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5 Star Reviews

The Most Fun Librarians Ever - The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

Grades…What are They Good For? - Rethinking Grading: Meaningful Assessment for Standards-based Learning by Cathy Vatterott

4,100 pages of perpetual youth. - The Harry Potter series (1-7) by J.K. Rowling

This is war. Chaos. Chance. Death. - Golden Son (The Red Rising Trilogy, Book 2) by Pierce Brown

Rebel with a cause - Zealot by Reza Aslan

A Slave, A Reluctant Soldier and an Empire: How They’ll Change the Whole Game - An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

The Gods of Gotham - The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye

Outgunned, Outmanned, Outnumbered, Outplanned - The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

The Dangers of Biographical Non-fiction - The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

Amy Poehler – Funny Lady, Spirit Animal, A-mah-zing - Yes, Please by Amy Poehler

Ancillary Thoughts - Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

Twister is a lot less fun in real life - The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado by Holly Bailey

Untie My Heart - Untying the Moon by Ellen Malphrus

“But the earth turns, and old ways are reexamined.” - Allegheny Front by Matthew Neill Null

Pop Culture, Self-Discovery, and Dark Humor - Party of One by Dave Holmes

Dear God, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

If Animals Could Talk…They’d Be Hilarious!! - If Animals Could Talk by Carla Butwin

Can a book be lighthearted if people get eaten in it? - The BFG by Roald Dahl

Yes All Women - Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates

I Literally Forgot Everything About the Series, but Read the Last One Anyway - City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments #6) by Cassandra Clare

You guys will love this. - Giant Days, Vol. 1 by John Allison

Epic book is epic. - The Stand by Stephen King

A haunting reminder of what we can be: just boys grown tall. - The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

“Know yourself and go in swinging.” - More Than This by Patrick Ness

Tears and goosebumps in under 200 pages - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

Everything old is new again, and I want to inhale it all - Red Rising (The Red Rising Trilogy, Book 1) by Pierce Brown

An early contender for Best Book of 2016 - The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar

I’ve been fighting Heaven’s battles for so long. - The Perdition Score by Richard Kadrey

Another Step on my Literary Walk of Shame - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle and Hope Larson

Using Uncertainty to Create a Sense of Unease and Eeriness - Through the Woods by Emily Carroll

The game’s a foot! - A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

Can I Please Just Get Some Peace & Quiet from all these Men’s Thoughts!? - The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Book One) by Patrick Ness

A hilarious book about two people working as a Times Square concierge and the ridiculous conversations they have - How May We Hate You? by Anna Drezen and Todd Dakotah Briscoe

An excellent, heavy book about rape - On Being Raped by Raymond M. Douglas

New favorite author! - Sweet Disorder by Rose Lerner

Moar Sherman Alexie [even if it’s so short]!!!!! - Thunder Boy, Jr. by Sherman Alexie

A lovely, Emma Watson-approved book - The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Reading People’s Emails - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

“Better busy than bored…idle nerds become supervillains…” - The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson

Pretty 1%ers doing terrible things in gorgeous villas - The Spanish Cape Mystery by Ellery Queen

“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” - Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen

Ain’t Nothing but a Ginsburg Thing - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knishnik

The Truest of True Crime, predecessor to everything - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

A classic romance re-read - Secrets of a Summer Night by Lisa Kleypas

I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance - Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye

Bad Luck. But Also Good Luck. - I'm Just A Person by Tig Notaro

Trying to Find Love While Running a Country is Almost Impossible, but Eady will Manage. - The Crown by Kiera Cass

Loved everything except the title — name it for Harper! - The Fireman by Joe Hill

Recommended Reading - Homegoing: A Novel by Yaa Gyasi

I finished this book, exhaled, and flipped it over to the beginning again. - When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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