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Action and Adventure

City of the Beasts; The Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar series, Book 1: YA: ****
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon; The Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar series, Book 2: YA: ****
Forest of the Pygmies; The Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar series, Book 3: YA: ****
Zorro: ****
The Game of Sunken Places; The Norumbegan quartet, Book 1: MG: ****
Whales on Stilts; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 1: MG: ****+
The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 2: MG: ****+
Jasper Dash and Flame-Pits of Delaware; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 3: MG: ****
Agent Q, or the Smell of Fear!; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 4: MG: ****
Nick of Time; The Nick McIvers Adventures Through Time series, Book 1: MG: ***
Across the Desert: MG: ****+
The Canyon's Edge: MG: ****
Pulp, illustrations by Sean Phillips and Jacob Phillips: ****
Good Guys: ***+
The Emperor's Edge; The Emperor's Edge series, Book 1: ****
Flash Gold; The Flash Gold Chronicles, Book 1: YA: ****
A Princess of Mars; The Barsoom/John Carter of Mars series, Book 1: ***
Tarzan of the Apes; The Tarzan, Book 1: ***
Saber Tooth; The Dawn of Mammals series, Book 1: ***
The Terminal List; The Terminal List series, Book 1: ***
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi; The Amina al-Sirafi series, Book 1: ****+
Z. Rex; The Hunting series, Book 1: MG: ***+
Winds of Marque; The Blackwood & Virtue series, Book 1: ***+
The Lost World; The Professor Challenger series, Book 1: ****+
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind; The Frost Files series, Book 1: ***+
Alone: MG: ****
My Side of the Mountain; The My Side of the Mountain series, Book 1: MG: ****
On the Far Side of the Mountain; The My Side of the Mountain series, Book 2: MG: ****
Frightful's Mountain; The My Side of the Mountain series, Book 3: MG: ****
Pirate's Passage: MG: ****
Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time; The Dinotopia series, Book 1: MG?: *****
Dinotopia: The World Beneath; The Dinotopia series, Book 2: MG?: ****
King Solomon's Mines: ***+
The Magic Misfits; The Magic Misfits series, Book 1: MG: ****
Lifeboat 12: MG: ****
Zero Sum Game; The Cas Russell series, Book 1: ***
The Mighty Odds; The Odds series, Book 1: CH?: ****
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves: The Road to Neverwinter; The Dungeons & Dragons series: ***+
Dragons vs. Drones; The Dragons vs. Drones series, Book 1: MG: ***+
Captains Courageous: Fiction, MG? Adventure: *
The Jungle Book: Fiction, MG? Adventure/Collection/Fantasy: ****
The Second Jungle Book: Fiction, MG? Adventure/Collection/Fantasy: **+
The Depths: **
Shipwreck; The Island trilogy, Book 1: MG: ****
Survival; The Island trilogy, Book 2: MG: ***+
Escape; The Island trilogy, Book 3: MG: ****
The Haunted Mesa: **+
Skulduggery Pleasant; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 1: MG: ****+
Playing With Fire; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 2: MG: ****+
The Faceless Ones; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 3: MG: ****+
Dark Days; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 4: MG/YA: ****
Mortal Coil; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 5: YA: ****+
Apocalypse Kings; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 5.6: YA?: ****
Mortal Coil; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 5: YA: ****+
Apocalypse Kings; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 5.6: YA?: ****
The Jolly Regina; The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters series, Book 1: CH?: ****
Swords and Deviltry; The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, Book 1: ****
Swords Against Death; The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, Book 2: ****
Swords in the Mist; The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, Book 3: ***+
Breaking Wild: ***
Arabella of Mars; The Aventures of Arabella Ashby, Book 1: YA?: ****
Arabella and the Battle of Venus; The Aventures of Arabella Ashby, Book 2: YA?: ****
Arabella the Traitor of Mars; The Aventures of Arabella Ashby, Book 3: YA?: ****
Before Adam: ***+
The Call of the Wild and White Fang: ***
Treasures of the Forgotten City (with David Kristoph); The Ultimate Endings series, Book 1: CH: ***+
Bloody Jack; The Bloody Jack Adventures, Book 1: YA: *****
The Curse of the Blue Tattoo; The Bloody Jack Adventures, Book 2: YA: ****
Under the Jolly Roger; The Bloody Jack Adventures, Book 3: YA: ****
Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates (with Patrick O'Brien), illustrations by Patrick O'Brien; The Captain Raptor series, Book 2: CH: ****
Hatchet; The Brian Saga, Book 1: MG: *****
The River; The Brian Saga, Book 2: MG: ****+
Brian's Winter; The Brian Saga, Book 3: MG: *****
Brian's Return; The Brian Saga, Book 4: MG: ****
Brian's Hunt; The Brian Saga, Book 5: MG: ***+
Northwind: MG: ****
The Transall Saga: MG?: ***
Wolf Brother; The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, Book 1: MG: ****
Black Leviathan (translated by Lucy Van Cleef): YA: ****
Crocodile on the Sandbank; The Amelia Peabody series, Book 1: ***+
Hero for Hire; The Eno the Thracian series, Book 1: ***+
Sharcano; The Sharkpocalypse Trilogy, Book 1: ***+
Tyrannosaur Canyon; The Wyman Ford series, Book 1: ****
Larklight; The Larklight series, Book 1: MG: **+
Deal with the Devil; The Mercenary Librarians series, Book 1: ***
Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow; The Jake Ransom series, Book 1: YA: ***
The City Beyond the Sands; The Strange Lands Saga, Book 1: ***
When They Find Us; The Agent Victoria Heslin series, Book 3: **
Captain Blood; The Captain Blood series, Book 1: ***+
The Athena Protocol; The Athena Protocol series, Book 1: YA: ****
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: ***
Cryptid Hunters; The Cryptid Hunters series, Book 1: MG: ***+
Dinotopia: Hatchling; The Dinotopia series: CH: ****
Nimona: YA?: ****+
Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy (with Shannon Watters), illustrations by Brooke A. Allen; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max (with Shannon Watters), illustrations by Brooke A. Allen; The Lumberjanes series: MG? ****
Lumberjanes to the Max 2 (with Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters), illustrations by Brooke A. Allen and Carolyn Nowak; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 5: Band Together, illustrations by Brooke A. Allen; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 6: Sink or Swim (with Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen), illustrations by Carey Pietsch; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 7: A Bird's Eye View (with Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen), illustrations by Maarta Laiho, Carey Pietsch, and Ayme Sotuyo; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 8: Stone Cold (with Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen), illustrations by Maarta Laiho and Carey Pietsch; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Treasure Island: MG: ***+
Tiger; The Five Ancestors series, Book 1: MG: ***
In the Red: MG: ***+
Gulliver's Travels: ****
The Poodle of Doom, illustrations by Wendy Tan Shiau Wei; The Pets Rule! series, Book 2: CH: ****
The Cay: MG?: ****
Rogue Wave: And Other Red-Blooded Sea Stories: MG?: ****
Rip Haywire and the Curse of Tangaroa; A Rip Haywire graphic novel: YA?: *****
Rip Haywire Blows UP!; A Rip Haywire collection, Book 2: YA?: ****+
The Accidental Highwayman; The Kit Bristol series, Book 1: MG: **+
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: ****
A Journey to the Center of the Earth: ***+
The Survivors of the Chancellor: ***+
Phoenix Rising: ***+
Emilie and the Hollow World; The Emilie series, Book 1: Fiction, YA Adventure/Fantasy: ***+
Horizon; The Horizon series, Book 1: MG: ****
Leviathan; The Leviathan trilogy, Book 1: YA: ***+
Behemoth; The Leviathan trilogy, Book 2: YA: ****+
Goliath; The Leviathan trilogy, Book 3: YA: ****
Leepike Ridge: YA: ***+
Dragon and Thief; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 1: YA: ****
Dragon and Soldier; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 2: YA: ****
Dragon and Slave; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 3: YA: ****
Dragon and Herdsman; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 4: YA: ***+
Dragon and Judge; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 5: YA: ****
Dragon and Liberator; The Dragonback Adventures, Book 6: YA: ***+
Chasing Helicity; The Chasing Helicity series, Book 1: MG: ***+

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Anthologies and Collections

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (editor): ***+
Strange Happenings: CH: ****
No Two Persons: ***+
Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Dragons; The Jim Henson's Storyteller series: CH?: ****
Great Classic Science Fiction: ****
The Kingfisher Treasury of Witch and Wizard Stories (editor): CH: **
The Martian Chronicles: ****
Memory's Legion; The Expanse novellas: ****
The Expanse Volume 1: Origins (with Hallie Lambert and Georgia Lee), illustrations by Huang Danlan, Triona Farrell, Juan Useche, and Rahzzah; The Expanse Origins, Issues 1 - 4: ***+
Odds are Good: CH: *****
Oddest of All: CH: ***+
Bruce Coville's Book of... Anthologies (editor): CH>: *****
Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds (editor): CH: *****
A Glory of Unicorns (editor): CH: *****
Half-Human (editor): MG: *****
The Dragon Book (with Gardner Dozois, editors): **+
The Folktale Cat (editor): ***
