2021 Books

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Here are the books I read and reviewed in 2021.

★★★☆☆ Doctor Who: Time Lord Victorious: All Flesh is Grass by Una McCormack
★★☆☆☆ The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny (The Chronicles of Amber #4)
★★☆☆☆ Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline (Ready Player One #2)
★★★★☆ The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
★★★★★ The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
★★★☆☆ Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
★★★★☆ The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F. C. Yee (The Epic Crush of Genie Lo #1)
★★★★☆ The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia #3)
★★☆☆☆ Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
★★★☆☆ Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans
★★★★☆ Notes on a Silencing by Lacy Crawford
★★★☆☆ The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
★★★★☆ The Hound of Death by Agatha Christie
★★★★☆ Friday the Rabbi Slept Late by Harry Kemelman (The Rabbi Small Mysteries #1)
★★★☆☆ The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart by Stephanie Burgis (Tales from the Chocolate Heart #1)
★★★☆☆ The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo
★★★★★ The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle #1)
★★☆☆☆ Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire (Wayward Children #6)
★★★☆☆ A Promised Land by Barack Obama
★★★★☆ A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
★★★☆☆ The Magician’s Nephew by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia #1)
★★★☆☆ Maresi by Maria Turtschaninoff (The Red Abbey Chronicles #1)
★★★☆☆ Best. State. Ever.: A Florida Man Defends His Homeland by Dave Barry
★★★★☆ Rocannon’s World by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hainish Cycle #1)
★★★☆☆ Eternal Life by Dara Horn
★★★★☆ Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova (Brooklyn Brujas #1)
★★★☆☆ The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
★★☆☆☆ Unfinished Portrait by Mary Westmacott
★★☆☆☆ The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny (The Chronicles of Amber #5)
★★★★☆ When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle #2)
★★☆☆☆ Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
★★★☆☆ The Orchard by David Hopen
★★☆☆☆ The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia #7)
★★★☆☆ Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz (Susan Ryeland #2)
★★★☆☆ The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
★★★☆☆ Over the Woodward Wall by A. Deborah Baker (The Up-and-Under #1)
★★★★☆ How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child by Sandra Uwiringiyimana with Abigail Pesta
★★★☆☆ From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
★☆☆☆☆ The Effort by Claire Holroyde
★★★☆☆ Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
★★★★☆ The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R. Donaldson (Mordant’s Need #1)
★★☆☆☆ Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
★★★☆☆ Snuff by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #39)
★★★★☆ The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift by Steve Leder
★★★☆☆ Infinity Blade: Awakening by Brandon Sanderson
★★☆☆☆ No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
★★★★☆ Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor by Steven Moffat
★★★☆☆ The Plague Cycle: The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease by Charles Kenny
★★★★☆ You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah Johnson
★★★★☆ Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor
★★★☆☆ The Listerdale Mystery by Agatha Christie
★★★★☆ A Man Rides Through by Stephen R. Donaldson (Mordant’s Need #2)
★★★★☆ A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
★★★★☆ Amari and the Night Brothers by B. B. Alston (Supernatural Investigations #1)
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi by Charles Soule
★★★☆☆ Trunk Music by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #5)
★★★☆☆ Noumenon by Marina J. Lostetter (Noumenon #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Removed by Brandon Hobson
★★★☆☆ Doctor Who: The Novel of the Film by Gary Russell
★★★☆☆ The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
★☆☆☆☆ Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston
★★★★☆ American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser
★★★★★ The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn #1)
★★★☆☆ Stormsong by C. L. Polk (The Kingston Cycle #2)
★★★☆☆ Nights When Nothing Happened by Simon Han
★★★☆☆ Chance: Escape from the Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz
★★☆☆☆ Moving Pictures by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #10)
★★★★☆ Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark by Claudia Gray
★★★★☆ The Queen’s Gambit by Walter Tevis
★★★☆☆ Winterkeep by Kristin Cashore (Graceling Realm #4)
★★★★☆ We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
★★★★☆ Later by Stephen King
★★★☆☆ Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
★★★☆☆ Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova (Brooklyn Brujas #2)
★★★★☆ The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make by Ron Lieber
★★★★★ The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn #2)
★★★☆☆ The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna (Deathless #1)
★★★★☆ These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong (These Violent Delights #1)
★★☆☆☆ Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry by Harry Kemelman (The Rabbi Small Mysteries #2)
★★★☆☆ The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
★★★★☆ Faye, Faraway by Helen Fisher
★★★☆☆ The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston
★★☆☆☆ The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman
★★★☆☆ The Dream of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer
★★★★☆ The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly
★★★★☆ Star Wars: Ahsoka by E. K. Johnston
★★★☆☆ Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie
★★★☆☆ The Electric Kingdom by David Arnold
★★★★☆ The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn #3)
★★★★☆ True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
★★☆☆☆ The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert (The Hazel Wood #1)
★★★★☆ Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
★★★☆☆ Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman
★★★★☆ The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S. (as told to his brother) by David Levithan
★★★★☆ The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
★☆☆☆☆ The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams
★★★★☆ A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland (A Conspiracy of Truths #2)
★★☆☆☆ Game Changer by Neal Shusterman
★★★★☆ Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
★★★☆☆ Mistborn: Secret History by Brandon Sanderson
★★☆☆☆ No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
★★★★☆ Angels Flight by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #6)
★★★☆☆ The Truth by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #25)
★★★★☆ The Slaughterman’s Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits
★★★☆☆ A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology edited by Dhonielle Clayton
★★☆☆☆ The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex
★★★☆☆ The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark
★★★★☆ Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor
★★★☆☆ The Survivors by Jane Harper
★★★☆☆ Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #11)
★★★★☆ The Wounded Land by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant #1)
★★★★☆ Provenance by Ann Leckie
★★★☆☆ Lincoln and the Jews: A History by Jonathan D. Sarna and Benjamin Shapell
★★★☆☆ White Cat by Holly Black (The Curse Workers #1)
★★★☆☆ Pax by Sara Pennypacker (Pax #1)
★★★☆☆ Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
★★★☆☆ Blood Work by Michael Connelly
★★★★☆ A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe
★★★★☆ The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy (Danielle Cain #1)
★★★☆☆ Snapshot by Brandon Sanderson
★★★★☆ Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries #6)
★★☆☆☆ Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher
★★★☆☆ Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
★★★☆☆ The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
★★★☆☆ The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pène du Bois
★★★★☆ The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang (Tensorate #1)
★★★★☆ The One Tree by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant #2)
★★★☆☆ Rolling in the Deep by Mira Grant (Rolling in the Deep #1)
★★★★☆ Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #12)
★★★★☆ How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don’t) Say About Human Difference by Adam Rutherford
★★☆☆☆ Infinity Blade: Redemption by Brandon Sanderson
★★★★☆ Unexpected Stories by Octavia E. Butler
★★★☆☆ Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars #4)
★★★★☆ The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #4)
★★★☆☆ And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
★★★★☆ The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
★★★★☆ Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo (King of Scars #2)
★★★☆☆ The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis (The Initial Insult #1)
★★★☆☆ Passing by Nella Larsen
★★★★☆ The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #13)
★★★☆☆ Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi
★★★★☆ Red Glove by Holly Black (The Curse Workers #2)
★★★☆☆ The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
★★★★☆ A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan #2)
★★★★★ The Invasion by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #1)
★★☆☆☆ True or False: A CIA Analyst’s Guide to Spotting Fake News by Cindy L. Otis
★★★☆☆ Dactyl Hill Squad by Daniel José Older (Dactyl Hill Squad #1)
★★★★☆ On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed
★★★☆☆ How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don’t by Lane Moore
★★★★☆ The Red Threads of Fortune by Neon Yang (Tensorate #2)
★★★★☆ The Visitor by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #2)
★★★☆☆ The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross
★★★★☆ White Gold Wielder by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant #3)
★★☆☆☆ Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #14)
★★★☆☆ Black Heart by Holly Black (The Curse Workers #3)
★★★★☆ The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
★★★★☆ The Encounter by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #3)
★★★☆☆ A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #7)
★★★☆☆ The In-Between by Rebecca K. S. Ansari
★★★☆☆ Sunday the Rabbi Stayed Home by Harry Kemelman (The Rabbi Small Mysteries #3)
★★★★☆ The Descent of Monsters by Neon Yang (Tensorate #3)
★★★★☆ Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #31)
★★★★★ The Message by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #4)
★★★★★ The Briar King by Greg Keyes (The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone #1)
★★★☆☆ The Light of the Midnight Stars by Rena Rossner
★★★☆☆ Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #15)
★★★★☆ Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America by John Lewis
★★★☆☆ Long Lost by Jacqueline West
★★★★☆ The Predator by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #5)
★★★★☆ Cool for the Summer by Dahlia Adler
★★★☆☆ City of Bones by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #8)
★★★★☆ Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
★★★☆☆ Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #33)
★★★★☆ Yearbook by Seth Rogen
★★★☆☆ The Capture by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #6)
★★★★☆ The Charnel Prince by Greg Keyes (The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone #2)
★★★☆☆ Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #18)
★★★☆☆ Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone by Kenneth Cain, Andrew Thomson, and Heidi Postlewait
★★★★☆ Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
★★★☆☆ 2 A.M. at The Cat’s Pajamas by Marie-Helene Bertino
★★★★★ The Stranger by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #7)
★★★☆☆ This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism by Don Lemon
★★★☆☆ Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
★★★★☆ Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O’Brien
★★★☆☆ Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin
★★★★☆ The Mothers by Brit Bennett
★★★☆☆ The Andalite’s Gift by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs Megamorphs #1)
★★★☆☆ Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
★★★☆☆ Jews Versus Aliens edited by Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene
★★★☆☆ Making Money by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #36)
★★★★☆ The Blood Knight by Greg Keyes (The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone #3)
★★★★☆ Fable of the Swan by Jenna Katerin Moran
★★★★★ The Alien by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #8)
★★★☆☆ Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #16)
★★★★☆ The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid by Lawrence Wright
★★★★☆ Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
★★★☆☆ Mister Impossible by Maggie Stiefvater (The Dreamer Trilogy #2)
★★★☆☆ Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
★★★☆☆ The Secret by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #9)
★★★☆☆ The Only Pirate at the Party by Lindsey Stirling and Brooke S. Passey
★★★★☆ Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
★★★☆☆ Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell (Simon Snow #3)
★★★★☆ Survivor by Octavia E. Butler (Patternist #4)
★★★☆☆ The Born Queen by Greg Keyes (The Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone #4)
★★★★☆ The Android by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #10)
★★★★☆ Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #17)
★★★☆☆ The Double Life of Danny Day by Mike Thayer
★★★☆☆ Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
★★★★☆ Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm by Robin DiAngelo
★★★☆☆ Lost Light by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #9)
★★★☆☆ The Forgotten by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #11)
★★☆☆☆ Lux: A Texas Reckoners Novel by Brandon Sanderson and Steven Michael Bohls
★★★★☆ The Atlas of the Land by Karen Wynn Fonstad
★★★☆☆ Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz (Aristotle and Dante #1)
★★★☆☆ While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
★★★☆☆ Jews Versus Zombies edited by Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene
★★★☆☆ The Reaction by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #12)
★★★☆☆ When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey
★★★★☆ Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses by Kristen O’Neal
★★★☆☆ Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #40)
★★★★☆ Doctor Who: Adventures in Lockdown edited by Steve Cole
★★★☆☆ Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #19)
★★★★☆ The Change by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #13)
★★★☆☆ The Gap Into Conflict: The Real Story by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Gap Cycle #1)
★★★★☆ The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
★★★☆☆ The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo
★★★★☆ Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters
★★★★☆ Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
★★★★★ The Andalite Chronicles by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs Chronicles #1)
★★★★☆ Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
★★★☆☆ Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford
★★★☆☆ Void Moon by Michael Connelly
★★☆☆☆ Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #20)
★★★☆☆ Wayward Witch by Zoraida Córdova (Brooklyn Brujas #3)
★★★☆☆ The Unknown by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #14)
★★★★☆ The Gap Into Vision: Forbidden Knowledge by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Gap Cycle #2)
★★☆☆☆ The Body in Question by Jill Ciment
★★★☆☆ The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
★★★☆☆ Billy Summers by Stephen King
★★☆☆☆ The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
★★★☆☆ The Escape by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #15)
★★★☆☆ The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
★☆☆☆☆ Zero K by Don DeLillo
★★★☆☆ The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
★★★☆☆ Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie (Superintendent Battle #4)
★★★★☆ The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade & The Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
★★★★☆ The Warning by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #16)
★★★☆☆ Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
★★★☆☆ The Gap Into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Gap Cycle #3)
★★★☆☆ The Narrows by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #10)
★★★★☆ The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker (The Golem and the Jinni #2)
★★★☆☆ Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
★★★☆☆ The Underground by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #17)
★★★★☆ What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
★★★☆☆ The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years by Emily Oster
★★☆☆☆ The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories by Agatha Christie
★★★★☆ The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
★★★☆☆ The Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron (The Legend of Eli Monpress #1)
★★★★☆ The Decision by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #18)
★★★★☆ The Gap Into Madness: Chaos and Order by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Gap Cycle #4)
★★☆☆☆ The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass
★★★★☆ The Closers by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #11)
★★★★☆ One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
★★☆☆☆ Last Drink Bird Head edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
★★★★★ In the Time of Dinosaurs by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs Megamorphs #2)
★★★★☆ The Quiet American by Graham Greene
★★★☆☆ This Is Not the Jess Show by Anna Carey (This Is Not the Jess Show #1)
★★★☆☆ The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison (The Goblin Emperor #2)
★★★☆☆ Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #22)
★★★☆☆ D (A Tale of Two Worlds) by Michel Faber
★★★★★ The Departure by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #19)
★★★☆☆ Velvet Was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
★★★★☆ Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler (Patternist #5)
★★★☆☆ A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski
★★★★☆ Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
★★★★☆ The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die by Stephen R. Donaldson (The Gap Cycle #5)
★★★☆☆ The Discovery by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #20)
★★★☆☆ To Jerusalem and Back by Saul Bellow
★★★★★ El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson
★★★★☆ The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #1)
★★★☆☆ The Ugly Cry by Danielle Henderson
★★★☆☆ Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #24)
★★★★☆ The Threat by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #21)
★★☆☆☆ Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon
★★★★☆ Sunreach by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson (Skyward Flight #1)
★★★☆☆ To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer (Riverworld #1)
★★★★☆ Scary Stories for Young Foxes by Christian McKay Heidicker (Scary Stories for Young Foxes #1)
★★★★★ Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #1)
★★★★★ The Solution by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #22)
★★★☆☆ Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage by William Loren Katz
★★★☆☆ The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
★★★☆☆ From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
★★★★☆ N or M? by Agatha Christie (Tommy and Tuppence #3)
★★★☆☆ Echo Park by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #12)
★★★★★ The Hork-Bajir Chronicles by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs Chronicles #2)
★★★☆☆ On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
★★★☆☆ The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip José Farmer (Riverworld #2)
★★★★☆ Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
★★★☆☆ Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
★★★☆☆ The Verdigris Pawn by Alysa Wishingrad
★★★☆☆ The Pretender by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #23)
★★★★☆ The Unbroken by C. L. Clark (Magic of the Lost #1)
★★★☆☆ Opal by Maggie Stiefvater
★★★☆☆ One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #23)
★★★☆☆ The Overlook by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #13)
★★★★☆ Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown
★★★★☆ The Suspicion by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #24)
★★★☆☆ Cinderella Is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
★★☆☆☆ The Dark Design by Philip José Farmer (Riverworld #3)
★★★☆☆ Rage by Bob Woodward
★★★★☆ Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom by Sangu Mandanna
★★★★☆ My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
★★★★☆ The Extreme by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #25)
★★★★☆ She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (The Radiant Emperor #1)
★★☆☆☆ The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
★★★☆☆ The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
★★★☆☆ The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #2)
★★★★☆ Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #25)
★★★★☆ The Attack by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #26)
★★★☆☆ ReDawn by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson (Skyward Flight #2)
★☆☆☆☆ The Magic Labyrinth by Philip José Farmer (Riverworld #4)
★★★★★ The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance #2)
★★★☆☆ The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden by Peter L. Bergen
★★★★☆ Razorblade Tears by S. A. Cosby
★★★☆☆ The Exposed by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #27)
★★★★★ People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
★★★☆☆ A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
★★★☆☆ The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly (Jack McEvoy #2)
★★☆☆☆ Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
★★☆☆☆ The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #3)
★★☆☆☆ The Experiment by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #28)
★★★★☆ A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow (Fractured Fables #1)
★★★☆☆ Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
★★★☆☆ Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards
★★★★☆ The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow
★☆☆☆☆ The Matzah Ball by Jean Meltzer
★★★★☆ The Sickness by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #29)
★★★☆☆ Terciel and Elinor by Garth Nix (The Old Kingdom #6)
★★★☆☆ Defending Elysium by Brandon Sanderson
★★★☆☆ Search for Senna by K. A. Applegate (Everworld #1)
★★★★☆ Towards Zero by Agatha Christie (Superintendent Battle #5)
★★★★☆ Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
★★★★☆ Elfangor’s Secret by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs Megamorphs #3)
★★☆☆☆ Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch #14)
★★☆☆☆ Gods of Riverworld by Philip José Farmer (Riverworld #5)
★★★★☆ You Feel It Just Below the Ribs by Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson
★★★★☆ Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
★★★☆☆ Strange Dreams edited by Stephen R. Donaldson
★☆☆☆☆ The First Journey by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs Alternamorphs #1)
★★★☆☆ Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson (Skyward #3)
★★★☆☆ A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
★★★☆☆ Death Comes as the End by Agatha Christie
★★★☆☆ Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution by H. W. Brands
★★★★☆ Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson (Vespertine #1)
★★★★☆ The Reunion by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #30)
★★★☆☆ Hook, Line & Sinister: Mysteries to Reel You In edited by T. Jefferson Parker
★★★☆☆ Dark Rise by C. S. Pacat (Dark Rise #1)
★★★★☆ Poison for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket
★★☆☆☆ Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim (Six Crimson Cranes #1)
★★★★☆ This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron (This Poison Heart #1)
★★★★☆ The Conspiracy by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #31)
★★★☆☆ Matrix by Lauren Groff
★★★☆☆ Sparkling Cyanide by Agatha Christie (Colonel Race #4)
★★★★☆ A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot #1)
★★★☆☆ Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
★★★☆☆ The Excalibur Curse by Kiersten White (Camelot Rising #3)
★★★☆☆ The Separation by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #32)
★★★☆☆ The Reversal by Michael Connelly (Mickey Haller #3)
★★★☆☆ Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood
★★★☆☆ Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids by Hunter Clarke-Fields, MSAE
★★★★☆ All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told by Douglas Wolk
★★★★☆ The Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian Kang
★★★★☆ The Illusion by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #33)
★★★★★ Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott
★★★★☆ Reave the Just and Other Tales by Stephen R. Donaldson

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