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15 books I want to reread

Yes, again, this is a bit of a plug for my book review blog. 

  1. Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
  2. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
  3. Smoke by Dan Vyleta
  4. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  5. The Paper Girls series by Brian K Vaughan (Author), Cliff Chiang (Artist), and Matt Wilson (Artist)
  6. The Monstress series by Marjorie Liu (Author) and Sana Takeda (Artist)
  7. Carmilla by by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  8. The Hallowed Ones series by Laura Bickle 
  9. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  10. The Afterschool Charisma series by Kumiko Suekane
  11. The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron
  12. Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
  13. 1491 by Charles C. Mann
  14. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 
  15. Join by Steve Toutonghi 

(Prompt by me)

"Woman reading" posted by the National Science and Media Museum


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