The Very Best of Charles de Lint: ***+
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; A Sherlock Holmes collection, Book 1: ****
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; A Sherlock Holmes collection, Book 2: ***+
The Return of Sherlock Holmes; A Sherlock Holmes collection, Book 3: ***+
Breaking Cat News; A Breaking Cat News collection, Book 1: ****
Fifty-One Tales: ****
Ocean/Orbiter Deluxe Edition, illustrations by Chris Sprouse and Colleen Doran: *****
We Three Dragons (editor): ***
Cats in Space and Other Places (editor): **
Dragons Composed (editor): ***
Graven Images: YA?: ****
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories: **+
Fragile Things: ****
Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition (with David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editors): ***
Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection; The Newsflesh series: *****
Dragons: The Greatest Stories (editor): **
Cats Cats Cats: A Collection of Great Cat Cartoons (editor): ***
The Anything Box: ****
Full Throttle: Stories: ****
Carnacki the Ghost Finder: ****
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories 2018 (editor, with John Joseph Adams): ****
The Jungle Book: Fiction, MG? Adventure/Collection/Fantasy: ****
The Second Jungle Book: Fiction, MG? Adventure/Collection/Fantasy: **+
The Best of Damon Knight: ***+
By Sword, Stave or Stylus: ***
Swords and Deviltry; The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, Book 1: ****
Swords Against Death; The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, Book 2: ****
Swords in the Mist; The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, Book 3: ***+
Flights of Fantasy (editor): Fiction, Anthology/Fantasy: ***
The Blue Fairy Book; The Andrew Lang's Fairy Book series, Book 1: CH: ***
The Dragon and the Stars (with Eric Choi, editors): ***+
Dragonfold and Other Adventures: YA?: **+
I Am Legend and Other Stories: ***
Sparrow Hill Road; The Ghost Roads series, Book 1: ****+
Help is On the Way; A Basic Instructions collection, Book 1: *****
Made With 90% Recycled Art; A Basic Instructions collection, Book 2: ****+
The Curse of the Masking-Tape Mummy; A Basic Instructions collection, Book 3: ****+
The Book of Dragons: CH?: ****
The Dragon's Child and the Night of the Unicorn: CH: ****
Catfantastic I - IV (with Martin H. Greenberg, editors); The Catfantastic series: ****
Six-Shooter Tales; The Six-Shooter series, Book 1: ****
Pearls Before Swine: BLTs Taste So Darn Good; A Pearls Before Swine collection, Book 1: *****
Pearls Before Swine: This Little Piggy Stayed Home; A Pearls Before Swine collection, Book 2: *****
Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic; A Pearls Before Swine treasury, Book 1: *****
Pearls Before Swine: Nighthogs; A Pearls Before Swine collection, Book 3: *****
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective: ***+
The Dragons at Crumbling Castle: CH?: ****
Eyes Like Sky And Coal And Moonlight: ****
Close Encounters of the Worst Kind; A Brewster Rockit, Space Guy! collection, Book 1: *****
The Tales of Beedle the Bard; The Harry Potter series: MG: *****
The Last Wish: Introducing the Witcher; The Witcher series, Collection 1: ***
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, illustrations by Lane Smith: CH: ****+
A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film: ***+
City: ***+
The Shape of Ideas: An Illustrated Exploration of Creativity: ****
I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf: ****
Rogue Wave: And Other Red-Blooded Sea Stories: MG?: ****
Book Love: ***+
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (translated by Marlane Delargy); The Elderly Lady series, Book 1: ***
Serpents of Sky: Nine stories of dragons: YA?: ***+
Wanted: A Western Story Collection: ***
Princeless: Short Stories Volume 1, illustrations by Various Artists; The Princeless series: MG?: ***+
Princeless: Princesses, illustrations by Various Artists; The Princeless series, Volume 8: MG: ***+
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories: ***+
Book of Enchantments: MG?: ****
Here, There Be Dragons: MG?: ****
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale: ****+
Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories: ****
Forever After (creator): ***

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Chillers, Horror, Suspense, and Thrillers

Midnight Riot; The Rivers of London series, Book 1: **
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (editor): ***+
Like Never and Always: YA: ****
The Game of Sunken Places; The Norumbegan quartet, Book 1: MG: ****
The In-Between: MG: ****+
Small Spaces; The Small Spaces quartet, Book 1: MG: ****
Dead Voices; The Small Spaces quartet, Book 2: MG: ****
Dark Waters; The Small Spaces quartet, Book 3: MG: ****
Empty Smiles; The Small Spaces quartet, Book 4: MG: ****
Hemlock Island: Fiction, Thriller: ****
