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Esme Godfrey rated The Testaments: 4 stars
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of …
Esme Godfrey rated The Handmaid's Tale: 3 stars
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a …
Esme Godfrey rated The Water Cure: 5 stars
Esme Godfrey rated The Secret River: 5 stars
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
The Secret River is a 2005 historical novel by Kate Grenville about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for …
Esme Godfrey rated Burial Rites: 4 stars
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with the brutal …
Esme Godfrey rated The Good People: 5 stars
Esme Godfrey rated The Heart Goes Last: 4 stars
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
"Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. …
Esme Godfrey rated On Writing: 4 stars
On Writing by Stephen King
"Long live the King" hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King's On Writing. Part memoir, part master class …
Esme Godfrey rated Triangulation: 5 stars
Triangulation by Jeffrey B. Burton, Michael Robertson, K. G. Anderson, and 7 others
Esme Godfrey rated Hobbit, or, There and Back Again: 4 stars
Esme Godfrey rated A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1): 4 stars
A Wizard of Earthsea (The Earthsea Cycle, Book 1) by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth.
Hungry for power and knowledge, Sparrowhawk …
Esme Godfrey rated The overstory: 5 stars
The overstory by Richard L. Powers, Richard Powers
A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways …
Esme Godfrey rated Everything Under: 5 stars
Everything Under by Daisy Johnson
Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, …
Esme Godfrey rated Norse Mythology: 5 stars
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Introducing an instant classic―master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths.
Neil Gaiman has long …