X by Davey Davis
it’s not hardcore super sex (or maybe it is?)
it’s not hardcore super sex (or maybe it is?)
solid novel recommended in Only Americans Burn In Hell
deeply affecting, affectingly deep
a gorgeous book
some things are worth dying for – what is worth killing for?
a very american-feeling memoir about being rich and successful and a literal god?
in early Jan I was quoted in the New Yorker and read a perfect novel
excellent, significant, 19th century anti-slavery novel
a bleak, beautiful, japanese novel[la]
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
doris lessing’s sci-fi quintet
can’t stop reading / can’t start doing anything else
baldwin, baldwin, baldwin
an excellent book about books
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
redressing a gap in my reading
a solid contemporary novel
a truly phenomenal novel but Scotty still depressed
powerful novel that should be better known
excellent mid-life crisis novel
some notes on a gorgeous novel
very very very good novella from 2016
a very very very good big book on WAR
a solid, if unambitious, novel from a major contemporary voice
i’ve found my local indie press
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
a serviceable though chaste 1940s bildungsroman
acclaimed canadian steampunky slavery novel
rooney rooney
a lovely fucking novel
it’s the most wonderful book of the year
some creepy southern Gothic…
i found a book in the street
a very good contemporary novel
a snobbish delight
ideologically, i’d love to tear this apart, but i cannot…
there ain’t no fool like a holy fool
another ruddy belter from enard who i love
accidentally read a book by a nazi
infamous for the wrong reasons…
hipster dystopia / hipstopia / better than that sounds
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