Reviews Written in 2025

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December 2024:

Always Never - Jordi Lafebre - ★★.½
Buckeye - Patrick Ryan - ★★★
(The) Correspondent - Virginia Evans - ★★★.½
Daughters of Nicnevin - Shona Kinsella - ★★★★
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line - Deepa Anappara - ★★★★.¼
Finding Gene Kelly - Torie Jean - ★
Hemlock & Silver - T. Kingfisher - ★★★.¼
Higher Magic - Courtney Floyd - ★★★.½
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water - Angie Cruz - ★★★
(The) Labyrinth: An Existential Odyssey with Jean-Paul Sartre - Ben Argon
(A) Little Christmas Magic - Suzanne Rogerson - ★★★.¾
Little Moons - Jen Storm - ★★
(A) Love Story From the End of the World - Juhea Kim - ★★★.¼
Manu - Kelly Fernandez - ★★★
My Friends - Fredrik Backman - ★★★.¼
Notes on Grief - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - ★★★
One December Morning - Emma Davies - ★★
Siggy Loves Sausages - Brian Frederick - ★★★.½
(A) Sorceress Comes to Call - T. Kingfisher - ★★★.¾
Sorcery and Small Magics - Maiga Doocy - ★★
There Was a Time for Such a Word - Gianni Solla - ★★★.½
Twice - Mitch Albom - ★★.½
(An) Unlikely Coven - A.M. Kvita - ★★★★
Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping [On a Dead Man] - Jesse Q. Sutanto - ★★★.¼
When Siggy Met Phyllis - Brian Frederick - ★★★★.¼
Winter Stories - Ingvild H. Rishøi - ★★★.¼
Yummy: A History of Desserts - Victoria Grace Elliott - ★★★★

November 2025:

(The) Best of Archie: Christmas Comics - Archie Superstars - ★★★.½
(The) Big Book of Pi: The Famous Number You Can Never Know - Jean-Baptiste Aubin - ★★★★★
(The) Chemistry Between Art and Science - Jen White - ★★★
Conclave - Robert Harris - ★★★★
Department of Mind-Blowing Theories - Tom Gauld - ★★★★
Dreams Come True at the Fairytale Museum - Jaimie Admans - ★★★.½
(The) Edge of a Knife and Other Stories - Beka Gremikova - ★★★★
Elli Veil and the Constellation Prize - Kat Saturn - ★★★.¾
Forever Ripley - McCall Hoyle - ★★★★.¾
(The) Girl Who Sang: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope and Survival - Estelle Nadel with Bethany Strout - ★★★.¾
Global - Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin - ★★★
Grimms' Fairy Tales - Sandra Dieckmann - ★★★.¾
Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison - Edited by Sarah Mirk - ★★★★.¼
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day - Dan Nott - ★★★
Homebody: A Graphic Memoir of Gender Identity Exploration - Theo Parish - ★★★★.¼
How to Survive a Fairy Bargain - Laura J. Mayo - ★★★.¼
How to Talk to Your Succulent - Zoe Persico - ★★★★.½
I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman - ★★★★.¼
Lady Like - Mackenzi Lee - ★★.½
(The) Little Drummer Girl: An Unexpected Christmas Story - Sheila Walsh - ★★★
Madeline Finn and the Shelter Dog - Lisa Papp - ★★★★★★★★★★
(A) Merry Irish Christmas - Clodagh Murphy - ★★★.¾
Mighty Thankful - Daniel Georges - ★★★★.¼
Milo's Moonlight Mission - Kathleen M. Blasi - ★★★★.¼
Norma and the Blue Hour - Chris Delyani - ★★★.¾
Pony Confidential - Christina Lynch - ★★★.¾
Seven: Distracted Detective - Rachel Pattinson - ★★★★
Spell Bound - F.T. Lukens - ★★★★.¼
Stormy Normy Goes Reining - Leisa Fail - ★★★.¾

October 2025:

