Sivani Babu Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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24. All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 25. The Rest of us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness 26. The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 27. Ain’t Burned All the Bright by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Jason Griffin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 28. Missionaries by Phil Klay ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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70. Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (I have yet to read a book by Lynne Olson I don’t find fascinating.) 71. The Prince of the Skies by Antonio Iturbe ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Beautiful.)

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64. The Plot Against America by Philip Roth ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 65. The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 66. Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Holy wow. A stunning debut and one of my favorite reads of the year. Definitely not a light read.)

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44. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 45. Third and Indiana by Steve López ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 46. The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4.5 rounded up) 47. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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44. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 45. Third and Indiana by Steve López ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 46. The Displacements by Bruce Holsinger ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4.5 rounded up) 47. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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17. Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 18. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 19. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 20. When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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52. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3.5 rounded up) 53. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 54. Beartown (Beartown #1) by Fredrik Backman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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104. Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 105. The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 106. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 107. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

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Happy New Year! Here’s my annual thread of books read. Mostly with ratings and occasionally with commentary. Wishing you all a new year filled with good books! 1. The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 2. Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🧵 1/

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88. Macbeth by William Shakespeare I mean, it’s Shakespeare. 89. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 90. The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Polkhy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (Dense and informative.) 91. I Was Amelia Earhart ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (I wanted to LOVE this one.)