This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a book this much. Wickedly funny, thought-provoking, and with a big heart. I'm off to see what else Frankel has written . . .

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Right Behind You by Lisa Gardner

There's a fine line between "interesting plot twist" and "way, way too convoluted" and this book crossed that line.

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Harmony by Carolyn Parkhurst

I really, really enjoyed this.

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

I really, really enjoyed this. I kept anticipating what would happen next and I kept being wrong. That was a good thing.

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My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella

Ack, normally I love Kinsella for funny, romantic fluff, but this book did not deliver. Characters didn't quite gel, plot didn't quite work.

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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

Of course I loved this.

How the Other Half Banks by Mehrsa Baradaran

You would not think that a history of banking would be interesting, but you would be wrong. This is a fascinating and important book. (Also, it enraged me. Not the book. How we treat the poor.)

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a novel this much. Really, really well done.

Class by Lucinda Rosenfeld

I loved this book. It was a hilarious, brilliant send-up of white liberal guilt.

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The Sleepwalker by Chris Bohjalian

The whole time I was reading this I was thinking that it was the most transparently obvious plot ever. And then I got to the last few pages and realized that what I thought was going to happen did not happen. I was totally blindsided. So, in short, this was really, really good.

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All Stories Are Love Stories by Elizabeth Percer

I just really, really enjoyed this.

Sugar Changed the World by Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos

Great topic, lackluster writing style.

Girl in the Blue Boat by Monica Hesse

meh

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

A fascinating story and a phenomenally well-written book. Highly, highly recommended.

A Square Meal by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe

A bit of this felt like irrelevant padding, but most of it was very interesting.

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

I'm still trying to decide how I feel about this one.

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

I never would have picked this up on my own because I don't do celebrity bios, but it was free on Audible, so . . . and it was fantastic, because it wasn't really a celeb bio but rather a memoir of growing up under apartheid. Recommended.

Marriage: A History by Stephanie Coontz

Fascinating. (And accidentally fascinating in the ways in which it is already out-of-date after only a decade.)

The Fireman by Joe Hill

If this had been 1/3 the length, it would have been great. But I was resentful by the time I finished it.

Us by David Nicholls

I really, really enjoyed this. The narrator was so . . . much like me.