Wolf Rider: Fiction, CH Chiller: ****
Wolfwood: YA: ****
Track of the Cat; The Anna Pigeon Mysteries series, Book 1: ****
On My Honor: MG: ***+
Serafina and the Black Cloak; The Serafina series, Book 1: MG: ***
Doll Bones: MG: ****
Firekeeper's Daughter: YA: ****+
The Halloween Tree: CH: ****
Something Wicked This Way Comes; The Greentown series, Book 2: MG?: ****
My Sister, the Serial Killer: ***+
Beauty Queens: YA: *****
Between Two Fires: ****+
The Lesser Dead: ****
The Suicide Motor Club: ****
Those Across the River: ****+
Night of the Gargoyles, illustrations by David Wiesner: CH: ****
Who Goes There?: ****
Meddling Kids: ***+
The Terminal List; The Terminal List series, Book 1: ***
Any Sign of Life: YA: ****
Retrograde; The Retrograde series, Book 1: ****
And Then There Were None: *****
The Lost and the Found: YA: ****
The Stranger in the Mirror: **+
15 Minutes; The Rewind Agency series, Book 1: YA: ***
The Ghost in the Third Row; The Nina Tanleven Mysteries, Book 1: CH: *****
The Ghost Wore Gray; The Nina Tanleven Mysteries, Book 2: CH: *****
The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed; The Nina Tanleven Mysteries, Book 3: CH: *****
Bruce Coville's Book of... Anthologies (editor): CH: *****
Ring Shout: *****
Fools Like Us: **
Dark Matter: ****
Recursion: ****
Pines; The Wayward Pines trilogy, Book 1: ****
The Book Eaters: ***
The Marrow Thieves; The Marrow Thieves series, Book 1: YA?: ****
Beasts of Burden: Wise Dogs and Eldritch Men, illustrations by Benjamin Dewey and Nate Piekos; The Beasts of Burden series, Issues 1 - 4: MG?: ****
Down a Dark Hall; A Lois Duncan Thrillers book: YA: ***+
Killing Mr. Griffin: YA: ****
Race for the Escape: MG: ***
Seeing Eye: ****
The Darkest Time of Night: ***
Alone: MG: ****
The Echo Wife: ***
Coraline: MG: ****
Fragile Things: ****
The Graveyard Book: MG/YA: ****+
The Sandman Volume 1: Preludes and Nocturnes, 30th Anniversary Edition, illustrations by Sam Keith; The Sandman series, Issues 1 - 8: ***
The Sandman Volume 2: The Doll's House, 30th Anniversary Edition, illustrations by Mike Dringenberg and Malcom Jones III; The Sandman series, Issues 9 - 16: ***
Into the Drowning Deep: ****+
Feed; The Newsflesh series, Book 1: *****
Deadline; The Newsflesh series, Book 2: *****
Blackout; The Newsflesh series, Book 3: *****
Rise: The Complete Newsflesh Collection; The Newsflesh series: *****
Concrete Evidence; The Evidence series, Book 1: ****
Incriminating Evidence; The Evidence series, Book 4: ****
Trigger: YA: ***
Adrift: YA: ****
Claws (with Rachel Grinti): MG: ***+
Titanium Noir: ***+
The Warehouse: ***+
The Girl in Red: ****
Good Girls Don't Die: ***+
Slow Horses; The Slough House series, Book 1: ****
Full Throttle: Stories: ****
Heart-Shaped Box: ****+
NOS4A2: ****
Carnacki the Ghost Finder: ****
Lifeboat 12: MG: ****
Stranger Things: The Other Side, illustrations by Stefano Martino and Keith Champagne; A Stranger Things graphic novel, Volume 1: YA?: ***+
Bunnicula; The Bunnicula and Friends series, Book 1: CH: ***+
Zero Sum Game; The Cas Russell series, Book 1: ***
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe: YA: *+
Under an Outlaw Moon: ****
Crown of Serpents; The Tununda Mysteries series, Book 1: **
11/22/63: ****+
Billy Summers: ****
The Body: ****+
Cujo: Fiction, Horror: ****
Secret Window, Secret Garden; The Four Past Midnight series, Story 2: ***+
The Sun Dog; The Four Past Midnight series, Story 4: ****
It: ****+
The Mist: ****+
Pet Sematary: ****+
The Shining: ****
The Talisman (with Peter Straub); The Jack Sawyer trilogy, Book 1: ***+
The Hollow Places: ****
The Depths: **
Shipwreck; The Island trilogy, Book 1: MG: ****
Survival; The Island trilogy, Book 2: MG: ***+
Escape; The Island trilogy, Book 3: MG: ****
Whalefall: ***
Playing With Fire; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 2: MG: ****+
The Faceless Ones; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 3: MG: ****+
Dark Days; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 4: MG/YA: ****
Mortal Coil; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 5: YA: ****+
Apocalypse Kings; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 5.6: YA?: ****
An Unwanted Guest: ***
The Ballad of Black Tom: ***+
Run; The Hunted series, Book 1: YA: ***
Carmilla: ***+
Breaking Wild: ***
At the Mountains of Madness: ****
I Am Still Alive: YA: ***+
The Mountain Between Us: ***
Nightflyers: ****
I Am Legend and Other Stories: ***
Sparrow Hill Road; The Ghost Roads series, Book 1: ****+
The Girl in the Green Silk Gown; The Ghost Roads series, Book 2: ****+
Angel of the Overpass; The Ghost Roads series, Book 3: ****
Middlegame; The Alchemical Journeys series, Book 1: *****
Down Among the Sticks and Bones; The Wayward Children series, Book 2: YA?: *****
Come Tumbling Down; The Wayward Children series, Book 5: YA?: *****
