17 reviews 8 DEPENDS · 6 YES · 3 NO Who this is

• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Demon Copperhead Barbara Kingsolver · 2022 I would not recommend it to somebody wanting a short, quiet read about a boy overcoming adversity. A Whole Life Held Together by People Who Keep Showing Up DEPENDS
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry · 1985 It also contains some of the strongest writing about work, loyalty, ageing, grief and the dangerous gap between being responsible for people and actually caring for them. A Long Way to Go, and Nobody Has Written the Plan YES
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Mad Mabel Sally Hepworth · 2025 I would recommend it to readers who enjoy domestic thrillers with an elderly narrator, dark humour, found family and a strong emphasis on female friendship. A murder mystery held together by friendship, paperwork and one very large problem DEPENDS
• CLASSICS Roundtable Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen · 1813 That is a useful lesson, and the book delivers it with enough wit that I did not mind being made to sit through the paperwork. A Family Where Nobody Has Assigned the Actions YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese · 2023 Even with those reservations, I am glad I stayed with it. A Family History That Refuses to Leave Anything Unassigned YES
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable The Fall of Iris Henley Jennifer Graham · 2026 I would recommend this to readers who like school thrillers with social-media cruelty, multiple suspects and a narrator who has genuine guilt rather than a spotless conscience. A Rumour Can Do the Work of a Bullet DEPENDS
• HISTORICAL FICTION Roundtable The Nightingale Kristin Hannah · 2015 I would not recommend this to someone who wants historical fiction to be quiet, understated or sparing with tragedy. The women who kept going DEPENDS
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable Theo of Golden Allen Levi · 2023 For me, Theo of Golden ultimately became a book about the difference between seeing people and managing them. A Kindness With Too Much Money Behind It DEPENDS
• ROMANCE Roundtable Beard on Tap Willow Sanders · 2021 The job Tami pushed was real work feeding real people, and the heroine's horror of it is the snobbery the book does not know it is showing us. All that painting, and nobody owns the passwords NO
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Unspoken Truths Liz Mistry · 2019 But underneath all the noise, it is a fundamentally practical novel about people trying to maintain order in a chaotic world. When the Systems Fail, You Have to Shovel Your Own Snow YES
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable One Death at a Time Abbi Waxman · 2025 Julia Mann is glamorous and outrageous and gets all the best lines, but Mason is the one doing the work, and the book seems to know it. Filed In The Wrong Section YES
• CRIME & THRILLER Roundtable Perfect Remains Helen Fields · 2017 There are credibility problems elsewhere that matter more because the main investigation asks me to admire precision. Ava Turner kept me reading when everyone else was making life difficult DEPENDS
• ROMANCE Roundtable Shadow Assassin Elle James · 2021 A lasting trust strong enough to carry the ending needs more time than this book gives it. Trust comes quickly when nobody has time to check the paperwork DEPENDS
• SCIENCE FICTION Roundtable Station Eternity Mur Lafferty · 2022 What I believed less was how many people from Mallory's and Xan's past could fit on one shuttle. She Offered to Clean DEPENDS
• WESTERN Roundtable The Broken Bow Larry D. Sweazy · 2022 For me this became a book about work that never closes. Open jobs all the way to the last page NO
• CLASSICS Roundtable The Magician's Nephew C. S. Lewis · 1955 Every system in that house that works, works because Letty works. Polly Did the Risk Assessment YES
• LITERARY FICTION Roundtable The Value of Rain Brandon Shire · 2011 What got me here wasn't the abuse, though there's an enormous amount of it, stacked up like invoices nobody's approved. No Minutes Were Taken At This Deathbed NO

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