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The Vanishing Season, Joanna Schaffhausen | Amazon | Rating, 3.75
An American Marriage, Tayari Jones | Amazon | Review | Rating, 5
Lie With Me, Sabine Durrant | Amazon | Rating, 3.25
We're Going to Need More Wine, Gabrielle Union | Amazon | Rating, 5
Anatomy of a Scandal, Sara Durant | Amazon | Rating, 3
In a Dark, Dark Wood, Ruth Ware | Amazon | Rating, 4.25
Sourdough, Robin Sloan | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
Kindred, Octavia Butler | Amazon | Rating, 5
How To Stop Time | Matt Haig | Amazon | Rating, 4
Lies She Told | Cate Holahan | Amazon | Rating, 3.25
Stay With Me | Ayobami Adebayo | Amazon | Rating, 4
The French Girl | Lexie Elliott | Amazon | Rating, 4.25
The Rooster Bar | John Grisham | Amazon | Rating, 3
Let Me Lie | Clare Mackintosh | Amazon | Rating, 3
The Secret History | Donna Tartt | Amazon | Rating, 4.25
The Wedding Date | Jasmine Gillory | Amazon | Rating, 4
You Are A Badass | Jen Sincero | Amazon | Rating, 3.25
The Dry | Jane Harper | Amazon | Rating, 4.5
The Last Mrs. Parrish | Liv Constantine | Amazon | Rating, 3
Sometimes I Lie | Alice Feeney | Amazon | Rating, 5
Dark Matter | Blake Crouch | Amazon | Rating, 5
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda | Amazon | Rating, 4
Tangerine | Christine Mangan | Amazon | Rating, 3.25
Providence | Caroline Kepnes | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo | Taylor Jenkins Reid | Amazon | Rating, 5
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life | Samantha Irby | Amazon | Rating, 4
From the Corner of the Oval | Beck Dorey Stein | Amazon | Rating, 4.75
Bluebird, Bluebird | Attica Locke | Amazon | Rating, 4
I'll Be Gone in the Dark | Michelle McNamara | Amazon | Rating, 5
All We Ever Wanted | Emily Giffin | Amazon | Rating, 4
Stray City | Chelsey Johnson | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
The Woman in the Window | A.J. Finn | Amazon | Rating, 4.75
Crazy Rich Asians | Kevin Kwan | Amazon | Rating, 4.5
A Certain Age | Beatriz Williams | Amazon | Rating, 2
Give Me Your Hand | Megan Abbott | Amazon | Rating, 3
Two Steps Forward | Graeme Simpsoin, Anne Brust | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
Neverwhere | Neil Gaiman | Amazon | Rating, 3.75
The Favorite Sister | Jessica Knoll | Amazon | Rating, 3.75
Then She Was Gone | Lisa Jewell | Amazon | Rating, 5
Trouble the Water | Jacqueline Friedland | Amazon | Rating, 4
How to Walk Away | Katherine Center | Amazon | Rating, 4.25
Little Fires Everywhere | Celeste Ng | Amazon | Rating, 4.75
The Last Time I Lied | Riley Sager | Amazon | Rating, 3
Bring Me Back | B.A. Paris | Amazon | Goodreads | Rating, 4.5
The Queen of Hearts | Kimmery Martin | Amazon | Rating, 2.75
Tell Me Lies | Carola Lovering | Amazon | Rating, 4
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine | Gail Honeyman | Amazon | Rating, 4.5
Sunburn | Laura Lippman | Amazon | Rating, 4.5
The Hunger | Alma Katsu | Amazon | Rating, 5
Campaign Widows | Aimee Agresti | Amazon | Rating, 3
Mr. Mercedes | Stephen King | Amazon | Rating, 4
Girls Night Out | Liz Fenton, Lisa Stenke | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
Believe Me | J.P.. Delaney | Amazon | Rating, 4.5
The Perfect Couple | Elin Hilderbrand | Amazon | Rating, 4.5
Something in the Water | Catherine Steadman | Amazon | Rating, 4
Sharp Objects | Gillian Flynn | Amazon | Rating, 5
The Subway Girls | Susie Orman Schnall | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
Before and Again | Barbara Delinsky | Amazon | Rating, 3.25
When The Lights Go Out | Mary Kubica | Amazon | Rating, 2
Behind Closed Doors | B.A. Paris | Amazon | Rating, 3.25
The Book of Essie | Meghan Maclean Weir | Amazon | Rating, 3.75
Finders Keepers | Stephen King | Amazon | Rating, 4
Us Against You | Fredrik Backman | Amazon | Rating, 5
When Life Gives You Lululemons | Lauren Weisberger | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
I'd Rather Be Reading | Anne Bogel | Amazon | Rating, 4
There There | Tommy Orange | Amazon | Rating, 5
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald | Therese Anne Fowler | Amazon | Rating, 3.75
Lying in Wait | Liz Nugent | Amazon | Rating, 4
Cross Her Heart | Sarah Pinborough | Amazon | Rating, 3.75
End of Watch | Stephen King | Amazon | Rating, 4.25
A Spark of Light | Jodi Picoult | Amazon | Rating 4.75
My Sister, the Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite | Amazon | Rating 3.75
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing | Hank Green | Amazon | Rating, 4.75
Our House | Louise Candlish | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | Amazon | Rating, 5
Time’s Convert | Deborah Harkness | Amazon | Rating, 3
The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai | Amazon | Rating, 5
A Head Full of Ghosts | Paul Tremblay | Amazon | Rating, 5
Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | Amazon | Rating, 5
Bad Blood | John Carreyrou | Amazon | Rating, 5
The Witch Elm | Tana French | Amazon | Rating, 3
Watching You | Lisa Jewell | Amazon | Rating, 5
Pieces of Her | Karin Slaughter | Amazon | Rating, 3
Elevation | Stephen King | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
Becoming | Michelle Obama | Amazon | Rating, 5
The Stranger in the Woods | Michael Finkel | Amazon | Rating, 4
Our Kind of Cruelty | Araminta Hall | Amazon | Rating, 4.75
Cork Dork | Bianca Bosker | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
The Great Alone | Kristin Hannah | Amazon | Rating, 5
An Anonymous Girl | Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkenan | Amazon | Rating, 3.5
Educated | Tara Westover | Amazon | Rating, 5
Reasons to Stay Alive | Matt Haig | Amazon | Rating, 4
Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | Amazon | Rating, 5
The Last Black Unicorn | Tiffany Haddish | Amazon | Rating, 4
We Should All Be Feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Amazon | Rating, 4.5
Force of Nature | Jane Harper | Amazon | Rating, 4
Waiting for Eden | Elliot Ackerman | Amazon | Rating, 5
Verity | Coleen Hoover | Amazon | Rating, 4
The Lies We Told | Camilla Way | Amazon | Rating, 4.25
Misery | Stephen King | Amazon | Rating, 5
The Death of Mrs. Westaway | Ruth Ware | Amazon | Rating, 4.75
The 2018 Modern Mrs. Darcy Reading Challenge
A classic you've been meaning to read | Kindred
A book recommended by someone with great taste | In a Dark, Dark Wood
A book in translation | Us Against You
A book nominated for an award in 2018 | There There
A book of poetry, a play, or an essay collection | We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
A book you can read in a day | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A book that's more than 500 pages | The Secret History
A book by a favorite author | How To Stop Time
A book recommended by a librarian or an indie bookseller | Bad Blood
A banned book
A memoir, biography, or book of creative nonfiction | We're Going to Need More Wine
A book by an author of a different race, ethnicity, or religion than your own | An American Marriage
Book Riot's 2018 Read Harder Challenge
A book published posthumously | I'll Be Gone In The Dark
A book of true crime | Bad Blood
A classic of genre fiction (i.e. mystery, sci fi/fantasy, romance)
A comic written and illustrated by the same person
A book set in or about one of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, or South Africa)
A book about nature
A western
A comic written or illustrated by a person of color
A book of colonial or postcolonial literature | Trouble the Water
A romance novel by or about a person of color | Stay With Me
A children’s classic published before 1980
A celebrity memoir | We're Going to Need More Wine
An Oprah Book Club selection | An American Marriage
A book of social science | Just Mercy
A one-sitting book | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series | Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author | Kindred
A comic that isn’t published by Marvel, DC, or Image
A book of genre fiction in translation | Us Against You
A book with a cover you hate | Believe Me
A mystery by a person of color or LGBTQ+ author | Bluebird, Bluebird
An essay anthology | We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
A book with a female protagonist over the age of 60
An assigned book you hated (or never finished)
