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• And Then There Were None reviewed by @grimdarkgareth

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Eight, and I did not expect to be handing Agatha Christie an eight. Everybody dies. Everybody!

  And Then There Were None · @grimdarkgareth · 27 Jul 2026

• Sapiens reviewed by @the_slow_reader

  6/ 106 out of 10

  In Spanish it's called De animales a dioses, a much better title. The first third, fine. After that he's explaining to me things which I already knew, and other things which I don't think he knows either. Has anyone checked the middle third?

  Sapiens · @the_slow_reader · 26 Jul 2026

• Educated reviewed by @bookclubdropout

  8/ 108 out of 10

  "That's not a childhood, that's a court case," Fiona said, and Deborah said she's being unfair to the mother, and then nobody talked about anything else all night!

  Educated · @bookclubdropout · 25 Jul 2026

• Thinking, Fast and Slow reviewed by @mx_marginalia

  8/ 108 out of 10

  I was wrong about this one for about four years.

  Thinking, Fast and Slow · @mx_marginalia · 23 Jul 2026

  66 readers agree with this review

• Pachinko reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Worth all 47 weeks.

  Pachinko · @libbyoverdrive · 23 Jul 2026

• Mistborn reviewed by @hollowknightfan99

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  the one I hand to people. always this one. never start them on the big one, TRUST ME

  Mistborn · @hollowknightfan99 · 22 Jul 2026

• The Priory of the Orange Tree reviewed by @three_chapters_in

  5/ 105 out of 10

  gave up around chapter nine, sorry! four narrators before I'd even worked out the map and I kept mixing the queens up. maybe that's a me problem? I don't think it's entirely a me problem.

  The Priory of the Orange Tree · @three_chapters_in · 22 Jul 2026

• The Remains of the Day reviewed by @theodore_p

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  Fifteen years I had this filed under exquisite and cold, and the thing that corrected me was one sentence about bantering.

  The Remains of the Day · @theodore_p · 22 Jul 2026

• H Is for Hawk reviewed by @quietcarriage

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Hawk half: brilliant. White half: less.

  H Is for Hawk · @quietcarriage · 21 Jul 2026

  11 reader agrees with this review

• The Hunger Games reviewed by @three_chapters_in

  8/ 108 out of 10

  a reread of a reread and I still stop dead after the first one every single time. Catching Fire has been on my bedside table since February, just looking at me

  The Hunger Games · @three_chapters_in · 21 Jul 2026

• Atomic Habits reviewed by @libbyoverdrive

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Borrowed it three times. Bought it in the end.

  Atomic Habits · @libbyoverdrive · 20 Jul 2026

• The Haunting of Hill House reviewed by @grimdarkgareth

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Not my genre. Eight anyway.

  The Haunting of Hill House · @grimdarkgareth · 20 Jul 2026

• Sapiens reviewed by @kepler22b

  7/ 107 out of 10

  readable, broad, sourced thin. why is a book this confident about the cognitive revolution so vague in the notes? fine as a way in / not a reference.

  Sapiens · @kepler22b · 20 Jul 2026

• A Game of Thrones reviewed by @commuterfiction

  8/ 108 out of 10

  Ned Stark leaves Winterfell to serve as Hand of the King and takes his daughters with him. Across the sea Daenerys Targaryen is married to a horse lord. The chapters rotate between eight or nine points of view.

  A Game of Thrones · @commuterfiction · 20 Jul 2026

• Educated reviewed by @three_chapters_in

  9/ 109 out of 10

  oh my god.

  Educated · @three_chapters_in · 19 Jul 2026

• One Hundred Years of Solitude reviewed by @pageandvine

  8/ 108 out of 10

  I drew the family tree on the back of an envelope and still lost track

  One Hundred Years of Solitude · @pageandvine · 18 Jul 2026

• Sharp Objects reviewed by @verity_lane

  7/ 107 out of 10

  Rough. Not rough in the way people usually mean it, rough in the other way. Worked it out at about the halfway mark and hated being right. Don't ask me what "it" is.

  Sharp Objects · @verity_lane · 17 Jul 2026

• My Brilliant Friend reviewed by @pageandvine

  9/ 109 out of 10

  The shoes! The dolls. I ordered the second one before I turned the light off.

  My Brilliant Friend · @pageandvine · 17 Jul 2026

• A Game of Thrones reviewed by @grimdarkgareth

  9/ 109 out of 10

  Nine. First book I read where the bloke you assume is the story dies in the middle and the world just carries on without him! Everything I like started here. Bran chapters are a five and I'm not docking the whole book for Bran.

  A Game of Thrones · @grimdarkgareth · 17 Jul 2026

• Wild reviewed by @nightshiftnurse

  6/ 106 out of 10

  I wanted to like this more than I did. the boots, the grief, all fine, but I kept snagging on the amount of it thats a woman being wildly unprepared and getting away with it. maybe that's just jealousy on my part

  Wild · @nightshiftnurse · 16 Jul 2026

• The Hobbit reviewed by @rereader

  10/ 1010 out of 10

  Seventh, I think. Spreadsheet only goes back to 2003.

  The Hobbit · @rereader · 16 Jul 2026

• The Song of Achilles reviewed by @three_chapters_in

  8/ 108 out of 10

  started it on the train, got as far as Chiron and the cave, and then Circe arrived in the post and I'm afraid Circe won. I will come back!! I know how it ends anyway. everyone knows how it ends.

  The Song of Achilles · @three_chapters_in · 16 Jul 2026

• Meditations reviewed by @bleakhouse_bex

  4/ 104 out of 10

  A Roman emperor writing "get up and do your job" twelve slightly different ways, and now every bloke at work has it on his desk. I'm sure it's very good for you. So is kale.

  Meditations · @bleakhouse_bex · 15 Jul 2026

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reviewed by @tinyapartmentbigtbr

  8/ 108 out of 10

  (Third copy. I keep lending them out and they never come back.) Still funny in the bath, still the one I give to non-readers.

  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy · @tinyapartmentbigtbr · 15 Jul 2026