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5 Star Reviews

Soldier For Fortune - Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler and the Making and Breaking of the American Empire by Jonathan M. Katz

I really wish I could put Fantasy and not History as a category - Stealing Home by J. Torres

Wild Seed - Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

The Copenhagen Trilogy - Childhood by Tove Ditlevsen; Youth by Tove Ditlevsen; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

Gorman demonstrates that she’s not a one-hit wonder - Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman

A Supposedly Fun Thing I will Never Do Again (Again x2) - A Supposedly Fun Thing I will Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

A Prayer for the Cannonball - A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

Old Story, New Take - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Blackout - Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton

Must love cats - P Is for Purr by Carole Gerber

As It Says on the Tin . . . - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Waiting for the Barbarians - Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee

Each story is a glittering jewel set in a heavy crown. - Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories by Lauren Groff

Stand on Zanzibar - Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner

the many forms of love that shape life and fate - The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh

The Game of Life - Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Digging Deep - The Night Shift by Alex Finlay

Escaping Slavery Is the Least Interesting Thing About Him - The Road to Dawn: Josiah Henson & the Story that Sparked the Civil War by Jared Brock

Hahahaha *sob* hahaha - Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby; Meaty by Samantha Irby; We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby

Darkwater - Darkwater: Voices from the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois

“May your Paths be safe, your Floors unbroken and may the House fill your eyes with Beauty.” - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

“Breaking up with your phone means giving yourself the space, freedom, and tools necessary to create a new, long-term relationship with it, one that keeps what you love about your phone and gets rid of what you don’t.” - How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life by Catherine Price

In the Lake of the Woods - In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien

“A society that does not respect women’s anger is one that does not respect women; not as human beings, thinkers, knowers, active participants, or citizens.” - Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly

America in the King Years - Pillar of Fire by Taylor Branch; At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch

Let’s not go back there again - Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

I Claudius - I, Claudius by Robert Graves

The Crow God Reborn remakes us all - Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse

There’s No End Like a Sanderson End - The Hero of Ages by Bandon Sanderson

I dream of standing under an enormous tree with deep, gnarled roots - Tanked by Mia Hopkins

Pay the Players - The City Game: Triumph, Scandal and a Legendary Basketball Team by Matthew Goodman

When you think you’re a bad mom read this - There are Moms Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof That You Are Indeed a Fantastic Parent by Glenn Boozan

Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl - Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney

The Sixth Day is for Music - Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley

“We do not bend. We do not break. We do not bow. We do not yield.” - The Blood Trials by N. E. Davenport

Cinder’s Adventure: Get Me to the Wedding! - Cinder's Adventure: Get Me to the Wedding! by Marissa Meyer

Bitter, Sweet, Love, Family - Hundred Years of Happiness by Thanhha Lai

“No Mourners, No Funerals” - Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo; Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

Eastside Pride - Thirsty by Mia Hopkins; Trashed by Mia Hopkins

“Some people in life, Sue, are weather forecasters, whereas other people are the weather itself.” - The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

Ms. Was told me this book was a gem and, by gum, she was right! - The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin

The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov - Bottom of the Barrel by Vladimir Nabokov; Nabokov's Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov; A Russian Beauty and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov; Details of a Sunset and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov; Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories by Vladimir Nabokov

Patrick Melrose - Never Mind by Edward St Aubyn; Bad News by Edward St Aubyn; Some Hope by Edward St Aubyn; Mother's Milk by Edward St Aubyn; At Last by Edward St Aubyn

I read this book twice - To Be Taught, if Fortunate by Becky Chambers

Sand and worms and spice oh my! - Dune (Dune #1) by Frank Herbert

Under the Red Hood goes under the hood - Batman: Under the Red Hood by Judd Winick

We have become a place of long weeping - Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

Before he rumbled in the Bronx, wore a tuxedo and voiced a monkey - The Rise (and Falls) of Jackie Chan by Kristen Mai Giang

The End Justifies the Means - Radicalized by Cory Doctorow

In a time when conspiracy theories run rampant, Sabrina seems all the more vital a read - Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

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