LITERATURE 2

FICTION

If It Bleeds by Stephen King –– It leaks.
Hello, Summer by Mary Kay Andrews –– Lies in the sun.
Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner –– Hot dignity dog.
Camino Winds by John Grisham –– Tail Winds.
The 20th Victim by James Patterson & Maxine Pietro –– One perp customer.
All Adults Here by Emma Straub –– Growners.
Rodham
by Curtis Sittenfield –– Rotthen.
Walk the Wire
by David Baldacci –– Wire we even bothering?
The Book of Longings
by Sue Monk Kidd –– Forty achers and a mewl.
Someone Like You
by Karen Kingsbury –– Might fall for this.


A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler –– 'Burb blanc.
Devoted
by Dean Koontz –– Least likely to succeed.
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix –– Chicken-fried stakes.
Apeirogon
by Colum McCann –– Chuck McCann.
The Warsaw Protocol
by Steve Berry –– Bury Berry.
Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke –– Icing hazard.
The Mirror and the Light
by Hilary Mantel –– Reflects poorly.
American Dirt
by Jeanine Cummins –– Grime novel.
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende –– Petal to the meddle.
One Minute Out
by Mark Greaney –– I was awake for two.
Golden in Death by J.D. Robb –– Golden doodle.
The Sun Down Motel
by Simone St. James –– Dusk clerk.
The Other Mrs. by Mary Kubica –– This one misses.
Such a Fun Age
by Kiley Reid –– Woke is me.
The Holdout
by Graham Moore –– Jury poo.
Dear Edward
by Ann Napolitano –– Crashing bore.
Olive, Again
by Elizabeth Strout –– Olive harden.
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern –– Lacks sparkle.
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes –– I give 1/2.
Spy by Danielle Steel –– Steel trap.
Criss Cross by James Patterson –– Is he even repeating titles?
The Guardians
by John Grisham –– Of the fallacy.
The Night Fire
by Michael Connelly –– Bosch pit.
Agent Running in the Field by John le Carré –– Field and scream.
Blue Moon by Lee Child –– Child abuse.
Twisted Twenty-Six by Janet Evanovich –– Twisted shit stir.
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark –– Clark blocker.
The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell –– Above reproach.
A Minute to Midnight
at David Baldacci –– Minute mouse.
The Rise of Magicks
by Nora Roberts –– Hokey pocus.
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson –– Bone tired.
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett –– Soft Dutch.
Quichotte
by Salman Rushdie –– Quest side story.
Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson –– Howl and why.
The Stalking by Heather Graham –– Stuff ‘er.
Trick of the Light
by Stan Lee –– Lee wad.
The Test by Nathan Leamon –– Flunks.
The Institute
by Stephen King –– Quack study.
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood –– Handmade stale.
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris –– Brute camp.
Frankly in Love by David Yoon –– Yoon meh!
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger –– Mild manured.
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman –– Sum of all spheres.
The Girl Who Lived Twice
by David Lagercrantz –– Double of nothing.
The Whisper Man
by Alex North –– I won’t hear of it.
Lethal Agent
by Vince Agent –– Don’t hold your breath.
Lady in the Lake
by Laura Lippman –– Baltimore stun.
Fleishman Is in Trouble
by Taffy Brodesser-Akner –– Fleishman’s yeasty.
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert –– Sheworld.
Mrs. Everything by Jennifer Weiner –– Misses everything.

The Farm by Joanne Ramos –– Crop dusted.
Romanov by Nadine Brandes –– Romacom.
Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly –– Thorns of a dilemma.
The Big Kahuna by Janet Evanovich –– Atta poi.
Exhalation by Ted Chiang –– Short breather.
The Never Game by Jeffrey Deaver –– Match notes.
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides –– Bed snores.
Normal People by Sally Rooney –– Regular gas.
Neon Prey
by John Sandford –– Prey misty for me.
Sunset Beach
by Mary Kay Andrews –– Mary Kay cosmetic.

