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100 Christian Women Who Changed the 20th Century (2000) - Helen Kooiman Hosier - 2 stars

30 Days of Night (2002) - Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith - 3 stars

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About Looking (1980) - John Berger - 4 stars

Afterlife with Archie, Vol. 1: Escape from Riverdale (2014) - Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Francesco Francavilla, Jack Morelli - 4 stars

Alexander's Bridge (1912) - Willa Cather - 3 1/2 stars

L’Allegro (1645) - John Milton - 2 1/2 stars

All Religions Are One (1788) - William Blake - 2 1/2 stars

All-Star Batman, Vol. 1: My Own Worst Enemy (2017) - Scott Snyder, John Romita Jr., Danny Miki - 3 1/2 stars

Alias Grace (1996) - Margaret Atwood - 4 stars

All You Can Ever Know (2018) - Nicole Chung - 4 stars

America a Prophecy (1793) - William Blake - 3 stars

America is Not the Heart (2018) - Elaine Castillo - 3 1/2 stars

Americanah (2013) - Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie - 3 stars

American Rust (2009) - Philipp Meyer - 2 1/2 stars

And Then There Were None (1943) - Agatha Christie - 4 stars

Another Brooklyn (2016) - Jacqueline Woodson - 4 stars

April Twilights (1903) - Willa Cather - 1 1/2 stars

Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012) - Benjamin Alire Saenz - 2 1/2 stars

Avengers, Volume 1: Avengers World (2013) - Jonathan Hickman, Jerome Opena - 2 1/2 stars

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Back to Methuselah (1921) - George Bernard Shaw - 2 1/2 stars

Bad Cree (2023) - Jessica Johns - 4 stars

Bag of Bones (1998) - Stephen King - 4 stars

The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Or On the Segregation of the Queen (1994) - Laurie King - 4 stars

Beginners (2009) - Raymond Carver - 4 stars

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death & Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (2012) - Katharine Boo - 2 stars

Behind the Scenes at the Museum (1995) - Kate Atkinson - 4 stars

Betrachtung (1912) - Franz Kafka - 1/2 star

Big Sky (2019) - Kate Atkinson - 4 stars

Billy Summers (2021) - Stephen King - 3 stars

Black Coffee: A Mystery Play in Three Acts (1930) - Agatha Christie - 3 1/2 stars

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019) - Marlon James - 4 stars

Bones & Silence (1990) - Reginald Hill - 3 stars

Book of Ages: The Life & Opinions of Jane Franklin (2013) - Jill Lepore - 1 1/2 stars

The Book of Ahania (1795) - William Blake - 3 stars

The Book of Los (1795) - William Blake - 4 stars

The Book of My Lives (2013) - Aleksandar Hemon - 2 stars

The Book of Thel (1789) - William Blake - 3 stars

The Book of Urizen (1794) - William Blake - 4 stars

Books of Blood: Volume 3 (1984) - Clive Barker - 1 1/2 stars

Books of Blood: Volume One (1984) - Clive Barker - 4 stars

Books of Blood, Volume Two (1984) - Clive Barker - 4 stars

Boyhood (1854) - Leo Tolstoy - 4 stars

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft & the Golden Age of Journalism (2013) - Doris Kearns Goodwin - 3 stars

By the Light of the Moon (2002) - Dean Koontz - 3 stars

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Cain (1997) - James Byron Huggins - 4 stars

Cannery Row (1946) - John Steinbeck - 3 stars

The Carrier of Ladders (1970) - W.S. Merwin - 4 stars

Case Histories (2004) - Jackson Brodie - 4 stars

Cathedral (1983) - Raymond Carver - 4 stars

Ceremony (2006) - Leslie Marmon Silko - 2 1/2 stars

Childhood (1852) - Leo Tolstoy - 4 stars

Child's Play (1987) - Reginald Hill - 3 1/2 stars

The Chronicles of Clovis (1911) - Saki - 4 stars

The Circle (2013) - Dave Eggers - 3 1/2 stars

Circle Mirror Transformation (2009) - Annie Baker - 4 stars

Citizen: An American Lyric (2014) - Claudia Rankine - 4 stars

Collected Poems 1996-2011 (2013) - W.S. Merwin, J.D. McClatchy - 2 1/2 stars

Collected Stories (2009) - Raymond Carver - 4 stars

Command & Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident & the Illusion of Safety (2012) - Eric Schlosser - 4 stars

The Compass Flower (1977) - W.S. Merwin - 4 stars

The Complete Poems (1978) - William Blake, Alicia Ostriker - 4 stars

Comus (A Masque Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) - (1634) - John Milton - 4 stars

Confessions (1838) - Augustine, E.B. Pusey - 3 stars

Confessions (1961) - Saint Augustine, R.S. Pine-Coffin - 3 stars

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) - Thomas De Quincey - 3 1/2 stars

A Country Doctor (1919) - Franz Kafka - 2 stars

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The Damnation Game (1985) - Clive Barker - 2 1/2 stars

The Dancing Bears (1954) - W.S. Merwin - 4 stars

Dark of the Woods (1970) - Dean Koontz - 2 1/2 stars

The Day of the Triffids (1951) - John Wyndham - 4 stars

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (2018) - Jose Antonio Vargas - 3 1/2 stars

Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) - Willa Cather - 4 stars

Derai (1968) - E.C. Tubb - 4 stars

The Door in the Dragon's Throat (1985) - Frank E. Peretti - 2 stars

Dreaming in Cuban (1992) - Cristina Garcia - 1 star

The Drunk in the Furnace (1960) - W.S. Merwin - 4 stars

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Earlier Writings (1979) - Augustine of Hippo, John H.S. Burleigh - 3 1/2 stars

East of Eden (1952) - John Steinbeck - 4 stars

Emotionally Weird (2000) - Kate Atkinson - 4 stars

End of Watch (2016) - Stephen King - 3 stars

An Enemy of the People (1882) - Henrik Ibsen - 4 stars

The English Mail-Coach (1849) - Thomas De Quincey - 4 stars

Escape from the Island of Aquarius (1986) - Frank E. Peretti - 3 stars

Europe a Prophecy (1794) - William Blake - 2 1/2 stars

Everyman (2006) - Philip Roth - 4 stars

Exit Lines (1984) - Reginald Hill - 3 stars

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Faithful Place (2010) - Tana French - 3 stars

Fear & Trembling (1843) - Soren Kierkegaard, Alastair Hannay - 4 stars

Fear That Man (1969) - Dean Koontz - 3 1/2 stars

Feathers from the Hill (1978) - W.S. Merwin - 4 stars

The Female Persuasion (2018) - Meg Wolitzer - 3 1/2 stars

The Field Guide to the North American Teenager (2019) - Ben Philippe - 2 1/2 stars

Finders Keepers (2015) - Stephen King - 4 stars

Flunk. Start.: Reclaiming My Decade Lost in Scientology (2018) - Sands Hall - 2 1/2 stars

The Folding Cliffs (1998) - W.S. Merwin - 4 stars

Force Storm (2012) - John Ostrander - 2 stars

The French Revolution (1791) - William Blake - 3 stars

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Ghosts & Three Other Plays: A Doll’s House/An Enemy of the People/Rosmersholm (1966) - Henrik Ibsen - 4 stars

Ghost Wall (2018) - Sarah Moss - 4 stars

The Girl With All the Gifts (2014) - M.R. Carey - 2 1/2 stars

Gods, Graves & Scholars (1949) - C.W. Ceram - 2 stars

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief (2013) - Lawrence Wright - 4 stars

The Goldfinch (2013) - Donna Tartt - 4 stars

Good Dog. Stay. (2007) - Anna Quindlen - 3 1/2 stars

The Graveyard Book (2008) - Neil Gaiman - 3 1/2 stars

The Great Believers (2018) - Rebecca Makkai - 3 1/2 stars

Green with Beasts (1956) - W.S. Merwin - 4 stars

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Habits of the House (2012) - Fay Weldon - 2 stars

The Hellbound Heart (1986) - Clive Barker - 4 stars

Housekeeping (1980) - Marilynne Robinson - 4 stars

Human Croquet (1997) - Kate Atkinson - 4 stars

The Humans (2015) - Stephen Karam - 4 stars

The Humbling (2009) - Philip Roth - 2 stars

A Hunger Artist (1924) - Franz Kafka - 2 1/2 stars

Hunter (1999) - James Byron Huggins - 1 1/2 stars

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Idiot Brain: What Your Head Is Really Up To  (2016) - Dean Burnett - 2 1/2 stars

If Beale Street Could Talk (1974) - James Baldwin - 4 stars

I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (2018) - Michelle McNamara - 4 stars

The Imago Sequence & Other Stories (2007) - Laird Barron - 3 stars

The Immortalists (2018) - Chloe Benjamin - 4 stars

Indignation (2008) - Philip Roth - 4 stars

The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote & Other Catastrophes of Literacy (2018) - Daniel Kalder - 3 1/2 stars

