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5 Star Reviews

We all deserve better. - Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram

Transformation - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

Nothing Slow About It - The Art of Slow Writing by Louise DeSalvo

A novel of grief - Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague by Maggie O’Farrell

If immersive theater were a book, this would be it. - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

A Very Important Story About a Band We Don’t Talk Enough About - Redbone: The Trust Story of a Native American Rock Band by Christian Staebler

Sometimes a Part-Time Job is Life Defining - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Those Crayons You Never Used in the Box are Just as Important as the Rest - This Book Is Gray by Lindsay Ward

How a Fantasy World can Help You Solve Your Real-World Problems - Riverland by Fran Wilde

It’s Not Over, Til the Last Battle’s Won - The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien

When Ghosts of the Past Narrate the Story - Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby

A gorgeous love story that develops through time and letters - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

A fitting end to a wonderful trilogy - Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty

A really sweet and heart-warming comic about gay teens - Heartstopper, vol 1 by Alice Oseman; Heartstopper, vol 2 by Alice Oseman; Heartstopper, vol 3 by Alice Oseman

Filling in My Gaps - Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington; Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois; Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

I touched madness in my youth, and it has stayed with me - At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

Messin’ with Squatch - Devolution by Max Brooks

That PC guy is funny! - Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches by John Hodgman

The road goes on forever… - The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

ZZZzzzz - Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Mathew Walker

“Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.” - The Mad Ship (Liveship Traders, #2) by Robin Hobb

“We’re going to try something new.” - Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4) by Brandon Sanderson

The reviews I forgot to post, part 3! - The Fate of Fausto by Oliver Jeffers

Spike as a wizard detective is the everything I needed in 2020. - Storm Front by (The Dresden Files #1)

The reality I would gladly trade in for our own. - Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Delightful, Jane Austen-esque mystery - The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Less really is more - Less by Andrew Sean Greer

That’s life and I can’t deny it - That’s Life by Ame Dyckman

Some Autobiographical Goodness - Personal Memoirs by Ulysses S. Grant; The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Just infuriating - Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

The Tsar of Love and Techno AND ALSO HALF CANNONBALL! - The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra

Notorious - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

The brown ant had already forgotten its home. - The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

The Long and Winding Road - The Stand by Stephen King

A re-read before Rhythm of War. - Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3) by Brandon Sanderson

More American Leadership - Leadership: In Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin

This was written for me. - The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham

Some light can only be seen in the dark - Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o and Vashti Harrison

I mean, Bicycle TUSH I get, but Bicycle Face? - Born to Ride: A Story About Bicycle Face by Larissa Theule

Doing everything I can to complete my double Cannonball - King Baby by Kate Beaton

A high note to end this run of graphic novels - Avatar the Last Airbender: North and South by Bryan Konietzko, Michael Dante DiMartino, Gene Luen Yang, Gurihiru

Give me a dragon now! - His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik; Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

A middle-grade mystery inspired by Zora Neale Hurston - Zora and Me by Victoria Bond and T. R. Simon

Them Too - Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

Ask A Manager (And some questions you might not even know to ask) - Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work by Allison Green

Trying to be better pt.1 - How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

What if Cinderella met a god of death instead of a fairy godmother? - Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Exeunt, Pursued by a Werebear - Big Bad Wolf by Suleikha Snyder

When Trees Fight Back, or Why You Shouldn’t Disrespect Nature - The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien

Cohesive beauty that’ll knock you off your feet - An American Sunrise by Joy Harjo

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