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Coming to a hospital near you… - The Stand by Stephen King

Across the street from their house, in an empty lot between two houses, stood the rockpile. - Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin; Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

The mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. - The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham

Spot on - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

An Instant Classic - The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

The way Theranos is operating is like trying to build a bus while you’re driving the bus. - Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Her Voice - In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

A Thriller That Does Not Quit - A Good Marriage by Kimberly McCreight

Circe: Not the One from Game of Thrones - Circe by Madeline Miller

Audience Matters - Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass

All hail N. K. Jemisin - The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

Is it any wonder I reject you first? - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

(I know, I’m paranoid, but that’s how I’ve avoided being rendered for spare parts all this time.) - Network Effect by Martha Wells

If Big Little Lies Met To Kill A Mockingbird - The Night the Lights Went Out by Karen White

We need some space….and humans to do our dirty work. - Last Pick V01 Last Pick by Jason Walz; Last Pick: V02 Born to Run by Jason Walz

Did Amy Schumer and I just become best friends? - The Girl With the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer

Bit short for a stormtrooper - Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies. - Inifinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

Though Beryl Hadn’t Been to Every Planet, She’d Stand Firm on the Opinion That Most Worlds Could Benefit From Canines - Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

Didn’t know it, but I needed a romance with a geeky, anxious lead that I relate to. - Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Probably the best book of 2020 - The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

A God Wink - You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero

Seriously! Just read books in this series - Science Comics: Bats: Learning to Fly by Falynn Koch

But what have you done for me lately? - The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel

Sublime horror classic - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

A Cinderella Story/The Godfather - Wolf Hall: A Novel by Hilary Mantel; Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel by Hilary Mantel

The Phurnicite factory in Abercwmboi killed all the trees for two miles around. - Among Others by Jo Walton

All the religions weren’t true, but they all had truth in them. - The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson

“There’s a particular feeling in your body when something goes right after a long time of things going wrong. It feels warm and sweet and loose.” - Writers & Lovers by Lily King

By dawn at least half the members of the Kelly Gang were badly wounded and it was then the creature appeared from behind police lines. - The True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey

Sing to me, Daisy Jones and the Six, and never stop - Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Breathing in a collection of sci-fi short stories by a master - Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang

“The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.” - Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy

Opportunity walks into a bar - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

I take an odd sort of comfort in knowing that things in America have been just as bad, if not worse, than they are right now. - Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro

“Fools love to declare that they don’t suffer fools.” - The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed” - Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang

Well, This Was Unexpectedly Relevant - How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France

Picture, If you will. . . . - The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

“I’m no expert, but I remember reading somewhere, every time you retrieve a memory, that act of retrieval, it corrupts the memory a little bit. Maybe changes it a little.” - The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Be a Goddamn Cheetah - Untamed by Glennon Doyle

I Will Never Stop Loving Love - The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

From Survivalist to PhD - Educated by Tara Westover

Right book, right time. - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

“Thou art a boil, A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, In my corrupted blood.” - The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro

“The victims of Jack the Ripper were never ‘just prostitutes’; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough.” - The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

Station Eleven-a surprisingly optimistic apocalyptic story - Station Eleven by Emily Saint John Mandel

For all y’all hippie monks - New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

who lives, who dies, who tells your story? - The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes - Blood of Brothers by Stephen Kinzer

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