One of Us Is Lying; The One of Us Is Lying series, Book 1: YA: ****
Certain Dark Things: ****
Nine Perfect Strangers: ***
Monster: YA: ****
Evidence of Trust; The Colorado Trust series, Book 1: ****
A History of What Comes Next; The Take Them to the Stars series, Book 1: ****+
The Ghosts of Belfast; The Belfast novels, Book 1: ****
Vessel: ***+
Griffin's Castle: MG: ****+
Polaris: MG: ***
Three Quarters Dead: YA: ***+
Crocodile on the Sandbank; The Amelia Peabody series, Book 1: ***+
13 Minutes: YA: ****
The Vampyre: A Tale: **+
Tyrannosaur Canyon; The Wyman Ford series, Book 1: ****
Long Way Down: YA: *****
Five Total Strangers: YA: ***+
The Takers; The Oz Chronicles, Book 1: MG: ***+
The Girl in the Well is Me: Fiction, MG: ****
Rough Draft: ****
When They Find Us; The Agent Victoria Heslin series, Book 3: **
The Athena Protocol; The Athena Protocol series, Book 1: YA: ****
The Circus of Stolen Dreams: MG: ****
Gallant: YA: ****+
City of Ghosts; The City of Ghosts series, Book 1: MG: ****
Frankenstein: **+
Full Tilt: YA: ****
Others See Us: YA: ****
Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: ****
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ***+
Dracula: ***
The Jewel of Seven Stars: ***
The Screaming Staircase; The Lockwood & Co. series, Book 1: MG: ****
The Whispering Skull; The Lockwood & Co. series, Book 2: MG: ****
The Murders of Molly Southborne: **+
Siege Therapy: **
Game Over - Extended Edition: MG?: ****
The Woods Volume 1: The Arrow; The Woods series, Issues 1 - 4: ****
The Woods Volume 2: The Swarm; The Woods series, Issues 5 - 8: ****
The Woods Volume 3: New London; The Woods series, Issues 9 - 12: ****
Comfort Me With Apples: ****
How to Survive Your Murder: YA: *+
The Survivors of the Chancellor: ***+
Phoenix Rising: ***+
Cast the First Stone (with Susan May Warren, James L. Rubart, and David C. Warren); The True Lies of Rembrandt Stone series, Book 1: ***+
Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend: ****
The Shadows; The Books of Elsewhere series, Volume 1: MG: ****
Horizon; The Horizon series, Book 1: MG: ****
The Secret Hour; The Midnighters trilogy, Book 1: YA: ***+
Nightbooks: MG: ****+
The Thickety: A Path Begins; The Thickety series, Book 1: MG: ****+
Rat Queens Deluxe Volume 1, illustrations by Tess Fowler and Roc Upchurch; The Rat Queen series, Volume 1: ****+
John Dies at the End; The John Dies at the End series, Book 1: ***+
The Ghost Witch: CH: ***

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Comedy and Humor

The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide; The Hitchhiker's Guide series, Books 1 - 5: ***
Frequently Asked Questions: An Unshelved Collection; The Unshelved series, Book 6: ****+
Granted: MG: ****
Death Warmed Over The Dan Shambles, Zombie PI series, Book 1: ***
The Game of Sunken Places; The Norumbegan quartet, Book 1: MG: ****
Whales on Stilts; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 1: MG: ****+
The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 2: MG: ****+
Jasper Dash and Flame-Pits of Delaware; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 3: MG: ****
Agent Q, or the Smell of Fear!; A Pals in Peril Tale, Book 4: MG: ****
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge (with Eugene Yelchin), illustrations by Eugene Yelchin: YA?: ***+
Crankee Doodle, illustrations by Cece Bell: CH: ****
Demons Don't Dream; The Xanth series, Book 16: YA?: **
Mickey7; The Mickey7 series, Book 1: **
Dragons Wild; The Dragons Wild series, Book 1: *
Unicorns 101: CH: ****
Sky Coyote; The Company series, Book 2: ****
Old MacDonald Had a Dragon, , illustrations by Christopher Santoro: CH: ****
Bookshops & Bonedust; The Legends & Lattes series, Book 2: ****+
The Case of the Case of Mistaken Identity; The Brixton Brothers series, Book 1: MG: ****
Chloe and the Lion, illustrations by Adam Rex: CH: *****
How This Book Was Made, illustrations by Adam Rex: CH: *****
Shark vs. Train, illustrations by Tom Licthenheld CH: ****
Fire Truck vs Dragon, illustrations by Shanda McCloskey: CH: ****
The Discovery of Dragons: New Research Revealed: CH: ****
Candorville: Thank God for Culture Clash; A Candorville Collection, Book 1: *****
Galaxy Quest: *****
Whatever for Hire; The Magical Romantic Comedy (with a body count) series, Book 5: ****
This Book is Not Yet Rated: YA: ****
The Name of This Book is Secret; The Secret series, Book 1: MG: ****
Write This Book: A Do-It-Yourself Mystery; The Secret series, Book 6: MG: ****+
It Came!; The It Came series, Issues 1 - 4: *****
My Sister, the Serial Killer: ***+
Beauty Queens: YA: *****
A Bad Spell in Yurt; The Royal Wizard of Yurt series, Volume 1: ***
CatStronauts: Mission Moon; The CatStronauts series, Book 1: CH: ****
Magic Kingdom For Sale - Sold!; The Magic Kingdom of Landover series, Book 1: ****
Darth Vader and Son; The Darth Vader collection, Book 1: CH?: ****+