The Guest Book by Sarah Blake –– Doesn’t register.
The Night Window
by Dean Koontz –– No pane, no gain.
Redemption
by David Baldacci –– Balderdashy.
Cari Mora
by Thomas Harris –– Mora less.
The Chef
by James Patterson & Max DiLallo –– Prepare for the worst.
Never Tell by Lisa Gardner –– Talk down, too.
Chocolate Cream Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke –– Pie-hole of crap.
The Border by Don Winslow –– Cross examination.
Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty –– Putz unknown.
Liar Liar by James Patterson & Candice Fox –– Pens on fire.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James –– Afro plop.
Connections in Death
by J.D. Robb –– Missing links.
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates –– Drips and drab.
Early Riser
by Jasper Fforde –– Blue Wales.
The Night Tiger
by Yangsze Choo –– Flimsy Choo.
The Last Romantics by Tara Conklin –– Isn't shit romantic?
An Anonymous Girl
by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen –– Anon. entity.
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict –– Ughs Benedict.
The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke –– Swamp gash.
Verses for the Dead by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child –– Doesn’t get much Verses.

The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden –– Arden fast.
Through Fiery Trials
by David Weber –– Weber grills.
Fire and Blood
by George RR Martin –– RR, stop!
Long Road to Mercy
by David Baldacci –– Forgive us our ditz.
The Reckoning
by John Grisham –– Dead Reckoning.
Every Breath
by Nicholas Sparks –– Exhale and farewell.
Winter in Paradise by Elin Hildebrand –– Beach blanket bunco.
Alaskan Holiday by Debbie Macomber –– Frozen dickery.
The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton –– Snorologist.
Holy Ghost by John Sanford –– Lacks Spirit.
When We Were Young by Karen Kingsbury –– Jejune bugs.
Killing Commendatore
by Haruki Murakami –– Slushi.
The Witch Elm
by Tana French –– Gnarly.
Unsheltered
by Barbara Kingsolver –– Too much exposition.
Cherry
by Nico Walker –– Pop fiction.
The Fall of Gondolin
by J.R.R. Tolkein –– Elvish freshly.
Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruiz Zafón –– Guilt complex.
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini –– Say émigrés.
Time’s Convert by Deborah Harkness –– Ticking point.
Juror #3 by James Patterson –– Thinking inside the box.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens –– Cray cray.
My Struggle
by Karl Ove Knausgaard –– Minor kampf.
Lethal White
by Robert Galbraith –– Rowling downhill.
Pieces of Her
by Karin Slaughter –– Choppy.
Tailspin
by Sandra Brown –– Out to plunge.
CoDex 1962
by Sjon –– CoDex pads.
The Outsider by Stephen King –– I’m outer here.
What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan –– Women swear daily.
All We Ever Wanted by Emily Griffin –– Wise achers.
Clock Dance by Anne Tyler –– Second hand book.

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NON-FICTION

The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura –– But what's it about?
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor –– But no depth.
Saving Justice
by James Comey –– Comey again?
Having and Being Had
by Eula Biss –– Had enough?
Bag Man
by Rachel Maddow –– Sink to Agnew depths.
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man
by Emmanuel Acho –– Nothing to sneeze at.
No One Asked for This
by Cazzie David –– Cazzie rustle.
The Promised Land
by Barack Obama –– Sweet home ol' Obama.
Cary Grant: A Brilliant Disguise
by Scott Eyman –– Archly Leach.
American Crisis
by Andrew Cuomo –– Briefing encounter.


The Man Who Ate Too Much by John Birdsall –– Bloat Beard.
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life
by Jonathan Alter –– Not good enough.
Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation
by Candace Owens –– Alas in chains.
Caste
by Isabel Wilkerson –– Miss Caste.
Speaking for Myself
by Sarah Huckabee Sanders –– Thus spake Sarah through stir.
Live Free or Die
by Sean Hannity –– Liberty bull.
Everything Beautiful in Its Time
by Jenna Hager Bush –– When Bush comes to shove.
How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi –– Backin’ Black.
Killing Crazy Horse by Bill O’Reilly –– Chief cooked and battle watcher.
Compromised
by Peter Strzok –– Strzok a false note.
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham –– Pettus sounds.
Eat a Peach
by David Chang –– Da pêche mold.
Grounded: A Senator’s Lessons on Winning Back Rural America
by Jon Tester –– Tester your patience.
Three Ring Circus
by Jeff Pearlman –– Fraudy Laker.
Cubed
by Erno Rubik –– Twist and shout.
Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation
by Andrew Weissmann –– Guller investigation.
Rage
by Bob Woodward –– Tape worm.
Disloyal
by Michael Cohen –– Fixer downer.

