“‘That man’s lying.’ With that, he opened his suitcase and took out a blank telegram. After a few moments, he began to write. KATSUKO DEAD. SEND KINDAICHI.” - The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1) by Seishi Yokomizo
“Kids are mirrors, reflecting back everything that happens to them. You’ve got to make sure they’re surrounded by good things.” - Sundial by Catriona Ward
Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand - Stars in My Pocket like Grains of Sand by Samuel Delany
Half Blood Blues - Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Go Ask Alice… If You Can Find Her! - Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson
What a gas! Unsung hero gets her day in the stars - Blast Off! How Mary Sherman Morgan Fueled America Into Space by Suzanne Slade
“Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.” - The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy
Becoming – a beacon of hope in dark times - Becoming by Michelle Obama
Sparks Fly - The Duke is Wicked (League of Lords Book 3) by Tracy Sumner
The Unvanquished - The Unvanquished by William Faulkner
Frenchman’s Creek - Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier
“Books contain everything worth knowing, except what ultimately matters.” - The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Say Yes to the Corn Stock - To The Last Bite by Alexis deBoschnek
“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.” - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
How a victim is made a villain - Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson
Death in Paradise - Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
A teenage wizard girl and her somewhat sentient cookie and sourdough do big stuff - A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
Murder at the Opera and maybe a few other places too - The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
Ari’s Back - Winterkill by Ragnar Jónasson
Doomsday with a Smile. - The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack
“The things my brother and I don’t say could pave over the Atlantic Ocean.” - Seven For a Secret (Timothy Wilde, #2) by Lyndsay Faye
“A caste system endures because it is often justified as divine will, originating from sacred text or the presumed laws of nature, reinforced throughout the culture and passed down through the generations.” - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabelle Wilkerson
Contemporary Eros and Psyche – the hitman and the influencer - Electric Idol by Katee Robert
A romance featuring a long-lost boyhood sweetheart, a cat named Satan, Victorian pornography, and a climactic kick in the balls. - Unfit to Print by K.J. Charles
If in his eyes you are not the target, then you can be sure you are the weapon. - The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake
“I could not prevent what was done to me, nor can I change what people made of me. But I know what I am and have decided to continue being what I am.” - Dragon Keeper (The Rain Wild Chronicles, #1) by Robin Hobb
A ridiculous farce with a core of sweetness. - Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall
History and drama on Mount Everest - The Third Pole by Mark Synnott
A juicy gossipy fiction about old Hollywood - Scandal in Babylon by Barbara Hambly
The Trouble with Peace is discontent, greed, and ambition - The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie
“Now he carried the past with him rather than being carried on the back of the brute that was his history.” - The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
The House of Morgan - The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
Secret-laden family reunions: My favorite genre! - The Arsonist's City by Hala Alyan
And the people bowed and prayed - Neon Gods by Katee Robert; Electric Idol by Katee Robert
True life is often much more interesting than fiction - The Bastard Brigade: The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb by Sam Kean
Genius? A$$? Or Both? - Hawking by Jim Ottaviani
Grumpy Sunshine Literary Summer - Beach Read by Emily Henry
You’ve heard of some, but come for the ones that kicked a$$ a little more quietly - Stand Up! 10 Might Women Who Made a Change by Brittney Cooper
“When you go, please drag me down with you into the darkness.” - Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Just read the G-D book, okay? - The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas
Maybe it is or isn’t art, but the woman behind it made an impact - Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas by Jeanne Walker Harvey
Of Lice and Men - The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Who wants to get drunk together and talk about the Bricklayer? - The Fall of Babel by Josiah Bancroft
P.S. I Hate You - P.S. I Hate You by Sophie Ranald
House of Cards - House of Cards by Stephen King
Why Are We Okay With Just Two Days Off? - Overtime: Why We Need a Shorter Working Week by Will Stronge & Kyle Lewis
So maybe we shouldn’t go exploring abandoned Swedish mining towns! - The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Two people with a hero complex off to save the school - The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik