Reviews

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Fiction

• Artemis by Andy Weir
• As Long as You Love Me by Ann Aguirre
• Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
• The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams
• City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
• Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
• A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab
• Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
• The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
• The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz
• The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
• In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
• The Lost Time Accidents by John Wray
• The Martian by Andy Weir
• Miss You by Kate Eberlen
• My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
• Night Film by Marisha Pessl
• Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher
• One Day in December by Josie Silver
• The Proposal by Jasmine Guillory
• The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
• The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan
• Say You Still Love Me by K.A. Tucker
• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy
• A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
• Vox by Christina Dalcher
• Waiting for Tom Hanks by Kerry Winfrey
• The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Wedding Date / The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory
• Well Met by Jen DeLuca
• What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
• The Witch of Willow Hall by Hester Fox
• Would Like to Meet by Rachel Winters
• You Know You Want This: “Cat Person” and Other Stories by Kristen Roupenian

Non-fiction

• American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier
• Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain by Abby Normal
• Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
• Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
• The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
• Fear: Trump in the White House by Bob Woodward
• Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements by Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, & Astrid Henry
• Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
• How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise by Chris Taylor
• How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
• Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling by Michael Cannell
• Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg
• The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
• Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay
• Not that Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” by Lena Dunham
• Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
• Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
• What Happened by Hillary Clinton
• What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler
  

Graphic Novels

• Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Pénélope Bagieu
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy / Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by Noelle Stevenson / G. Willow Wilson
• Lumberjanes, Vol. 3: A Terrible Plan by Noelle Stevenson & Shannon Watters
• On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
• Spill Zone by Scot Westerfeld
• Woman World by Aminder Dhaliwal

Young adult & children’s

• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee
• Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi
• Every Other Weekend by Abigail Johnson
• If I’m Being Honest by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka
• Internment by Samira Ahmed
• The Last True Poets of the Sea by Julia Drake
• Layoverland by Gabby Noone
• Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
• Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
• Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks
• On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
• Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi
• Rebel Girls by Elizabeth Keenan
• Renegades by Marissa Meyer
• The Shadow Cipher by Laura Ruby
• We Are Lost and Found by Helene Dunbar
• What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
• Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley

Buy/Borrow/Bypass

• Kick-Ass Ladies
  • You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
  • Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? / Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
  • We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• On Grief
  • A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold
  • Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Video reviews

Fiction

• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Little Bee by Chris Cleave
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

Non-fiction

• The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy by Jody Duncan Jesser
• Biographies
  • The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace by Jeff Hobbs
  • Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris
• Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly Ex-Sorority Girl’s Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are All These Idiots and Why Do They Live Next Door to Me? by Jen Lancaster
• Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
• Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman
• A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal by Ben Macintyre

Young adult & children’s

• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• Coraline by Neil Gaiman
• Infinityglass by Myra McEntire

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