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5 Star Reviews

The power of Margaret Atwood compels you! - The Power by Naomi Alderman

29: An excellent adaptation of a beloved YA novel - Speak (Graphic Novel) by Laurie Halse Anderson and Emily Carroll

Two are one, life and death, lying like lovers in kemmer - The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Fine, I did cry five times in the conclusion to this YA trilogy. - Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

An epic romance sizzles during an Odyssey quest to save the realms - Breath of Fire (The Kingmaker Chronicles Book 2) by Amanda Bouchet

Spooky and beautiful and unprotected from the raw bloodiness of the world - All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews

I Am Somebody - The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil

Always remember: This is a true story - Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston

Ain’t she sweet - The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

Flags Are Fascinating - Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags by Tim Marshall

I Feel so Damned Spoilt Reading These - Senlin Ascends (The Books of Babel, Volume 1); Arm of the Sphinx (The Books of Babel, Volume 2) by Josiah Bancroft

She also demanded of me that, in my art, it should be real passion and not machinery that moved the branches. That was a major gift, the greatest of her bequests. - The Door by Magda Szabo

“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it. ” - Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Horrifyingly timely - The Leavers by Lisa Ko

It doesn’t even have to be snowy to love this book - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

Alton Brown best watch the throne - The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt

The coastline of Italy wobbles a little, retreats. - Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason

No title can do this book justice. - Force of Nature by Jane harper

Red Sister? Like a baby Red Sonja? - Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor, Book 1) by Mark Lawrence

A modern Shakespeare - Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood

This ends well (J/k/, it’s Saga, you know it doesn’t). - Saga, Volume 5 by Brian K. Vaughan

Buckle up, Saunders is gonna blow your mind right out of your butt - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

If The Lovely Bones Was a Raging Takedown of Rape Culture - I Stop Somewhere by TE Carter

Time Travel & T-Rexs - Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor

Now This is Literature or a Defense of Kindness - A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

And now I want her back catalogue - The White Album by Joan Didion

A Sci-Fi Crime Procedural Series - Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome (Lock In 0.5), Lock In (Lock In, #1), Head On (Lock In #2) by John Scalzi

This book only gets better the more I think about it. - Circe by Madeline Miller

The Glory of my Favorite Illustrator - In a Small Kingdom by Tomie dePaola

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle - The Surface Breaks: A Reimagining of The Little Mermaid by Louise O’Neill

I’ve said it’s hard. Here’s how hard: everybody I know who wades deep enough into memory’s waters drowns a little. - The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can’t go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. - Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

The Perfect Cozy Fairy Tale with a Dash of Religion, Politics and Russian History - The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Chad, you magnificent son of a bitch - The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Murderbot needs a blankie! - All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) by Martha Wells

Sail Away on Poetry - Sail Away by Langston Hughes

Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up - Earth Verse: Haiku from the Ground Up by Sally M. Walker

Does Cookie Dough Ice Cream Go With Red or White Wine? - The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory

Story Time with Neil - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nourishment for My Soul - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #13 - The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy #3) by Rick Atkinson

The Day You Begin - The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

A fabulous follow up to “Mockingbird.” - Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Memoir about Trauma, Shame, Food, and Body - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

All About the Birds. And the Bees. And the Arthropods. And Anyone Else Desperate Enough to Pen a Letter. - Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex by Olivia Judson

New Vorkosigan Novella - The Flowers of Vashnoi by Lois McMaster Bujold

“There’s nothing like a few severed heads to take your mind off politics…” - Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

America The Beautiful - Picturing America: Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Art by Hudson Talbott

Patricia Polacco Is a Rock Star! - Holes in the Sky by Patricia Polacco

We’re back in business, baby! - Persepolis Rising by James S. A. Corey

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