4.02 avg rating — 10,948 ratings

4.22 avg rating — 97,424 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 — 5,422 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 — 9,852 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 — 373 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 — 24,671 ratings

3.66 avg rating — 94,900 ratings

"Quiet, contemplative dystopian fiction"

3.81 avg rating — 1,325,348 ratings

3.90 avg rating — 1,401 ratings

4.07 avg rating — 48,859 ratings

3.50 avg rating — 37,963 ratings

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"Series"

4.09 avg rating — 14,408 ratings

4.17 avg rating — 600,411 ratings

"Series"

4.08 avg rating — 838,549 ratings

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

3.70 avg rating — 5,905 ratings

3.55 avg rating — 149 ratings

4.08 avg rating — 14,989 ratings

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4.19 avg rating — 62 ratings

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

3.83 avg rating — 102,573 ratings

3.76 avg rating — 13,090 ratings

3.70 avg rating — 547 ratings

4.21 avg rating — 1,896 ratings

3.90 avg rating — 3,215 ratings

4.29 avg rating — 166 ratings

3.91 avg rating — 234,811 ratings

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4.01 avg rating — 12,161 ratings

4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings

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4.13 avg rating — 565,810 ratings

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

3.97 avg rating — 6,315 ratings

"Makes me laugh and laugh"

4.02 avg rating — 457 ratings

3.82 avg rating — 8,203 ratings

4.15 avg rating — 455,992 ratings

"Book to be read with discrimination"

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

4.31 avg rating — 59,732 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 — 79,420 ratings

"Good SF "

3.82 avg rating — 305,120 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"

4.36 avg rating — 159,389 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 — 83,531 ratings

4.45 avg rating — 37,985 ratings

4.45 avg rating — 30,119 ratings

4.20 avg rating — 2,093 ratings

3.69 avg rating — 823 ratings

4.29 avg rating — 1,096,542 ratings

3.98 avg rating — 116,031 ratings

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

4.08 avg rating — 117,146 ratings

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

3.68 avg rating — 570 ratings

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

4.04 avg rating — 8,857 ratings

"Good SF recommendation"

4.25 avg rating — 126,836 ratings

"Good SF recommendation"

4.29 avg rating — 8,131 ratings

"'Language and English Politics' essay"

4.07 avg rating — 119,372 ratings

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