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Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories - Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

“Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are – honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.” - City of Stairs (The Divine Cities, #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

Sliding Wars - The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver

Fantasy with an impressively historical heart - Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay; Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay

Maus I and Maus II-Breathtaking - Maus I by Art Spiegelman; Maus II by Art Spiegelman

Four words: Possessed Nun Fights Demons - Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson

Death can’t stop any of these characters - Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living - The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking

“Sadly, New York City apartments just don’t fit 218 cats well.” - Katie the Catsitter by Colleen AF Venable and Stephanie Yue

A Novel of the First Rank - The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

The author and I might get a second chance at viewing this phenomenon again - Journey Around the Sun: The Story of Halley’s Comet by James Gladstone

“When has cake ever been for hunger? It’s for flavor, and, in this case, comfort.” - Snacking Cakes by Yossy Arefi

A moment of softness between us, two not very outwardly soft people. - Wherever is Your Heart by Anita Kelly

“I don’t want fine… I want a connection. I want you to care as much as I care. I want you to need it and want it and mean it. I want it to matter.” - Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall

“After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children.” - The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

When something really fits, you suddenly realize how much energy you’ve been unconsciously devoting to not fitting. - Sing Anyway by Anita Kelly; Our Favorite Songs by Anita Kelly

A Beautiful Letter to a Lost Mother - Please Look After Mom by Kyung-sook Shin

Black Reconstruction in America - Black Reconstruction in America by WEB Du Bois

All right, I was a witch. Does it matter? - Circe by Madeline Miller

Why has it taken me this long to read this masterpiece? - Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

My little piggy needed something new. - Pearl by Josh Malerman

The Wake - The Wake by Neil Gaiman

The Kindly Ones - The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman

It was the worst of times - Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

My hypothesis was that I would love this and now my conclusion is that I really fucking did. - The Love Hypothesis (The Love Hypothesis, #1) by Ali Hazelwood

The Black Jacobins - The Black Jacobins by CLR James

Go Down, Moses - Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner

Karl Popper’s Penguins - The Open Society and its Enemies: The Spell of Plato by Karl Popper; The Open Society and its Enemies: Hegel and Marx by Karl Popper

Brief Lives - Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman

Fables & Reflections - Fables & Reflections by Neil Gaiman

A Rose by Any Other Name - Merlin's Keep by Madeleine Brent

I Should Reread These Modesty Blaise Books in Order - A Taste for Death by Peter O'Donnell

I Am in Actual Awe - House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas

Children of Dune – a worthy successor to the original novel - Children of Dune by Frank Herbert

If Stephen King, James Cameron and Stanley Kubrick had a baby… - Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

Magic City, Magic Boroughs - The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Success, here, is not determined by domination but by connection. - Conversations With People who Hate Me by Dylan Marron

“I am the one thing you can never kill. I am hope.” - Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

The Sandman: Overture - The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman

A Game of You - A Game of You by Neil Gaiman

“I wanted the children I taught to know that they, too, could be worthy of featuring in a novel.” - Mine for Keeps by Jean Little

The Old Hotel - Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor

Please read this stunning book - How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

Season of Mists - Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman

“Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies — ‘God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.'” - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

I have crossed oceans of time to find you. - The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

A Witchy Romance with Yearning and Restorative Justice - Boss Witch by Ann Aguirre

“No matter what any woman said, culture could not be escaped. Even if it meant tragedy. Even if it meant death.” - A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

The Southern Bok Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires - The Southern Bok Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

“You can’t discover what’s true based on how many people think it’s true.” - Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

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  • 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.
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