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5 Star Reviews

Maybe we don’t think so good - The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis

It’s not easy being teen - American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang; Boxers by Gene Luen Yang; Saints by Gene Luen Yang

A Girl Coming of Age Story Full of Kicking *ss and No Romance - Mistress of the Storm by M. L. Welsh

Buttermilk Onions Cheese Life Lessons - Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat, Wendy McNaughton

Did anyone think to check the building for personifications of Roman Gods - Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch

“We all live our lives carrying secrets we cannot disclose.” - Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

A little too timely - LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer & Emerson T. Brooking

Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You … - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Just REALLY well-written thrillers, guys - Unsub by Meg Gardiner ; Into the Black Nowhere by Meg Gardiner

Are you Extraordinary? - Vicious by V. E. Schwab

Happiness? that entails comfort, organization, a constructed stability altogether foreign to me. - The Ogre (The Erl-King) by Michel Tournier

These books are almost custom-made for me - In an Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire

Get Out - The Expendable Man by Dorothy Hughes

I would like a copy of the ‘Buggre Alle This’ Bible. - Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Only Certain Hearts are Bears - My Boyfriend is a Bear by Pamela Ribon and Cat Farris

Twas the night before Hogswatch - Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

If you love fairy tales - The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo

A Road Trip with a Dog - Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck

Maybe you’re a misfit, too. Doesn’t mean you’re not deserving. Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be here. - A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Rainbow Rowell is my happy place - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Don’t fret these books are a couple of gems - The Diamond and the Boy: The Creation of Diamonds & The Life of H. Tracy Hall by Hannah Holt; The Golden Thread: A Song for Pete Seeger by Colin Meloy

Mine eyes have seen the glory - The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

People who love to eat are always the best people - La cantine de minuit (Shinya Shokudō) by Yarō Abe

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.” - Educated by Tara Westover

“They thought they could bury us; they didn’t know we were seeds.” - Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger by Rebecca Traister

Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

How many rules am I to break before you understand that your double standards don’t mean sh*t to me? - Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth. - The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The rhetoric of feminism with its emphasis on resistance, rebellion, and revolution created an illusion of militancy and radicalism… - Ain't I a Woman by bell hooks

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I wish for more - The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories by Mahvesh Murad, Jared Shurin, eds.

Why Did I Not Read This Sooner - Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Eleanor Oliphant is not at all what I expected. - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

It was the end of the world and it made me cry. - The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the bookshelf… - Jaws: Memories from Martha's Vineyard by Matt Taylor

poetry that hurts to heal - the princess saves herself in this one by amanda lovelace

I loved it, even with my surface knowledge of Star Trek - Redshirts by John Scalzi

you will falsely remember being told about Melmoth by your grandmother’s mother when you were very small - Melmoth by Sarah Perry

I spent New Year’s Day in Hogwarts. - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1) by J.K. Rowling

I have no heart; I hate the song Jolene (thanks, fam.) - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

Ringing in the New Year with Inspector Gamache <3 - Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny

My Chemical Renaissance - Hamlet by William Shakespeare

2018 – I Can’t Quit You - American Street by Ibi Zoboi

Everybody effing read this. - Educated by Tara Westover

The first of two amazing books I read to end the year. (I want to put them both on my end of year best!) - Band Sinister by K.J. Charles

When you have Yeti Crabs - Sea Creatures by Seymour Simon; Elephants by Seymour Simon

CANNONBALL!!! - Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated by Shea Serrano

Chief of Staff Reading List #15-17 - The Guns of August; World Order; The Face of Battle by Barbara Tuchman; Henry Kissinger; John Keegan

More like Ron Churn-ow - Grant & Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Suddenly, he felt a paradoxical sense of loyalty… - The Complete Stories of JG Ballard by JG Ballard

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