A
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – 4.5 stars
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – 5 stars
The Power by Naomi Alderman – 4 stars
B
Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardguo – 5 stars
A Girl Like That by Tanaz Bhathena – 3.5 stars
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo – 3.5 stars
Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman – 3.5 stars
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne – 3 stars
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #1) – 5 stars
Golden Son by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #2) – 4.5 stars
Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #3) – 5 stars
Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown (overall trilogy review) – 5 stars
C
A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti (mini audiobook review) – 5 stars
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha (mini review) – 5 stars
Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang – 4 stars
Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky – 5 stars
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie – 5 stars
The Belles by Dhionne Clayton – 2.5 stars
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline – 3 stars
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Discussion) – 5 stars
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates – 3 stars
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch – 4 stars
Columbine by Dave Cullen – 4 stars
D
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant – 3.5 stars
The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen – 4.5 stars
Untamed by Glennon Doyle – 4 stars
Sabrina by Nick Drnaso – 4.5 stars
E
The Measure of My Powers: a Memoir of Food, Misery, and Paris by Jackie Kai Ellis (mini review) – 4 stars
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone – 3 stars
F
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher (mini audiobook review) – 4 stars
Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle – 4 stars
I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick (mini review) – 4 stars
The Boy in the Suitcase by Agnete Friis and Lene Kaaberbøl (mini review) – 3.5 stars
G
American Gods by Neil Gaiman – 4 stars
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman (mini review) – 3 stars
Caraval by Stephanie Garber – 2.5 stars
The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates – 5 stars
Not That Bad edited by Roxane Gay (mini audiobook review) – 5 stars
Hunger: a memoir of (my) body by Roxane Gay (mini audiobook review) – 5 stars
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay (mini review) – 4 stars
Haben by Haben Girma – 4 stars
Last Call by Elon Green (mini review) – 4 stars
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (mini review) – 5 stars
H
Between You and Me by Lisa Hall – 2.5 stars
Slide by Jill Hathaway – 3 stars
Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins (mini review) – 4.5 stars
Beach Read by Emily Henry (mini review) – 4.5 stars
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchinson – 4 stars
I
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – 5 stars
J
Ayesha at Last by Ayesha Jalaluddin (mini review) – 5 stars
The Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Lindsey Lee Johnson – 4 stars
Red River Girl: the Life and Death of Tina Fontain by Joanna Jolly (mini review) – 4 stars
The Uninvited by Liz Jensen – 2 stars
The Only Girl in the World by Maude Julien (mini review) – 4.5 stars
K
The Midnight Dance by Nikki Katz – 1 star
The Gallery of Unfinished Girls by Lauren Karcz (dual review) – 3 stars
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe (mini review) – 5 stars
Into the Wild by John Krakauer (Book vs. Movie)
milk and honey by Rupi Kaur – 3 stars
the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur – 4.5 stars
A Rant: “Millennial Bait” (related to the sun and her flowers)
Love Lives Here by Amanda Jette Knox – 4.5 stars
The Poppy War by RF. Kuang (mini review) – 5 stars
The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake – 3 stars
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner – 3 stars
L
The Flappers Trilogy by Jillian Larkin – 3 stars
- Vixen: 4 stars
- Ingenue: 3 stars
- Diva: 2 stars
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee – 4.5 stars
The Downstairs Girl by Stacy Lee (mini audiobook review) – 3.5 stars
Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand – 3.5 stars
Every Day by David Levithan – 5 stars
Dash and Lily’s Book of Dares by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn – 3.5 stars
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim – 5 stars
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart – 3.5 stars
M
Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot (mini audiobook review) – 4 stars
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (mini review) – 5 stars
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel (mini review) – 5 stars
Moxie by Jenifer Mathieu – 4.5 stars
The One by John Marrs (mini review) – 4.5 stars
The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee (mini review) – 2.5 stars
The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis – 5 stars
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus – 3 stars
Red, White, & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (mini review) – 4.5 stars
Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith – 2 stars
She Would be King by Wayétu Moore (mini review) – 5 stars
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern – 5 stars
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be by Farley Mowat
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami – 4 stars – coming soon!
