BooksandLala 163K subscribers · Dec 7, 2025

Ranking Book Twitter Discourse, Book Club Picks & My Celebrity Lookalikes

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I feel like I would have put it in great because I gave it a four but of the book club picks that was everyone's collective favorite. This was a five for me like it was so grotesque. I guess that was my one real swing and hit my home run of the year.

I gave this a three. It wasn't everything that I wanted and I think the book club would agree that it was just I think some people would put it in woof. It was weird not gross enough not fun enough.

InheritanceUnknown
Not a fan

The inheritance sadly that one was not my favorite and it wasn't anyone else's favorite. What I remember is it was a lot more family drama than mystery which you know is a hit or miss. So meh.

Julie Chan Is DeadLiann Zhang
Loved it

I don't know if I can put that in decent because it's my favorite thriller of the year. But the people who loved it loved it but it has such a low average rating it couldn't even make it as a nominee in the good reads choice awards.

killer on the road like I just said I guess I can't call it perfect but I'm going to call it amazing four and a half stars. Both of the stories didn't quite do it for me technically by the end and talking it through I changed my rating of killer on the road from a four to a five.

The Last Final Girl is one that is in my amazing category and yet I would not recommend. I think you have to have a very specific odd taste in order to like that. It's written from what I remember as like a script kind of and it's pretty meta.

The only good Indians is another one I would put right up here. We read that for the book club and people really loved this. It was their entry point in the Stephen Graham Jones and I'm really glad that happened.

this last one here is The Ones That Got Away. It's another short story collection. I gave it a four. I think there were some things in it that didn't do it for me, but there was enough that were so good.

I'm going between meh and decent. I came to the live show and so many people were like no that was a good decent mystery and I'm like okay. Had a mix of three and fours.

With a VengeanceRiley Sager
Loved it

I don't know why everyone hated this one and we had an hour long live show and I still don't think I understand why everyone hated it as much as they did. I just don't know that this one deserves the hate that it's gotten.