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