Inspector of the Dead (2015) - David Morrell - 2 1/2 stars

In the Woods (2007) - Tana French - 4 stars

It's Always Something (1989) - Gilda Radner - 1 star

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The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeeth Century (1867) - Francis Parkman - 4 stars

Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion (1820) - William Blake - 3 1/2 stars

Jonah’s Gourd Vine (1934) - Zora Neale Hurston - 3 stars

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King Jesus (1946) - Robert Graves - 4 stars

Kissing the Coronavirus (2020) - M.J. Edwards - 0 stars

Kissing the Coronavirus Chronicles (2021) - M.J. Edwards - 0 stars

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The Lair of the White Worm (1911) - Bram Stoker - 1 star

La Salle & the Discovery of the Great West (1879) - Francis Parkman - 3 stars

Later (2021) - Stephen King - 4 stars

Lean In: Women, Work & the Will to Lead (2013) - Sheryl Sandberg - 3 1/2 stars

Leviathan (1995) - James Byron Huggins - 4 stars

The Lice (1967) - W.S. Merwin - 3 1/2 stars

Life After Life (2013) - Kate Atkinson - 4 stars

Life & Death: Twilight Reimagined (2015) - Stephenie Meyer - 1 star

The Light Between Oceans (2012) - M.L. Stedman - 4 stars

The Likeness (2008) - Tana French - 4 stars

The Loneliness Cure: Six Strategies for Finding Real Connections in Your Life (2016) - Kory Floyd - 1 1/2 stars

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story (2017) - Douglas Preston - 2 stars

A Lost Lady (1923) - Willa Cather - 4 stars

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P (2013) - Adelle Waldman - 3 stars

The Lowland (2013) - Jhumpa Lahiri - 4 stars

Lycidas (1638) - John Milton - 3 1/2 stars

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The Man Who Wanted to Know Everything (2016) - Dror Mishani, Todd Hasak-Lowy - 4 stars

The Marriage of Heaven & Hell (1789) - William Blake - 3 stars

A Mask for Janus (1952) - W.S. Merwin - 2 stars

The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. (2019) - Evan Ratliff - 3 1/2 stars

Men We Reaped (2013) - Jesmyn West - 4 stars

The Metamorphosis (1915) - Franz Kafka - 4 stars

Milton (1810) - William Blake - 4 stars

The Missing File (2013) - Dror Mishani, Steven Cohen - 2 1/2 stars

A Monstrous Regiment of Women (1995) - Laurie King - 2 1/2 stars

The Moon is Down (1942) - John Steinbeck - 4 stars

Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939) - Zora Neale Hurston - 1 1/2 stars

The Mothers (2016) - Brit Bennett - 4 stars

The Moving Target (1963) - W.S. Merwin - 2 1/2 stars

Mr. Mercedes (2014) - Stephen King - 3 1/2 stars

Murder as a Fine Art (2013) - David Morrell - 2 1/2 stars

A Murder is Announced (1977) - Leslie Darbon - 2 stars

The Murder on the Links (1923) - Agatha Christie - 3 1/2 stars

The Mutant Strain (2021) - M.J. Edwards - 0 stars

My Antonia (1918) - Willa Cather - 2 stars

My Head! My Head! (1925) - Robert Graves - 2 1/2 stars

My Mortal Enemy (1926) - Willa Cather - 1 star

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) - Agatha Christie - 3 stars

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N or M? (1941) - Agatha Christie - 3 stars

Negroland: A Memoir (2015) - Margo Jefferson - 3 stars

Nemeses: Everyman ; Indignation ; The Humbling ; Nemesis (2013) - Philip Roth - 4 stars

Nemesis (2010) - Philip Roth - 4 stars

Nightbringer (2004) - James Byron Huggins - 1/2 star

The Night Circus (2011) - Erin Morgenstern - 1 1/2 stars

Nightwing, Vol. 1: Better Than Batman (2017) - Tim Seeley, Yanick Paquette, Javier Fernandez - 3 stars

Nightwing, Vol. 2: Back to Bludhaven (2017) - Tim Seeley - 3 1/2 stars

Nimona (2015) - Noelle Stevenson - 4 stars

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America (2019) - Darnell L. Moore - 2 stars

