The Local and the Yokel - A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley no.1) by Elizabeth George
Krampus kramps your naughty style - Tonight Is Krampus Night by Kyle Sullivan
You don’t want to be treated like family by THIS family - Cry Out Loud by Tara O’Connor
Saving Seprant Guardians, culture and the Earth - The Search for Gluscap (Adventures of the Pugulatmu’j) Volume 2 by Brandon Mitchell, Kielamel Sibal and Veronika Barinova
D&D by any other name will still be D&D - The Last Session Vol. 2: Rerolled by Jasmine Walls
Dance Dance Dance…. - Emma & Capucine, Volume 1 by Jérôme Hamon and Lena Sayaphoum
I Wanted to Like This - Olive by Emma Gannon
Sometimes a “Hallmark Movie” type of book is just what you need - The Collected Regrets of Clover: A Novel by Mikki Brammer
Question of Logistics - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen - Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold
Spending a little extra time with some characters I love. - Ghosts: The Button House Archives by Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond
A Less Than Gentle Nun - The Dawn of Yangchen by F. C. Yee; The Legacy of Yangchen by F. C. Yee
“I am given no voice in decisions or plans!” but she wants one - Elusive by Genevieve Cogman
Both Simple and Weirdly Complex - Laws of the Game 25/26 by IFAB
“She believed that all people unless impeded wanted family, needed family, that family was what life was for” - Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin
I am grateful for good books - Gather Grateful by Megan Litwin
“But not everyone has dreams. Some people just are, the way that trees and rocks and rivers are just there without a reason, the rest of the world moving around them.” - Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
The other Amazonian princess - Nubia: Too Real by L. L. McKinney
Tough read for animal lovers - The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
My friend is always making me read science fiction - Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
The Perfect Son by Fredia McFadden - The Perfect Son by Fredia McFadden
The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright - The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright
“I wanted to go home, where I felt safe. It occurred to me, as we continued our journey in silence, that when the first refugees from Earth had arrived on Giant—and, for that matter, on Io—they must have felt much the same.” - The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older
Sister Act(s Bad) - Fifty Fifty by Steve Cavanagh
Have a Drink - Tequila Wars: Jose Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico by Ted Genoways
Murderbot takes on a murder mystery - Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
“What must it be like to grow up that beautiful / with your hair falling into place like dominoes” - Gwyneth: The Biography (2025) by Amy Odell
Bewitching - The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Hot priests, holy tattoos, and machine guns - Covenant V01 by LySandra Vuong
What army base is off limits on Passover? (Fort Leavenworth) but seriously, this is a serious (but fun) story - The Passover Pet Surprise by Ana Maria Shua
Home - Sparrow by Mary Tebo; Home Away From Home by Nazneen Akbari; Upside-Down Iftar by Maysa Odeh
Didn’t Live Up to It’s Potential - Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure - A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now by James Delbourgo
Jane Austen and Jeeves Meet the Real Housewives of Sex and the City - Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes
When the coconuts are the most interesting part of the vampire story - A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
Out There Screaming Edited by Jordan Peele - Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele
Hands Off the Melons - Mr. Majestyk by Elmore Leonard
I warmed to this novel, but it took awhile - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Sorry-Grateful - How Sondheim Can Change Your Life by Richard Schoch
Experiencing an identity crisis and burnout on your parents’ couch while a hot, single, emotionally-unavailable guy sleeps down the hall - Georgie All Along by Kate Clayborn
From Prison Cell to Royal Courts - The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni; The Gilded Cage by Lynette Noni; The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni
I inadvertently overheard some things while my ear was casually pressed to this steel door. - The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The woman who made snow in Puerto Rico and other amazing things - Doña Fela's Dream: The Story of Puerto Rico's First Female Mayor by Monica Brown
My Travels to Tanria Come to an End - The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen
“Because being of utility was more than I had expected, and yet one still does not want to be used. Of use, but not used.” - The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older
Brrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce - Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run by Peter Ames Carlin
“This is how it works, with people who wield abuse like a knife and convince us they’re cutting us with love.” - The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix
I lean towards Little Ghost - Little Ghost House Hunts by Lucy Branam; All Hallows' Eve by Anthony DeStefano
A beat-up book that made me think people need this book - Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness. by Kristen Radtke