Hear the Wind Sing (the Rat #1) by Haruki Murakami – 3 stars
Pinball, 1973 (the Rat #2) by Haruki Murakami – 3.5 stars
N
The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness (mini review) – 4 stars
The Future of Another Timeline by Analee Newitz – 4 stars
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng – 5 stars
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (mini review) – 5 stars
O
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver (Book vs. Movie)
Broken Things by Lauren Oliver – 3.5 stars
The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neil – 3.5 stars
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi – 3 stars
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki – unrated
P
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (Book vs. Movie)
Night Film by Marisha Pessl – 3 stars
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (mini review) – 5 stars
Exit the Actress by Priya Parmar – 4 stars
Q
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick – 3.75 stars
R
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid – 5 stars
Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers – 3 stars
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney – 4 stars
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell – 2 stars
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell – 4 stars
S
Persepolis: the Story of Childhood by Marjane Satrapi (mini review) – 5 stars
Text me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer (mini audiobook review) – 3.5 stars
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab – 4 stars
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab – 2 stars
A Conjuring of Light by V.E Schwab – 3 stars
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See – 4.5 stars
Dreams by Joy by Lisa See – 4.5 stars
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See – 3.5 stars
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (mini review) – 4.5 stars
The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya – 5 stars
The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon – 3.5 stars
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder – 5 stars
The Raven Cycle by Maggie Steifvater
- The Raven Boys – 4.5 stars
- The Dream Thieves – 4.5 stars
- Blue Lily, Lily Blue – 4 stars
- The Raven King – 4.5 stars
The Help by Kathryn Stockett – 3.5 stars
T
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – 5 stars
The Secret History by Donna Tartt – 4 stars
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor – 4.5 stars
Nothing by Janne Teller – 5 stars
I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom – 3.5 stars
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas – 5 stars
Women Talking by Miriam Toews – 3.5 stars
Wink, Poppy, Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke (dual review) – 3 stars
The 7 & 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton – 3.5 stars
U
Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu (mini review) – 5 stars
W
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls – 5 stars
Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware (mini review) – 4 stars
Educated by Tara Westover (mini review) – 4.5 stars
Y
The Lost Girls by Heather Young – 4 stars
Other
Reviewing every book I read in 2019
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
- The Girls by Emma Cline
- The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan
Three reviews of three star books
- The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney
- The Dinner by Herman Koch
- The Collector by John Fowles
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer: 4.5 stars
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo: 5 stars
- Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow: 5 stars
- Buffy Sainte-Marie: the Authorized Biography by Andrea Warner: 4 stars
- In Pieces by Sally Field: 4 stars
- We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib: 4.5 stars
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde: 4 stars
Some glowing mini reviews of books I’ve loved recently (2020)
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel: 5 stars
- Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin: 5 stars
- Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim: 5 stars
- Check, Please! by Ngozi Ukazu: 5 stars
- Her Royal Highness by Rachel Hawkins: 4.5 stars
January-April 2020 Mini Reviews
- Fall On Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald: 4 stars
- Wilder Girls by Rory Power: 4 stars
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline: 4 stars
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado: 4.5 stars
- Vita Nostra by the Dyachenkos: 4 stars
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire: 5 stars
- Bunny by Mona Awad: 4 stars
- Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice: 4.5 stars
- Rust & Stardust by T. Greenwood: 4 stars
- Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak: 4 stars
- Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan: 4 stars
- Big Water by Andrea Curtis: 3.5 stars
- The Stone Collection by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm: 3.5 stars
- Kindred by Octavia E. Butler: 5 stars
- We Are Okay by Nina LaCour: 4.5 stars
- Blood is Another Word for Hunger by Rivers Solomon: 3.5 stars
- You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle: 3.5 stars
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara: 5 stars
September-December 2020 Mini Reviews
- The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker: 4 stars
- Opposite of Always by Justin A. Reynolds: 4 stars
- Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 4 stars
- I Wish You All the Best by Mason Deaver: 4.5 stars
- Shut Up, You’re Pretty by Téa Mutonji: 4.5 stars
- Radio Silence by Alice Oseman: 4.5 stars
- The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao: 4 stars
January-April 2021 Mini Reviews: nonfiction
- In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado: 5 stars
- Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis: 4 stars
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Achi: 5 stars
- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown: 5 stars
- Night by Elie Wiesel: unrated
- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates: 4 stars
- They Said This Would be Fun by Eternity Martis: 4 stars
January-April 2021 Mini Reviews: fiction
- Vi by Kim Thúy: 4 stars
- Ragged Company by Richard Wagamese: 4.5 stars
- Ties That Tether by Jane Igharo: 3.5 stars
- The Divines by Ellie Eaton: 3.5 stars
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo: 4 stars
- Lobizona by Romina Garber: 4 stars
- Theory by Dionne Brand: 3 stars
- From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle: 5 stars
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead: 3.5 stars
- Home by Toni Morrison: 4 stars
- The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Adhieh: 4 stars
- Brood by Jackie Polzin: 4 stars
- Islands of Decolonial Love by Leanne Betasomosake Simpson: 4 stars
- Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl: 4.5 stars
September-December 2021 Mini Reviews
- Replay by Ken Grimwood: 4 stars
- The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia: 4 stars
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: 3.5 stars
- Check, Please! Volume 2: Sticks and Scones by Ngozi Ukazu: 5 stars
- A History of my Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt: 5 stars
- The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh: 4 stars
- She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen: 4.5 stars
- She’s Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard: 4.5 stars
- Birthday by Meredith Russo: 2 stars
- Watch Over Me by Nina Lacour: 4 stars
- Dava Shastria’s Last Day by Kirthana Ramisetti: 4 stars
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