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Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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At the End, It All Comes Down to Choice. Final Thoughts on Harry Potter - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, Jim Dale (narrator)

“This kind of feels like a first date. I have that same feeling you get five minutes before you meet the other person, when you’re giddy about where things might go.” - We're Going to Need More Wine: stories by Gabrielle Union

“People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing.” - The Nest by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Necessary Trouble - March: Books Two and Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin (co-writer), and Nate Powell (artist)

Sisters torn apart by a horrible event - The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter

Now the third one is out, you can read all three in a row! - The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3) by N.K. Jemisin

A Chronicle Of 10 Short Lives - Another Day In The Death Of America by Gary Younge

This return to childhood never disappoints (a slightly feminist review) - The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Min Kamp, min kamp, my lovely lady romp - My Struggle 1: A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgaard

destruction, decimation, desolation, devastation….. Annihilation. - Annihilation - Book One of the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer

The Room Where It Happens - Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao

Here am I sitting in a tin can - The Martian by Andy Weir

Avenge me, but more importantly, keep my comics safe - Fire Boy; Earth Boy (Djinn-son Duology) by Sami Shah

Love Always, Charlie - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

An Earworm of an Anthology - When You're Strange by Sarah Vestal and Danne Boyd, Editors

Defenestrated Dingoes! - Terminal Alliance (Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse) by Jim C. Hines

A Classic and a Classic and a Classic - The Picture of Dorian Gray; Masters of Atlantis; First Snow on Fuji by Oscar Wilde; Charles Portis; Yasunari Kawabata

There’s more than one way to be human - The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin

Exit onto Revolutionary Road for bleak amazingness - Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

Don’t call it a Cannonball (but it is) - Believe: My Faith and the Tackle That Changed My Life by Eric LeGrand and Mike Yorkey

This year’s surprise 5-star book - Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

A deeply enjoyable and complex tale by Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

Read this book as a statement, not a question. And weep. - What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton

A gorgeous and devastating read - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Cosmere Collection - Arcanum Unbounded by Brandon Sanderson

The System Sucks, But Some Are Fighting the Good Fight - Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Merry October or I revisit a favorite - Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

Pssst, Cannonballers. Read this book, I think you will like it a lot. - Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Where Do I Keep My Wallet? - A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

More angry women — I love it! - This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class by Elizabeth Warren

YASSSS QUEEN - Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen

Be prepared to get pissed off - Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur

To this the little old lady crowed triumphantly. “It’s no use, Mr. James – it’s turtles all the way down.” - Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Read it… you know… soonish. - Soonish by Zach and Kelly Weinersmith

I wish my younger self could have read this book. - We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Turning into a mean-eyed lunch-kicker won’t help anything!” - Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

March On - March: Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin (co-writer), and Nate Powell (artist)

Accessible Poetry Bursting with Heart - No Matter the Wreckage by Sarah Kay

We Were the One Thing in the Universe God Didn’t Have His Eyes On - A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

If Sam Kean had been around when I went to school, I might have majored in Science - Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed; Me? OK. If you say so. - Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed; 16 writers on the decision not to have kids. by Meghan Daum ( Editor )

Apt that the book prompting this was Fangirl - Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

It’s in the corner of your mind because you shoved it there - The way we never were by Stephanie Coontz

“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt” - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Edna Ferber, 20th Century Feminist Novelist - So Big by Edna Ferber

One for the pull list - Super Sons Vol 1: When I Grow Up (Rebirth) by Peter J. Tomasi

Loving your enemy - An Unnatural Vice by K.J. Charles

Americanah - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Make Your Home Among Strangers - Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet

What We Can Learn About Death From Others - From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

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