Wreck your day with a Steinbeck Novella! - The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Oceans rise, empires faaaaaaall! - Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey
Of course, even the dragons are orderly in Prussia - Black Powder War by Naomi Novik
Here There Be Dragons - His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Disabled, despised, and brilliant heroine makes for great reading - An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors: Book One in The Risen Kingdoms by Curtis Craddock
A pretty good kidnapping / underground sex club / family drama murder mystery - Their Lost Daughters by Joy Ellis
when perfect isn’t enough - Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
“He’s Mine, He’s Everyone’s” - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
“Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.” - Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
“I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.” - Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) by James S.A. Corey
Scared, Potter? - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
I guess here is an ok place to start - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series by Stieg Larsson
While they waited for the revolution, life had to be lived. - A House for Mr Biswas by VS Naipaul
Hating, after all, was just a drier form of drowning - The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso
Ghosts on the Gulf Coast - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Mystery! Murder! But, tea is ALWAYS served. - Silent in the Moor and Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn
Sweet, and a Little Spooky - Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
Stephen King type meets RomCom Queen - Miracle on 5th Avenue by Sarah Morgan
“There was something reassuring about the realness of outright hostility.” - Illegal Contact (The Barons, #1) by Santino Hassell
ABC After-School Special on Steroids (and I mean that in a good way) - Far From The Tree by Robin Benway
A picture book for grownups - Louis Undercover by Fanny Britt & Isabelle Arsenault
“You don’t feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.” - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng
Short and Thought-Provoking - Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman
I Want to Live With Wonder Woman - Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Adventures of a Mormon looking for love in Manhattan - The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance by Elna Baker
“A realm of war did not need courtesies” - Canopus in Argos: Archives by Doris Lessing
Hedgehogs, Robins and One of a Kind - A Round of Robins by Kate Hesterman
In which Joe Hill takes one step closer to becoming the world’s greatest Stephen King impersonator. - Strange Weather by Joe Hill
A great primer in how both higher education and the justice system victimise women a second time in cases of rape and assault - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer
The Expanse comes back soon! - Strange Dogs by James S.A. Corey
The Obsession Continues - A Conspiracy in Belgravia by Sherry Thomas
“Buffering is that time you spend waiting for the pixels of your life to crystallize into a clearer picture” - Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded by Hannah Hart
“I guess we’re almost friends now, or as friendly as you can get when you’re not one hundred percent sure the other person isn’t framing you for murder.” - One of Us is Lying by Karen M McManus
“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.” - Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
Before and After the Fire. - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine: A Novel by Gail Honeyman
“The only boundaries are those we create for ourselves.” - The Magician's Hat by Malcolm Mitchell
“Who else is left to tell the tale?” - Gillespie and I by Jane Harris
So Much Small-Town Drama - Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Say hello to my new obsession - A Study in Scarlet Women by Sherry Thomas
Beukes is breaking her readers again - Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
I want a daemon! - The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Volume 1) by Philip Pullman
A slow burn romance that is worth the wait - A Lady Awakened by Cecilia Grant
The Hour Calls For Optimism - No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein
Better Than Being There - How To Be A Tudor by Ruth Goodman
Dear humans: Your insecurity is showing - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
Fuzzy Wuzzy Was a Cat - Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi
My brain is a jerk and so is yours - Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To by Dean Burnett
Getting on the Saga Bandwagon - Saga volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Grammar Fixing Magic - Ironfoot: The Enchanter General (book 1) by Dave Duncan
I wish I could go back to college… - Giant Days, Volume 2 by John Allison (illustrated by Lissa Treiman & Max Sarin)