Vader's LIttle Princess; The Darth Vader collection, Book 2: CH?: ****+
Children Make Terrible Pets; The Lucy series, Book 1: CH: ****
YOU WILL BE MY FRIEND!; The Lucy series, Book 2: Fiction, CH Humor/Picture Book: ****
Bad Kitty; The Bad Kitty series, Book 1: CH: ****
Jhereg; The Vlad Taltos series, Book 1: *****
Yendi; The Vlad Taltos series, Book 2: *****
Teckla; The Vlad Taltos series, Book 3: ****+
The Book of Taltos; The Vlad Taltos series, Books 4 and 5: ****
The Book of Athyra; The Vlad Taltos series, Books 6 and 7: ***
The Blacktongue Thief; The Blacktongue Thief series, Book 1: *****
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Presents A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo (with Jill Twiss), illustrations by EG (Gerald Kelley) Keller: CH: ****
Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics (with Burton Silver): Fiction, Humor: ***+
Hollow Kingdom: **+
The Nonexistent Knight (translated by Archibald Calhoun); The Our Ancestors series, Book 3: ****
Meddling Kids: ***+
Etiquette & Espionage; The Finishing School series, Book 1: MG: ***
An American Werewolf in Hoboken; The Wolf Mates series, Book 1: ****
Don Quixote (translated by Walter Starkie): ***+
Sorcerer to the Crown; The Sorcerer to the Crown series, Book 1: ***+
The Lives of Tao; The Lives of Tao series, Book 1: ****
The Art of Prophecy; The War Arts Saga, Book 1: ****
Finna; The LitenVerse series, Book 1: ****
It Came in the Mail: CH: ****
What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World: MG ****
Bad Unicorn; The Bad Unicorn trilogy, Book 1: MG: ****
Artemis Fowl; The Artemis Fowl series, Book 1: MG: ****
Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident; The Artemis Fowl series, Book 2: MG: *****
Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code; The Artemis Fowl series, Book 3: MG: *****
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception; The Artemis Fowl series, Book 4: MG: ****
The Artemis Fowl Files; The Artemis Fowl series: MG: ***
And Another Thing...; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Book 6: ****
The Supernaturalist: MG: ****
The Wish List: MG: *****
The Wiz Biz; The Wizardry series, Books 1 and 2: ***
The Wiz Biz II: Cursed and Consulted; The Wizardry series, Books 3 and 4: **
Three Little Wishes, illustrations by Steven Yeowell: ***+
Misadventures of Maude March; The Maude March series, Book 1: MG: ***
Odds are Good: CH: *****
Oddest of All: CH: ***+
Bruce Coville's Book of... Anthologies (editor): CH: *****
How to Train Your Dragon; The How to Train Your Dragon series, Book 1: CH: ***
The Wizards of Once; The Wizards of Once series, Book 1: MG: ****
My Lady's Choosing (with Larissa Zageris): ***
The Sisters Brothers: ****
Scoundrel for Hire; The Velvet Lies series, Book 1: ****
Everyone Loves Bacon, illustrations by Eric Wight: CH: ****
Holy Cow: ***
Breaking Cat News; A Breaking Cat News collection, Book 1: ****
You Don't Want a Unicorn!, illustrations by Liz Climo: CH: ****
Kings of the Wyld; The Band series, Book 1: *****
Bloody Rose; The Band series, Book 2: *****
How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse; The Arithmancy and Anarchy series: The Thorne Chronicles, Book 1: YA: ****+
How the Multiverse Got Its Revenge; The Arithmancy and Anarchy series: The Thorne Chronicles, Book 2: YA: ****+
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: CH?: *****
The Nine Lives of Algernon: CH?: ***
The Last Dragonslayer; The Chronicles of Kazam, Book 1: YA: **+
King: The Graphic Novel, illustrated by Bernard Chang and Marcelo Maiolo: ****
The Fix Up; The First Impressions series, Book 1: ****
The World is Your Litter Box: Deluxe Edition: A How-To Manual for Cats: ****
Pyramid Scheme (with Dave Freer); The Pyramid series, Book 1: ***
The Devious Book for Cats: A Parody: ****+
Cat-A-Lyst: **
Quozl: ***
The Cat, the Dog, Little Red, the Exploding Eggs, the Wolf, and Grandma, illustrations by Christyan Fox: CH: ***+
My Father's Dragon, illustrations by Ruth Christian Gannett; The My Father's Dragon series, Book 1: CH: ****+
Fortunately, the Milk: CH: ****
Fragile Things: ****
A Couch for Llama: CH: ****
Unflappable: ****
Scales & Scoundrels: Into the Dragon's Maw, illustrations by Galaad; The Scales & Scoundrels series, Issues 1 - 5: YA?: ****
Scales & Scoundrels: Treasurehearts, illustrations by Galaad; The Scales & Scoundrels series, Issues 6 - 10: YA?: ***+
The Princess Bride: ****
The Ghost Pirate's Treasure: Mystery of the Jaguar Warrior; The Paranormally Yours series, Book 1: **+
Blue Moon Rising; The Forest Kingdom series, Book 1: ****
The Darkslayer: Wrath of the Royals (with Ernie Chang); The Darkslayer series, Book 1: *+
Welcome to Jesusland! (Formerly the United States of America) (with Andrew Bradley and Eric Walker): ****+
Monster on the Hill: CH: ****
Never Let Your Cat Make Lunch For You, illustrations by Debbie Tilley: CH: ****
