“I’m afraid that if I stop writing I’ll stop thinking and start feeling.” - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Or Say No, No Is Okay Too - Just Say Yes by Rosalind James
“My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.” - My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy #1) by Gerald Durrell
Beige Couple Has Sex - It Happened One Wedding by Julie James
Hockey Romance with Coaches in Love - Power Play by Avon Gale
Teenage Wasteland - Runaways: Volume One by Brian K. Vaughn, Adrian Alphona
Ghost Murder story? Or Murder Ghost story? - Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn
Blind Woman Does Surgery in a Forest - The Spymaster's Lady by Joanna Bourne
Death of an Author - The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith
Still No Recommended Reads from the Brooklyn Bruisers Series - Hard Hitter by Sarina Bowen
Actual Improvement or Stockholm Syndrome? Books 4-6 of Juliet Blackwell’s Witchcraft Mystery Series - In a Witch's Wardrobe, Tarnished and Torn, A Vision in Velvet by Juliet Blackwell
One for the fans (but probably not the rest of us) - Star Wars: Catalyst: A Rogue One Story by James Luceno
Bosch and Terry Not Sitting in a Tree - A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
Leading Ladies - I Loved Her in the Movies: Working with the Legendary Actresses of Hollywood by Robert J. Wagner, Scott Eyman
Takin’ a Trip to Goofyland - Question Quest by Piers Anthony
After 515 Kissing Books, Interesting Is Welcome - The Secret Heart by Erin Satie
2017 Ruins Everything. - Slow Horses by Mick Herron
The Years Change A City - Leaving Berlin by Joseph Kanon
Middling - Good Boy by Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy
The Showstopper Finds His True Legacy - Wrestling for My Life by Shawn Michaels
Jodi Picoult Does Racism - Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
A Giant Woman Should Be More Exciting - Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
About that time I included the words “Sperm Gargling” in a review - Wetlands by Charlotte Roche
Secrets to the Grave - Secrets to the Grave by Tami Hoag
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will turn me into a puppet - Lexicon by Max Barry
If you only read one book about Bill Murray this year…I wouldn’t really recommend this one - The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray: A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor by Robert Schnakenberg
Lacks Heart of Lunar Chronicles - Wires and Nerve: Volume 1 by Marissa Meyer
She’s leaving home… - Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
A truth universally acknowledged: dating is hard. - Sofia Khan Is Not Obliged by Ayisha Malik
He’ll want glitter and zoo animals at your wedding - Good Boy by Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy
The Phantom of the Slaughterhouse doesn’t sing, but he does build creepy mechanical spiders - Of Metal and Wishes by Sarah Fine
One Fell Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest - The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith
Earls and Editors - Forever Your Earl by Eva Leigh
Stephen King – even his average efforts are still pretty good - Rose Madder by Stephen King
Blah blah blah…great book…great characters…BRAD PITT CAN’T RECOGNIZE FACES… - Holding up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
Outgunned, outmanned, outnumbered, outplanned…. - Embattled Rebel by James M. McPherson
Downton Abbey meets the Butterfly Effect — and Hitler - Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
A book I would never would have found without CBR. - The Weight of it All by N.R. Walker
“I’m working on my own life story. I don’t mean I’m putting it together; no, I’m taking it apart.” - The Tent by Margaret Atwood
Another Goodbye Girl - What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
The Perils of Gift Giving - A Crown of Bitter Oranges by Laura Florand
I know I am in the minority here, but I was kind of disappointed… - Yes Please by Amy Poehler
The Raven & The Hellcat - A Raven's Heart by K.C. Bateman
Ignore The Title’s Misuse of the Word Till - Mine Till Midnight by Lisa Kleypas
Drunk History in a book - Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
The World Needs More Fiction about Questing Old Ladies - The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson
If Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” Video Was a 400 Page Novel… - The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
Cinderella’s from the Moon - Cinder by Marissa Meyer
My favorite not my favorite - Dragons at Crumbling Castle and other stories by Terry Pratchett
The sort of book I would have liked more had I read it 20 years ago - A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K LeGuin