You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life, the facts of life. - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
A Brilliant Graphic Memoir - Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
HEAs are for Everybody. EveryBODY. - Plane Love by Avery Kingston
True Crime Bringing Lives to Light - I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
This has got to be the most misleading title ever - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
“All is Brahman” - The Upanishads by Eknath Easwaran
Three Before the Shooting… – Ralph Ellison (2010) - Three Days before the Shooting... by Ralph Ellison
Comfort rereading for a reading slump - Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold; Penric and the Shaman by Lois McMaster Bujold; Penric’s Fox by Lois McMaster Bujold; Masquerade in Lodi by Lois McMaster Bujold; Penric’s Mission by Lois McMaster Bujold; Mira’s Last Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold; The Prisoner of Limnos by Lois McMaster Bujold; The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold; The Physicians of Vilnoc by Lois McMaster Bujold; The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold
Roar! We are But a Speck in Time - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
One of my fave illustrators has done her first book - Never, Never Quit by Karen Hallion
Will You Ever Win? - Dream Girl by Laura Lippman
“The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air.” - The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) by Richard Osman
Who is Judith Scott? - Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott by Joyce Scott
Thank. - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Custer Died for your Sins – Vine Deloria Jr (1969) - Custer Died for your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr
Mother Night – Kurt Vonnegut (1961) - Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
“Today I am choosing to love the person in front of me.” - They Went Left by Monica Hesse
“This is the problem of history. We cannot know that which we were not there to see and hear and experience for ourselves.” - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
“But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, reading one line, and said, “Yes!” And I want to give people that feeling too, of connection, communition - Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
“And truth was, no one was safe anywhere. Everybody dies, baby. That’s a fact.” - Gangster Nation by Tod Goldberg
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” - Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
A novel for Juneteenth - Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether
“Hope, because that is what we must give him, what we must give all of them. Hope and guidance and a place to call their own, a home where they can be who they are without fear of repercussion” - The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Those Darn Greek Myth Prophecies - Perseus Kills His Grandfather by Richard Pastore
Notes on a Cowardly Lion – John Lahr (1968) - Notes on a Cowardly Lion by John Lahr
“something that combines the majesty of enya with the mystery of…enya” - Giant Days, Vol. 4 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar; Giant Days, Vol. 5 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar; Giant Days, Vol. 6 by John Allison, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar
The Beast Must Die – Nicholas Blake (1938) - The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake
“I think I saw our ghosts”: a devastating modern WWI novel - Regeneration by Pat Barker
Can racism be funny? - You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar
Believing is seeing - A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
“No. You are divine. You are impossible to get enough of. Perhaps some people would disagree, but those people don’t especially matter, because you’re mine.” - Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
…culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit. - Beartown by Fredrik Backman
You Englishwomen are all the same. So modern with your bicycling machines and pamphlets on voting. - An Unexpected Peril by Deanna Raybourn
Emotionally satisfying and hilarious rom-com - Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle
This is getting a lukewarm reaction from a lot of people, but I absolutely loved it. - Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne
I am sad to report that ‘Tasting Captain America’, the fanfic Eve mentions reading on AO3, is not real. - Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3) by Talia Hibbert
The Name of War – Jill Lepore (1998) - The Name of War by Jill Lepore
The Unwinding – George Packer (2013) - The Unwinding by George Packer
The Strange Career of Jim Crow – C Vann Woodward (1955) - The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C Vann Woodward
Penric and Desdemona, name a more iconic duo - The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold
Stand and Deliver, Your Money or Your Life - The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian
A poignant, salty heroine - Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Space Opera at its finest - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The deadliest little village in the Eastern Townships - The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
Is it weird how much I was looking forward to reading this? - In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder by Jane Monckton Smith
dreams fill in where memories fail - Space Invaders by Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer
Different Perspective on Anti-Racism Work - What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri
World War V - The Passage by Justin Cronin
God gave Noah the rainbow sign, no water but the fire next time. - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Stars and Stones - Peace Talks by Jim Butcher; Battle Ground by Jim Butcher