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Book Reviews
Book reviews: for when you have nothing good of your own to write, so you spend time judging somebody else's work.
Here at Booksie and Brackish we have a deepfelt commitment to the literary world around us, even though we tend to produce less than top quality work (unfortunately we are unable to do better than our one artistic mind who is difficult to corral).
This year's reading list is made up entirely of outside influence: books gifted, forcefully loaned, or given away. Stay tuned for a "Top Shelf" list of recommendations.
Reads of 2025
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The Creative Act: A Way of Being - Rick Rubin
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11/22/63 - Stephen King
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I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuiston
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The Hike - Drew Magary
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Call Us What We Carry - Amanda Gorman
- The Folk Tales of Scotland: The Well at the World's End and Other Stories - Montgomerie & Montgomerie
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On Photography - Susan Sontag
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This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us - Cole Arthur Riley
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The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized Crime Boss - Margalit Fox
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The Secret Pianist - Andie Newton
- Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
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The Overstory - Richard Powers
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Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education - Stephanie Land
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Nothing Burns as Bright as You - Ashley Woodfolk
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Red Rising - Pierce Brown
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Golden Son - Pierce Brown
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Morning Star - Pierce Brown
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The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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