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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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Lumberjanes is always a delight - Lumberjanes Vol. 7: A Bird's Eye View by Noelle Stevonson

Hunger Games in Nazi Germany - Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

Samantha keeps it REAL - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby

In the Bleak Midwinter - The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

I suppose maybe the Nobel Committee knows what they’re doing - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

It’s gross you guys. - Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Seventh in the Series, One of the Best. - An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon

Lost in a parallel existence, Lost in a nightmare I retrace - The Likeness by Tana French

George R. R. Martin in space, book 5 - Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey

Now and at the hour of our death … - The Ninth Hour: A Novel by Alice McDermott

It’s not possible to forget anybody you’ve destroyed. - Another Country by James Baldwin

And You Thought YOUR Junior Year Was Rough - One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus

Finding a Needle in a Stack of Needles - Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

A beautifully written thriller - The Dry by Jane Harper

Bramble and Maggie: Snow Day - Bramble and Maggie: Snow Day by Jessie Haas

The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky’s Abstract Art - The Noisy Paint Box: The Colors and Sounds of Kandinsky's Abstract Art by Barb Rosenstock

Becoming Bach - Becoming Bach by Tom Leonard

How a scientist intent on helping feed his country starved in a gulag - The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov by Peter Pringle

My, my. A body does get around. - A Light in August by William Faulkner

A Comic’s Guide to Mastectomies - Dangerous Boobies: Breaking Up With My Time Bomb Breasts by Caitlin Brodnick

My first LOVE of the year - The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

A Life - Stoner by John Williams

I AM THE WORST! - Accident! by Andrea Tsurumi

Favorite book of this series. Loved it. - A Woman Entangled (Blackshear Family, #3) by Cecilia Grant

Epic translation of The Odyssey - The Odyssey by Homer

“The House of Fiction Has Many Windows, But Only Two or Three Doors.” - How Fiction Works by James Wood

He believed himself thus at the centre of life - Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe

When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. - A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

We’re Going to Need More Wine (And a Bucket to Hold My Tears from Laughing and Crying) - We're Going To Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

But what if the pony’s trick is really cool? - X by Chuck Klosterman

You Don’t Know From Gritty - L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy

Bad Blood - No Turn Unstoned by Diana Rigg

Life is a Cabaret, old Chum - The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

Sci-fi to make you cry (in a nice way) - A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Make a Wish, Take a Chance, Remake the World - I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

This is YA dystopia done right - Panther in the Hive by Olivia A Cole

More like cutting my heart…. - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #2 - Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes

A wry self-awareness missing from so many takedowns of generations of youth. - The Group by Mary McCarthy

Now that’s how you reclaim a narrative - Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

General Ignorance Is Bliss - QI: The Book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

Flâneuse-ing - Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, and London by Lauren Elkin

Army Chief of Staff Reading List #1 - Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism by David Kilcullen

Mice Skating Away with Your Heart - Mice Skating by Annie Silvestro

“It’s All in the Past, so Who Gives a Sh!t?” - The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

“A book is born into a puddle of treacle; the brine of hostile criticism is only a memory.” - The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick by Elizabeth Hardwick

“This is not her conclusion. This is her verdict” – One of the very best short story writers I have ever read. - The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant

❤️🍲👠 - Hold Me by Courtney Milan

Kicking off CBR10 by re-reading a childhood favorite. - The Hork-Bajir Chronicles (Animorphs #22.5, Chronicles #2) by K.A. Applegate

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