Maybe the movie is better? - The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edsel
Not so fast… - Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham
Life is a Multitude of Stories - Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
I’m just a girl living in captivity - The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
It wasn’t narcissism. And it wasn’t exactly an aesthetic. - Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Lucas and Russian Spies - Hidden Prey by John Sandford
Reminded me of “If Beale Street Could Talk” Though I Didn’t Like the Main Characters - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
I’ve had a few things of surpassing interest forced on me. - Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie
Slightly-better-than-average M/M romance - Fired Up by Riley Hart
I definitely could have done without the Ted Bundy interviews - Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer by David Reichert
“Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell?” - Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Big Lie by Anthony Del Col
Pro-tip: Don’t wait ten years to read an ARC. - Flesh and Fire (Vineart War, #1) by Laura Anne Gilman
“I may know myself better now than I ever have before, but ask me again in a year or two.” - Would You Rather? A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney
Pa said it would not matter if they got into the hay. - Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
Men Are Terrible and Cannot Be Trusted - Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
It’s not actually a bookshop - The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Into the Woods to Grandmother’s House and Home Before Dark - The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
“Nothing … was private: only secret, only silent. We ate our tears.” - The Birthday of the World and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
Pride & Prejudice retelling set in Pakistan (which doesn’t quite work) - Unmarriageable: A Novel by Soniah Kamal
The devil you know - Wicked and the Wallflower by Sarah Maclean
“My father was dying and I was pregnant. Both struck me as impossibly unreal.” - Brother, I'm dying by Edwidge Danticat
Existential Dread Served With Your Crime Fiction - The Thief by Fuminori Nakamura
People are always going on about how scared they are of ghosts. - Hardboiled and Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto
My parents belonged to the lost generation - Kafka in Bronteland by Tamar Yellin
Just Take What You Want - The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham
Relatively good - It’s All Relative by A.J. Jacobs
No Nonsense Fairy Tales - Dealing with Dragons by Patricia Wrede; Searching for Dragons by Patricia Wrede; Calling on Dragons by Patricia Wrede; Talking to Dragons by Patricia Wrede
If the Gentleman had been Expected, perhaps she would have had time to apply her remaining eye and the top of her skull. - An Unexpected Gentleman by Alissa Johnson
“It turns out that grief isn’t something that can be hurried. You can’t move through it faster than it moves through you.” - Strangers Tend to Tell Me Things: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Coming Home by Amy Dickinson
Empathy Served With a Slice of Pie - all that she can see by Carrie Hope Fletcher
A glimpse into the mind of a 12th century religious thinker - Hildegard of Bingen: Mystical Writings by Hildegard of Bingen, Fiona Bowie (Editor), Oliver Davies (Editor)
Nature of happiness - The Fox on the Swing by Evelina Daciute
My annoyance with Jefferson continues - Founding Gardners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf
More of the Same Teenage Drama in Sequel to To All the Boys I Loved Before - P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
← …you have wronged me and my descendants… - The Girl in the Castle by Santa Montefiore
I am genuinely glad I finished out the series - Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan
1907 vs 2007 – when would you rather have lived? - Astor Place Vintage by Stephanie Lehmann
Strong Debut - Mummy's Favorite by Sarah Flint
Bad books make for a good read - Bad Book Club by Robin Ince
“But this didn’t feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.” - Soul Music by Sir Terry Pratchett
Agony and Relief: Birth Order as Curse - Secondborn by Amy A. Bartol
This SHOULD have been a duology - Renegades by Marissa Meyer; Archenemies by Marissa Meyer
Fun closed murder-mystery with a lot of men - The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Jake Ballard (not that one) is a terrible boyfriend - Rock the Boat by Rachael Herron
When your neighbor is unbearably grumpy - The Snow Rabbit by Georgiana Deutsch
When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. - Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons
The Dark Waters of Doom… - The Case of Jennie Brice by Mary Roberts Rinehart
What would you do if you were arrested for wearing pants? - Mary Wears What She Wants by Keith Negley
Why isn’t dinner on the table, and other complaints of hardworking men - Puppet for a Corpse by Dorothy Simpson
If you want to appreciate this, read the Mahabharata first. - Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi