A quick word on my rating system: My ratings are entirely subjective, based solely on my own thoughts and opinions and observations of the books. I do not receive anything for reviewing these books, monetary or otherwise. I rate the books on a scale of 1–10, with 1 being worst and 10 being best. These reviews include both ARCs and completed novels.

A

Acevedo, Elizabeth

• Clap When You Land
• The Poet X
• With the Fire on High

Amato, Mary

• Open Mic Night at Westminster Cemetery

Anders, Charlie Jane

• Victories Greater Than Death

B

Blau, Jessica Anya

• Mary Jane

Bowman, Akemi Dawn

• The Infinity Courts

Brooks, Terry

• The Black Elfstone (The Fall of Shannara, book 1)
• The Sorcerer’s Daughter (The Defenders of Shannara, book 3)

Brown, Eli

• Oddity

Brusatte, Steve

• The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

Bryant, Elise

• Happily Ever Afters

C

Carr, Caleb

• The Alienist

Cervantes, J. C.

• The Storm Runner (The Storm Runner, book 1)

Chernow, Rob

• Alexander Hamilton

Chokshi, Roshani

• Aru Shah and the End of Time (Pandava Quartet, book 1)
• Aru Shah and the Song of Death (Pandava Quartet, book 2)

Christie, Agatha

• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
• Murder on the Orient Express

Clarke, Susanna

• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
• Piranesi

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

• Between the World and Me

Colfer, Eoin

• Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, book 1)
• The Fowl Twins

Collins, Manda

• A Lady’s Guide to Mischief and Mayhem

Cowell, Cressida

• How to Train Your Dragon (How to Train Your Dragon, book 1)

Cummins, Jeanine

• American Dirt

D

Danforth, Emily M.

• Plain Bad Heroines

Dass, Sarah

• Where the Rhythm Takes You

Dawson, Delilah S. and Kevin Hearne

• Kill the Farm Boy (Tales of Pell, book 1)
• No Country For Old Gnomes (Tales of Pell, book 2)

DeLuca, Jen

• Well Met (Well Met, book 1)
• Well Played (Well Met, book 2)

Dickens, Charles

• A Christmas Carol

Dow, Alechia

• The Sound of Stars

Dreyer, Benjamin

• Dreyer’s English

du Maurier, Daphne

• Rebecca

E

El-Mohtar, Amal and Max Gladstone

• This Is How You Lose the Time War

F

Foody, Amanda

• The Accidental Apprentice (Wilderlore, book 1)

Fox, Margalit

• Conan Doyle for the Defense

Frick, Kit

• I Killed Zoe Spanos

Fry, Stephen

• Mythos

G

Gailey, Sarah

• The Echo Wife
• Magic for Liars
• Upright Women Wanted

Gaiman, Neil

• Norse Mythology

Gaiman, Neil and Terry Pratchett

• Good Omens

Gill, Nikita

• Great Goddesses

Grann, David

• Killers of the Flower Moon

Griffiths, Elly

• The Postscript Murders

Grimly, Gris and Mary Shelley

• Gris Grimly’s Frankenstein

Graudin, Ryan

• Invictus

H

Hall, Alexis

• Boyfriend Material

Hand, Cynthia

• The Afterlife of Holly Chase

Hannah, Kristin

• The Four Winds

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood

• The Mercies

Harkup, Kathryn

• Making the Monster

Harwood, J. J. A.

• The Shadow in the Glass

Hassinger, Amy

• After the Dam

Haynes, Natalie

• A Thousand Ships

Henry, Emily

• Beach Read

Hight, Joe

• Unnecessary Sorrow

Hirahara, Naomi

• Clark and Division

Huchu, T. L.

• The Library of the Dead (Edinburgh Nights, book 1)

Hughes, Kiku

• Displacement

Hurt, Brian

• Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France

I

J

Jaigirdar, Adiba

• The Henna Wars

James, Lauren

• The Loneliest Girl in the Universe

Jean, Emiko

• Tokyo Ever After

Johnson, Leah

• Rise to the Sun

Johnson, Lora Beth

• Goddess in the Machine (Goddess in the Machine, book 1)

K

Kelly, Lynne

• Song for a Whale

Kidd, Jess

• Things in Jars

Klune, T. J.

• The House in the Cerulean Sea
• Under the Whispering Door

Kroger, Lisa and Melanie R. Anderson

• Monster, She Wrote

Kuang, R. F.

• The Poppy War (The Poppy War series, book 1)

L

La Sala, Ryan

• Reverie

Lariviere, Sara

• Time Travel for Love and Profit

Le, Loan

• A Pho Love Story

Lee, Mackenzi

• The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky (Montague Siblings, book 1.5)
• The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, book 1)
• The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy (Montague Siblings, book 2)

Lim, Elizabeth

• Spin the Dawn (The Blood of Stars, book 1)

Lin, Tom

• The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

Livingston, Lesley

• The Defiant (The Valiant, book 2)
• The Valiant (The Valiant, book 1)

Lovelace, Amanda

• The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, book 1)

Lukens, F. T.

• In Deeper Waters

Lyons, Jenn

• The Ruin of Kings (A Chorus of Dragons, book 1)

M

Mafi, Tahereh

• An Emotion of Great Delight

Maggs, Sam

• Girl Squads

Mandanna, Sangu

• Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom (Kiki Kallira, book 1)

Maxwell, Everina

• Winter’s Orbit

McQuiston, Casey

• One Last Stop
• Red, White & Royal Blue

Meggitt-Phillips, Jack

• The Beast and the Bethany (Beast and the Bethany, book 1)

Miller, Madeline

• Circe
• The Song of Achilles

Morgenstern, Erin

• The Night Circus
• The Starless Sea

Morris, Brittney

• The Cost of Knowing
• Slay

Mundy, Liza

• Code Girls

N

Ness, Patrick

• Burn

Neville, Kim

• The Memory Collectors

Newman, T. J.

• Falling

Noah, Trevor

• Born a Crime

North, Anna

• Outlawed

O

Obama, Michelle

• Becoming

Okorafor, Nnedi

• Remote Control

O’Neill, Katie

• Princess Princess Ever After
• The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon series, book 2)
• The Tea Dragon Society (Tea Dragon series, book 1)

Orczy, Baroness

• The Scarlet Pimpernel

Oseman, Alice

• Loveless

P

Parker, Lucy

• Battle Royal

Paulsen, Bree

• Garlic & the Vampire

Penner, Sarah

• The Lost Apothecary

Perry, Sarah

• Melmoth

Price, Tirzah

• Pride and Premeditation

Q

R

Reid, Kiley

• Such a Fun Age

Reid, Taylor Jenkins

• Daisy Jones and the Six

Riccio, Christine

• Better Together

Richardson, Rhiannon

• The Meet-Cute Project

Riordan, Rick

• The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 4)
• Big Red Tequila (Tres Navarre, book 1)
• The Blood of Olympus (Heroes of Olympus, book 5)
• The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo, book 3)
• The Dark Prophecy (The Trials of Apollo, book 2)
• The Hammer of Thor (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, book 2)
• The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, book 1)
• The House of Hades (Heroes of Olympus, book 4)
• The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 5)
• The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 1)
• The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus, book 1)
• The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus, book 3)
• The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 2)
• The Ship of the Dead (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, book 3)
• The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus, book 2)
• The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, book 1)
• The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 3)
• The Tower of Nero (The Trials of Apollo, book 5)
• The Tyrant’s Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, book 4)
• 9 From the Nine Worlds (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, book 3.5)

Ross, Helen Klein (editor)

• The Traveler’s Vade Mecum

Ross, Kathryn H.

• Black Was Not a Label

S

Saadawi, Ahmed

• Frankenstein in Baghdad

Saenz, Benjamin Alire

• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Saint, Jennifer

• Ariadne

Salisbury, Melinda

• Hold Back the Tide

Sanderson, Brandon

• Calamity (The Reckoners, book 3)
• The Final Empire (Mistborn, book 1)
• Firefight (The Reckoners, book 2)
• The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, book 3)
• Steelheart (The Reckoners, book 1)
• The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, book 2)

Savage, Melissa

• Nessie Quest

Schwab, Victoria (V. E.)

• Bridge of Souls (Cassidy Blake, book 3)
• City of Ghosts (Cassidy Blake, book 1)
• A Conjuring of Light (Shades of Magic, book 3)
• A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic, book 1)
• A Gathering of Shadows (Shades of Magic, book 2)
• The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
• The Night of Knives (Shades of Magic graphic novels, volume 2)
• The Rebel Army (Shades of Magic graphic novels, volume 3)
• The Steel Prince (Shades of Magic graphic novels, volume 1)
• Tunnel of Bones (Cassidy Blake, book 2)
• Vengeful (Villains, book 2)
• Vicious (Villains, book 1)

Sebastian, Cat

• The Queer Principles of Kit Webb

Shannon, Samantha

• The Priory of the Orange Tree

Shetterly, Margot Lee

• Hidden Figures

Shusterman, Neal and Jarrod Shusterman

• Dry

Shusterman, Neal

• Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, book 1)
• Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, book 2)
• The Toll (Arc of a Scythe, book 3)

Silverman, Laura

• Recommended For You

Solomon, Rachel Lynn

• Today Tonight Tomorrow

Solomon, Rivers

• The Deep

Stevenson, Robert Louis

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

Stone, Nic

• Shuri

stoner, tammy lynne

• Sugar Land

Sugiura, Misa

• Love & Other Natural Disasters
• This Time Will Be Different

Swann, Stacey

• Olympus, Texas

T

Tahir, Sabaa

• An Ember in the Ashes (The Ember Quartet, book 1)

Takei, George

• They Called Us Enemy

Taylor, Laini

• Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer, book 2)
• Strange the Dreamer (Strange the Dreamer, book 1)

Thomas, Angie

• Concrete Rose
• The Hate U Give

Thomas, Sherry

• The Magnolia Sword

Thor, Rosiee

• Tarnished Are the Stars

Tolkien, J. R. R.

• The Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings, book 1)
• The Return of the King (Lord of the Rings, book 3)
• The Two Towers (Lord of the Rings, book 2)

Townsend, Jessica

• Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, book 3)
• Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, book 1)
• Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow (Nevermoor, book 2)

Turton, Stuart

• The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

U

V

W

Wang, Jen

• The Prince and the Dressmaker
• Stargazing

Waters, Martha

• To Have and to Hoax

Weir, Andy

• Artemis
• The Martian
• Project Hail Mary

White, Kiersten

• The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

Whitehead, Colson

• The Underground Railroad

Whitfield, Clare

• People of Abandoned Character

Williams, Eley

• The Liar’s Dictionary

X

Y

Ying, Victoria

• City of Secrets (City of Secrets, book 1)

Z

Zoboi, Ibi

• Pride

Zusak, Markus

• The Book Thief
• Bridge of Clay
• I Am the Messenger