56: Unabridged Awards - I Will Qualify Them All

-Alternate Titles-
 Address the nervousness
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 Anticipating it is exciting
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 Not a lot of table space for a drum roll
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 I guess that was obvious
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 What is wrong with you?
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 We're going to take a bit of a dip
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 Just phenomenal

Most devastating, gorgeous novel that alternates between time periods - Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers

Most satisfying end of a long series that I’ve been reading for years - Sarah J. Maas’s Kingdom of Ash

Best memoir that left me tearing up every five minutes - Michelle Obama’s Becoming

Best YA verse novel that includes brilliant slam poetry - Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X

Best book I thought I would hate, but ended up LOVING - Rebecca Serle’s The Dinner List

Most compelling non-fiction that I have read in a LONG time. - John Carreyrou’s Bad Blood​
 

Ashley - Angelo Surmelis’s The Dangerous Art of Blending In

Jen - Ariel Lawhon’s I Was Anastasia

Sara - Emily Giffin’s All We Ever Wanted
 

Ashley - 

A book I’ve decided my girls will absolutely have to read (I hope… fingers crossed that they will like it) - Kelly Barnhill’s The Girl Who Drank the Moon

Jen - 

A book I immediately had to read with my son - Jacqueline Woodson’s Harbor Me

Sara - 

A book filled with nostalgia that I HAD to share with my kids  - Barbara Robinson's The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
 

Ashley - Emily X. R. Pan’s The Astonishing Color of After

Jen - Tara Westover’s Educated

Sara - Dane Huckelbridge’s Castle of Water

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