11 reviews 8 YES · 3 DEPENDS Who this is

• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Blindness José Saramago · 1995 I admired the book more consistently than I enjoyed it. When Everyone Can See, Nobody Looks YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 Still, the book stayed with me because its central question is practical rather than abstract. The System Keeps Calling It a Personal Failure YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson · 2022 I appreciated that the book does not turn this into a tidy lesson about toxic relationships. The poster is not the dangerous part YES
• CLASSICS Roundtable Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 It is about checking what you think you know before you build a life around it. The actual problem is not the proposal YES
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  Queen
  LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Queen Birgitta Trotzig · 1985 I admired it more than I liked it. A family held together by the wrong person DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon · 2000 I loved the book's attention to labor, systems, and the small mechanisms that keep a life running. A Novel About Escape, Ownership, and the Cost of Staying Alive YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Calamity Club Kathryn Stockett · 2026 But it also has a real understanding of how people survive systems that call exploitation protection. A Good Book Buried Under Too Many Moving Parts YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese · 2023 I admired The Covenant of Water more than I loved every part of it. A Family History With an Actual Water Problem YES
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  The Fall of Iris Henley
  CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable The Fall of Iris Henley Jennifer Graham · 2026 The book has a strong reading engine, a clear understanding of online cruelty, and a protagonist whose guilt is more complicated than innocence. The actual mystery is who forgot to test the plot YES
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Nightingale Kristin Hannah · 2015 I was moved by the book, but I was also aware of being moved. A war novel that keeps checking the emotional box DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Theo of Golden Allen Levi · 2023 I was less convinced by the machinery that kept turning every encounter into proof that Theo was right. A Very Kind Man Inside a Very Convenient Story DEPENDS

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