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Dark Matter by Blake Crouch Pages: 342 Genre: Techno Thriller Published: July 26, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s He says, “Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse?...

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Pages: 197 Genre: Classic Published: 1925 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Mrs. Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.   2/5 stars I was excited when my book club picked a book by Virginia Woolf since I had never read anything from her and I thought with...

A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly Pages: 396 Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction Published: September 1, 2004 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn’t have written even one poem if she’d had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house...

Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin Pages: 352 Genre: Psychological Thriller Published: August 11, 2015 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s 3/5 stars I loved so much of Black-Eyed Susans since it did a fantastic job being told from the point of view of Tessa who is a survivor of a horrific serial killer attack. Then,...

Wool by Hugh Howey Pages: 550 Genre: Dystopian Published: January 25, 2012 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s Juliette wondered if she would start talking to objects now. Start going crazy. As the darkness absorbed her, she realized her mind-set was changing by the minute. Resigned to her death the day before, now she was...

Night Shift by Stephen King Pages: 336 Genre: Horror, Story Story Collection Published: 1978 Link: Amazon | Powell’s The ladder had always held us before, we thought it would always hold us again, which is a philosophy that gets men and nations in trouble time after time. 3.5/5 stars The first time I...

The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead Pages: 400 Genre: Young Adult Romance Published: April 5, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s “We’re all in charge of our own lives—and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make”   4/5 stars The Glittering Court is not a book that I should...

Uprooted by Naomi Novik Pages: 438 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: May 19, 2015 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s “It comes, I suppose,” I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, “of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don’t always stay where you put them.” 4.5/5 stars Uprooted is a...

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton Pages: 314 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: March 8, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s I’d near forgotten what it felt like to be a girl in Miraji. I was inconspicuous, but not the same way I’d been as a boy. Not because I was the same as...

The Shadow Queen by C.J. Redwine Pages: 387 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: February 16, 2016 Purchase: Amazon | Powell’s 2/5 stars In one month, I unintentionally read four Young Adult novels. Out of the three, I liked The Shadow Queen the least. I have not read a ton of YA since I am well past...