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Featured Reviews

a book cover that looks like a tarot card, showing a woman in a red dress looking at a phone walking through a landscape of fire and ice.

tiny_bookbot's CBR18 Review #2:

“We are burning and we are falling / and we are stuck”
New Arcana by Jessica Traynor

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Book cover for An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

auntadadoom's CBR18 Review #1:

Billionaire reform starts with a good book
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett

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wicherwill's CBR18 Review #12:

bingo means time to hit the backlog…
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

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Trumps of Doom

jmsudar's CBR18 Review #8:

The Trumps of Doom
Trumps of Doom by Roger Zelazny

What is Cannonball Read?

Cannonball Read (CBR) is an annual, memorial reading challenge that challenges participants to read and review 52 (or 26 or 13) books in a calendar year. We donate profits to the American Cancer Society in memory of AlabamaPink, our fierce warrior queen, in the fight against cancer. Read More »

Review of Deadly Ambition Short Stories

The Price of Honey by Liane Moriarty

The Roommate by Andrea Mara

You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone by A.R. Torre

A Fatal Delivery by Lauren Oliver

The Silent Muse by Lauren Ling Brown

The Line by Tim Weaver

August 3, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

I really enjoyed this anthology. I thought most of the reads were 5 stars. The last one was not in my opinion, but that's just because it felt like a really unfinished story to me. And when I got to his afterword and he starts talking about his other works and these characters may show up again, I … [Read more]

Classic's CBR18 Review No:88 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Short Stories, Suspense · Tags: A. R. Torre, Andrea Mara, cbr18bingo, Deadly Ambition, Lauren Ling Brown, Lauren Oliver, Liane Moriarty, The Line, The Price of Honey, The Roommate, The Silent Muse, Tim Weaver, You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone ·
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Eat a Peach by David Chang

Eat a Peach by David Chang

August 3, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

I have to say upfront I wasn't paying attention and borrowed the wrong book from the library. I was looking for Ted Chiang's latest and my freaking Libby showed this even though I typed in Ted Chiang. I wasn't paying attention to the author's name when I put it on my hold list. Imagine my surprise … [Read more]

Classic's CBR18 Review No:82 · Genres: Biography/Memoir · Tags: cbr18bingo, David Chang, Eat a Peach ·
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Destroyed Me

Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid

August 3, 2026 by ASKReviews Leave a Comment

Rating: 5 Stars SLIGHT SPOILERS BELOW - If you don’t want to read on, just know that it’s a really freaking good book. In a nutshell: Joan is an astronaut in the US in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The book tells the story of hos she becomes an astronaut, what that means for her, and the … [Read more]

ASKReviews's CBR18 Review No:23 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction · Tags: Books, cbr18, Taylor Jenkins Reid ·
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House of Pain

Black House by Stephen King, Peter Straub

August 2, 2026 by jeverett15 1 Comment

In this sequel to The Talisman, twenty years have passed since Jack Sawyer traveled through the territories in a desperate attempt to save his mother's life. Since then, Jack has become a celebrated homicide detective with the LAPD, only to retire early and pack it in for small-town Wisconsin life. … [Read more]

jeverett15's CBR18 Review No:52 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Stephen King, Peter Straub ·
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Horowitz Never Fails

Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

August 2, 2026 by esmemoria Leave a Comment

Bingo: And. Horowitz embeds a mystery book in his mystery book. One mystery and another mystery. IMPORTANT NOTE: This book, third in the Susan Ryeland series, references the solution to the first book, Magpie Murders. Readers are advised to read that book first if they don’t want it … [Read more]

esmemoria's CBR18 Review No:29 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: Anthony Horowitz, cbr18bingo ·
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“The past cannot be cured”- Elizabeth I, Queen of England

Shadow of Night: A Novel (Book Two of the ALL SOULS SERIES) by Deborah Harkness

August 2, 2026 by bjornsnipe 2 Comments

I read A Discovery of Witches two years ago, and was suitably unimpressed. (Well, not unimpressed, more like I loathed it.) Then last year, for some unknown reason (I blame having bronchitis and being in the mood to mindlessly binge watch), I watched the entire series on Netflix. (I also watched … [Read more]

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:41 · Genres: Fiction, History, Romance · Tags: A Discovery of Witches, Deborah Harkness, paranormal romance, time travel ·
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Recent Comments

  • Classic
    on “The past cannot be cured”- Elizabeth I, Queen of England
    Man. You just reminded me of why I could never read her after the original trilogy. I was ready to...
  • Classic
    on House of Pain
    Oh this one was so frustrating. He has the third book in this series coming out later this year. I...
  • narfna
    on CBR BINGO: And—”I think this might actually be happening. I think I might be trapped in my own personal Enchanted, and I’m Patrick Dempsey.”
    I think you will get a kick out of it!
  • ASKReviews
    on Would Have Loved An Answer to the Question
    Right? THAT book would interest the hell out of me,
  • Victoria
    on Duncan Kincaid Has Bad Judgement When It Comes to Women
    I couldn't find anywhere in the book that said he actually sleeps (has sex) with Julia Swann
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