I reiterate Beowulf, I recite my Yoruba tongue-twister, I tell Lucian Freud’s joke: we are creatures of private convention. - Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
Never Have You Held Back Your Heart - A Touch of Stone and Snow by Milla Vane
“burn before reading” - This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El -Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Their Eyes is a 1930s novel that is still entirely relevant today - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The History of the Fight to Pass the 19th Amendment - The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss
Representing the Women of the Wizarding World - Calling All Witches!: The Girls Who Left Their Mark on the Wizarding World by Laurie Calkhoven
When You Need to Escape Your House, Read a Travel Guide - The Unofficial Guide to Disneyland 2020 by Seth Kubersky
This Is The Way - So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Behold: Your Quarantimes Binge Read - In the Woods by Tana French
Obama knew what he was talking about. - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
This invention will change the course of man. - The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson
These chapters put forth an argument for extending the study of American literature into what I hope will be a - Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison
Spy, Assassin, Telepath, Family? - Spy X Family, vol. 1 by Tatsuya Endo
It’s incredible, it really is, isn’t it? - If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
We have to be better than this - Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.” - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Becky Chambers and the Quest for Righteous Representation - The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Perspiration Inspiration - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
A book and a protagonist who are many things at once - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Bunnatine, Immy, Demon Lover, and Ghost Boyfriend walk into a bar… - Get In Trouble by Kelly Link
Happy Pride Month! - Check, Please! Vol. 2 by Ngozi Ukazu
A Journey Into a Very Neurotic Time - Crudo by Olivia Laing
Let us imagine that Shakespeare found himself from boyhood fascinated by language, obsessed with the magic of words. - Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt
Ghost Story - Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
An Native American novel “tender with significance” - The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
Thinking On It - How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The perfect emotional gut-punch for the time (my June #CannonBookClub pick) - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Legacy - Red at the Bone:A Novel by Jacqueline Woodson
A Line of Poetry Written With a Splash of Blood - Runaway Horses (The Sea of Fertility Book 2) by Yukio Mishima
These Spiders Are Not Deserving of Your Mortein – but Your Love - Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
On the outside looking in - Almost American Girl: An Illustrated Memoir by Robin Ha
terrific writing about terrible things - My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
It’s the Chronic (WHAT) cles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
If You’re Not a Good Listener, This Could Help - You're Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters by Kate Murphy
A kinder book for a harder time - Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
I’d take back all the words that had hurt you, and you’d stay… - Restart by Gordon Korman
I am a copy editor. - Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer
Bottom half of the seventh, Brock’s boy had made it through another innings unscratched, one! two! three! - The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover
“There shall be a fire that knows your name” - Annihilation: A Novel (The Southern Reach Trilogy Book 1) by Jeff VanderMeer
One of Six Dead, the Five Left All Unwell - Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi
A Bananapants Guide to Befriending Bears - Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston
We are a family that has always been very close in spirit. - The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
The Noor Solar Power Plant in Morocco’s Sahara Desert is pretty bada$$ - Solar Story: How One Community Lives Alongside the World’s Biggest Solar Plant by Allan Drummond
Why You Shouldn’t Judge Books, or People, by Their Covers - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
“I can remember how grown-up I felt then, and earlier, since about nine. Because we age one way, in one direction, every age we are is the most grown-up we’ve ever been.” - Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe
An enjoyment of sci-fi was awakened by Leviathan Wakes - Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
The Art of Fielding keeps moments real and beautiful - The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
What a Turn of Events! - The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
You look like me and I love you - You Look Like a Thing and I Love You by Janelle Shane
Do you know what a riddle-ku is? - Lion of the Sky: Haiku for All Seasons by Laura Purdie Salas