| 1 | Things You Kiss Goodbye, The | Leslie Connor | Just when I thought I “got” the author. While not as good as the other 3 books, I still had to finish this one. |
| 2 | Pachinko | Min Jin Lee | 500 pages of good, yet not uplifting storytelling, of 5 generations of a Korean family, mostly in Japan. |
| 3 | Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell, #6), An | Deanna Raybourn | Brilliant vocab; |
| 4 | Hench | Natalie Zina Walschots | Even Villians need secretaries, and an Excel spreadsheet and a brilliant hench may discover the gray area between heroes and villians. Kyla and I each give it a thumb up. |
| 5 | In A Glass Grimmly | Adam Gidwitz | Funny and twisted, fitting sequel. |
| 6 | When Stars are Scattered | Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed | Graphic Novel of a Kenyan Refuggee camp, orphaned Somalian children on own, true story |
| 7 | Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America | Ijeoma Oluo | Oh, oh, hard truths about being white. It takes a brave white man to read this…but it takes a brave black woman to live this. |
| 8 | Just Us | Claudia Rankine | A perfect reading complement to Mediocre. Ouch, I need to rethink why I dye my hair. And more signficant topics, of course. |
| 9 | Invisible Life of Addie LeRue | Victoria Schwab | Even stones…. Wow, blown away by clever take “making a deal with the devil”. Want to talk about the love “love” story…. A book I want everyone to experience. Kyla agrees. |
| 10 | The Uglies | Scott Westerfeld | Ended on a cliff hanger and no desire to read 2nd book. |
| 11 | Out of My Mind | Sharon Draper | A girls with cerebral palsey goes from inside her bright head to sharing herself more with a talking device–and the pain that can involve with her “normal” peers. A “social justice” book for school–devastating consequences. |
| 12 | Joy at Work | Marie Kondo | Spark Joy at work? Fine. I do love a tidy place. |
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