July 22 Goodreads Update 1
I have been quite profligate recently with my to-read shelf in the last couple of weeks. Here is the result.
I'm not going to say much about each one. Just list the reasons they made this list.
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Ghosted in L.A. by Sina Grace - I really liked the first volume in this series, so I added number 2.
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The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell - Lucrezia de Medici. Maggie O'Farrell. I'm in.
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No One Round Here Reads Toldtoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader by Mark Hodkinson - A memoir about a guy who grew up in a house with one book and how he has become the reader and writer he is.
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The Library of Lost Things by Laura Taylor Namey - This is a romance about a woman who hides in literature to avoid her problems. She also works in a bookstore.
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Ordinary Monsters by J.M. Miro - Victorian dark academia.
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A Wish In the Dark by Christina Soontornvat - This is by a Thai author and is set in Thailand.
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Blackout by a bunch of people - These are all stories by black YA authors about black romance.
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The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean - Horror fantasy about people who actually eat books.
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Break Your Glass Slippers by Amanda Lovelace - YA feminist poetry. First in a series.
This is where I started going through all the audiobooks on my phone and added the ones I want to read to my Goodreads to-read shelf.
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Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman - True crime about a guy who murdered his parents, but was deemed criminally insane. After the trial, what happens to him?
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Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi - This is a memoir by an acclaimed black author.
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Dearest Josephine by Caroline George - Set in England. Dual timeline 2020 and 1820.
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Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Scott Ellsworth - This is of course a must-read.
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Followers by Raziel Reid - YA about a teen on reality tv.
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Heiresses: The Lives of the Million Dollar Babies by Laura Thompson - This is about a bunch of rich women: some good, some bad. There are a lot of women here, so I don't think there is a whole lot aboout each one.
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Hide by Kiersten White - Horror set at an empty amusement park.
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Island Queen by Vanessa Riley - Based on a real woman who was born in slavery and became one of the most powerful women in the West Indies.
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The London House by Katherine Reay - I don't normally go in for WWII fiction, but this is Katherine Reay.
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Olive the Lionheart by Brad Ricca - Another based on a true story. This woman goes to Africa to find her fiance.
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The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow - Do I even have to say it?
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The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris - An office thriller.
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Shine Your Icy Crown by Amanda Lovelace - More YA feminist poetry.
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Unlock Your Storybook Heart by Amanda Lovelace - Even more YA feminist poetry.
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Victories Greater Than Death by Charlie Jane Anders - Sci Fi by a trans author.
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Violeta by Isabel Allende - I mean. Isabel Allende.
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The Woman Before Wallis by Bryn Turnbull - I have an unhealthy fascination with Wallis Simpson and all that whole situation.
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In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch - Needs no explanation.
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An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris - Oklahoma SciFi thriller.
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Babel by R.F. Kuang - Historical dark academia. Again.
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Nothing More to Tell by Karen M. McManus - McManus. Nuff said.
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Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - Third in this hilarious series.
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House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson - I loved her witch book. This one is vampires.
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Going Rogue by Janet Evanovich - Stephanie Plum.
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A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers - Cozy sci-fi.
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This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub - Literary fiction about a woman who travels back in time to when her father was young and healthy.
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The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu - Set in Edinburgh.
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe - This keeps turning up in my life. I guess I should put it on my list.
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The Family Next Door by John Glatt - I saw a police video of when the girl stopped them to say her parents were abusing them. It was surreal.
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Bookends by Zibby Owens - Books on the cover. Zibby Owens has a book podcast.
Whew! There they all are. Anything exciting to you?