Based on the Icelandic tradition of Jólabóka-flóðið - The Christmas Book Flood by Emily Kilgore
This House is Not a Home - The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Grow where you’re planted (and support local!) - Food Artisans of Alberta by Karen Anderson
Twisty fun thriller - The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
Pandesal? Mmm, Tell Me More - Arsenic and Adobe by Mia P. Manansala
Catnip For People Who Love the End of the World - Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan
“Monsters are easier to fight when you’ve got people on your side.” - Dungeons and Dragons: Dungeon Club: Roll Call by Molly Knox Ostertag and Xanthe Bouma
A Point in Time Series Review - Naomi's Gift by Martha Hall Kelly; Ash Wednesday by Paula McLain; Landing by Olivia Hawker; We are Bone and Earth by Esi Edugyan; A Wild Rose by Fiona Davis; Alison's Conviction by Thomas Keneally; Mother Swamp by Jesmyn Ward
Sheep in Wolf Clothing - The Wolf Suit by Sid Sharp
Tropey reality show YA romance - Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales
Bringing L.A. to the Water (and movies, and church) - The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Krist
Non-Rebus Rankin - The Complaints by Ian Rankin
A book from the year of my birth! - The Suspect (Karl Alberg, #1) by L.R. Wright
“Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.” - Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Give this little sapphic sasquatch book a shot! - Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
And you thought your upbringing was odd - Occulted by Amy Rose
Correspondents - Correspondents by Tim Murphy
“Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas?” - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Witches, found family, and a big FU to transphobes. - Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1) by Juno Dawson
Secret secrets are no fun, secret secrets hurt someone. - The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
“The woman was a holy terror: the sweetest face, the pillowiest bosom, and a perspicacity that stripped a man naked in seconds.” - The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock, #3) by Sherry Thomas
“There is beauty in my truth, and I have so much to share.” - The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 by Edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
Into Shadow Series Review - The Garden by Tomi Adeyemi; Persephone by Lev Grossman; The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow; Undercover by Tamsyn Muir; What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo; The Candles Are Burning by Veronica G. Henry; Out of the Mirror, Darkness by Garth Nix
“I was rudderless and raw, and the worst part was that no one wanted to talk about any of it.” - Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
“Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.” - Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Boys, #3) by Maggie Stiefvater
Not so classic “Twelve Days of Christmas” - The Twelve Cats of Christmas by Feather Flores
The Darkest Child - The Darkest Child by Dolores Phillips
Touching the Impossible - The Impossible Mountain by David Soman; I Touched the Sun by Leah Hayes
Come light the Menorá - J Is for Janucá by Melanie Romero
Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 - Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning
Just Every Trigger Warning Imaginable - I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
“Is memoir therapy? Or is it vengeance?” - Motherwell by Deborah Orr
The sportswriter in granny glasses - Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy
Farewell Katia, See You As Soon As You Publish The Next One - Just Might Work by Katia Rose
Dystopian Utopia - Scythe by Neal Shusterman
War can make anyone a refugee. - Hakim's Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey by Fabien Toulmé
Vixen’s Wail, a rock series for people who don’t want to read about them other hos - Rhythm by Marie Lipscomb ; Strings by Marie Lipscomb; Amped by Marie Lipscomb ; Encore by Marie Lipscomb
What Comes Around Goes Around - The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
A thriller in Paris. - All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16) by Louise Penny
“The real villain is love: an unstable isotope, constantly undergoing spontaneous nuclear decay. And it will forever go unpunished.” - Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
“I’m tired of being the villain in the story. I never meant to be, and I don’t want to do it any more.” - Jackdaw by K.J. Charles
Excuse me while I go watch FURY ROAD for the fiftieth time. - Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
Blonde Assassin - The Blonde by Anna Godbersen
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Twisty, revengy, and a quick read - The Collective by Alison Gaylin
A Later Hercule Poirot Mystery - Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot #22) by Agatha Christie
The GBBO judges are the losers here - The Great British Baking Show Favorite Flavors by Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, 2022 bakers
The scorn is as high as an elephant’s eye… - 1922 by Stephen King
Cat person - Decoding Your Cat by Meghan E. Herron
Not just surviving, but thriving - The Color Purple by Alice Walker