Binti (Binti #1) by Nnedi Okorafor ★★★★☆

An Afrofuture tale of personal first contact, war, heritage, and understanding.

SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror

Blank White Page by James A. Moore ★★★★½ 
“Whatever makes you think a few buildings brings about a civilized human being?” 

I have a soft spot for weird westerns. I enjoyed this story of mysterious monsters facing off against mysterious monsters. The backstory of the albino mulatto cryptozoologist who is transforming into an unknown creature is a great story of its own. And is Crowley some kind of Faust? This story deserves a book or at least a novella.

Far Orbit: Speculative Space Adventures

From A Stone by Eric Choi ★★★★★ 
“It is information. An… an artifact of the mind.” 

Hard SciFi! What an unexpected treat! 
Government scientists on a routine asteroid sampling mission discover signs of life. But is it intelligent life? 
A hot debate, a cool conclusion.

Final Girls by Riley Sager ★★☆☆☆

No no no no no. You cannot talk big game slasher movie talk and then give me a weak Girl on the Train. Ninety percent of this book could have been called Lying Paranoid Bitches. 

The Red Mohawk by Anonymous ★★★★★

"The whole place is a tribute to movie clichés from the eighties. They’ve got a Nakatomi Towers, a Rocky Balboa statue, a McDowell’s restaurant, you name it."

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins ★★★★☆

“I once read a book by a former alcoholic where she described giving oral sex to two different men, men she'd just met in a restaurant on a busy London high street. I read it and thought, I'm not that bad. This is where the bar is set." 

The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet by Kristin Ohlson ★★★★★

“If only 11% of the world’s crop land, land that is typically not in use, improved its community of microorganisms... the amount of carbon sequestered in the soil would offset all our current emissions of carbon dioxide.” 

- summery from a report to NASA 

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells ★☆☆☆☆

I’m stopping at 20% because this is just a ripoff of Six Degrees interspersed with the musings of an average, and dislikable, American. 

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas ★★★★☆

“So far as we yet know, this is the only planet in the entire universe which has summoned forth life in all its brilliance and variety.

Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal the Land by Scott Freeman ★★★★★

This was an authentic and impressive voice in eco nonfiction!