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5 Star Reviews

How to Be Enthralled with a Bargain Book - How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway

I came for the dystopia, but stayed for the Ultraman references. - Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Best Book You’ve Never Heard Of - The Darkroom of Damocles by Willem Frederik Hermans

I bought the hardback. - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Oh, this was the world and I was living in the midst of it - My Struggle, Book 4 Dancing in the Dark by Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Definition of Comfort Reading - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

When I ask “Krik?” you answer “Krak!” - Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat

The beauty of narrative amidst violence and ugliness - Pillars of Salt by Fadia Faqir

The detective above all. The detective above all. - Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway by Sara Gran

Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Soldiers and Valentines and Sheep (Oh My!) - Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Mysteries never end - Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead by Sara Gran

Don’t Panic - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The holiday my father promised wasn’t a holiday - Our Endless Numbered Days by Claire Fuller

Totalitarianism, up close and personal in post-Mao China - The Vagrants by Yiyun Li

Feminism, Communism and Friendship - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante

That time Mary Robinette Kowal liked me on Goodreads. - Of Noble Family by Mary Robinette Kowal

Pandora Didn’t Ask for the Box - The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

There is no such thing as a battlefield where no one dies - All You Need Is Kill (2-in-1 manga edition) by Ryosuke Takeuchi (Author), Hiroshi Sakurazaka (Creator), Yoshitoshi Abe (Creator), Takeshi Obata (Illustrator)

Pro Tip: Avoid Places Called “The Devil’s Hand” - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

A Soap Opera Worthy of Tolstoy Continues - The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

A Beautiful Coming of Age Story - Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

some urgent need to be understood - War of the Encyclopaedists by Christopher Robinson & Gavin Kovite

Bittersweet, Melancholy, and Haunting - Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Wrung out like a dish towel, I tell you. - The Sculptor by Scott McCloud

A Stellar Collection of Stories on War - Redeployment by Phil Klay

This Brilliant Novel - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Hello, Motherf***er! Got any candy? - American Vampire Vol. 1 by Scott Snyder, Stephen King art by Raphael Albuquerque

Melt Your Face Off Awesomeness - Bad Moon Rising by Jonathan Maberry

“No. When I was a girl, I wanted to be a pirate.” - The Suffragette Scandal by Courtney Milan

Preteen angst, extra special snowflake edition. - Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

“Live every week like it’s Shark Week.” I will, Tracy Jordan. I will. - Neighborhood Sharks by Katherine Roy

“Beauty is the truth revealed through our eyes, and nothing more.” - Dragonbait by David McLain and Felix Eddy (Illustrator)

The love of a deceptive butterfly - M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang

Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandermar: still a better love story than Twilight. - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

What happened? Oh. Things. - Dead Beat by Jim Butcher

Historical footnote brought vividly to life by a master of non-fiction writing - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Never an end to my affair with Colin Firth - The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The Ballad of Susan and Roland - Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower #4) by Stephen King

Yes. More like this, please. - Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin

Promise to never leave me, I won’t believe you if you do. - The Chocolate Touch by Laura Florand

“Whether Nick wanted to be or not, he was the sun, and everyone revolved around him…” - The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

Missoula is America - Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

I love everything about this. - Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson

Who Run the World (Girls) - The Girls in the Balcony: Women, Men, and the New York Times by Nan Robertson

It’s the end of the world as we know it… - Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

The World, Right Now, Is Only Us - Every Day by David Levithan

If we could pick, then I’d pick you… - Will Grayson, will grayson by John Green & David Levithan

The Sins of the Father… - Father and Son by Larry Brown

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  • Zirza on A Gothic Classic for a ReasonIt's one of those wish-you-could-read-it-again-for-the-first-time books. I loved it.
  • Emmalita on “It came to something when you found yourself hoping that the footsteps you heard were ghosts.”I loved the ending! I don’t think it’s been out long enough to talk about why though.
  • Dixie on Track Her Down by Melinda LeighI am just starting Track Her Down and I have read them all in order till now and thought I...
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  • Emmalita on “Only you, Em, would refer to heartbreak as a distraction. I think I would have a more sympathetic response if I asked to marry a bookcase.”Oh my goodness, Gallifrey was beautiful. I’m sure her mittens were gloriously murdery.
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