Tropey reality show YA romance - Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales
Bringing L.A. to the Water (and movies, and church) - The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles by Gary Krist
Non-Rebus Rankin - The Complaints by Ian Rankin
A book from the year of my birth! - The Suspect (Karl Alberg, #1) by L.R. Wright
“Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.” - Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Give this little sapphic sasquatch book a shot! - Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha Allen
And you thought your upbringing was odd - Occulted by Amy Rose
Correspondents - Correspondents by Tim Murphy
“Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas?” - Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
Witches, found family, and a big FU to transphobes. - Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1) by Juno Dawson
Secret secrets are no fun, secret secrets hurt someone. - The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
“The woman was a holy terror: the sweetest face, the pillowiest bosom, and a perspicacity that stripped a man naked in seconds.” - The Hollow of Fear (Lady Sherlock, #3) by Sherry Thomas
“There is beauty in my truth, and I have so much to share.” - The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2022 by Edited by Rebecca Roanhorse
Into Shadow Series Review - The Garden by Tomi Adeyemi; Persephone by Lev Grossman; The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow; Undercover by Tamsyn Muir; What the Dead Know by Nghi Vo; The Candles Are Burning by Veronica G. Henry; Out of the Mirror, Darkness by Garth Nix
“I was rudderless and raw, and the worst part was that no one wanted to talk about any of it.” - Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder
“Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.” - Blue Lily, Lily Blue (The Raven Boys, #3) by Maggie Stiefvater
Not so classic “Twelve Days of Christmas” - The Twelve Cats of Christmas by Feather Flores
The Darkest Child - The Darkest Child by Dolores Phillips
Touching the Impossible - The Impossible Mountain by David Soman; I Touched the Sun by Leah Hayes
Come light the Menorá - J Is for Janucá by Melanie Romero
Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 - Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning
Just Every Trigger Warning Imaginable - I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy
“Is memoir therapy? Or is it vengeance?” - Motherwell by Deborah Orr
The sportswriter in granny glasses - Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber by Sue Macy
Farewell Katia, See You As Soon As You Publish The Next One - Just Might Work by Katia Rose
Dystopian Utopia - Scythe by Neal Shusterman
War can make anyone a refugee. - Hakim's Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey by Fabien Toulmé
Vixen’s Wail, a rock series for people who don’t want to read about them other hos - Rhythm by Marie Lipscomb ; Strings by Marie Lipscomb; Amped by Marie Lipscomb ; Encore by Marie Lipscomb
What Comes Around Goes Around - The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen
A thriller in Paris. - All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16) by Louise Penny
“The real villain is love: an unstable isotope, constantly undergoing spontaneous nuclear decay. And it will forever go unpunished.” - Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
“I’m tired of being the villain in the story. I never meant to be, and I don’t want to do it any more.” - Jackdaw by K.J. Charles
Excuse me while I go watch FURY ROAD for the fiftieth time. - Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
Blonde Assassin - The Blonde by Anna Godbersen
- Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Twisty, revengy, and a quick read - The Collective by Alison Gaylin
A Later Hercule Poirot Mystery - Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot #22) by Agatha Christie
The GBBO judges are the losers here - The Great British Baking Show Favorite Flavors by Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, 2022 bakers
The scorn is as high as an elephant’s eye… - 1922 by Stephen King
Cat person - Decoding Your Cat by Meghan E. Herron
Not just surviving, but thriving - The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Danny Noble is weird. I like them! - Shame Pudding by Danny Noble
Hold On Tight - I Let You Go by Clare MacKintosh
Fried Chicken and “Wild Geese” - Best Women's Erotica of the Year, Volume 8 by Rachel Kramer Bussel,
A friendship book made by friends, for friends - I Don’t Care by Julie Fogliano,
Action! It’s Grass Time! - In A Patch of Grass by Fran Hodgkins
“He kissed for his enjoyment and mine, and we staggered and stumbled our way to the ground, still kissing for the sheer glory of being alive, the wonder of finding a congenial soul in the world, and the very real prospect of being dead before the weekend.” - The Henchmen of Zenda by K.J. Charles
Languages of Truth - Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie
Surprisingly, I liked it! - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Bodies, bodies, bodies, but make it ancient Egypt - Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie