2020 Books

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Here are the books I read and reviewed in 2020.

★★★☆☆ The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4)
★★★★☆ The Good Luck Girls by Charlotte Nicole Davis (The Good Luck Girls #1)
★★★☆☆ Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
★★★★☆ Loki: Where Mischief Lies by Mackenzi Lee
★★☆☆☆ The Book Jumper by Mechthild Gläser
★★★★☆ Dark Age by Pierce Brown (Red Rising #5)
★★★★☆ The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz
★★★☆☆ To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: Master & Apprentice by Claudia Gray
★★★☆☆ Who Could That Be at This Hour? by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #1)
★★★☆☆ Fireborne by Rosaria Munda (The Aurelian Cycle #1)
★★★★☆ In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
★★★★☆ Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
★★★☆☆ The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5)
★★★☆☆ A Beginning at the End by Mike Chen
★★★★☆ Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones (Chrestomanci #1)
★★★★☆ Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
★★★★☆ A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan #1)
★★☆☆☆ Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson
★★★☆☆ Unquenchable Fire by Rachel Pollack
★★★☆☆ Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (Akata Witch #1)
★★★☆☆ Lalani of the Distant Sea by Erin Entrada Kelly
★★★★☆ Star Wars: Dooku: Jedi Lost by Cavan Scott
★★★☆☆ Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin (Serpent & Dove #1)
★★☆☆☆ Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly
★★★☆☆ Fool’s Assassin by Robin Hobb (The Fitz and the Fool #1)
★★☆☆☆ Infinity Son by Adam Silvera (Infinity Cycle #1)
★★★★☆ One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
★★☆☆☆ The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
★★★☆☆ Throwback by Peter Lerangis (Throwback #1)
★☆☆☆☆ The Straight Razor Cure by Daniel Polansky (Low Town #1)
★★★☆☆ Crier’s War by Nina Varela (Crier’s War #1)
★★★★☆ Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
★★★★☆ White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
★★★★★ The Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones (Chrestomanci #2)
★★★☆☆ When Did You See Her Last? by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #2)
★★★☆☆ The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad
★★★★☆ The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White (Camelot Rising #1)
★★★★☆ Fool’s Quest by Robin Hobb (The Fitz and The Fool #2)
★★★☆☆ Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
★★★★☆ Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote by Craig Fehrman
★★★☆☆ The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand
★★★★☆ The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
★★☆☆☆ The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata
★★★★☆ Race to the Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
★★★☆☆ Whiskey When We’re Dry by John Larison
★★★☆☆ White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman
★★★★★ Witch Week by Diana Wynne Jones (Chrestomanci #3)
★★★★☆ Doctor Who: At Childhood’s End by Sophie Aldred with Steve Cole and Mike Tucker
★★★★☆ Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor (Akata Witch #2)
★★★★☆ Girls with Sharp Sticks by Suzanne Young (Girls with Sharp Sticks #1)
★★★☆☆ When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
★★★★☆ Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom by Louis Sachar (Wayside School #4)
★★★☆☆ Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Mallory Ortberg
★★★★☆ The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang (The Poppy War #1)
★★☆☆☆ The War on Normal People: The Truth About America’s Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang
★★★☆☆ A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
★★★☆☆ Shouldn’t You Be in School? by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #3)
★★★☆☆ Charlie Thorne and the Last Equation by Stuart Gibbs (Charlie Thorne #1)
★★★★☆ The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller
★★★★☆ The Man Who Fought Alone by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Man Who #4)
★★★☆☆ A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab (Shades of Magic #1)
★★★☆☆ Highfire by Eoin Colfer
★★★★☆ Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny (The Chronicles of Amber #1)
★★★★★ The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter (The Burning #1)
★★★☆☆ Foul Is Fair by Hannah Capin (Foul Is Fair #1)
★★☆☆☆ Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich
★★★☆☆ All Your Twisted Secrets by Diana Urban
★★☆☆☆ Girls with Razor Hearts by Suzanne Young (Girls with Sharp Sticks #2)
★★★★☆ The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones (Chrestomanci #4)
★★★☆☆ The Unspoken Name by A. K. Larkwood (The Serpent Gates #1)
★★★★☆ Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
★★★☆☆ The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris by Mark Honigsbaum
★★★☆☆ Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
★★★☆☆ And I Darken by Kiersten White (The Conqueror’s Saga, #1)
★★★★☆ Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland (Dread Nation #2)
★★★★☆ Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #4)
★★★★☆ War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi (War Girls #1)
★★★☆☆ The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
★★★★☆ The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
★★★☆☆ The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (Great Cities #1)
★★★★☆ As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride by Cary Elwes with Joe Layden
★★★☆☆ Assassin’s Fate by Robin Hobb (The Fitz and the Fool #3)
★★★★☆ Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond by Sonia Shah
★★★★★ The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
★★★☆☆ Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee (The Machineries of Empire #1)
★★★☆☆ Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife by Bart D. Ehrman
★★★★★ The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers (Zamonia #1)
★★★☆☆ The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
★★★☆☆ Conrad’s Fate by Diana Wynne Jones (Chrestomanci #5)
★★★☆☆ Spellhacker by M. K. England
★★★★☆ These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
★★★★☆ The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski (The Midnight Lie #1)
★★☆☆☆ Heart of Iron by Ashley Poston (Heart of Iron #1)
★★★☆☆ Severance by Ling Ma
★★★★☆ My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
★★☆☆☆ Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing by Maryla Szymiczkowa (Profesorowa Szczupaczyńska #1)
★★★☆☆ Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney
★★★★☆ Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey
★★★☆☆ A Gathering of Shadows by V. E. Schwab (Shades of Magic #2)
★★★★☆ Peril at End House by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #8)
★★★☆☆ The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
★★★★☆ I Want You to Know We’re Still Here by Esther Safran Foer
★★★☆☆ This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada (This Mortal Coil #1)
★★★★☆ If It Bleeds by Stephen King
★★☆☆☆ The Traitor’s Game by Jennifer A. Nielsen (The Traitor’s Game #1)
★★★★☆ The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent
★★★★☆ The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones (Chrestomanci #6)
★★★☆☆ Onyx & Ivory by Mindee Arnett (Rime Chronicles #1)
★★★★☆ Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
★★★★☆ Exhalation by Ted Chiang
★★★★☆ The Plague by Albert Camus
★★☆☆☆ Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 by Albert Marrin
★★★☆☆ The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
★★★★★ The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
★☆☆☆☆ The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow
★★★★☆ The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco (The Never Tilting World #1)
★★★☆☆ The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
★★★★☆ Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann with Kristen Joiner
★★★☆☆ Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #5)
★★☆☆☆ The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
★★★☆☆ Clique Bait by Ann Valett
★★★☆☆ Children of the New World by Alexander Weinstein
★★★☆☆ Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
★★★☆☆ Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
★★★★☆ The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
★★★★★ The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings #1)
★★★★☆ Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram (Darius The Great #1)
★☆☆☆☆ The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski (The Winner’s Trilogy #1)
★★★☆☆ Click Here to Start by Denis Markell
★★★☆☆ The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson
★★★☆☆ A Ceiling Made of Eggshells by Gail Carson Levine
★★☆☆☆ Bounce by Megan Shull
★★☆☆☆ Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
★★☆☆☆ Star Wars: Queen’s Peril by E. K. Johnston
★★★★☆ We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
★★☆☆☆ Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
★★★☆☆ Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry (Great Mythology #1)
★★★★★ Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
★★★★☆ The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
★★★★☆ The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings #2)
★★★☆☆ Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
★★★☆☆ The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
★★★★★ Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson
★★☆☆☆ Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi (Beasts Made of Night #1)
★★★☆☆ A Conjuring of Light by V. E. Schwab (Shades of Magic #3)
★★★★★ How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang
★★★☆☆ Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan (Powder Mage #1)
★★★☆☆ A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
★★★☆☆ Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life by Paula C. Austin
★★★★☆ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
★★★☆☆ Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
★★★★☆ Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega
★★★★★ The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings #3)
★★★☆☆ An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
★★★★☆ Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Dragon Egg Princess by Ellen Oh
★★★★★ Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
★★★☆☆ Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks
★★★☆☆ I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
★★★★☆ Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang
★★★★★ The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
★★★☆☆ The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #2)
★★★☆☆ Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
★★★★☆ Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
★★★☆☆ Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust
★★☆☆☆ Separated: Inside An American Tragedy by Jacob Soboroff
★★★★☆ How to Survive a Pandemic by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM
★★★★★ Be Not Far from Me by Mindy McGinnis
★★★☆☆ The War Within by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Great God’s War #2)
★★★☆☆ The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
★★★☆☆ Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
★★★★☆ The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu
★★★★☆ Empty by Susan Burton
★★★☆☆ Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko (Metamorphosis #1)
★★★★☆ The Running Man by Richard Bachman
★★☆☆☆ Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D.
★★★☆☆ Jingo by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #21)
★★★★★ The Street by Ann Petry
★★★☆☆ Last Day on Mars by Kevin Emerson (Chronicle of the Dark Star #1)
★★★☆☆ Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
★★★★★ Starsight by Brandon Sanderson (Skyward #2)
★★★☆☆ Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh
★★★☆☆ Social Creature by Tara Isabella Burton
★★★☆☆ The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
★★☆☆☆ Destroy All Monsters by Sam J. Miller
★★★☆☆ Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
★★★★★ Lord Foul’s Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever #1)
★★★☆☆ Doctor Who: Rose by Russell T. Davies
★★☆☆☆ Willow Moss and the Lost Day by Dominique Valente (Starfell #1)
★★★★☆ A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown (A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #1)
★★★★☆ The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
★★★☆☆ File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents by Lemony Snicket (All the Wrong Questions #2.5)
★★★☆☆ Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio (The Sun Eater #1)
★★☆☆☆ Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior
★★★★☆ Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison
★★★☆☆ Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
★★★★☆ Mirage by Somaiya Daud (Mirage #1)
★★★★☆ Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference by David Shimer
★★★☆☆ Song of the Crimson Flower by Julie C. Dao
★★★★☆ The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #24)
★★★☆☆ How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones
★★★★☆ The Illearth War by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever #2)
★★★☆☆ Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb #2)
★★★☆☆ A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost
★★★★☆ Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
★★★☆☆ Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente (Space Opera #1)
★★★☆☆ An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
★★★★☆ The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #3)
★★★★☆ Crossings by Alex Landragin
★★★☆☆ The Bright Lands by John Fram
★★★★☆ Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson (Goddess in the Machine #1)
★☆☆☆☆ Kind of a Big Deal by Shannon Hale
★★★★☆ The Animals at Lockwood Manor by Jane Healey
★★☆☆☆ Diana and the Island of No Return by Aisha Saeed (Wonder Woman Adventures #1)
★★★☆☆ Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries #3)
★★★☆☆ I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick
★★★★★ Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (Last Survivors #1)
★★★★☆ The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #2)
★★★★★ Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
★★☆☆☆ Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph by T. E. Lawrence
★★★★☆ Darius the Great Deserves Better by Adib Khorram (Darius the Great #2)
★★★☆☆ The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
★★★☆☆ Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik
★★★★★ Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
★★★☆☆ The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny (The Chronicles of Amber #2)
★★☆☆☆ Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
★★★☆☆ If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson (If You Come Softly #1)
★★★★★ The Power That Preserves by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever #3)
★★☆☆☆ The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune (The Extraordinaries #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street by Lauren Oliver
★★★☆☆ How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People by D. L. Hughley and Doug Moe
★★★☆☆ Clay’s Ark by Octavia E. Butler (Patternist #3)
★★★★☆ Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead by Steve Cole
★★★☆☆ The Shadows by Alex North
★★★★☆ Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries #4)
★★★☆☆ The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade #3)
★★★★☆ American Hippo by Sarah Gailey
★★★☆☆ The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #4)
★★★★☆ The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal (Lady Astronaut #2)
★★★★☆ Our Time Is Now by Stacey Abrams
★★★★★ Night Watch by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #29)
★★★★☆ Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (Raybearer #1)
★★★★☆ Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
★★★☆☆ The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager
★★★☆☆ Daughter of Regals and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson
★★★☆☆ Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune #1)
★★★★☆ The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy by Stephanie Kelton
★★★☆☆ Sia Martinez and the Moonlit Beginning of Everything by Raquel Vasquez Gilliland
★★★★☆ A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance #1)
★★★☆☆ Court of Lions by Somaiya Daud (Mirage #2)
★★★☆☆ The Floating Admiral by The Detection Club
★★★★☆ The Original by Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal
★★☆☆☆ The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
★★☆☆☆ Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
★★★★☆ They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
★★★★☆ Iron Heart by Nina Varela (Crier’s War #2)
★★★★☆ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
★★★★☆ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia #2)
★★★★☆ Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin
★★★☆☆ Tristan Strong Destroys The World by Kwame Mbalia (Tristan Strong #2)
★★☆☆☆ A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro (Charlotte Holmes #1)
★★★★★ A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland (A Conspiracy of Truths #1)
★★★☆☆ Thud! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #34)
★★★★☆ Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
★★☆☆☆ Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis (Not a Drop to Drink #1)
★★★☆☆ The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
★☆☆☆☆ Don’t Call the Wolf by Aleksandra Ross
★★★☆☆ Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
★★★★☆ Network Effect by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries #5)
★★★★☆ Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia #4)
★★★☆☆ Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
★★★★☆ Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes by Tamim Ansary
★★★☆☆ Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots
★★★☆☆ The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
★★★★★ Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky #1)
★★★☆☆ The Captive Kingdom by Jennifer A. Nielsen (Ascendance #4)
★★☆☆☆ The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby
★★★☆☆ Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny (The Chronicles of Amber #3)
★★★★☆ Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (Legendborn #1)
★★★☆☆ Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong – and What You Really Need to Know by Emily Oster
★★★★☆ Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive #3.5)
★★★☆☆ Soulswift by Megan Bannen
★★★☆☆ The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
★★★★☆ Each of Us a Desert by Mark Oshiro
★★★☆☆ I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
★★★★★ The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia #5)
★★★☆☆ Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #9)
★★★★☆ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
★★☆☆☆ Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back edited by Elizabeth Schaefer
★★★☆☆ American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan
★★★☆☆ The Ever Cruel Kingdom by Rin Chupeco (The Never Tilting World #2)
★★★☆☆ Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack (Anya #2)
★★★★☆ The Poet by Michael Connelly (Jack McAvoy #1)
★★★☆☆ Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
★★★☆☆ The Camelot Betrayal by Kiersten White (Camelot Rising #2)
★★★☆☆ The Way Back by Gavriel Savit
★★★☆☆ The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia #6)
★★★★☆ The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
★★★★☆ The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
★★★☆☆ The Forgotten Sisters by Shannon Hale (Princess Academy #3)
★★★★☆ Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (The Stormlight Archive #4)

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