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5 Star Reviews

This is the Great American Novel - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Don’t You…Forget About Me - Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston

Ending the year on a high note - The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah Maclean

Cannonballing quadruply with this slightly blasphemous, yet still wonderful book. - Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

A perfect travel companion - New York Trilogy by Paul Auster

Lizzie and Darcy, Jane and Bingley in audio form - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, but not boring - Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

More demons, more danger in the Hollows Series - For A Few Demons More by Kim Harrison

The Drugs that Won’t Leave Trackmarks: Decluttering and Organizing - The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: the Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

Re-reading Rainbow. - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

My first wish for 2016 is for Bettie Sharpe to publish more stories. - A Cat's Tale, Ember by Bettie Sharpe

Reading is Fundamental: Magic Ex Libris Book 4 - Revisionary by Jim C. Hines

Holy hell–you guys are so good at recommending books! - Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin

Thanks to NTE, faintingviolet, and ModernLove! - A Christmas Eve tradition by Scootsa1000

Christmas come early! Thank you, Bonnie! - Golden Boy and The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Abigail Tarttelin and Laurie R. King

Ghostbusters Medieval Japan edition - Yamada Monogatari: Demon Hunter by Richard Parks

Powerful Batman story comes to a haunting conclusion - Batman: Hush (Vol. 2) by Written by Jeph Loeb, Illustrated by Jim Lee

into the tunnel - Red Lights by Georges Simenon

Lost and Found - The Legacy of Lost Things by Aida Zilelian

Book Exchange Goodies from ardaigle!!! - Mastering the Art of French Cooking; The Handmaid's Tale by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, & Simone Beck; Margaret Atwood

Expanded version of the website is a worthwhile purchase for fans - Hyperbole and A Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

Book Exchange Goodies from Crystalclear - How to Fight Presidents: Defending Yourself Against the Badasses Who Ran This Country & It's Kind of a Funny Story by Daniel O'Brien and Ned Vizzini

Don’t Tell Me To Smile - Bitch Planet: Extraordinary Machine by Kelly Sue Deconnick and Valentine de Landro

Technicolor Space Voyage - ODY-C, Volume 1: Off to Far Ithicaa by Matt Fraction, Christian Ward

Mange tak! - ODY-C Vol. 1: Off to Far Ithica by Matt Fraction and Christian Ward

Wait…Teachers Have Lives??? - The Secret Lives of Teachers by Anonymous

Book Exchange Delights! - A Prayer for Owen Meany, Let's Pretend This Never Happened, and The Way of Shadows by John Irving, Jenny Lawson, Brent Weeks

Cannonball Exchange, Huzzah! - Silent in the Grave and more! by Deanna Raybourn

THANK YOU Mathildehoeg! - Trouble & Atonement by Non Pratt & Ian McEwan

Boozy Misadventures and Tales of Debauchery - You Deserve a Drink by Mamrie Hart

A delightful present under the tree, just for me - Book exchange! by Faintingviolet

I am a lazy (thankful) bum! - Carry On & Kushiel's Dart by Rainbow Rowell & Jacqueline Carey

Do yourself a favor and read this book - Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

the great surging tide of humanity - Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard by Georges Simenon

“And maybe it’s by appropriating our heroines that we become heroines ourselves.” - How to Be a Heroine (Or, What I've Learned From Reading Too Much) & Ladies of Literature Vol1 & Vol 2 by Samantha Ellis & Various, edited by Arielle Jovellanos

NTE, you’ve made a Jr. Cannonballer very happy - Cannonball Goodies by NTE

The Victim’s Name Was Musa - The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud

Land Under Wave - The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

GIFTS! - Everything I never Told You/The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by yesknopemaybe

Maigret had no method - My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon

The Man with the Bow Tie - Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation by Bill Nye

Thanks, ModernLove! - A Cannonball Blessing by ModernLove

So Sweet. So Pure. So Gentle. - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

From A(dam) to Z(eb) the trilogy concludes - Madd Addam by Margaret Atwood

So much yes. - The Unwritten, Vol. 6: Tommy Taylor and the War of Words by Mike Carey & Peter Gross

Not a creature was stirring, not event a fruit bat. - The Stupidest Angel by Christopher Moore

In Honor of Krampusnacht - Krampu the Yule Lord by Brom

Rashad is absent again today. - All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

in search of the celestial drug - The Last Opium Den by Nick Tosches

(Book 2 announced on her blog as coming soon, just yesterday) - Fat Girl Walking by Brittany Gibbons

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