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It’s Not Just You, The World is Collapsing - The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time by Brooke Gladstone

Enjoyable Contemporary Romance - Meet Me at Beachcomber Bay by Jill Mansell

“… these are the differences that determine the fate of the universe.” - Last Day on Mars by Kevin Emerson

There is No Such Thing as Failure in This Endeavor - Unf*ck Your Habitat: You’re Better Than Your Mess by Rachel Hoffman

It feels like somebody took my heart and dropped it into a bucket of boiling tears. - My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

Being 34th In Line to the Throne Is Not So Bad… - A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen

Being a woman means being at the mercy of men. - Paradise Reclaimed by Halldór Laxness

I, too, live with a kid OBSESSED with world records - Ghost (Track #1) by Jason Reynolds

Does what it says on the tin. - Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1) by George R.R. Martin

Days of Our Trying Not to Get Humanity Blown into Smithereens - Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible” - Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

“Two hearts girl get the job done” - The Impossible Girl by Lydia Kang

It’s Not the Destination, It’s the Journey - The 7 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

I did not expect this. - Blended by Sharon Draper

It is time to enjoy the snow! - Little Owl's Snow by Divya Srinivasan

The cookbook I never knew I always wanted, mostly - Smith & Deli-Cious: Food from Our Deli (that Happens to be Vegan) by Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse

No fate but what we make - A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell

Even better than the first - Shadowhouse Fall by Daniel José Older

Let’s All Have Some Tea and Muffins - At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie

A defiant girl in a man’s world - The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

Who knew fly-tyers were kind of the worst? - The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

A little more time with Lady Julie Beaufort-Stuart - The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?” - Becoming by Michelle Obama

Four people on the verge of retirement, each one of us living alone, and without any close relative near – that’s us - Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym

Blowing smoke up your ass used to be literal - Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen

Wonderful Romance Book - Sorry Not Sorry by Sophie Ranald

Great Continuation of Davenport - Naked Prey by John Sandford

Strong Ending to the Brothers Sinister Series - The Suffragette Scandal by Cour

CBR11 #3 – Fat Girl Finishing School by Rachel Wiley - Fat Girl Finishing School by Rachel Wiley

Cats and their Owners - What's Michael?: Michael's Album by Makoto Kobayashi; What's Michael?: The Ideal Cat by Makoto Kobayashi; What's Michael?: Off the Deep End by Makoto Kobayashi

At first you might not be aware of it. - Within the Walls by Giorgio Bassani

The Front Page of Absurdity - Chicago by David Mamet

Just take out a loan to buy food, Sophia. Grocery stores will work with you, if you can’t afford to eat… - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns

S.O.S. - Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Set Fire….to the Rain - Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center

Realistic Look at Marriage With Bumps in the Road - The Truth About Ever After by Rachel Schurig

I’d long since known what was in those trucks. - The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

Three Girls and a Wedding - Three Girls and a Wedding by Rachel Schurig

An unending tale of sorrow, blood, and love - The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

London is drowning and I live by the river - Lies Sleeping (Rivers of London #7) by Peter Aaronovitch

“All Bette’s stories have happy endings. That’s because she knows where to stop. She’s realized the real problem with stories—if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.” - Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1) by Neil Gaiman

ooohhhh booyy is it not a love story - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Accessible, exciting historical fiction for the tween set - Lifeboat 12 by Susan Hood

Gone Girls, 1900 Edition - Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

“I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that it takes a huge amount of fake blood to keep a Halloween theme park running.” - Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M McManus

Mulholland Drive in Fiction Form - Haunt by Laura Lee Bahr

The worst part of writing this statement was recalling all of these events because, honestly, I’d just as soon forget. - Meet Behind Mars by Renee Simms

Jane sees dead people - My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows

True Detectives - The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

And the Headstones Climbed up the Hill - Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

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