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5 Star Reviews

All is forgiven. - Fables: Camelot by Bill Willingham

“We like our meatloaf and taters well done…” - The Drought by Patricia Fulton

A Remarkable Journey through Fairyland - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

You might love To Say Nothing of the Dog if… - To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis

Put the book in the freezer, Joey. - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

“From chaos climb with many a sudden gleam, / London, one moment fallen and forgot.” - Westwood by Stella Gibbons

Word. - Yes Please by Amy Poehler

This series is awesome. - Magic Breaks by Ilona Andrews

Amy Poehler is basically perfect. - Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Apocryphal Books and Extinct Woodpeckers - Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

The Way Out - Wool by Hugh Howey

A gripping and deeply human look at faith, love and the pressures of being apart. Set among the stars and the collapsing earth back home, this is a stunning read. - The Book of Strange Things by Michel Faber

A stunningly odd and absorbing novel that reads like The Secret History as written by David Lynch, as secrets are revealed, sadistic games are played out and dreamlike visions fill a sleepy Finnish town. - The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jäaskeläinen

You Can’t Always Get What You Want - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

An Enthralling Superhero Tale - Tigerman by Nick Harkaway

The Jewish immigrant experience in a delightful memoir - Up From Orchard Street by Eleanor Widmer

Would you lease your house to this species? - The SIxth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Demythologizing a tragedy. - Columbine by Dave Cullen

The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin - The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin

The Twelve Dancing Princesses, circa 1920 - The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

You Should Be So Lucky to Have a Woman as a Friend - Sula by Toni Morrison

Written in My Own Heart’s Blood by Diana Gabaldon - Written in My Own Heart's Blood (Outlander #8) by Diana Gabaldon by Diana Gabaldon

A Space Opera Without Music - Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

Martin Amis on Nazis and the Holocaust. Win. - The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis

You reeeeeeeally should have talked about Kevin. - We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

MSNBC Isn’t All That Liberal… - #Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will by Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny

Man is a Monster - Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, 1818 Version by Mary Shelley

Survival is Insufficient - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The Truth or Not the Truth, That is the Question - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

You should read this novel about Chechnya. - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

Another great novel by Richard Russo - Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

A Summer of Exceptional Fantasy – 5 Must Reads - Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson

Turbulent Waters in Post WWI London - The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

We Read It Together, So We Are Reviewing It Together - Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

Please See My Joint Review with Ewandini - Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

I love everything this book chooses to be. - The Martian by Andy Weir

A must read in the mystery-genre - And then there were none by Agatha Christie

A delightful and unusual novel about obsession, the power of poetry and fate. - The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault

An irreverent, frequently hilarious and near-forensic collection of highly scientific answers to inane or idiotic questions. - What If? by Randall Munroe

A fabulous chronicle of the most esoteric subject in existence - Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics by Alex Bellos

This is how a human being can change - Calling in the one - 7 weeks to attract the love of your life by Katherine Woodward Thomas

This book completely ate my brain. - Voyager (Outlander, #3) by Diana Gabaldon

An Echo in the Bone (Outlander #7) by Diana Gabaldon - An Echo in the Bone (Outlander #7) by Diana Gabaldon

Please Don’t Shoot - Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of the Police by Radley Balko

A beautiful, complex doorstop of a novel that needs to be a BBC mini-series. Like, right now. - The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

“If I were in charge of the world, you wouldn’t have lonely.” - If I Were in Charge of the World (and other worries) by Judith Viorst

About a man named Stoner - Stoner by John Williams

A Great Book but with An Ending that Just Doesn’t Sit Well. - Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz

A charming and surprisingly haunting graphic novel about mistakes, friendship, spirits and cookery from the author of Scott Pilgrim. - Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley

Like Cloud Atlas and Ghostwritten before it, The Bone Clocks sees Mitchell weaving a dense and kaleidoscopic novel out of disparate stories, tones and genres. - The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

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