365 Amazing True Things to Read in Bed - Edward Brooke-Hitching - ★★★★.¼
All This Could Be Yours - Hank Phillippi Ryan - ★
Angelica and the Bear Prince - Trung Le Nguyen - ★★.¾
Axolotl, Where's Your Toe? - Terri Tatchell - ★★★★
(The) Beasts Beneath the Winds: Tales of Southeast Asia’s Mythical Creatures - Edited by Hanna Alkaf - ★★★.½
Bessie's Bees - George Kirk - ★★★.½
Bigfoot in Love and Other Stories - Hannah Birss - ★★★.¾
(The) Book of Lost Hours - Hayley Gelfuso - ★★★★.¼
(The) Cat Who Chased Ghosts - Nic Minnella - ★★★.¾
(The) Cat's Tales: Feline Fairy Tales and Folklore - Charlie Creed - ★★★★.¼
Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive - Eliot Stein - ★★★★.¼
Dragon vs. Unicorn: Friends or Frenemies? - P.J. Hoover - ★★★
East of the Sun, West of the Moon - Author Unknown - ★★★.½
(The) Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff - Emma - ★★★.¼
Harold and the Purple Crayon - Crockett Johnson - ★★★
Heart the Lover - Lily King - ★★.¾
Homeseeking - Karissa Chen - ★★★★.¼
Inheritance: A Visual Poem - Elizabeth Acevedo - ★★
Invisible Emmie - Terri Libenson - ★★.¾
Layers: A Memoir - Pénélope Bagieu - ★★★★.½
Man, I Hate Cursive: Cartoons for People and Advanced Bears - Jim Benton - ★
(The) Many Misfortunes of Eugenia Wang - Stan Yan - ★★
(The) Mental Load: A Feminist Comic - Emma - ★★★★.¼
Noah's Big Problem - Anthony Antoniou - ★★★★.¼
Orphanland - Lauren Fischer - ★★.¾
(The) Pengrooms - Paul Castle - ★★★★.¼
(The) Secret Ingredient - Paul Castle - ★★★★
Smaller and Smaller Circles - F.H. Batacan - ★★★.½
Squished - Megan Wagner Lloyd - ★★.¾
(The) Storyteller - Deborah Hext - ★
Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins - ★★★★.½
Sybilla and the Clockmaker's Secret - Nic Minnella - ★★★
There Are No Silly Questions: More than 200 Weird and Wacky Questions, Expertly Answered! - Mike Rampton - ★★★.¾
Through Each Tomorrow - Gabrielle Meyer - ★★★★.½
Trans History: A Graphic Novel: From Ancient Times to the Present Day - Alex L. Combs & Andrew Eakett - ★★★.¾
Waseem - Lilas Taha - ★★★.¾
Writers & Lovers - Lily King - ★★★.¼

September 2025:

49 Days - Agnes Lee - ★★
All of This Is for You: A Little Book of Kindness - Ruby Jones - ★★★
(The) Archies in India - Archie Superstars - ★
Awesome of the Day - Ellen Javernick - ★★★★
(The) Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins - ★★★
(The) Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks - Shauna Robinson - ★★.¾
(The) Bestest Big Brother, Ever - Ben Mantle - ★★★★.¼
Boy, Resisting - Silent, Spy, Survivor? - J.H. Foster - ★★★.½
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism - Sarah Wynn-Williams - ★★
City of Jackals - Aman J. Bedi - ★★★★
Curious Facts About Everything: 1,500 Interesting Facts to Amaze Kids - Collins Kids - ★★★.¾
Cut Off from Sky and Earth - Melissa F. Miller - ★★★★.½
Disney Manga: Tangled - Shiori Kanaki - ★★
Dream - Barbara O'Connor - ★★★.¾
(The) Favourites - Layne Fargo - ★★★★.½
If The Train Arrives - Heather Fellin Tierney - ★★★★.¼
(The) Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist - Luciana Cimino - ★★
It's All Absolutely Fine - Ruby Elliot - ★.½
Madeline Finn and the Library Dog - Lisa Papp - ★★★★★
Max and The Miracle Drum - Manu Delpech - ★★.½
(The) Michaelmas Daisy - Paul Marriner - ★★★.½
(The) Mithai Box Is Not Empty - Namrata Agarwal - ★★★.¼
Nesting - Roisín O’Donnell - ★★★★
Oscar Wilde's Stories for Children - Oscar Wilde - ★★★★
(The) Secret Book Society - Madeline Martin - ★★★.½
Silenced Voices: Reclaiming Memories from the Guatemalan Genocide - Pablo Leon - ★★★.¾
Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love - Sarah Leavitt - ★★.½
(The) Storytellers - Sue Heath - ★★★.¾
Super Great Kids' Stories: From storytellers around the world - Kim Normanton - ★★★★★
(A) Terribly Nasty Business - Julia Seales - ★★★
Wandering Souls - Cecile Pin - ★★.½
What Remains After a Fire: Stories - Kanza Javed - ★★★★.½
Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak - ★★★★
Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane - Devoney Looser - ★★★
Wish - Barbara O'Connor - ★★.¾

August 2025:

Adulthood Is a Gift! - Sarah Andersen - ★★★★.½
All Princesses Die Before Dawn - Quentin Zuttion - ★★★★.¼
Are You My Mother? - P.D. Eastman - ★★★★
(The) Bluestockings - Wendi Nunnery - ★★★.¾
Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town - Li Chen - ★★★★
(The) Fib: An Allegorical Tale About the Consequences of Lying - Pedro Íñiguez - ★★★.¼
Hello Stranger - Katherine Center - ★★.¾
Hope: The Thing With Feathers - B. Morris Allen - ★★★.¼
Into the Uncut Grass - Trevor Noah - ★★★★.¼
(The) Librarian of Basra - Jeanette Winter - ★★★.¼
Needle and Bone - Tonya Mitchell - ★★★★.½
(The) Quiet Librarian - Allen Eskens - ★★★★
(The) Rebellious Maus and the Pogrom (A Prequel) - J.H. Foster - ★★★.¾
Send Flowers - Emily Buchanan - ★★★
Sewing Resistance - Seamstress, spy, survivor? - J.H. Foster - ★★★
Snore, Sneeze, Burp - Moira Butterfield - ★★★★
Squid Boy Raven Girl - R.R. Davis - ★★★
Stay Awake - Megan Goldin - ★★★.¼
Stories of the True - Jeyamohan - ★★.½
Sulwe - Lupita Nyong'o - ★★★.¾
Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832 - Wilfrid Lupano - ★★★.¼
(The) Third Act of Theo Gruene - Talya Tate Boerner - ★★.¼
(A) Twist of Fate - Se-ah Jang - ★★.¾
(The) Undercutting of Rosie and Adam - Megan Bannen - ★★.¾
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky - Lesley Nneka Arimah - ★★★★
(A) Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping - Sangu Mandanna - ★★★★

July 2025:

At the Ragtag Hotel: The Elevator Ride - Freya Novak - ★★★.¾
Boobies - Nancy Vo - ★★★
Cat Got Your Tongue?: Curious Feline Phrases from Around the World - Hannah Shaw - ★★★.¾
Cats of the World - Hannah Shaw - ★★★★★
Circe - Madeline Miller - ★★★.¼
Ellie Ment and the Material Matter - Bertie Stephens - ★★★.¾
(The) Ex-Wives Club (A Short Story) - Sally Hepworth - ★★★.¼
(The) Fairy Tale Fixers: Cinderella - Deborah Underwood - ★★★★.½
False Note (A Short Story) - David Lagercrantz - ★★
Finding Love at the Magical Curiosity Shop - Jaimie Admans - ★★
(The) Ghostwriter - Julie Clark - ★★★.½
Good Neighbors (A Short Story) - Chad Zunker - ★★★.¾
Itty Bitty Betty Blob Makes a Splash - Constance Lombardo - ★★★★.½
(The) Little Bird Sleeps by the Sea - Yuu Minaduki - ★.½
Little Joe and the Big City - Mike Darcy - ★★★.¾
Michael Without Apology - Catherine Ryan Hyde - ★★★★.¼
My First Christmas Piano Music - Emily Norris - ★★★★
Pearly Gates - Bonnie Solomon - ★★★.½
(The) Prophecy - Lisa Zimmermann - ★★
Rewitched - Lucy Jane Wood - ★.½
Sentence: Stories - Mikhail Iossel - ★★
Seven Little Ducklings - Annette LeBlanc Cate - ★★★.½
(The) Skydivers (A Short Story) - Chris Bohjalian - ½ star
Small Things (A Short Story) - Wanda M. Morris - ★★.½
Storybook Ending - Moira Macdonald - ★★★.½
This Is Happiness - Niall Williams - ★★★.¾
Time of the Child - Niall Williams - ★★★.½
(The) Whispers - Ashley Audrain - ★★★.¾
White Bird - R.J. Palacio - ★★★★★
Women of Note - M.J. Buckman - ★.½

