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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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Shakespeare, rare books, murder and mystery - The Bookman's Tale: A novel of obsession by Charlie Lovett

Has anyone ever told you that you haggle divinely? That the simple beauty of your self-interest is enough to bring a man to his knees? - The Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig

I find that there is very little to excite the attention in a glass of lemonade. It is so uniformly yellow. - The Deception of the Emerald Ring by Lauren Willig

Before I Fall: Death, Redemption, and Why Popular Kids Suck - Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Portrait of an Ordinary Woman - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

A historical romance with a possibly murderous neighbour - What Happens in London by Julia Quinn

Swan Lake in the Amazon rain forest - A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson

Goodnight, Room. - Room by Emma Donoghue

Veronica Mars – in book form! - Veronica Mars: The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham

Understanding Laura Bush. Kinda. - American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld

Old Druids are cool… - Shattered by Kevin Hearne

Norse Gods playing chess… - The Immortal Crown by Richelle Mead

Ruby Ruby Do You Know What You’re Doing To Me - Killing Ruby Rose by Jessie Humphries

In which I argue with myself over the feminism of Stieg Larsson, send help - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy by Stieg Larsson

Meet Maud, octogenarian detective. - Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

Weirdly Good Comic - Dial H, Vol 2: Exchange by China Miéville

Kidnappings and torture and war machines and daring rescues - The Kraken King, parts 5-8 by Meljean Brook

A journey across Europe and into the past - The Firebird by Susanna Kearsley

A vivid and textural short story from a writer well versed in mythology that blends the boundaries between prose and artwork. - The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman and Eddie Campbell

A sprawling and comedic tale of concealment, circumstances and a life filled with experiences and eccentricity. - Vanishing by Gerard Woodward

Is Mankind Capable of Remaking Itself, asks Atwood - MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood

#ReadWomen1964 - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg (Hannah Green)

Giant bugs, tainted corn, and half-cannonball! - Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

You can’t go through life not listening to music - The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan - Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan

Hey kids, the Denarians are back. Parkour! - Skin Game by Jim Butcher

Thriller and social realism rolled into one ball of snow - Frk. Smillas Fornemmelse for Sne by Peter Høeg

The Bennets Are the MacGuffin - Longbourn by Jo Baker

Tragic and thought-provoking - The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

End of the World as Told by the Survivors - Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Shame Spirals and Taxidermy - Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson

Airships and mercenaries and bandits and adventure - The Kraken King, parts 1-4 by Meljean Brook

Formidable, but fantastic - The Scar by China Mieville

Kids are Mean - American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

Boarding School Doesn’t Look So Bad Anymore - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Never Fall Down - Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick

Piper Kerman threw her pie for you - Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman

I *DO* Know Where I Know You From! - I Don't Know Where You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-star by Judy Greer

I admit, I’m a slave to Stephen King. - Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

Cress, Cress, let down your hair! - Cress by Marissa Meyer

The Illumination of Romance - The Duchess War, The Governess Affair, A Kiss at Midwinter, The Heiress Effect, and The Countess Conspiracy by Courtney Milan

Ticking like a Time Bomb - Gone Crazy by Shannon Hill

A review for the book everyone’s read - Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh

The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard - The Virgin of Small Plains by Nancy Pickard

The world’s bestselling fable. - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Contains music, sex, and musical euphemisms for sex. - Stage Dive #1-2 by Kylie Scott

Illusions Upon Illusions - The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

Musings on Live, Love, and Politics from the Sexpert - American Savage by Dan Savage

A fresh and surprisingly warm and human take on the zombie genre. - The Girl With All The Gifts by M R Carey

Sex Ed 101 - What Do Women Want? by Daniel Bergner

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