This has been on my To Read list for about a decade. At work, we were cleaning out our office and it was just laying around, unclaimed. So I snatched it up.
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doc-halo rated The hangman's daughter: 3 stars

The hangman's daughter by Oliver Pötzsch
Germany, 1659: When a dying boy is pulled from the river with a mark crudely tattooed on his shoulder, hangman …

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …
doc-halo rated The Book Thief: 3 stars

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl …
doc-halo rated I Am Legend and Other Stories: 4 stars

I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern …
doc-halo rated I Am Legend and Other Stories: 5 stars

I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Matheson
I Am Legend is a 1954 post-apocalyptic horror novel by American writer Richard Matheson that was influential in the modern …
doc-halo started reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
doc-halo rated The Sun Also Rises: 4 stars

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, his first, that portrays American and British …
doc-halo rated Blame Game: 2 stars
doc-halo rated The Grapes of Wrath: 5 stars
doc-halo rated The Bone Clocks: 3 stars

The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is …

The Nine by Tracy Townsend (Thieves of fate, #1)
"A book that some would kill for -- Black market courier Rowena Downshire is doing everything she can to stay …
doc-halo reviewed The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)
Review of "The Three Body Problem"
4 stars
A good hard fiction novel that explores the question of making first contact. It's a quick read that has decent character development, a smooth flowing plot, and asks deep philosophical science questions.