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention by Reed Hastings –– Hastings pudding.
Melania & Me
by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff –– Marley wasn't such a bitch.
Burning Down the House
by Julian Zelizer –– All-Newt review.
The Room Where It Happened
by John Bolton –– Nuts and Bolton’s.
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump –– Don and done.
Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage
by Dan Crenshaw –– Patch work.
Resistance
by Tori Amos –– Resist.
Open Book
by Jessica Simpson –– Then immediately close.
The Rural Diaries
by Hilarie Burton –– Hicky thump.


Don’t Burn This Book by Dave Rubin –– Liberal boy lost.
Incomparable
by Brie Bella & Nikki Bella –– Bella dumber.
The House of Kennedy
by James Patterson –– Dud Kennedys.
The Lincoln Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer & Josh Mensch –– Phony Booth.
James Monroe: A Life
by Tim McGrath –– Maudlin Monroe.
Mr. Met: How a Sports-Mad Kid from Jersey Became Like Family to Generations of Big Leaguers
by Jay Horowitz –– Metza Metza.
Untamed
by Glennon Doyle –– Hog wild.
A Very Punchable Face
by Colin Jost –– Trouble features.
Joy at Work
by Marie Kondō & Scott Sonenshein –– In the Shitting Department.

I’m Your Huckleberry by Val Kilmer –– More dingleberry.
American Conservatism by Andrew J. Bacevich –– In memoriam.
Apropos of Nothing
by Woody Allen –– A poo poo of nothing.
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by Erik Larson –– Bunker hell.
Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother
by Barry Sonnenfeld –– Mensch in black.
A Very Stable Genius
by Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig –– Like Mr. Ed.
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
by Alexis Coe –– Washington nits.
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction
by David Enrich –– German fudge.
Brother & Sister: A Memoir
by Diane Keaton –– Busted Keaton.
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay –– Gay: Enough!
Know My Name
by Chanel Miller –– Nope.
Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite
by Peter Schweizer –– By shnook or by crook?
Un-Trumping America
by Dan Pfeiffer –– Orange crush.
Until the End of Time
by Brian Green –– When you finish this.
Why We’re Polarized
by Ezra Klein –– Bears down.
On the Plain of Snakes
by Paul Theroux –– Snakes on a plain?
Crime in Progress: Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump
by Glenn Simpson & Peter Fritsch –– Con Fusion.
Homework
by Julie Andrews –– Less fun.
The Beautiful Ones
by Prince –– Sleepier Prince.

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson –– Anatomy lessens.
The Way I Heard It by Mike Rowe –– Rowe bloat.
Finding Chika
by Mitch Albom –– Doom Chika doom.
Sam Houston & the Alamo Avengers
by Brian Kilmeade –– What in Sam Houston?
With All Due Respect
by Nikki Haley –– Due not respect.
Triggered: How The Left Thrives On Hate And Wants To Silence Us
by Donald Trump Jr. –– Or Roy Rogers’ horse?
Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie
by Carly Simon –– Jackie woe.
Long Way Home
by Cameron Douglas –– Crack Douglas.
Jay-Z: Made in America
by Michael Eric Dyson –– Dyson chicken nuggets.
Me by Elton John –– John d'oh.
Tough Love
by Susan Rice –– Rice erroneous.
Inside Out by Demi Moore –– Demi glazed.
The Book of Gutsy Women
by Chelsea Clinton & Hillary Clinton –– Gusty women.
Blowout by Rachel Maddow –– A flat tire.
Edison by Edmund Morris –– Smother of invention.
The Ride of a Lifetime
by Robert Iger –– Or Mr. Toady’s Wild Ride.
Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell –– Convo looted.
Call Sign Chaos
by Jim Mattis & Bing West –– Mattis of no importance.
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow –– Curse of the Farrow.

The Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff –– Crash course.
Everything is Figureoutable
by Marie Forleo –– Except this.
The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power –- Power trip.
Radicals, Resistance and Revenge
by Jeaninie Pirro –– Pirro wet.
Face It
by Debbie Harry –– Blondie and dead wood.
Year of the Monkey
by Patti Smith –– Smith and wussin'.
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
by Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey –– Broad sides.
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?
by Lawrence Weschler –– Sacks offender.
Three Women
by Lisa Taddeo –– Clit lit.
Permanent Record
by Edward Snowden –– Lard Snowden.


The Enemy of the People by Jim Acosta –– Trumped-up charges
Play Hungry by Pete Rose –– Rose bub.
Life to the Extreme by Ty Pennington –– Ty slick.
Songs of America by Jon Meacham & Tim McGraw –– Hums the word.
Full Count by David Cone –– Threw and through.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb –– Therapy dog.
Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond–– Diamond on the rough.
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump by Rick Reilly –– Mulligan stupe.
What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal by E. Jean Carroll –– Living peen-free.
Furious Hours by Casey Cep –– Harp on Lee.
The Second Mountain
by David Brooks –– Up to no good.
Sacred Duty
by Tom Cotton –– Cotton briefs.
The British Are Coming
by Rick Atkinson –– Doters of the American Revolution.
The Pioneers
by David McCullough –– Settle down!
Baby, Don’t Hurt Me
by Chris Kattan –– Kattan mouse.
A Woman of No Importance
by Sonia Purnell –– Gets book she deserves.
Last Days at Hot Slit
by Andrea Dworkin –– Crotchety.
Howard Stern Comes Again
by Howard Stern –– Same old jerkoff.
Life Will Be the Death of Me
by Chelsea Handler –– Mortal goil.

The Making of a Justice by John Paul Stevens –– Bench warner.
Let Love Have the Last Word
by Common –– Semi-Common.
Becoming Dr. Seuss b
y Brian Jay Jones –– The pat in the flat.
The Mueller Report by The Washington Post –– Bob hopeless.
Mind Fixers by Anne Harrington –– Scrambled eggheads.
The Moment of Lift
by Melinda Gates –– Lift and separate.
The Hill to Die On
by Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman –– Pork slop Hill.
Capital Gaines
by Chip Gaines –– Chip and dip.
The Chief by Joan Biskupic –– Poky Roberts.
Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
by George Packer –– Dick tutorial.
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells –– Fouled ball.
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison –– Egocatastrophe.
Spearhead by Adam Makos –– Misses the point.
I.M.: A Memoir
by Isaac Mizrahi –– Mizrahi loves company.
The Empire and the Five Kings
by Bernard-Henri Lévy –– French or foe?
The Threat by Andrew McCabe –– Threatbare.
Grateful American: A Journey from Self to Service
by Gary Sinise –– Sinise infection.
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
by Stephanie Land –– Scrub-a-dumb-dumb.
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
by Cara Robertson –– Axe of violence.
Shortest Way Home by Pete Buttigieg –– South bent.
Parkland by Dave Cullen –– Plug-ugly.
Figuring
by Maria Popova –– Lezzie fare.
Merchants of Truth
by Jill Abraamson –– Carpin' copy.
Let Me Finish
by Chris Christie –– What's on your plate.
Factfulness
by Hans Rosling –– Gag real.
The Sopranos Sessions by Matt Zoller Seitz & Alan Sepinwall –– Look under the hood.
Nest of Vipers by Cliff Sims –– Ass Vipers.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari –– Hohum Sapiens.
Women Rowing North by Mary Pipher –– Oar not.

The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer –– Washington debris.
The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris –– Harris twee.
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off
by Michael Caine –– Praising Caine.
Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite: My Story
by Roger Daltrey –– Who cares.
Becoming
by Michelle Obama –– Unbecoming.
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
by Eric Idle –– Idle chatter.
The Library Book
by Susan Orlean –- Loaners.
Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents by Pete Souza –– Photo Obama.
This Will Only Hurt a Little by Busy Philipps –– Literary novocaine.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondō –– Spruce goose.