Chris Blocker

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15 books

10 Star Reviews

East of Eden

The Assistant

Invisible Man

The Winter of Our Discontent

Captains and the kings

Ahab's Wife

The Grapes of Wrath

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166 books

Booker

This Mournable Body

Bring Up the Bodies

Wolf Hall

Ducks, Newburyport

Apeirogon

Night Boat to Tangier

Normal People

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15 books

First Reads

Let the Great World Spin

Lake Overturn

Chef

[Refuge]e

The Dream of Perpetual Motion

Memory Wall

The Memory of Love

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1 book

My Boss Made Me

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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83 books

Owned

Ghost moth

The Long Valley

The Color Purple

The Street

Shenanigans!

In Cold Blood

The Stand

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1 book

Reading Currently Suspended

The best American short stories of the century

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32 books

Read To Kids

Island of the Blue Dolphins

May B.

Babe: The Gallant Pig

The Bad Beginning

The Reptile Room

The Miserable Mill

The Austere Academy

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26 books

Sa Barer

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When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man

Birds of a lesser paradise

The Song of Achilles

Monstress

The Paris Wife

The House of Tomorrow

A Good Hard Look

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9 books

Sa Clegg

Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories

Fates and furies

The Lobster Kings

& Sons

The Orchardist

The UnAmericans

Family Life

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1 book

Sa Dagostino

Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down

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3 books

Sa Glick

Tell the Wolves I'm Home

West of Here

The Year of the Gadfly

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1 book

Sa Gluck

The Interestings

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8 books

Sa Massie

An Untamed State

Autobiography of Red

Not on fire, but burning

The Good House

The Collective

Little Children

The Pretty Girl: Novella and Stories

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1 book

Sa Roberts

Relief map

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2 books

Sa Weed

Why Can't I Be You

Calling Me Home

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12 books

The Bookmark Podcast

Beautiful Bad

Monstress, Vol. 1: Awakening

Saudade

The Mercies

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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10 books

To Read 2012

Black Swan Green

On the Beach

Four Spirits

Great Lion of God

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Spring Snow

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10 books

To Read 2013

Half of a Yellow Sun

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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The Counterfeiters

A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Human Smoke

The Deptford Trilogy: Fifth Business / The Manticore / World of Wonders

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10 books

To Read 2017

The Book of My Lives

The Sirens of Titan

Borderline

Weeds

Demons

Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within

All the Living

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10 books

To Read 2018

The Bone People

Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman

The Grass Is Singing

Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

Leaving Orbit

Not Without Laughter

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The Sky Unwashed

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10 books

To Read 2019

The Bear and the Nightingale

The Fifth Season

Erasure

Midsummernight

Wolf Hall

Rebecca

Central Station

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10 books

To Read 2020

Ten Thousand Saints

America Pacifica

Brother

The History of Love

East of the West: A Country in Stories

River of Gods

My Own Devices : True Stories from the Road on Music, Science and Senseless Love

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10 books

To Read 2021

Stories

The Secret Scripture

Song Yet Sung

Love After Love

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

The Shepherd's Hut

The Salt Path

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20 books

To Read 2022

Demons

Mama Day

The Bone People

Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman

The Grass Is Singing

Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath

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The Sky Unwashed

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23 books

Un Mfa

The Priest's Madonna

Nina: Adolescence

The big four

On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year

Western Avenue and Other Fictions

Shenanigans!

Cradling Monsoons

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