A tough read about tough topics…but oh so lovely. - This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Writings about Life – Annie Ernaux - A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux; A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux; Possession by Annie Ernaux; A Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux; Happening by Annie Ernaux; Exteriors by Annie Ernaux; I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux; Shame by Annie Ernaux
A book that actually made me start exercising again, despite (or possibly because of) the name - Jeg hater å trene (I hate to exercise) by Brita Zackari
How to solve mysteries and alienate coleagues - The Coroner by Matthew Hall
My divine book delivery theory hard at work… - Into The Fire by Amanda Page
Like A Wes Anderson Psychological Thriller in Japan - Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
I fell in love with you the day that I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice.” - One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
“We can’t expect one person – or even two – to take on the entire burden of resisting on their shoulders. We all have to stand up and say NO.” - The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton
A surprise from the past - The Listening House by Mabel Seeley
They would have gotten away with it too… - Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Is That How It Ends? - Notes From An Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O’Connell
Flipping the Script - Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
One of Theirs - One Of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway by Åsne Seierstad
Definitely one of the oddest childhood memoirs I’ve read - Germs: A Memoir of Childhood by Richard Wollheim
We’ve Always Been Vain - M'lady's Book of Household Secrets: Recipes, Remedies & Essential Etiquette by the Hon. Sarah MacPherson
More Superheros at Work - Andrea Vernon & the Superhero-Industrial Complex by Alexander C. Kane
Books by the gal who would rather write books for kids than make a fancy pants website - The New Kid Has Fleas by Ame Dyckman; Tiny Barbarian by Ame Dyckman
“Stretched on the loom was the huge white cloth of the North. We were the threads.” - Mrs. Mike: A Novel by Benedict and Nancy Freedman
I had to start this book over again four times before I could get into it, but it was worth it in the end. - The Witness for the Dead (The Goblin Emperor, #2) by Katherine Addison
LAish - City of Bones by Michael Connelly
My hometown long before it was my hometown… - The Amazing Adventures of Aaron Broom by A.E. Hotchner
‘The spook and her pet’ take on an alien empire in this amazing sequel – and Bingo #2! - A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Clean up your mess - The Mess That We Made by Michelle Lord
“I appreciated it and resented it at the same time.” - The Shaadi Set-Up by Lillie Vale
“How could she ask either of them to go back when they were supposed to be moving forward?” - What We May Be by Layla Reyne
Sundown, you better take care if I find you been creeping ’round my back stairs - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James
Fear in the Borough - Brooklyn Noir by ed. Tim McLoughlin
I’m not clockwork. - The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley
Facts, fiction, and women’s work - The Daring Ladies of Lowell: A Novel by Kate Alcott
Purity – Jonathan Franzen (2015) - Purity by Jonathan Franzen
The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert (2014) - The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Second chance, age gap romance – with a cat! - Acting Lessons by Adele Buck
With Artificial Friends Like These - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The World Does Not Belong to Us Alone - Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
“Slavers, dinosaurs, and mummies, oh my!” - The Champion by Taran Matharu
“Failure cannot be understood in theory, only in practice, sometimes over and over and over again.” - James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes by James Acaster
There’s space for more than one friendly ghost - Gilbert the Ghost by Guido Van Genechten
Sheep go “KERBOOOOOM!” - Before & After by Matthew Thomas
An introduction to the horrors of life in rural India - The Good Girls by Sonia Faleiro
Caution: Baby does more than Bite. - Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street – Helene Hanff (1973) - The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff
What You are Going Through – Sigrid Nunez (2020) - What You are Going Through by Sigrid Nunez
Mantel Pieces – Hilary Mantel (2021) - Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
The Marriage Plot – Jeffrey Eugenides (2011) - The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
How to Be Alone – Jonathan Franzen (2007) - How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen
I really liked reading “Lord of the Flies” - Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Thoughtful Dark Romance - Crow (Boston Underworld Book 1) by A. Zavarelli; Reaper (Boston Underworld Book 2) by A. Zavarelli
…when you open your heart to rewilding a landscape…you’re opening your heart to rewilding yourself. - Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
I might have wanted to go to this camp if I known there would be cool kids like Willow and her friends - Secrets of Camp Whatever Volume One by Chris Grine
Perhaps all humans are lonely. At least potentially. - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro