4.02 avg rating — 10,878 ratings

4.22 avg rating — 95,865 ratings

4.45 avg rating — 152 ratings

"He sang of the first permission of flesh and flesh to entangle
how we abandon the guard of our heart and throw our borders
open and welcome a sweet invader to take possession
the sudden exquisite catch in a throat and the slow hush
of a breath unfettered the sweetest sounds to a lover’s ear
He sang of hands finding shyly at first their way
to another shelf of hips oh how the heart flares
and melts like wax spilling over a candle’s lip"

4.31 avg rating — 785 ratings

"You give me flowers resembling Chinese lanterns.

You give me hale, for yellow. You give me vex.

You give me lemons softened in brine and you give me cuttlefish ink.
You give me all 463 stairs of Brunelleschi’s dome.

You give me seduction and you let me give it back to you.
You give me you."

4.33 avg rating — 5,379 ratings

"So you're here? Still dizzy from
another dodge, close shave, reprieve?
One hole in the net and you slipped through?
I couldn't be more shocked or
speechless.
Listen,

how your heart pounds inside me."

4.15 avg rating — 9,840 ratings

"Hamlet with
a cormorant
under his arm
married Ophelia.
She was still
wet from drowning.
She looked like
a white flower
that had been
left in the
rain too long.
I love you,
said Ophelia,
and I love
that dark
bird you
hold in
your arms."

4.42 avg rating — 372 ratings

"It's like cutting your hand on a piece of metal during sex.

It's like punishment meted out at night by a giant tractor.

It's like losing at chess to a caveman.

It's like a caveman losing at chess to a dinosaur.

It's like a dinosaur losing at chess to a primeval forest ... losing at chess to a primeval star.

It's like punching your children to a tune."

3.89 avg rating — 24,635 ratings

3.66 avg rating — 94,698 ratings

"Quiet, contemplative dystopian fiction"

3.81 avg rating — 1,310,340 ratings

3.90 avg rating — 1,394 ratings

4.07 avg rating — 48,481 ratings

3.50 avg rating — 37,780 ratings

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"Series"

4.09 avg rating — 14,308 ratings

4.17 avg rating — 595,595 ratings

"Series"

4.08 avg rating — 834,247 ratings

"Sacha recommended caution around this in audio-book form - inappropriate use of child-like voice"

3.70 avg rating — 5,863 ratings

3.55 avg rating — 149 ratings

4.10 avg rating — 13,126 ratings

3.08 avg rating — 3,028 ratings

4.19 avg rating — 62 ratings

"A placeholder until Pip's new book is published"

3.82 avg rating — 102,049 ratings

3.76 avg rating — 13,057 ratings

3.70 avg rating — 546 ratings

4.21 avg rating — 1,884 ratings

3.90 avg rating — 3,201 ratings

4.29 avg rating — 164 ratings

3.91 avg rating — 233,027 ratings

4.30 avg rating — 104,835 ratings

4.01 avg rating — 12,015 ratings

4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings

4.32 avg rating — 8,670 ratings

4.13 avg rating — 561,722 ratings

"Might not be the right Power of Habit book. There are a remarkable number of books with that title."

3.97 avg rating — 6,290 ratings

"Makes me laugh and laugh"

4.02 avg rating — 456 ratings

3.82 avg rating — 8,196 ratings

4.15 avg rating — 449,334 ratings

"Book to be read with discrimination"

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

4.31 avg rating — 58,814 ratings

"Not sure which Oppenheimer bio we were looking for, so plucked out this one"

3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings

3.90 avg rating — 78,549 ratings

"Good SF "

3.82 avg rating — 303,002 ratings

"This is the 'The 100 year old man who climbed out the window etc' book, which doesn't appear to be listed on Goodreads in translation yet."

3.94 avg rating — 524 ratings

"KiwiFoo author"

4.35 avg rating — 158,277 ratings

"Because Herriot's books are earthy, touching, funny, and filled with the most glorious observations of proper rural life and people."

4.36 avg rating — 83,197 ratings

4.45 avg rating — 37,757 ratings

4.45 avg rating — 29,936 ratings

4.20 avg rating — 2,089 ratings

3.69 avg rating — 821 ratings

4.29 avg rating — 1,077,615 ratings

3.99 avg rating — 115,234 ratings

"Best book, possibly EVER, for 12-18 year old girls (and everyone else)"

4.08 avg rating — 116,649 ratings

"Best book, possibly EVER, for 8-12 year old girls (and everyone else)"

3.68 avg rating — 568 ratings

"Kit Marlowe, Shakespeare, all rhyme all the time"

4.04 avg rating — 8,809 ratings

"Good SF recommendation"

4.25 avg rating — 125,198 ratings

"Good SF recommendation"

4.30 avg rating — 8,087 ratings

"'Language and English Politics' essay"

4.07 avg rating — 117,700 ratings

"Courtney's moral compass (and Rob Isaac would have voted for it too)"