retro198908 rated Speaker for the Dead: 3 stars
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, #2)
Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this …
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retro198908 rated Golden Son (Red Rising Series): 5 stars
retro198908 rated Poverty, by America: 3 stars
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest …
retro198908 rated Summer Knight: 3 stars
Summer Knight by Jim Butcher (The Dresden Files, #4)
Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for blood, Harry Dresden has been down …
retro198908 rated The Fellowship of the Ring: 4 stars
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
The first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien’s classic epic of Good versus Evil, set in the …
retro198908 rated Hatchet: 4 stars
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Brian Robison, a teenage boy struggling through his parents divorce, is flying up north to stay with his dad for …
retro198908 rated The Radium Girls: 5 stars
The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories, where they …
retro198908 rated World War Z: 2 stars
World War Z by Max Brooks
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of …
retro198908 rated Red Rising: 4 stars
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow …
Wildcard: De inzet is hoger dan ooit (Warcross (2)) (Dutch Edition) by Marie Lu
"Teenage hacker Emika Chen embarks on a mission to unravel a sinister plot and is forced to join forces with …
retro198908 rated Sea of Rust: 4 stars
Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill
A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot …
retro198908 rated Ender's Game: 4 stars
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game, #1)
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more …
retro198908 rated Station Eleven: 3 stars
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of …
retro198908 rated Goodbye Phone, Hello World: 3 stars
retro198908 rated Sam Walton: Made In America: 3 stars
Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton, John Huey
As Sam Walton himself said, this is "...a story about entrepreneurship, and risk, and hard work, and knowing where you …