Chomp: MG: ****
Scat: MG: ****
Terminal Alliance; The Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse series, Book 1: ****
Goblin Quest; The Jig the Goblin series, Book 1: ****+
Goblin Hero; The Jig the Goblin series, Book 2: ****+
Goblin War; The Jig the Goblin series, Book 3: ****
CATMOPOLITAN: ****
Holmes on the Range; The Holmes on the Range series, Book 1: ****
Little Red Writing, illustrations by Melissa Sweet: CH: ***+
Bunnicula; The Bunnicula and Friends series, Book 1: CH: ***+
Zero Sum Game; The Cas Russell series, Book 1: ***
Let's Get Textual; The Texting series, Book 1: **+
The Secret of Platform 13: CH: **+
Which Witch?: CH: **+
The Mighty Odds; The Odds series, Book 1: CH?: ****
Cinder Edna, illustrations by Kevin O'Malley: CH: ***+
Dark Lord of Derkholm; The Derkholm series, Book 1: YA: *****
Year of the Griffin; The Derkholm series, Book 2: YA: ***
Tough Guide to Fantasyland: *****
Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer; The Unusual Chickens series, Book 1: MG: ****
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book: **
The Last Human: ***
Monsters Eat Whiny Children: CH: ****
The Divide; The Divide trilogy, Book 1: MG: ****
Swordheart: ***
Skulduggery Pleasant; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 1: MG: ****+
Playing With Fire; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 2: MG: ****+
The Faceless Ones; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 3: MG: ****+
Dark Days; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 4: MG/YA: ****
Mortal Coil; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 5: YA: ****+
Apocalypse Kings; The Skulduggery Pleasant series, Book 5.6: YA?: ****
The Jolly Regina; The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters series, Book 1: CH?: ****
The Boy Who Cried Ninja: CH: ****
7 Ate 9: The Untold Story, illustrations by Ross McDonald; The Private I series, Book 1: CH: ****
Piratica; The Piratica series, Book 1: YA: *****
Piratica II; The Piratica series, Book 2: YA: ***
Power Up, illustrations by Matt Cummings; The Power Up series, episodes 1 - 6: YA?: ***+
E-mergency: CH: ****+
My Sparkling Misfortune (with Alla Alekseyeva); The Lakeland Knight series, Book 1: YA?: ***+
Pony Confidential: ****
You Slay Me; The Aisling Grey, Guardian series, Book 1: ***+
Three Mages and a Margarita; The Guild Codex: Spellbound series, Book 1: ***+
Hold Me Closer, Necromancer; The Necromancer ceries, Book 1: YA?: **+
Discount Armageddon; The InCryptid series, Book 1: ****
Help is On the Way; A Basic Instructions collection, Book 1: *****
Made With 90% Recycled Art; A Basic Instructions collection, Book 2: ****+
The Curse of the Masking-Tape Mummy; A Basic Instructions collection, Book 3: ****+
Off to Be the Wizard; The Magic 2.0 series, Book 1: ****+
Spell or High Water; The Magic 2.0 series, Book 2: ****
An Unwelcome Quest; The Magic 2.0 series, Book 3: ****
Run Program: ***
All My Friends Are Dead (with Jory John); The All My Friends... series, Book 1: *****
All My Friends Are Still Dead (with Jory John); The All My Friends... series, Book 2: *****
A Fate Worse Than Dragons: ***+
Heroics for Beginners: ****
The Unhandsome Prince: ****
Don't Even Think About It; The Don't Even Think About It series, Book 1: YA: ****
This Is a Moose, illustrations by Tom Lichtenheld: CH: ****
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower: ***
The Legend of Hobart: CH: ***+
The Paper Bag Princess: CH: *****
Do Not Open This Book: CH: ****
Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers; The Red Dwarf series, Book 1: ****
Better Than Life; The Red Dwarf series, Book 2: ****+
Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude, illustrations by Kevin O'Malley, Carol Heyer, and Scott Goto: CH: ***+
Inkling: MG: ****
Ruin Your Life Now: ***
Pearls Before Swine: BLTs Taste So Darn Good; A Pearls Before Swine collection, Book 1: *****
Pearls Before Swine: This Little Piggy Stayed Home; A Pearls Before Swine collection, Book 2: *****
Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic; A Pearls Before Swine treasury, Book 1: *****
Pearls Before Swine: Nighthogs; A Pearls Before Swine collection, Book 3: *****
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made; The Timmy Failure series, Book 1: CH: ***+
Meet the Dullards, illustrations by Daniel Salmieri: CH: ****+
Crap Kingdom: YA: ****+
The Adventures of Whatley Tupper: A Choose-Your-Path Novel (with Rudolph Kerkhoven): **
The Builders: ***+
The Bromeliad Trilogy; The Bromeliad Trilogy, Books 1 - 3: MG?: *****
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents; A Discworld novel: MG?: *****+
The Color of Magic; A Discworld novel: *****
Small Gods; A Discworld novel: *****
The Wee Free Men; A Discworld novel: The Tiffany Aching series, Book 1: MG?: *****+
The Dragons at Crumbling Castle: CH?: ****
