The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (classic)

This House of Grief by Helen Gardner (ok)

A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin (uneven)

The Darkest Evening by Ann Cleeves (solid)

The List by Yomi Adegoke (a little disappointing)

The Wake-Up Call by Beth O’Leary (not great!)

Leading Lady: A Memoir of a Most Unusual Boy by Charles Busch (uneven)

The Rising Tide by Ann Cleeves (one of the better ones)

Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison (good until the 50% mark)

Down the Drain by Julia Fox (a LOT)

The Raging Storm by Ann Cleeves (good)

One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke (fun)

Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste (cute, uneven)

Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly (not good)

Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith (uneven)

White Nights by Ann Cleeves (solid)

This Isn’t Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew by Daniel Wallace (it was like he discovered people had inner lives for the first time)

Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina (great, reminded me of Judy Bloom’s Tiger Eyes)

The Finishing School by Joanna Goodman (like a bad soap opera)

Red Bones by Ann Cleeves (ok)

Arrowood by Laura McHugh (ok)

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears (she never has had an adult that really had her back)

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl (I enjoyed it then I read the afterword where she said it really wasn’t a year but a mishmash of a few years??)

Thicker Than Water by Kerry Washington (I felt like she spent a lot of time trying to sound lower middle class but then there was a line about having a vacation home on a lake? She also fixated on being donor-conceived and how it explained everything about her and her parents’ relationships but I couldn’t figure out why, her relationship with her parents seemed fine)

We Are Too Many: A Memoir [Kind of] by Hannah Pittard (she ignored so many red flags)

Things I Should Have Said by Jamie Lynn Spears (how did she ever think her dad had Britney’s interest at heart when she opens the book with how he is an abusive substance abuser?)

Listen to Me by Hannah Pittard (a slog)

Extremely Online: The Rise of Influencers and the Creation of a New American Dream by Taylor Lorenz (it read like it was written in Mad Libs, every chapter was the same except for the names and very little depth. Surprised and disappointed)

Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine (A weak reimagining of Rosemary’s Baby, which she didn’t even acknowledge in the copious additional interviews and text in the book)

Blue Lightening by Ann Cleeves (what?!)