“…Let me assure you, Lula – nobody’s normal.” - Weird Girl and What's His Name by Meagan Brothers
Across the universe - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle
Strange weather, good stories - Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill
Talk About a Bittersweet Symphony - They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
What is your narrative? - Baldur’s Gate II by Matt Bell
Joe Dillard again - Injustice For All (Joe Dillard Series Book 3) and Reasonable Fear (Joe Dillard Series Book 4) by Scott Pratt
“Barack Obama’s election was a triumph of hope. But his presidency was a triumph of persistence.” - Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years by David Litt
“Name one hero who was happy.” - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Evolutionary Biology is on notice - Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society by Cordelia Fine
Smug but probably right - The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters by Tom Nichols
The Butterfly Dance - The Butterfly Dance by Suzanne Barton
“Get to the next screen” - Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.” - Night Shift, Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
Army Chief of Staff Reading List #5 - Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Paying the Price of Magic - The Last Herald Mage by Mercedes Lackey
After you died I could not hold a funeral, And so my life became a funeral. - Human Acts by Han Kang
Music is the Strongest Form of Magic - The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
A Tale of Two Bears and Wolf - Willa and the Bear and Bear and Wolf by Philomena O'Neill and Daniel Salmieri
Little Sid - Little Sid: The Tiny Prince Who Became Buddha by Ian Lendler
Letting In the Silence - Silence: In the Age of Noise by Erling Kagge
People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats. - The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
It’s Time to Re-Prioritize My Time - How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price
This love story does not have a happy ending - Gone: A Girl, A Violin, A Life Unstrung by Min Kym
Featuring an elevator of love - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
Figured I’d better read this now in case Hollywood screws it up - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free. - On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Romania for the Weekend? Sure. - 101 Weekends in Europe by Robin Barton
Love during the American Civil War - A Hope Divided by Alyssa Cole
“Crossing worlds, killing royals, saving cities. The marks of every good courtship.” - A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
Thinking About Thinking - Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
“Know first who you are and then adore yourself accordingly.” - Still Me (Me Before You #3) by Jojo Moyes
Is there anything more San Francisco than sourdough bread and tech start ups? - Sourdough by Robin Sloan
“And then Sherlock Holmes had turned out to be a woman with loose morals and no remorse.” - A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas
Never Give Up! - Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Why We Cannonball - What We Lose: A Novel by Zinzi Clemmons
faintingviolet gave me this book right before Carrie Fisher died, and I’m only now not too sad to read it. - Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Repeating history? - This Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach
Run Toward Who You Want To Be - Ghost by Jason Reynolds
“Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?” - Small Favor (Dresden Files, #10) by Jim Butcher
Finding Wild - Finding Wild by Megan Wagner Lloyd
Dino-Hockey - Dino-Hockey by Lisa Wheeler
Be Prepared - Be Prepared by Vera Brosgol
All he wants is an innocent client… - An Innocent Client (Joe Dillard Series Book 1) by Scott Pratt
Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: that Scotland has so few trees. - The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis by Lydia Davis
I Can Pretend All I Want to be Cynical, My Heart Still Melts Time and Time Again - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Clone Club - Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty
An Unexpected Series Opener - A Duke in Shining Armor by Loretta Chase
Slightly Slightly - Slightly Married, Slightly Dangerous (Bedwyn Saga #1,7) by Mary Balogh
Groggle’s Monster Valentine - Groggle's Monster Valentine by Diana Murray
Pride & Prejudice in Ohio - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld