Title and desc for Bookshelf
Arturo's Island, by Elsa Morante****1/2
Queen Sugar, Natalie Baszile (friend)
Grand Union, Zadie Smith ****1/2
The House of Broken Angels, Louis Alberto Urrea ****
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, by Reni Eddo-Lodge****
!0:04, by Ben Lerner ****1/2
Writers and Lovers, by Lily King *****
Faith in Carlos Gomez, by Samantha Dunn **
The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel *****
Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo*****
Good Boy, by Jennifer Finney Boylan****1/2
The Other Language, by Francesca Marciano****1/2
Edie on the Green Screen, by Beth Lisick****
Why We Swim, Bonnie Tsui****
Wild Game, by Adrienne Brodeur****1/2
Winter Kept Us Warm, by Anne Raeff*****
Rodham, by Curtis Sittenfeld****
The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett****1/2
The Water is Wide, by Pat Conroy****
Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi****1/2
The Plague, by Albert Camus*****
Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene****1/2
Survival Math, by Mitchell S. Johnson****
Friends and Strangers, by J. Courtney Sullivan***
Things We Lost in the Fire, by Mariana Enriquez****1/2
The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett*****
The Mothers, Brit Bennett****
Apeirogon, by Colum McCann*****
All Adults Here, by Emma Straub***1/2
Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell*****
Sorry for Your Trouble, by Richard Ford****
Breath, by James Nestor****
Nocturnes, by Kazuo Ishiguro*****
A Place with Promise, Edward Swift****1/2
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead*****
Splendora, by Edward Swift****1/2
A Burning, by Megha Majumdar****1/2
Dept of Speculation, by Jenny Offill*****
Jack, Marilynne Robinson*****
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, by Deesha Philyaw****1/2
Sisterland, Curtis Sittenfeld***1/2
The Lying Life of Adults, Elena Ferrante*****
Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson*****
The Bookshop, by Penelope Fitzgerald****
The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride*****
News of the World, by Paulette Jiles*****
Fiebre Tropical, by Juli Delgado Opera****1/2
Mexican Gothic, by Sylvia Moreno-Garcia***1/2