Bite Sized Books

Quick reviews of your favorite books in two sentences or less

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Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Spoiler Alert: A girl’s blood is red. This is a bigger deal than the fact that she shoots lightning from her fingers.

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Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

Spoiler Alert: In a tale that warms and breaks your heart all at once, you will get more distracted by how much you want to eat the food that’s in it.

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The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Kline

Spoiler Alert: A man with 10th-grade English teacher energy and a man with slightly baffled substitute science teacher fall in love while taking care of the son of Lucifer and other very normal children (and they get ice cream!).

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Spoiler Alert: Blue eyed blondie, perfect body, oh shit he’s killing people

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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Spoiler Alert: A female archer trying to supply her distant parent and younger sister with food is sent away to a far-off place full of wealth where she is forced into a romance to survive, but ends up falling for him anyway.

What? No, this isn’t the Hunger Games. Why would you think that?

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Six of Crows

Spoiler Alert: Enemies-to-lovers (but it's hard to tell if they're lovers), slow burn (literal burns in a chimney flue), 135k (what a thick little man).

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Divergent by Veronica Roth

Spoiler Alert: She’s not like other girls. She has tattoos and a friend who hurled himself off a cliff.

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Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston

Spoiler Alert: The British are coming in more ways than one.

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Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Spoiler Alert: A well-read redhead with a red-hot temper is adopted by a woman with none of the above. Mildly-fatal hijinks ensue.

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Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare

Spoiler Alert: Do you ever feel like your love life is boring? Nothing like a centuries-long feud and your cousin getting murdered to spice up a relationship!

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1984 by George Orwell

Spoiler Alert: A mildly pedophilic middle-aged man learns that being nice to people is a criminal offense.

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Spoiler Alert: In a wild turn of events, rich white private school boys can’t deal with the fact that other people need to live.

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Spoiler Alert: Local single dad would like his child to die a painful death because he wants a friend

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Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Spoiler alert: Remember Cinderella? Now she has a backbone. (Oh, and a baby satyr.)

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Radio Silence by Alice Osman

Spoiler Alert: Depressed LGBTQ teenagers turn their existential terror into a podcast

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Quarantine by Lex Thomas

Spoiler Alert: It’s just Lord of the Flies, but with a love triangle. Also, a dude stabs someone over a bottle of laundry detergent.

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Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Spoiler Alert: A girl’s blood is red. This is a bigger deal than the fact that she shoots lightning from her fingers.