NOS4A2 (2013) - Joe Hill - 4 stars

Not the End of the World (2002) - Kate Atkinson - 2 1/2 stars

Novels, 1942-1952 (2001) - John Steinbeck - 4 stars

Novels & Stories (1995) - Zora Neale Hurston - 3 1/2 stars

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The Oath (1995) - Frank E. Peretti - 4 stars

Obscure Destinies (1932) - Willa Cather - 2 stars

The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013) - Neil Gaiman - 4 stars

The October Country (1955) - Ray Bradbury - 3 stars

Of Faith & the Creed (395) - Augustine of Hippo - 2 1/2 stars

Of True Religion (390) - Augustine of Hippo - 4 stars

The Old Regime in Canada (1874) - Francis Parkman - 4 stars

On Continence (400) - Augustine of Hippo - 3 1/2 stars

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019) - Ocean Vuong - 4 stars

One Good Turn (2006) - Kate Atkinson - 4 stars

One of Ours (1922) - Willa Cather - 3 1/2 stars

On Free Choice of the Will (395) - Augustine of Hippo - 3 1/2 stars

On Patience (400) - Augustine of Hippo - 3 stars

On the Nature of the Good (395) - Augustine of Hippo - 3 1/2 stars

On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1645) - John Milton - 3 1/2 stars

Opening the Hand (1983) - W.S. Merwin - 2 1/2 stars

O Pioneers! (1913) - Willa Cather - 4 stars

The Opium-Eater (2015) - David Morrell - 1/2 star

The Other Black Girl (2021) - Zakiya Dalila Harris - 4 stars

Our Town (1938) - Thornton Wilder - 4 stars

Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love & Play When No One Has the Time (2015) - Brigid Schulte - 4 stars

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Paradise Lost (1667) - John Milton - 4 stars

Paradise Regained (1671) - John Milton - 3 1/2 stars

Partners in Crime (1929) - Agatha Christie - 4 stars

Passing (1929) - Nella Larsen - 4 stars

The Pearl (1947) - John Steinbeck - 4 stars

Il Penseroso (1645) - John Milton - 3 stars

Piercing the Darkness (1988) - Frank E. Peretti - 2 1/2 stars

Pioneers of France in the New World (1865) - Francis Parkman - 3 stars

A Place for Us (2018) - Fatima Farheen Mirza - 4 stars

Poirot Investigates (1925) - Agatha Christie - 3 stars

A Possibility of Violence (2014) - Dror Mishani, Todd Hasak-Lowy - 3 1/2 stars

The Professor's House (1925) - Willa Cather - 4 stars

Prophet (1992) - Frank E. Peretti - 2 1/2 stars

The Pupil: Poems (2001) - W.S. Merwin - 3 1/2 stars

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The Rain in the Trees (1988) - W.S. Merwin - 3 stars

Rebekah (2001) - Orson Scott Card - 4 stars

The Reckoning (1994) - James Byron Huggins - 3 1/2 stars

Reginald (1904) - Saki - 2 1/2 stars

Reginald in Russia (1910) - Saki - 3 stars

The River Sound: Poems (1999) - W.S. Merwin - 3 1/2 stars

Rora (2001) - James Byron Huggins - 3 stars

The Rosie Project (2012) - Graeme Simsion - 3 1/2 stars

The Round House (2011) - Louise Erdrich - 3 stars

Ruler of the Night (2016) - David Morrell - 1 1/2 stars

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Saki: The Complete Saki (1988) - Saki - 1 star

Samson Agonistes (1671) - John Milton - 4 stars

Sarah (2000) - Orson Scott Card - 4 stars

The Scam (2006) - James Byron Huggins - 2 1/2 stars

The Second Wave (2020) - M.J. Edwards - 0 stars

The Secret Adversary (1922) - Agatha Christie - 3 stars

The Secret of the Desert Stone (1995) - Frank E. Peretti - 3 stars

The Secret Skin (2021) - Wendy N. Wagner - 1/2 star

Seraph on the Suwanee (1948) - Zora Neale Hurston - 4 stars

The Shadow of Sirius (2008) - W.S. Merwin - 4 stars

Shadows on the Rock (1931) - Willa Cather - 2 1/2 stars

She Lies in Wait (2019) - Glytha Lodge - 2 1/2 stars

The Signature of All Things (2013) - Elizabeth Gilbert - 4 stars

The Silent Patient (2019) - Alex Michaelides - 3 stars

Soft Come the Dragons (1970) - Dean Koontz - 2 stars

The Son (2013) - Philipp Meyer - 4 stars

Songs of Innocence & of Experience (1794) - William Blake - 4 stars

The Song of Los (1795) - William Blake- 3 1/2 stars

The Song of the Lark (1915) - Willa Cather - 4 stars

Sorcerer (2006) - James Byron Huggins - 3 stars

So You Want to Talk About Race (2018) - Ijeoma Oluo - 3 1/2 stars

The Square Egg & Other Sketches (1924) - Saki - 1 star

Stardust (1999) - Neil Gaiman, Charles Vess - 4 stars

Started Early, Took My Dog (2010) - Kate Atkinson - 4 stars

Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: The Collected Stories (2012) - John Jackson Miller - 4 stars

Stay with Me (2017) - Ayo bami Adebayo - 1 star

The Story of Ivy (1927) - Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes - 3 1/2 stars

Stray City (2018) - Chelsey Johnson - 4 stars

Suspiria de Profundis (1845) - Thomas De Quincey - 4 stars

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The Tale of Sinuhe & Other Ancient Egyptian Poems, 1940 - 1640 B.C. (1998) - R.B. Parkinson - 2 1/2 stars

Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss (1999) - Pat Schwiebert, Chuck DeKlyen, Taylor Bills - 2 1/2 stars

The Tender Bar (2005) - J.R. Moehringer - 1 1/2 stars

Tenth of December (2013) - George Saunders - 4 stars

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) - Zora Neale Hurston - 4 stars

There Is No Natural Religion (1788) - William Blake - 3 stars

They All Fall Down (2019) - Rachel Howzell Hall - 3 stars

This is How You Lose Her (2012) - Junot Diaz - 4 stars

This Present Darkness (1986) - Frank E. Peretti - 4 stars

Tilly (1988) - Frank E. Peretti - 2 stars

Tiriel (1789) - William Blake - 3 1/2 stars

To Marry an English Lord (1989) - Gail MacColl, Carol Lawrence - 1/2 star

The Tombs of Anak (1987) - Frank E. Peretti - 4 stars

Toyman (1969) - E.C. Tubb - 4 stars

The Toys of Peace (1919) - Saki - 2 stars

Trapped at the Bottom of the Sea (1988) - Frank E. Peretti - 2 1/2 stars

Travels: Poems (1993) - W.S. Merwin - 2 stars

Treatise on the Work of Monks (400) - Augustine of Hippo - 4 stars

Treatises on Various Subjects (1952) - Augustine of Hippo - 3 stars

The Troll Garden  (1905) - Willa Cather - 3 stars

Truth & Beauty: A Friendship (2004) - Ann Patchett - 4 stars

The Twelve Clues of Christmas (2012) - Rhys Bowen - 1 1/2 stars

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The Unbearable Bassington (1912) - Saki - 4 stars

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience & Redemption (2012) - Laura Hillenbrand - 4 stars

Underworld (1988) - Reginald Hill - 1 1/2 stars

The Ungrateful Refugee (2019) - Dina Nayeri - 4 stars

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (2013) - George Packer - 4 stars

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Vala, or The Four Zoas (1807) - William Blake - 4 stars

Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) - William Blake - 2 stars

The Vixen: Poems (1996) - W.S. Merwin - 3 stars

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Wait Until Dark (1966) - Frederick Knott - 4 stars

The Wangs vs. the World (2016) - Jade Chang - 3 stars

The Watched Pot (1924) - Saki, Charles Maude - 3 1/2 stars

Ways of Seeing (1972) - John Berger - 3 stars

What Follows After (2014) - Dan Walsh - 2 stars

What Really Happened (1926) - Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes - 1 1/2 stars

What the Dead Know (2007) - Laura Lippman - 2 stars

What We Talk When We Talk About Love (1981) - Raymond Carver - 4 stars

When I Lay My Isaac Down: Unshakeable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances (2004) - Carol J. Kent - 2 1/2 stars

When the Reckoning Comes (2021) - LaTanya McQueen - 1 1/2 stars

When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns (1913) - Saki

When Will There Be Good News? (2008) - Kate Atkinson - 4 stars

Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2012) - Maria Semple - 4 stars

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976) - Raymond Carver - 4 stars

The Winds of Gath (1967) - E.C. Tubb - 4 stars

A Wolf Story (1993) - James Byron Huggins - 3 1/2 stars

The Word is Murder (2017) - Anthony Horowitz - 2 stars

Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment (1973) - W.S. Merwin - 4 stars

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Youth (1856) - Leo Tolstoy - 4 stars

Youth & the Bright Medusa (1920) - Willa Cather - 3 1/2 stars

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