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Napoleonic France with MAGIC - The Guns of Empire by Django Wexler

A Final Trip to Green Gables - The Blythes Are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery

“This was when I learned one of the biggest secrets of being a woman, which is that much of the time, we don’t feel like we’re women at all.” - You'll Grow out of It by Jessi Klein

A little pretentious, a lot bizarre - The Last Days of New Paris by China Mieville

How to waste an unbelievably cool premise in execution. - Everfair by Nisi Shawl

We Were Alright - We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Not the Goonies, Not by a Long-shot - The Clasp by Sloane Crosley

Julie Anne Long tries her hand at a contemporary romance. She should stick with her historicals… - Hot in Hellcat Canyon by Julie Anne Long

A Long Trip in a Zepplin - The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett, Stephen Baxter

In which I am confused about how I feel - Beard Science by Penny Reid

A marked improvement on the first one - Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Beginning of a Historical YA series - A Spy in the House (The Agency #1) by Y.S. Lee

BBC Radio to the Rescue - The Hobbit: or There and Back Again by J. R. R. Tolkien

Practical Tactical Brilliance - Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

Seriously Cinematic Comic Strips - Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film by Edward Ross

“Dependably good” doesn’t sound like high enough praise, but it’s meant to be - Faithful Place by Tana French

Not a fact to be found - Dave Barry's Bad Habits: A 100% Fact-Free Book by Dave Barry

Not much “there”, there. - The Dark Unwinding, A Spark Unseen by Sharon Cameron

I remember Ta-Nehisi Coates from the NPR show Tell Me More - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

A disappointing middle book, built around some really neat stuff. - The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #2) by Cixin Liu

Light is the smiling blue-eyed daughter of a family of ruffians - Girl in the Dark: A Memoir of a Life Without Light by Anna Lyndsey

You make infidelity sound like a hole in the sidewalk. - Attachments: A Novel by Rainbow Rowell

Death and Mayhem (Or, This Book Title Does Not Rhyme) - Singapore Noir by Cheryl Lu-LIen Tan

There is No More Status Quo, But the Sun Comes Up and the World Still Spins - The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker

Still waiting for another Tremblay as good as A Head Full of Ghosts - Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay

A near-miss - The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

“An end to timidity – the replacement of the philologically tentative by the lexicographically decisive.” - The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester

My other theme this month is Fairy Tales - Toad Words and Other Stories by T. Kingfisher

The madness of me, reading this book - The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Highland Pleasures #1) by Jennifer Ashley

Missing episode of Midsomer Murders - Cover-Up Story (Perkins & Tate Mysteries, book 1) by Marian Babson

A review almost as long as a Russian novel - Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Honey a Day - The Honey Month by Amal El-Mohtar

I could be happy the rest of my life with a vinegar girl - Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler

The Story Seems To Be Missing - Catching Homelessness: A Nurse's Story of Falling Through the Safety Net by Josephine Ensign

I came for discussions of Lady Kluck. I stayed for discussions of internet bullying. - Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

Butterflies are free…except not so much. - The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison

Harry Potter Fanfiction - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

You always hurt the ones you love the most - The Almost Archer Sisters by Lisa Gabriele

117 Days - Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

‘So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act.’ - The Girls by Emma Cline

My twelve-year-old self might have loved this book, but we’ll never know - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

“Jell-O monkeys!” she squealed, and wiggled her fingers in front of her mouth. - I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Gretchen McNeil

Entertaining if you don’t think about it too much - First Star I See Tonight by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Less Scooby Mystery, More Shirley Jackson Please. - The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

Bear won’t let a few broken vertebrae stop him! - The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest by Bear Grylls

But somebody has to do it - A Dirty Job (Grim Reaper #1) by Christopher Moore

Poems for young women - Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls by ed. by Karen Finneyfrock, Rachel McKibbens, and Mindy Nettifee

Fine for a Hudson News Buy - The Perfect Girl by Gilly Macmillan

One of my favorite subjects - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal

The Money Class - The Money Class by Suze Orman

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