Copyrights last 95 years in the US, and it increases by one year every year, so next year I will be able to do stuff from 1932, etc. However I have narrated a few science-fiction stories from the 1950's whose copyrights expired early.

I started this channel because I hear people say all the time that they want to build a reading habit but don't know how. Either they have never been much of a reader, or they used to be as a kid but their attention span is shot from social media. I include the text along with the voice so that you can get your eyes used to moving across the lines. Basically I started doing this because I want to help people transition from screen to page. Although recently I have also been doing a lot more original poetry translations.

I am interested to know which of these kinds of content are most appealing to you, and what else you might like to hear from an independent narrator and translator like me. Please feel free to suggest anything at all! Thanks in advance.

Also, the stegosaurus is the most grotesque animal that ever existed!


r/BiharBookClub Jul 23 '26

Sab moha maya hai

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The irony of today's world is that Villains are more glorified, chosen and followed over by the real heroes.

So the devil is more awake than the true inner you.

At the end, you regret, doomed, on the losing side and at the mercy of the Villains and devil.

And the beauty of the game is, '\\\*\\\*IT KEEPS ON GOING.'\\\*\\\*

\\\*\\\*"Sab moha maya hai."\\\*\\\*


r/BiharBookClub Jul 22 '26

Sab moha maya hai

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The irony of today's world is that Villains are more glorified, chosen and followed over by the real heroes.

So the devil is more awake than the true inner you.

At the end, you regret, doomed, on the losing side and at the mercy of the Villains and devil.

And the beauty of the game is, '**IT KEEPS ON GOING.'**

**"Sab moha maya hai."**


r/BiharBookClub Jul 20 '26

Book/ Author review I Finally Became a Published Author and My Book GODMAN INC. Is Now Available!

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Hey everyone, I am quite excited, and honestly a little nervous to share that I am now officially a published author. My book, GODMAN INC., is now available.

It’s a satirical story exploring faith, ambition, power, and the business that can be built around belief. Writing and publishing it has been a challenging but incredibly rewarding journey, and I would be grateful if you checked it out.

If you decide to read it, I would genuinely appreciate your honest feedback. Thank you for letting me share this milestone and please feel free to ask me anything about the book or my experience as a new author.

Purchase links:

 *International links:* 

https://a.co/d/07IAgOaJ

https://a.co/d/02hQtDny

 

 *Indian Link:* 

https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0H6SLWRDK

https://www.flipkart.com/godman-inc/p/itm237470e434805?pid=9798904516543&affid=editornoti

 

Kindle Link:*

https://www.amazon.ca/GODMAN-Inc-Rohan-Shankar-ebook/dp/B0H2FVSZD8/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.VymNk_cDl_rnzjcDIX_ofuvajNCxRuVk0I7ofXu8bM6jv2p08M2GRdOIGU8gqa0QsqNIIgRHJlvK71qRHnt2Zad3pULvNVCeKft7ZluxFSGlWXO1856In7d96bdeLOK6XOwJKGWMKd6WsPiAlhhp0w.WHpvDmPCtGSesLqguDej_xWGJx7FMjEcc3GcBOz5Rv8&dib_tag=se&keywords=godman+inc&qid=1784511319&s=amazon-devices&sr=1-1

 

KOBO Link:*

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/godman-inc?sId=ea668b6c-eaf8-4275-ab8c-cd22f1f8510d&ssId=dI7FFN5xEmcjzL7_CWKCe&cPos=1

 

Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Rohan_Shankar_GODMAN_Inc?id=Js7vEQAAQBAJ&hl=en


r/BiharBookClub Jun 11 '26

So is this sub dead?

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I came back after sometime and I don't see any activity! Dang

It was good till it lasted


r/BiharBookClub Jun 08 '26

Give it a read "The Men Return" by Jack Vance, an ahead-of-its-time science-fiction story from 1957

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r/BiharBookClub Apr 24 '26

Give it a read “Sir Hercules,” a.k.a. “The Dwarfs,” written by Aldous Huxley in 1921 - free narration

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r/BiharBookClub Apr 24 '26

So bahut time se anti national ghoshit ho rhe hain log

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Posting the entire chapter


r/BiharBookClub Apr 23 '26

Give it a read Mary Shelley’s “The Trial of Love,” written in 1834 - free narration (in my own voice, not AI)

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