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The times, they are a-changing - Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport

The best Discworld book? Maybe! #CBRBINGO – Old Series - Night Watch (Discworld, #29) by Terry Pratchett

“But somehow I’m still here, and he’s still here, and even though I still feel like a hopeless case, this thing between us doesn’t feel hopeless at all.” - Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

Horizontal is just the way some of us live - Horizontal Parenting How to Entertain Your Kid While Lying Down by Michelle Woo

When your buddy has a real chip on his shoulder - Murderbot Diaries All Systems Red by Martha Wells

Dancing the Entropic Two-Step - Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene

An immensely exciting magic system in a novel with resolution - Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

There are remnant spirits in this country from another time. - Simon The Fiddler by Paulette Giles

One Belongs to New York Instantly, One Belongs to It as Much in Five Minutes as Five Years - The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant – Ulysses S Grant (1885) - The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant by Ulysses S Grant

“Home was wherever she planted herself…” - The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

Civil War: A Narrative vol 2 – Shelby Foote (1963) - Civil War: A Narrative vol 2 by Shelby Foote

To Be Young, Gifted, and Black – Lorraine Hansberry ( - To Be Young, Gifted, and Black by Lorraine Hansberry

The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins (1976) - The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

Feelings are hard; the least we can do is give kids the words to describe them. - Star Wars Search Your Feelings, Galactic Basic Edition by Calliope Class & Caitlin Kennedy; What to Do When You're Feeling Blue by Andi Cann; The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

“I know the story is broken” - Judas by Jeff Loveness and Jakub Rebelka

AI: Not scary in the way you think - You look like a thing and I love you by Janelle Shane

“He will say less than he means, and conceal more than he reveals.” - The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly

Don’t avoid this book like the plague! - Magical History Tour #5: The Plague by Fabrice Erre

The Power Broker – Robert Caro (1974) - The Power Broker by Robert Caro

I have never loved garlic so much in my life!!!!! - Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen

Respect the Animal, Dammit. - Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett

A sweeping epic of two families that I could not put down - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

“To know how it ends, and still begin to sing it again as if it might turn out this time” - Working On A Song: The Lyrics of Hadestown by Anais Mitchell

“Never say you know the last word about any human heart” - Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James

Hell Hath Fury - Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby

Stuart Turton is an imaginative little turd. I might be a fan for life. #CBRBINGO – Reader’s Choice - The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

“Just Getting Along Shouldn’t Be an Ambition” - Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Nothings Need to Be Heard - Real by Carol Cujec & Peyton Goddard

I Loved This One Unabashedly and Hope You Do Too - All the Feels by Olivia Dade

This is US History 101 not CRT - Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells, 2nd edition by Ida B. Wells; The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells; The Reason Why the Colored American is not in the World’s Columbian Exposition by Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, I. Garland Penn, F.L. Barnett

Changes in the Land – William Cronon (1983) - Changes in the Land by William Cronon

The Plot of The Plot is a Very Good Plot - The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

“How can this be happening? You do so much yoga.” #CBRBINGO – Shelfie - The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green

Being Human is a Revolution - The Devil You Know by Kit Rocha

“The Empire, the world. One and the same. And if they were not yet so: make them so, for this is the right and correct will of the stars.” - A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan, #1) by Arkady Martine

The Evolution of the Soldier - Oathbringer: Book 3 of the Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson

This Book Smells Good - The Strange Journey of Alice Pendelbury by Marc Levy

“Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.” - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, #2) by C.S. Lewis

A thoughtful mix of poetry and fairy tales - The Seventh Raven by David Elliott

Don’t Mess with the Dairy Queen - Bad Axe County by John Galligan

But They Made Up Their Minds, If All Roads were Blind, They Wouldn’t Give Up Till They Died - She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper

You are kinder than you think. - Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

How Do I Love Edward Gorey? Let Me Count the Ways - The Gashleycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey

World War V: Part III - City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin

World War V: Part II - The Twelve by Justin Cronin

My Death Was Hilarious - The Calyx Charm by May Peterson

Before the Storm – Rick Perlstein (2001) - Before the Storm by Rick Perlstein

I loved this SO MUCH why did I procrastinate on reading it for so long??? - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

“Brown-eyed sublime being. She of soft, deep cardigan pockets. Bubble-bath taker. Pool jumper. Cheese provider. Sunset glower. Heaven sent.” - Second First Impressions by Sally Thorne

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