16 reviews 9 YES · 5 DEPENDS · 1 NO · 1 DNF Who this is

• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 I finished this feeling battered but not manipulated. A Whole Life Built Out of Emergency Repairs YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson · 2022 I liked this book much more than I expected to, which is inconvenient because it is also much stranger and more upsetting than the premise initially suggests. The Poster Was Never the Problem by Itself YES
• CLASSICS Roundtable Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 The romance is good, but the book is better when it is talking about money, family reputation, class, and the consequences of letting a funny person avoid responsibility. The Rent Is Due, and So Is Your Marriage YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Queen Birgitta Trotzig · 1964 I also would not pretend it is an easy recommendation. A Hard Life Is Not the Same as a Strong One DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Calamity Club Kathryn Stockett · 2026 It is messier and more melodramatic than it needs to be, but I believed in the women more than I believed in the machinery around them. The Girls Are the Point, Even When the Plot Forgets YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Nightingale Kristin Hannah · 2015 But if you are willing to accept a book that is sometimes blunt, repetitive, and openly designed to make you cry, there is a lot here that matters. The War Is Terrible, and the Book Knows It DEPENDS
• POETRY Roundtable Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein · 1974 It is also inventive, direct, and very good at making a physical detail carry an entire joke. The Joke Is Usually Better When It Has Consequences YES
• ROMANCE Roundtable Beard on Tap Willow Sanders · 2021 If you want a short book where a competent woman gets desired, needed, and a kitchen of her own after a divorce, this will probably work for you. Only if you already want the bar to work out DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable May We Feed the King Rebecca Perry · 2026 She will not tell the audience what really happened because she does not know, and she thinks the not knowing is more honest than a made-up ending. Preserved and completely gone DEPENDS
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable One Death at a Time Abbi Waxman · 2025 When Mason refuses to enter a bar during a foot chase because she knows it might threaten her sobriety, Archie just accepts it instantly and goes in himself. Assistant to the Murder Suspect YES
• ROMANCE Roundtable Shadow Assassin Elle James · 2021 If you need every relationship beat to be psychologically earned, this will not work. A bra flash drive, a two-day romance, and a very particular reader DEPENDS
• ROMANCE Roundtable Some Like It Psychic Ruby West and Ella Winters · 2021 She repeatedly notices Marcelo, enjoys being desired by him, and still says she only just got her freedom and wants to know herself first. I Came for the Psychic Powers and Stayed for the Weird Little Crew YES
• SCIENCE FICTION Roundtable Station Eternity Mur Lafferty · 2022 Winning a trip to space is cool for a magazine profile, but a fresh transmission pays the bills. Sanctuary Does Not Pay The Rent YES
• WESTERN Roundtable The Broken Bow Larry D. Sweazy · 2022 Katherine Duchamp is the one competent woman, and the book still uses her house as the place you dump a child when you do not know how to be a father. I finished it. I would not tell you to. NO
• CLASSICS Roundtable The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis · 1955 I recommend it for the craft, which is fair and careful. A prequel that does its job YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Value of Rain Brandon Shire · 2011 It's because the book seems to think using a trafficked kid as a teaching prop for the protagonist's emotional growth is moving instead of gross. Rain That Never Adds Up DNF

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