the argument is, we are excluded from the argument - Tracker by Alexis Wright
Each person is a new adventure and some of those adventures are disturbing - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Overall an amazing alternate history but what I really appreciated was the portrayal of the main character’s anxiety - The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal
Without Darkness, how could we recognize the light? - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy #1) by N.K. Jemisin
Becoming is Inspirational - Becoming by Michelle Obama
He kisses . . . like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can only use the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. - Less by Andrew Sean Greer
How have I never heard of Wendelin Van Draanen? - Wild Bird by Wendelin Van Draanen
A long-ass book worth the read (or listen) - She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
“I got cabin fever, it’s burning in my brain” - The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Brilliant! - Out by Natsuo Kirino
My first Must Read of 2019 - The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
What’s the cheat code to get a sequel? - Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier
“Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.” – Jose Marti - The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya
Love is like a white rabbit? - Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Why Do You Think Anything in that House was ever Yours to Take? - Tear it Down by Nick Petrie
In the Style of the Greeks - Mythos by Stephen Fry
Why are you so obsessed with me? - El fruto prohibido (Fruit of Knowledge) by Liv Strömquist, translated by Alba Pagán
I hate me some damn rebs. - How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
What are you worth? - 84K by Claire North
So Much More Than Just Textbook Biology - Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan
The Life of a Home As Told by the Ghost that Haunts It - The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton
It was 1919, just after the other war. - The Gold-Rimmed Spectacles by Giorgio Bassani
A fun light-hearted read with shifters - Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston
Fantastic Look at Some Truly Extraordinary Women - Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu
Perfect - If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Wild nights are my glory - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Kinsey, Still Working It - J is for Judgment by Sue Grafton
I Came to Praise Carla Rinker - Mortal Prey by John Sandford
Chosen Prey Rebounds After the Last Prey Book - Chosen Prey by John Sandford
Goblins, Elves and Diplomacy - The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by MT Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
I waited to make this my first CBR11 review. It was worth the wait. - The Light Between Worlds by Laura E. Weymouth
I wanted to tell you a lie. - Heavy by Kiese Laymon
Becoming of a First Lady - Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Americas Deserved Better Than Guns, Germs, and Steel - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky – Short Story Perfection - What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky by Lesley Nneka Arimah
Why is this shit still happening all these years later? - Columbine by Dave Cullen
Five stars of adorable madness - Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
One of the good ones - Valiant by Sarah McGuire
“Life had manifested the heart’s invisible furies on his face.” - The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
“There are new monsters now” - Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
I taught you better than to open doors you can’t close - An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
In Which Jane Kicks Efficient Ass, Especially the Undead Variety - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
The modern way was to insist upon doing battle under conditions of abstract justice. - The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata
Do not judge this book by the cover - The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert
CBR11 #2 – YES. THIS. ALL THIS. - Nothing Is Okay by Rachel Wiley
An Immigrant’s Story - Of Monkey Bridges and Bánh Mì Sandwiches: from Sài Gòn to Texas by Oanh Ngo Usadi
Drop-kick That Magic Lamp into Mount Doom - The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin (editors)
The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated. - Little Big Man by John Berger
America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization. - The Collected Stories of John O'Hara by John O'Hara
Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. - Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover