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129 reviews

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

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3.0

Took a while for me to get into, but once I wrapped my mind around the prose style (it's very Octavia Butler-esque, in both good and bad ways) and especially once Hendrix and Craft were introduced I was totally invested. Then it all fell apart in like the last 10% of the book man wtf
Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

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4.5

AHHHHHH!!!! AHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHGGGHHHH AHHHH!!! AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Hairpin Bridge: A Novel by Taylor Adams

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2.0

kind of annoyed by the ‘he was a fake cop the whole time’ twist. as if it would have been at all outside the realm of plausibility for an actual cop to be covering up murders for his entire career
Candide by Voltaire

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3.5

What a fascinating and twisted glimpse into how 18th century french philosophers felt about "the New World"
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

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5.0

thomas cromwell You will always be famous 
White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link

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4.0

I hope kelly link keeps writing about lesbian werewolves forever and ever and ever amen
The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink

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2.5

Girl just divorce him omg
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

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4.5

You ever read a book that’s so funny it makes you burst into tears? How about a book that’s so sad it makes you laugh hysterically? How about both?