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Ahoy there me mateys!  For those of ye who are new to me log, a word: though this log’s focus is on sci-fi, fantasy, and young adult, this Captain does have broader reading tastes.  Occasionally I will share some novels that I enjoyed that are off the charts (a non sci-fi, fantasy, or young adult novel), as it were.

The Haul:  A Running Tally of Plundered Contraband and Booty

(by genre and then alphabetical by author’s last name):

COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS

Chen, Jacqueline

• • loading penguin hugs (On the Horizon – eArc)

Clanton, Ben

• • the narwhal series books 1 – 3

Fabiero, Dante

• • slothilda: living the sloth life

Pearson, Luke

• • hilda and the troll

Tung, Debbie

• • book love

CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Backman, Fredrik

• • a man named ove

Kwan, Kevin

• • the crazy rich asian series

Reid, Taylor Jenkins

• • forever interrupted
  • maybe in another life

Wirestone, Max

• • the unfortunate decisions of dahlia moss – book 1
  • the astonishing mistakes of dahlia moss – book 2
  • the questionable behavior of dahlia moss – book 3

Zevin, Gabrielle

• • the storied life of a.j. fikry

HISTORICAL FICTION

Benjamin, Chloe

• • the immortalists

Burton, Jessie

• • the miniaturist (Second Reflections)

Donoghue, Emma

• • the wonder

Crichton, Michael (Broadside No. 7)

• • dragon teeth

Gortner, C.W.

• • the vatican princess: a novel of lucrezia borgia

Jago, Lucy

• • the northern lights * this was published as Nonfiction but given factual discrepancies I put it here.

Kindl, Patrice

• • keeping the castle

McGuire, Ian

• • the north water (Walk the Plank)

Morris, Heather

• • the tattooist of auschwitz (On the Horizon – eArc) * this was published as Nonfiction but given factual discrepancies I put it here.

Otsuka, Julie

• • when the emperor was divine

Reid, Taylor Jenkins

• • the seven husbands of evelyn hugo (Curiosities of the Deep)
  • daisy jones & the six

Smith, Betty

• • a tree grows in brooklyn (Second Reflections – Classic)

Underdown, Beth

• • the witchfinder’s sister

HISTORY

Blum, Deborah

• • the poisoner’s handbook (Tidings from the Crew)

Dunbar, Erica Armstrong

• • never caught: the washingtons’ relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge

Gordon-Reed, Annette

• • the hemingses of monticello: an american family

Herman, Eleanor

• • the royal art of poison: filthy palaces, fatal cosmetics, deadly medicine, and murder most foul

Hibbert, Christopher

• • the house of the medici: its rise and fall

Shapiro, Laurie Gwen

• • the stowaway (On the Horizon – eArc)

Wright, Jennifer

• • get well soon: history’s worst plagues and the heroes who fought them

Wulf, Andrea

• • the invention of nature: alexander von humboldt’s new world

LITERARY FICTION

Darnielle, John

• • wolf in white van (Tidings from the Crew)

Huckelbridge, Dane

• • castle of water (eArc)

Kang, Han

• • the vegetarian
  • the white book

Moss, Sarah

• • ghost wall

MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY

Doughty, Caitlin

• • smoke gets in your eyes

Grann, David

• • the lost city of z

Hiassen, Carl

• • the downhill lie

Johnson, Kirk W.

• • the feather thief

Krasnostein, Sarah

• • the trauma cleaner (On the Horizon – eArc)

Lawson, Jenny

• • furiously happy
  • let’s pretend this never happened: a mostly true memoir

Pan, Jessica

• • sorry i’m late, i didn’t want to come (On the Horizon – eArc)

Preston, Douglas

• • the lost city of the monkey god

Rosenberg, Liz

• • house of dreams: the life of l.m. montgomery (On the Horizon – eArc)

NATURALIST MEMOIR

Bailey, Elisabeth Tova

• • the sound of a wild snail eating

MacDonald, Helen

• • h is for hawk

Montgomery, Sy

• • the soul of an octopus

O’Brien, Stacey

• • wesley the owl

Skaife, Christopher

• • the ravenmaster

Voigt, Emily

• • the dragon behind the glass

NONFICTION

Dorren, Gaston

• • babel (Abandoned Ship on the Horizon – eArc)

Doughty, Caitlin

• • will my cat eat my eyeballs? big questions from tiny mortals about death
  • from here to eternity: traveling the world to find the good death

Freuman, Tamara Duker

• • the bloated belly whisperer

Gustafson, Michael

• • notes from a public typewriter

Kaufmann, Katie

• • do you have kids? life when the answer is no (On the Horizon – eArc)

Mattern, Joann

• • the cat encyclopedia for kids (eArc)

Miodownik, Mark

• • stuff matters: exploring the marvelous materials that shape our man-made world
  • liquid rules: the delightful & dangerous substances that flow through our lives

Roach, Mary

• • gulp

Stephens-Davidowitz, Seth

• • everybody lies

THRILLER / CRIME

Armstrong, Kelley

• • city of the lost – book 1
  • a darkness absolute – book 2 (On the Horizon – Arc)
  • this fallen prey – book 3 (On the Horizon – Arc)
  • watcher in the woods – book 4

Crouch, Blake

• • run

Flynn, Gillian

• • gone girl

Hall, Araminta

• • our kind of cruelty

Mackintosh, Clare

• • i let you go

Mandel, Emily St. John

• • the singer’s gun

Michaelides, Alex

• • the silent patient (Walk the Plank)

Pinborough, Sarah

• • behind her eyes

Slaughter, Karin

• • the kept woman
  • pretty girls

Tudor, C.J.

• • the chalk man (On the Horizon – eArc)

WESTERN

Boggs, Johnny D.

• • taos lightning