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Luke Cage meets noir meets The Diviners meets more please! - Abbott by Saladin Ahmed, Sami Kivelä

Beware those who promise that they have the answer to everything - Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest by Gregg Olsen

I’m Dreading This But I Need To Do It - Nuts & Bolts of Self-Publishing: How to Self-Publish Ebooks and Paperbacks by Chris Longmuir

True Journalist - Nineteen Seventy-Four by David Peace

In fact, as I get used to the idea in the days that follow, it begins to make sense of a lot of things. - Spies by Michael Frayn

The Roads Made By Kings Are Not The Only Paths A Man May Travel - Desire Lines by Elizabeth Kingston

We wish you a Merry Happy Tradition with family and friends - The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco; Leila in Saffron by Rukhsanna Guidroz

Liked it enough to not watch the show - The Passage by Justin Cronin

Finally, a Fresh YA Trilogy! - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

Love on the Spectrum - The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

Midwestern Horror Show - Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

So here it is, at last, a confrontation with reality. - Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A rare find for me: a good short story collection - The Ancient Magus' Bride The Golden Yarn by Kore Yamazaki et al

Folies á Deux - Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

Where is the British consulate?! - The James Thurber Audio Collection by James Thurber

That Was Bananas - American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton

And after all, one does not die of it.” “Die of what?” I asked swiftly. “Of being afraid. - Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

What would you do to protect your child? - All Is Not Forgotten by Wendy Walker

Wonderful Look at Magic in Germany - The October Man by Ben Aaronovitch

Based on the cover, you’d think this was about three friends. It’s really not, at all. - Lilac Girls: A Novel by Martha Hall Kelly

I’m never drinking out of a hotel minibar glass again - Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

When history is high school - The Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin

The Ties That Bind - Blood's A Rover by James Ellroy

Why sing ONE song when you can sing four? - The Blue Songbird by  Vern Kousky; Bird Watch by Christie Matheson ; Bird Builds a Nest: A First Science Storybook by Martin Jenkins; Warbler Wave by April Pulley Sayre

Don’t hide your light under a bushel, darling. - Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling

Great from beginning to end. - The Winter of the Witch (Winternight Trilogy, #3) by Katherine Arden

The British might deliberately give a man breakfast before shooting him. The Egyptians would intend not to and then forget to warn the kitchen. - Something to Answer For by PH Newby

Florida Woman! (and friends) - Florida by Lauren Groff; The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson

“This life can turn a good girl bad” - The Trauma Cleaner by Sarah Krasnostein

Bark once for yes, wag twice for no - The Dog Diaries: Ginger by Kate Klimo

“As it turned out, a pissed-off drag queen with a grappling hook was a force to be reckoned with.” - Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim - The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene

If he can stay on track - Track #01: Ghost by Jason Reynolds

The people here ARE decent. - Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi

If You Go Down In The Woods Today You’re Sure of a Big Surprise… - Still Life by Louise Penny

A Window to the Past - The Civil War Journal of Pvt. Heyward Emmell, Ambulance & Infantry Corps by Heyward Emmell

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. - Rites of Passage by William Golding

A surprisingly educational celebrity autobiography - Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Somehow I’ve become the girl who reads a lot of Space books - Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon by Jeffrey Kluger

“One song is sometimes all it takes. I’ve got one song.” - On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Eastern Promises - The Dogs of Riga by Henning Mankell

The Library Book – A love letter to libraries - The Library Book by Susan Orlean

Small Misunderstandings and Major Desillusions - Broken Harbour by Tana French

Murder Mysteries: Hercule Poirot > Miss Marple - Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie; Nemesis by Agatha Christie

What We Leave Behind - How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper

Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth… - Down the River Unto the Sea by Walter Mosley

Party in 17 years - Cicada by Shaun Tan

An Engaging Autobiography - Becoming by Michelle Obama

“Mr. Cupples came out of his reverie. “I think,” he said, “I will have milk and soda-water.” “Speak lower!” urged Trent. “The head-waiter has a weak heart, and he might hear you.” - Trent's Last Case by EC Bentley

Trouble in FantasyLand - Get in Trouble: Stories by Kelly Link

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  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
  • Roland of Gilead on How can you give us the gift of a crazy character named Rando Thoughtful and then just as suddenly take that gift away? We need to talk, Uncle Stevie.I came across this randomly years after it was written because I was searching "Random Thoughtful. But I have the...
  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
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