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Rating Guide: ☆ – do not recommend reading; lacked most things a book/good story should have. ☆☆ – a good concept but not well-executed....

Read If: you're interested in American legend/myth, you enjoy unreliable narrators, you're curious about unconventional dialogue. I made...

Read If: you liked Crichton's other books, you're into Westerns and/or paleontology, you're looking for an adventure, you love a good...

Read If: you want to get into LGBTQ+ authors as well as bipoc authors, you're healing from an abusive relationship (emotional or...

Read If: you're into historical mysteries, you're cool with historical/cultural immersion, you don't mind some dark crevices. I loved...

Read If: you're okay with having your heart broken repeatedly, you can adjust to a YA narrator or are willing to give it a shot, you...

Read If: you're interested in life from a slave's POV, but with some adventure, you love twists and turns, you're...

Read If: you loved the podcast, you like tidbits of general, random knowledge Like many (most?) people, I found my way to this book...

Read If: you love a good mystery and twins! you're interested in how race and perceptions of race can shape relationships. For some...

Read If: you like rainy day, doomsday vibes with a biblical kind of undertone. Here we go. The book I liked the least this year - the...

Read If: you're trying to decide whether or not to go to therapy, you feel alone in having big problems, you like a good twist, you're...

Read If: you want to be profoundly uncomfortable with what children are capable of, you're okay with a story with no real good outcome,...

Read If: you like untangling complicated stories, you like to watch the world burn, you can suspend your disbelief. The Only Good Indians...

Read If: you like orphan stories, you're interested in light witchery. This year I let myself indulge in some middle grade/YA books, and...

Read If: you want a taste of Hawaiian myth/legend/culture, you're interested in hearing the "hero's" side of the story, you like a good...

Read If: you enjoy memoirs, have a complicated relationship with your parents, want to process relationships alongside the author. I like...

Read If: you want a Sci-Fi book that isn't a carbon copy of every other Sci-Fi story written by white men, you enjoy well-written 2nd...

Read If: you like complicated relationships, you don't mind feeling uncomfortable. I bought this book on a recommendation and was...

Read If: you love winter/pastoral landscapes, you want to learn Norwegian via poetry, you're looking for poetry you don't have to think...

Read If: you have pre-teen/teen sons, you're looking for something light and survivalist. Gary Paulsen passed away about a month ago, and...