Here are all my highly rated reads with under 10,000 written reviews on Goodreads (at the time of reading).
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The Book of Essie: Compelling and interesting
Essie, the youngest daughter in an evangelical family with a reality TV show called Six for Hicks, is pregnant. Now she must orchestrate her freedom.
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The Six Deaths of the Saint: The best short story
The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s greatest warrior.
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We Are the Light: Emotional and hopeful
After a community is shaken by a violent tragedy, Lucas, who insists his deceased wife visits him as an angel, forms an unlikely bond with an ostracized young man who has decided to set up camp in Lucas’s backyard.
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A Curious Beginning: A romantic mystery
After a close call with an intruder, Veronica Speedwell is deposited with a curmudgeonly but handsome fellow scientist for safekeeping, where she must unravel the secrets of her lineage and find out who is out to get her.
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When We Were Bright and Beautiful: Twisty and engaging
A college student, Cassie, and her affluent family reel from the aftereffects of her brother’s rape charge. As the case unravels, Cassie must face the truth about the people she loves most.
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Wolf by Wolf: Duology review
In an alternate history where Hitler won, a concentration camp survivor joins a treacherous Hitler Youth motorcycle race with the goal of assassinating the dictator.
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The Hacienda: Gothic horror done right
After marrying a man she knows little about except his politics and that his first wife is dead, Beatriz moves to his hacienda in the country only to find something disturbing lurking within its walls.
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The Night Shift: A much-needed break
Three main characters deal with the ripple effects of a gruesome murder that mirrors a crime from fifteen years earlier.
