Actually Laughing Out Loud - Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
Heartwood - Greenwood by Michael Christie
Anxiety aside, read this book (spoilers!) - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen (2015) - The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Into the Light - White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The woods are lovely dark and deep - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Track down this book (used copies abound) - Wise Child by Monica Furlong
My Body Is No Longer An Apology - The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Ant and the Grasshopper Can Be Friends - Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett
Why It’s So Hard for this White Person to right this review - White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
“From the beginning we have wandered. To this day, we wander still, but for all our travels we are not lost . We fly with courage and will undying.” - Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3) by Becky Chambers
“It sounds like your dream broke, and you’ve been picking up shattered pieces and blaming yourself when your hands bleed.” - Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert
Arranged marriage, murder and miscommunications – in SPAAAACE! - Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell
This time it’s personal (for the characters) in the latest from my most favoritest series - Fortune Funhouse by Jana DeLeon
There Is Room for Optimism - Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
The Ancillary trilogy ends with the tremendously satisfying Ancillary Mercy - Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie
My mind is blown, and not because I’ve been sampling magic mushrooms - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds, and Shape our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
The genius behind the clown - Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
“History is storytelling” - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Bad Moon Rising - The Guest List by Lucy Foley
Surviving Autocracy – Masha Gessen (2020) - Surviving Autocracy by Masha Gessen
Ugh fine I like Brene Brown - Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown
Mexican Gothic! - Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Charming the pants off a fabulous pair of thighs - The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles
love the world and make it better - this one wild and precious life by Sarah Wilson
It was always exactly that bad - Not That Bad by Roxane Gay
A 300 year saga that goes surprisingly quickly - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
What Do We Lose In a Fight? - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Anything But - Mediocre by Ijeoma Oluo
Stand Tall and Reach Deep - Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Native American DNA – Kim TallBear (2013) - Native American DNA by Kim TallBear
I would push this book on anyone. - So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
No One is Talking About This – Patricia Lockwood (2021) - No One is Talking about This by Patricia Lockwood
- Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Sympathy for the Devil. - Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee; Raven Stratagem by Yoon Ha Lee; Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee; Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee
I believe it involved pie. - The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After by Julia Quinn
“White supremacy … is gravity. It is a ceaseless pressure intended to keep blackness ground-bound and sick.” - What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker by Damon Young
Take that pink ribbon off my eyes, damn it - First Year by Tamora Pierce; Page by Tamora Pierce; Squire by Tamora Pierce; Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce
We owe fungi a lot, and you owe it to yourself to read this book - Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Not your usual celeb autobiography - Becoming Johnny Vegas by Michael Pennington
“The craft of writing as the art of thinking” - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Holy Moly - Circe by Madeline Miller
Twisty mystery and snarky humor - Cry Wolf by Charlie Adhara
“It is sad to forget. But it’s a lonely thing to be forgotten.” - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Mary Roach’s Stiff: Macabre, fascinating, and funny - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
An Interesting Woman in a Sharp Suit - A Dead Djinn in Cairo by P. Djeli Clark
This mystery might make you cry, not in horror but because you will want the characters to have a happy ending - The Bellweather Rhapsody by Kate Racculia
This book is like a golden poppy growing from the manure of the last 12 months. Its existence makes me smile. - Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
On being alone and loving it, but also loving people - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Sorry Pal, That’s Politics - The Coyotes of Carthage by Steven Wright