“What must it be like to grow up that beautiful / with your hair falling into place like dominoes” - Gwyneth: The Biography (2025) by Amy Odell
Bewitching - The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Hot priests, holy tattoos, and machine guns - Covenant V01 by LySandra Vuong
What army base is off limits on Passover? (Fort Leavenworth) but seriously, this is a serious (but fun) story - The Passover Pet Surprise by Ana Maria Shua
Home - Sparrow by Mary Tebo; Home Away From Home by Nazneen Akbari; Upside-Down Iftar by Maysa Odeh
Didn’t Live Up to It’s Potential - Any Old Diamonds by KJ Charles
One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure - A Noble Madness: The Dark Side of Collecting from Antiquity to Now by James Delbourgo
Jane Austen and Jeeves Meet the Real Housewives of Sex and the City - Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes
When the coconuts are the most interesting part of the vampire story - A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
Out There Screaming Edited by Jordan Peele - Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele
Hands Off the Melons - Mr. Majestyk by Elmore Leonard
I warmed to this novel, but it took awhile - Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
Sorry-Grateful - How Sondheim Can Change Your Life by Richard Schoch
Experiencing an identity crisis and burnout on your parents’ couch while a hot, single, emotionally-unavailable guy sleeps down the hall - Georgie All Along by Kate Clayborn
From Prison Cell to Royal Courts - The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni; The Gilded Cage by Lynette Noni; The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni
I inadvertently overheard some things while my ear was casually pressed to this steel door. - The Hawthorne Legacy (The Inheritance Games #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The woman who made snow in Puerto Rico and other amazing things - Doña Fela's Dream: The Story of Puerto Rico's First Female Mayor by Monica Brown
My Travels to Tanria Come to an End - The Undercutting of Rosie and Adam by Megan Bannen
“Because being of utility was more than I had expected, and yet one still does not want to be used. Of use, but not used.” - The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older
Brrrruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce - Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run by Peter Ames Carlin
“This is how it works, with people who wield abuse like a knife and convince us they’re cutting us with love.” - The Ones We Burn by Rebecca Mix
I lean towards Little Ghost - Little Ghost House Hunts by Lucy Branam; All Hallows' Eve by Anthony DeStefano
A beat-up book that made me think people need this book - Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness. by Kristen Radtke
Journey to heal - Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely
A good book for the right reader - Travel Light by Naomi Mitchinson
“Me, I don’t have a name. I lost it in battle, like the knight who lost his shield.” - The Coin: A Novel by Yasmin Zaher
Old Fashioned Folk Tale Vibes - Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George
A whole nation that never learned, “don’t bargain with the fae” - The Rose Bargain by Sasha Peyton Smith
Catching up with the Ravenels - Hello Stranger by Lisa Kleypas; Chasing Cassandra by Lisa Kleypas
A reminder of the importance of a good editor - Greatest Short Stories by Women - Grapevine Collectible by Virginia Woolf et. al
“Courage isn’t knowing everything will be fine. It’s knowing everything might not be, and doing what needs to be done anyway, because someone has to.” - Sleep No More (Ocotber Daye #17) by Seanan McGuire
When the skeptic becomes borderline unlikable - I’ll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong
“I seem to have a calling for chaos, and it finds me even when I don’t go looking.” - Be The Serpent (October Daye #16) by Seanan McGuire
N is for Not - Not Too Sweet by Jessica Seinfeld
“It is a writer’s greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry…” - Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians Book Six by Brandon Sanderson & Janci Patterson, illustrations by Hayley Lazo
Light Mystery, Solid Ending - The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer
A cozy fantasy - The Baker and the Bard: A Cozy Fantasy Adventure by Fern Haught
“Good Morning with roses and jasmine,” - A Good Morning for Giddo by Dahlia Constantine and Irene Latham
Choosing your life partner based on her footwear might not be a good idea - Revolting Rhymes: Cinderella by Roald Dahl
Buck some stereotypes and be you - My Guncle and Me by Jonathan Merritt
Misfortunes is an understatement - The Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang by Stan Yan
Discover the Moonlight Zoo - The Midnight Zoo by Maudie Powell-Tuck
One December night - The Birds of Christmas by Olivia Armstrong
They adorably find you when you need them - Adorable Empire: A Graphic Novel by Laura Terry
Davis lecturing and marching. - Be the Light: How She Became Angela Davis by Daria Peoples
To those of us who get the hiccups - A Cure for the Hiccups by Jennifer E. Smith
The screenwriters writing the rom-com are a rom-com - The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
Funny and Well-Written, but Left Me Wanting - The Usual Desire to Kill by Camilla Barnes
Shepherds Watch over Their Flocks. And Angels Watch over Shepherds - The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison