Books

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves ★★★★★

Gilbert covers a lot of ground exploring incidences of women's exploitation in music, entertainment, reality TV, and even

Little Fires Everywhere ★★★★★

Brilliantly written, it explores the frustrations yet the deep love mothers have for their daughters. I also love how Ng

The Dream Hotel ★★★★★

Minority Report meets an authoritarian government that seems just too real to be considered a dystopian future. The real story

Small Great Things ★★★★☆

Good intentions and says all the right things but a little too exposition-y. It ends a bit too perfectly. But

The Poppy Fields ★★★★☆

Erlick's second novel (for me) tackles grief more directly. Centered around three characters who are forced by circumstances

The Stardust Grail ★★★☆☆

A tad all over the place in terms of the narrative. It’s definitely ambitious in its world building and

The Seep ★★★☆☆

Notable Highlights When connected with the aliens through water or bodily fluids, it was impossible to feel anything except expansive

The Daughter of Time ★★★★★

An excellent and logical solving of a historical mystery from a hospital bed helped by an enthusiastic research assistant. And

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company ★★★★★

Atmosphere: A Love Story ★★★★☆

A tad sentimental with either little too perfect characters but charming. It got better in the last quarter. * Format: 341

All Better Now ★★★★☆

Very much Pluribus-like but more action-packed. But it explicitly explores the duality of the "good" disease; something that

Mother Mary Comes to Me ★★★★★

Beautiful, poetic, and brutally candid, as she always is, Arundhati Roy writing only her third book, memoirs her childhood shaped

The Secret of Secrets ★★★☆☆

Dan Brown seems to have lost the art of making you turn the pages and with near 700 pages, this

Missing, Presumed ★★★★☆

A police procedural with a healthy dose of character building of the cops and their lives. The mystery is interesting

Reasons to Stay Alive ★★★★☆

* Format: 256 pages, Audiobook * Published: February 23, 2016 by Penguin Life * ISBN: 9780143128724 (ISBN10: 0143128728) * ASIN: 0143128728 * Language: English Matt

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds ★★★★★

* Format: 362 pages, Hardcover * Published: December 6, 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company * ISBN9780393254594 (ISBN10: 0393254593) * ASIN: 0393254593 * Language:

The Thin Man ★★★★☆

* Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition * Published: September 1, 2024 by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard * ASIN: B004GTLVP4 * Language: English Nick and

The Woman in the Window ★★★★☆

* Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition * Published: January 2, 2018 by William Morrow * ASIN: B06Y55Z36S * Language: English Anna Fox lives alone,

The Return of Ellie Black ★★★★☆

* Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition * Published: May 7, 2024, by Simon & Schuster * ISBN: 9781668023952 (ISBN10: 1668023954) * ASIN: B0CL5F94SL * Language:

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine ★★★★☆

* Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition * Published: June 5, 2018 by Penguin Books * ASIN: B01KGZVTOE, Language: English. No one’s ever

Marble Hall Murders ★★★★★

* Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition * Published: May 13, 2025 by Harper * ISBN: 9780063305717 (ISBN10: 0063305712) * ASIN: B0DCZMWWMP * LanguageEnglish Murder links