Book Reviews
I tend to select books to review simply by choosing books that look interesting to me, but also accept ARCs (I reserve the right to reject review requests for any reason). They may come as recommendations from friends, suggested books on websites such as Goodreads, or books that stand out to me at the local library or book store. Reviews will typically include the title, author, publisher, year published, and number of pages in the edition I read. Spoiler-free summaries will be provided prior to an evaluation of the book, followed by an overall recommendation statement (see below).
All reviews are given a pre-header of “Abby Reads:”. For example, the review for All American Boys would have a title of “Abby Reads: All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely.”
Reviews will be tagged in one of the following categories:
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Links to Reviews (Alphabetical by Title):
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
All the Rage by Courtney Summers
Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfeld
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Asylum by Madeleine Roux
Astray by Amy Christine Parker
Bad Girls Don’t Die by Katie Alender
The Beast Is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Borderline by Mishell Baker
Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
The Curiosities by Susan Gloss
Dataclysm by Christian Rudder
The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
Dear Ijeawele by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
Down from the Mountain by Elizabeth Fixmer
Dr. Bird’s Advice for Sad Poets by Evan Roskos
Dracula in Love by Karen Essex
Duel with the Devil by Paul Collins
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Ever by Gail Carson Levine
Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
First & Then by Emma Mills
Flicker and Mist by Mary Thompson
For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund
Free to Make: How the Maker Movement Is Changing Our Schools, Our Jobs, and Our Minds by Dale Dougherty
Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta
Gated by Amy Christine Parker
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols
The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race by Sara Barron
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany
Hello, Sunshine by Leila Howland
Holes by Louis Sachar
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
How to Say Goodbye in Robot by Natalie Standiford
How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky by Lydia Netzer
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein
Jane, Unlimited by Kristin Cashore
I Can’t Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham by Emily Bingham
Is Everyone Hanging out without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
Juliet Immortal by Stacey Jay
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordóva
Man Made Boy by Jon Skovron
Maud by Melanie Fishbane
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Rey Terciero and Bre Indigo
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
Monster by Michael Grant
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Ms. Marvel Vol. 1 – No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living by Nick Offerman
Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
The Revolution of Sabine by Beth Ain Levine
Romeo Redeemed by Stacey Jay
The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece by John Pfordresher
Selkie Girl by Laurie Brooks
Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella
Shut Up, You’re Welcome by Annie Choi
Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy
Since You’ve Been Gone by Morgan Matson
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Snow White by Matt Phelan
Storytimes for Everyone!: Developing Young Children’s Language and Literacy by Saroj Ghoting
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls by Lauren Graham
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
The Tyrant’s Daughter by J. C. Carleson
Vicious Little Darlings by Katherine Easer
The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
What I Was Doing while You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman
When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
When I’m Old and Other Stories by Gabrielle Bell
The Widow by Fiona Barton
Wild Swans by Jessica Spotswood
Witch Child by Celia Rees
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life by Andy Miller
You Are SO Cursed! by Naomi Nash
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