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a malware attack on the library!!! seems like the worst thing in the world???? but the way i am *bookmarking* this, you are doing the lord's work maggie!

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I am so baffled by the whole thing! We still can’t return physical books because the system can’t process them!! But also— THANK YOU! so glad!!!

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This list is 🔥🔥🔥! Thank you Maggie!

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I'm so glad!!! literally so much fun to research

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Excellent list! Added several to my library list!

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maggie, this is the first time i've seen your posts and i'm shocked because i think we would be good friends because i love your book recs

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An absolutely incredible list, full of descriptions that have my interest piqued when it would normally pass over many of these titles!

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love all of these recs! thank you for putting this together, I'm spying some that I'm definitely adding to my tbr

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Reading Same As it Ever Was now! Loved The Most Fun we ever had too

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Thank you so much for this excellent list!! I love how you make your groupings, too. I've read a bunch of these already and can absolutely co-sign your recommendations.

A couple contributions I've recently read and would love to offer up—

–> for "Moody, Broody Summer": _Grief is for People_ by Sloane Crosley

—> for "Searing Social Commentary": _Piglet_ by Lottie Hazell

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Love this list! Thank you for sharing!

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So many great reads! Thanks for the amazing list! :)

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I haven’t heard any of these books before! Thank you! 😍

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I am here for these hyper-specific recommendations! I loved several of these so I'm bumping up BEAR and HONEY based on your recs.

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this is one of the best newsletters to ever grace my inbox. My library holds are now full. Love it!

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BRIA 😭🫡 thrilled to be of service

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Immediately bookmarked this post - just great! After reading your blurbs I want to read every single one of these books

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Julia thank you so much!!!! 😭 I worked so hard to make the blurbs “match” to make the summaries easy to digest!!!!

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You could do this for a living haha!

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this list is ::chefs kiss:: - I have The Nix and This Time Tomorrow on my summer TBR too, plus 10 others on my general state of life TBR! I just started The God of the Woods and its addicting already, all I can think about at work is getting home to read it...

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Since you love dark/weird/thought provoking (me too!) I’d recommend checking out Hurricane Girl by Marcy Dermansky (or really any of her books) if you haven’t already!

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Yes! I started it last year right after my son was born and DNF'd because I kept falling asleep haha. I'll take a second look because I enjoyed the beginning - thanks for the reminder!

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