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Bawlmer - Four Kinds of Rain by Robert Ward

Love is powerful and wonderful and ridiculous - The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo

Fun with Fred and Friends - Undeading Bells by Drew Hayes

Throughout Generations - A Long Line of Dead Men by Lawrence Block

“A hero does not choose her trials. She steps into the darkness, then she faces what comes next.” - Starsight (Skyward, #2) by Brandon Sanderson

Adult Actress - Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore by Walter Mosley

Early in 1949, in Trinidad, near the end of my schooldays, word came to us in the sixth form of Queen’s Royal College that there was a serious young poet in one of the smaller islands to the north who had just published a marvelous first book of poems. - A Writer's Journey by VS Naipaul

“There isn’t ever going to be an end,” she said. “The point is that people have to continue always speaking up. And not being afraid.” - She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey

Well at least this isn’t apocalyptic - Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano

A Voice of My Generation - The Stories You Tell by Kristen Lepionka

Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers, smashing his jaw in with my spade… - The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

Fated mates with dark needs and desires - Dark Needs at Night's Edge by Kresley Cole; Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole; Kiss of a Demon King by Kresley Cole

Bleak House - Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey

Relay-Reading Murderbot - Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Bring Out Your Dead - A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe

Slivers of Hope in an Unknown Doorway - Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

Many Americans right now are acting like Jeevan in the snowstorm. Life is imitating art. - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

I may have read too many books, you guys. - The Hunting Party by Lucy Foley

Lost It At the Movies - Double Feature by Donald Westlake

Satisfaction Guaranteed - Lost Light by Michael Connelly

“I buried my hands in my pockets, curious at the enormity of it all.” - Opioid, Indiana by Brian Allen Carr

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it - They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the quintessential cozy mystery - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Ninth House is great, but it’s not a feel-good read - Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

A debut romance that is MUCH better than its painfully pink cover would indicate - A Wicked Kind of Husband by Mia Vincy

Lady Day Lived the Blues -  Blues for Lady Day: The Story of Billie Holiday by Paola Parisi,

When Fairies want your head and you just want to go home - Sparrowhawk (Books 1 to 5) by Delilah S. Dawson

Toronto: If you make it there, you can be a Comic Book Star (1939-1945) - War Bears by Margaret Atwood

Nothing beats pure talent - Range by David Epstein

While we waited we were visited by the ghosts of the girls who had already died. - The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories by Aysa Papatya Bucak

I always get the shakes before a drop. - Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein

…And the Streets Are Mean - The Devil Knows You're Dead by Lawrence Block

So many Cannonballers can’t be wrong - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

It’s the end of the world as they knew it - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Sweet and Honest - I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson

Superficially, it’s a comedy fantasy with pirates and otters but underneath is so much more - The Princess Beard by Delilah S. Dawson, Kevin Hearne

When one year doesn’t follow the next - Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore

“When you’re a kid, it’s hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.” - St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

In the morning, the one who is mostly enlightened comes in. - Weather by Jenny Offill

Oh-hi-oh - What You Want To See by Kristen Lepionka

“And how many times have I prayed the angels would speed me away” - Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland

Endings and beginnings - The Tower of Swallows: A Novel of the Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski

An impossible job, near certain death, terrible odds…I love a good heist! - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Reclaiming the Sex Appeal of Mr. Collins - The Boyfriend Project by Farrah Rochon

More than one “Little Mama” in this story - Little Mama by Halim Mahmouidi

Why Don’t We Get Together and Call Ourselves an Institute? - The Institute by Stephen King

It’s tough to pull off a mass-puking scene in a romance novel, but apparently not impossible - The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Visceral Glory - Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

With a cheep cheep here and cheep cheep there - Five Fuzzy Chicks by Diana Murray

Born a Slave Became a Botanist, Scientist, Inventor - The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver by Gene Barretta

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