June 2025:

(The) Adventures of Penguin and Panda: In the Dark - Brenda Maier - ★★★★
Banned Together: Our Fight for Readers' Rights - Edited by Ashley Hope Pérez - ★★★★
Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos - Edited by Molly Llewellyn & Kristel Buckley
Bob the Boo-Boo - Mélina Schoenborn - ★★★
Death Row (A Short Story) - Freida McFadden - ★★★★
Disney Fairies 4 -In-1 Vol. 4 - Disney Comics Group - ★★★.¾
(The) Elixir - Lindsay Galvin - ★★★★
Every Hour Until Then - Gabrielle Meyer - ★★★★.½
(The) Famine Orphans - Patricia Falvey - ★★★★
(The) Invisibles - Susie Bower - ★★★.¾
(A) Letter from the Lonesome Shore - Sylvie Cathrall - ★★
(A) Letter to the Luminous Deep - Sylvie Cathrall - ★★.½
(The) Lost Sunday - Iléana Surducan - ★★★★★
(The) Maid’s Secret - Nita Prose - ★★★
Maya Loves the Sun - Disha Mathur - ★★★.½
Pacheco and the Witch of the Mountain - Juan E. Zambrano - ★★★★.½
Sculpting Fables - Rachel Huffmire - ★★★★.¼
(The) Teacher of Auschwitz - Wendy Holden - ★★★.¾
(The) Teller of Small Fortunes - Julie Leong - ★★.¾
Tinker Bell and Blaze - Disney Comics Group - ★★★.½
Tinker Bell and her Magical Friends - Disney Comics Group - ★★★★
Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings - Disney Comics Group - ★★★.¾
Traveling Left of Center and Other Stories - Nancy Christie - ★★★.¾
(The) Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead - ★★
Unnatural Selection - Coco Cooper - ★★★
Upon a Starlit Tide - Kell Woods - ★★.½
Wanda Hears the Stars: A Blind Astronomer Listens to the Universe - Amy S. Hansen - ★★★★.¼
What If We Were All Kind! - C.M. Harris - ★★★.¼
(The) Woman Who Met Herself - Laura Pearson - ★★★.¼
(The) Women - Sommer Schafer - ★★★.¾

May 2025:

As Above, So Below - Stan Stanley - ★★★★.½
Bright World - Stan Stanley - ★★★★.½
Cat's People - Tanya Guerrero - ★★★★
Disney Fairies 4 -In-1 Vol. 1 - Disney Comics Group - ★★★
Fiona and the Peculiar Praise - Rennie Dyball - ★★★
Flying in Colors - Padma Prasad Reddeppa - ★★.½
Girls: Life Isn't a Fairy Tale - Annet Schaap - ★★★★
Home Has No Borders: A Collection of South Asian Stories - edited by Sona Charaipotra & Samira Ahmed
(The) House of Lost Whispers - Jenni Keer - ★★★.¼
(The) Keeper of Lonely Spirits - E.M. Anderson - ★★★.¾
Maddie and Mabel Make a Friend - Kari Allen - ★★★★.½
(The) Most Magnificent Idea - Ashley Spires - ★★★★.½
(The) Most Magnificent Maker's A to Z - Ashley Spires - ★★★★.½
(The) Most Magnificent Team - Ashley Spires - ★★★★.½
(The) Most Magnificent Thing - Ashley Spires - ★★★★.½
(An) Ocean Full of Stories: 50 Folktales and Legends from Around the World - Angela McAllister - ★★★★.½
Octavio and His Glasses - Marc González Rossell - ★★.¾
Prilla's Talent - Disney Comics Group - ★★.¼
(The) Professional Mourner - Neil Randall - ★★★.¾
(The) Rainfall Market - You Yeong-Gwang - ★★.¼
(The) Sea Gives Up the Dead: Stories - Molly Olguín - ★★★.¼
Shattered Snow - Rachel Huffmire - ★★★★.¼
Sincerely, Antonia: A Big Note from a Tiny Guest - Cortney Cino - ★★★.¾
Sleep, Sheep! - Kerry Lyn Sparrow - ★★★.½
Spinning Briar - Rachel Huffmire - ★★★★
State of Paradise - Laura van den Berg - ★★.½
Tinker Bell and the Day of the Dragon - Disney Comics Group - ★★★.¼
Tinker Bell and the Pixie Hollow Games - Disney Comics Group - ★★★.¾
Tinker Bell and the Wings of Rani - Disney Comics Group - ★★★.½
Tinker Bell to the Rescue - Disney Comics Group - ★★★
(The) Traitor of Sherwood Forest - Amy S. Kaufman - ★.½

April 2025:

Atana and the Jade Mermaid - Vivian Zhou - ★★★★.½
(The) Best Daddy of All - Peter Horn - ★★★★.¾
(The) Boy in the Tree - Lisa Thompson - ★★★.¼
Children's Favorite Arabic Stories: Fables and Folk Tales from Across the Arabic Speaking World - Jehanne Moharram - ★★★
Crucifixus - Belinda Tobin - ★★★.¼
Death of the Author - Nnedi Okorafor - ★★★.¾
Don't Tell Me How to Die - Marshall Karp - ★★.½
Huda F Cares? - Huda Fahmy - ★★★★.½
Huda F Wants to Know? - Huda Fahmy - ★★★★.¾
(The) Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - ★★★.½
My Disgusting Book of Poetry - Sirius Imnot - ★★★
Notes from a Deserter: A Soldier's Journey Home - C.W. Towarnicki - ★★★.¾
(The) Princes and the Pea - Peter Bently - ★★★.½
(The) Scattered Purple Flowers - Srivalli Rekha - ★★★★
Slip - L. Ryan Storms - ★★★★.½
So-Hee and Lowy - Anna Kang - ★★★.½
Tangerines - Tsvi Jolles - ★★★.¼
Women and Children First - Alina Grabowski - ★★

March 2025:

Annabelle and the Spaghetti-Confetti Surprise - Jenna Beatrice - ★★.¾
(The) Appletree Animal Agency - Katya Balen - ★★★★.½
(The) Awful Truth About The Sushing Prize - Marco Ocram - ★★★.¾
Bitter Greens - Kate Forsyth - ★★★.½
Book Lovers - Emily Henry - ★.½
(A) Chest Full of Words - Rebecca Gugger - ★★★.½
(The) Children of Hamelin - Jannie Ireland - ★★★.½
Dal Chawal: 85 Vegetarian Indian Recipes Combining the Power of Dal and Rice - Sapna Punjabi - ★★★.¾
(The) Exception to the Rule (A Short Story) - Christina Lauren - ★★★.¾
(The) Fabergé Girl - Ina Christova - ★★
Feelings Are Like Farts - Christopher Willard & Tara Wosiski - ★★★.½
Finding Serenissima - Apple Gidley - ★★.½
Guatemalan Rhapsody: Stories - Jared Lemus - ★★★.½
How to Age Disgracefully - Clare Pooley - ★★★.¼
How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith - Mariann Edgar Budde - ★★★★
Huda F Are You? - Huda Fahmy - ★★★★.½
I Knead My Mommy: and Other Poems by Kittens - Francesco Marciuliano - ★★★.½
Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend - Rebecca Romney - ★★★★.¼
(The) Knight and the Butcherbird (A Short Story) - Alix E. Harrow - ★★★★.¼
Little Cloud's Big Dream - Ixtzel Arreola - ★★★.¼
(The) Matchmakers - Vanessa Edwards - ★★★★
Nursery Rhymes for Kinder Times, Volume 2 - Pam Gittleman - ★★★★
(The) Old Scarecrow - Tabatha Jean D'Agata - ★★★.¾
Once Upon an Eid - Edited by S.K. Ali & Aisha Saeed - ★★★.¾
(The) Only Monster - Matt Coyne - ★★★
(A) Palace Near the Wind - Ai Jiang - ★★★.½
(A) Song for You and I - K. O'Neill - ★★.½
(The) Story She Left Behind - Patti Callahan Henry - ★★
(The) Three-Year Tumble - Dayeon Auh - ★★★★
(The) Warbler - Sarah Beth Durst - ★★★.¾
When the Bones Sing - Ginny Myers Sain - ★★★.¾
Where the Bones Lie - Nick Kolakowski - ★★★.½
Who Wants to Live Forever - Hanna Thomas Uose - ★★★★.¼
Wizard of Most Wicked Ways - Charlie N. Holmberg - ★★★.¾

February 2025:

(The) Biggest Smallest Thing - Sara de Waal - ★★★★
Black Woods, Blue Sky - Eowyn Ivey - ★★★★.¼
(The) Cobbler's Apprentice - Lynette Rees - ★★★
(A) Dangerous Game - Mandy Robotham - ★★★.¾
Frail Little Embers - Fija Callaghan - ★★★.¾
(The) Girl Who Flew Away - Lee Dean - ★★★
God with Us: Bible Stories on the Road to Emmaus - Matt Mikalatos - ★★★★
Happy Endings - Lucie Bryon - ★★★★.½
(The) Hidden Storyteller - Mandy Robotham - ★★★★
(The) Legend of Uh - Aaron N. Hall - ★★★★
Little Aiden: A Big Kid Book for Toddlers - Albert & Anna Choi - ★★★
(The) Many Futures of Maddy Hart - Laura Pearson - ★★★.¾
On Veil Creek - Gaylene Dutchyshen - ★★★★
(The) One Before the One - Emma Cooper - ★★
(The) Otherwhere Post - Emily J. Taylor - ★★★.¾
Rosie and the Dreamboat (A Short Story) - Sally Thorne - ★★★
Royal Valentine (A Short Story) - Sariah Wilson - ★
(The) Scholar and the Last Faerie Door - H.G. Parry - ★★★.¾
(The) Secret Life of Beatrice Alright - Brooke Harris - ★★★★
Soma - Fernando Llor - ★★
Tales of Virtuous Stepmothers - Georgina Warren - ★★★★
(The) Wicked Wit of Jane Austen - Dominique Enright - ★★★
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls - Grady Hendrix - ★★★★
With Any Luck (A Short Story) - Ashley Poston - ★
(The) Woman with All the Answers - Linda Green - ★★★.¾
Worst Wingman Ever (A Short Story) - Abby Jimenez - ★★★★.¼
You are Your Own Fairy Tale - Amanda Lovelace - ★★★★

January 2025:

(The) Briar Club - Kate Quinn - ★★★★.½
(A) Council of Dolls - Mona Susan Power - ★★★★.¼
Down on the Farm - Cassie Veselovsky - ★★★★
Emily Wilde's Compendium of Lost Tales - Heather Fawcett - ★★★.¼
(The) Envelopes - Hasu August - ★★★
(The) Forgotten Magic of Zoey Turner - Erin Stewart - ★★.¾
(The) Language of Love and Other Stories - Nancy Christie - ★★★★
(The) Last House in the Row - Lesley Parr - ★★★★
(A) Mixed Bag - Agnes McIntyre - ★★★.½
Ping's Perfect Pot - Helen H. Wu - ★★★★.¼
Poor Girls - Clare Whitfield - ★★★.½
Remarkable Women: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About Amazing Women! - Eric Huang - ★★★.¾
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt - ★★★★.¼
(A) Short Walk Through a Wide World - Douglas Westerbeke - ★.½
Someone You Can Build a Nest In - John Wiswell - ★★★.½
Speak to Me - Ben Raterman - ★★★
Stormy Normy and the Tom Quilty Gold Cup - Leisa Fail - ★★★.½
(A) Study in Scarlet (Manga Classics) - Arthur Conan Doyle with Julien Choy - ★★★★.¼
(The) Vanishing Bookstore - Helen Phifer - ★★★
(The) Warm Hands of Ghosts - Katherine Arden - ★★★.¼
What to Do When Your Temper Flares - Dawn Huebner - ★★★★.¼
(The) World With Its Mouth Open - Zahid Rafiq - ★★★
Your Money and the World: How to Spend, Save, Donate and Invest Sustainably - Cecile Biccari - ★★.½