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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
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YYou’re the Chosen One! No… You’re the Chosen One! Wait who’s the Chosen One? - The Perilous Sea by Sherry Thomas

An affirming LGBT Christian palate-cleanser - God and the Gay Christian by Matthew Vines

Every girl needs her secrets - Girls on Fire by Robin Wasserman

I now walk into the wild - Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

A bit like The Shining Girls. But not awful. - Salvage & Demolition by Tim Powers

Immortals, Gangsters, and Bootlegging but no Capone - Baccano! The Rolling Bootlegs by Ryohgo Narita

Heading A Revolution is Hard on the Soul, so is Murder… - Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard

A future classic, whenever people stop disparaging romantic plots and especially m/m ones - The Captive Price trilogy by C.S. Pacat

Sometimes You Get To Be Famous For A Job Well Done - Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik

Excuse me while I make some hard-boiled eggs, curl up into a ball, and cry. - Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The last Bridgerton sibling finds his match…eventually - On the Way to the Wedding by Julia Quinn

My first graphic [novel] travelogue - Displacement by Lucy Knisley

I Am Going to Save the World and No One Knows it’s Ending - Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge

Gillian Flynn-like murder mystery with some horrible characters - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

A Fairy Tale in the Alaska Wilderness - The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

Don’t turn me home again, I just can’t face myself alone again - Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

The Seinfeld of Hipster Heroes - Batgirl Vol. 2: Family Business by Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher, Babs Tarr

Nothing will ever live up to Austen’s genius, but this was still a fun read - Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld

That Honey Johnson Moment - The 10 P.M. Question by Kate Di Goldi

It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn - Now I See You: a memoir by Nicole C. Kear

A diabolical and clever thriller - Crimson Shore (Pendergast #15) by Preston & Child

Talking Dogs, Strange Animals, War and Creepy Zombie things trying to eat us - Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's 2) by Ransom Riggs

Horrible people doing horrible things — in new ways! - Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

We interrupt this Star Wars binge to bring you some Regency romance - The Harlow Hoyden by Lynn Messina

Passion, Obsession and Napoleon - The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

The Man that Brought Down a Presidency - The Last of the President's Men by Bob Woodward

Sci-fi? Yes! Star Trek? Kinda! Inceptionesque Metafiction? Wait…what? - Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi

What is the Meaning of Innocence - Monster by Walter Dean Myers

“They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.” - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, narrated by Bryan Cranston

Insert Clever Broom Metaphor Here - Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews

The Quiet Heartbreak of Unreached Potential - The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

You don’t know true cold until you read this book - Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

A for Improvement - Marrying Winterborne by Lisa Kleypas

Urban Fantasy with Delusions of Science Fiction. I LOVE IT - Clean Sweep by Illona Andrews

Hamilton Makes a Dent in Modern History - Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda; Jeremy McCarter

Better and better - Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (aka JK Rowling)

If You Want to See How Evil People Can Be…Read This Book! - Copper Sun by Sharon Draper

In the Bank - The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray

The Journey is the Destination - Devil and the Bluebird by Jennifer Mason-Black

“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?” - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

“If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.” - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Ellen Forney (Illustrator)

Never Rate a Book By Your Professor - Friendswood by Rene Steinke

Falling in the “3.5 stars, rounded up to 4” camp - Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel #1) by Connie Willis

Any number of Sundays would never be enough - 700 Sundays by Billy Crystal

Good, not great, M/M romance - Unraveling Josh by Edie Danford

She may be soulless, but she sure is sassy - Soulless by Gail Carriger

We’re Not Happy Until You’re Not Happy - Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo

Like *so many* of our presidents hang around naked… - The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Bower

There’s someone in your corner all the way across the sea - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

Bring out your dead! Bring out your dead! - Doomsday Book by Connie Willis

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