Only You Can Save Mankind; The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy, Book 1: MG?: *****
The Illustrated Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman), illustrations by Paul Kidby: ****+
Hero for Hire; The Eno the Thracian series, Book 1: ***+
Sharcano; The Sharkpocalypse Trilogy, Book 1: ***+
Larklight; The Larklight series, Book 1: MG: **+
Neanderthal Seeks Human; The Knitting in the City series, Book 1: ***
Year Zero: ***+
Cold Cereal; The Cold Cereal Saga, Book 1: MG: ****+
The True Meaning of Smekday; The Smek Smeries series, Book 1: MG: ****+
Carnivores, illustrations by Dan Santat: CH: *****
Close Encounters of the Worst Kind; A Brewster Rockit, Space Guy! collection, Book 1: *****
Story Thieves; The Story Thieves series, Book 1: MG: ****+
Dragons Love Tacos, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri; The Dragons Love Tacos series, Book 1: CH: ****
Dragons Love Tacos 2: The Sequel, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri; The Dragons Love Tacos series, Book 2: CH: ****
Secret Pizza Party, illustrated by Daniel Salmieri: CH: ****
Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians; The Alcatraz series, Book 1: MG: ****+
The Android's Dream: ****
The Collapsing Empire; The Interdependency series, Book 1: ***+
The Kaiju Preservation Society: ***+
There Are Cats in this Book; The Cats in this Book series, Book 1: CH: ****
There Are No Cats in this Book; The Cats in this Book series, Book 2: CH: ****
How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters: *****
Unwanted: Dead or Alive; The Buck and Dobie series, Book 1: ****
A Christmas Story: The Book That Inspired the Hilarious Classic Film: ***+
Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir: ****
The Most Magnificent Thing: CH: ****+
A Wizard in Mind; The Chronicles of the Rogue Wizard, Book 1: ***
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (with Nicole Galland); The D.O.D.O. series, Book 1: ***+
Nimona: YA?: ****+
Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy (with Shannon Watters), illustrations by Brooke A. Allen; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 2: Friendship to the Max (with Shannon Watters), illustrations by Brooke A. Allen; The Lumberjanes series: MG? ****
Lumberjanes to the Max 2 (with Grace Ellis and Shannon Watters), illustrations by Brooke A. Allen and Carolyn Nowak; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 5: Band Together, illustrations by Brooke A. Allen; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 6: Sink or Swim (with Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen), illustrations by Carey Pietsch; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 7: A Bird's Eye View (with Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen), illustrations by Maarta Laiho, Carey Pietsch, and Ayme Sotuyo; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
Lumberjanes Vol. 8: Stone Cold (with Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, Grace Ellis, and Brooke Allen), illustrations by Maarta Laiho and Carey Pietsch; The Lumberjanes series: MG?: ****
The Princess and the Firedrake: MG?: ***
The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read: CH: ****
Gulliver's Travels: ****
The Poodle of Doom, illustrations by Wendy Tan Shiau Wei; The Pets Rule! series, Book 2: CH: ****
We Are Legion (We Are Bob); The Bobiverse series, Book 1: ****
For We Are Many; The Bobiverse series, Book 2: ****
All These Worlds; The Bobiverse series, Book 3: ****
Just One Damned Thing After Another; The Chronicles of St. Mary's, Book 1: **+
The Cat Manual: ****
Walking to Aldebaran: ***+
This Book is Not About Dragons: CH: ****
Rip Haywire and the Curse of Tangaroa; A Rip Haywire graphic novel: YA?: *****
Rip Haywire Blows UP!; A Rip Haywire collection, Book 2: YA?: ****+
Sir Toby Jingle's Beastly Journey: CH: *****
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (translated by Marlane Delargy); The Elderly Lady series, Book 1: ***
Chilling Effect; The Chilling Effect series, Book 1: ***
Space Opera: *****
Never Trust a Dead Man: YA: ***+
Envy of Angels; A Sin du Jour Affair, Book 1: **+
Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend: ****
Chester; The Chester series, Book 1: CH: ****
Chester's Back!; The Chester series, Book 2: CH: ****+
You're Finally Here!: CH: ****
The Adventurer's Guide to Successful Escapes; The Adventurer's Guide series, Book 1: MG: ****
Princeless: Save Yourself, illustrations by M. Goodwin; The Princeless series, Volume 1: MG?: ****+
Princeless: Get Over Yourself, illustrations by Emily Martin; The Princeless series, Volume 2: MG?: ****
Princeless: The Pirate Princess, illustrations by Rosy Higgens and Ted Brandt; The Princeless series, Volume 3: MG?: ****
Princeless: Be Yourself, illustrations by Emily Martin and Brett Grunig; The Princeless series, Volume 4: MG?: ****
Princeless: Short Stories Volume 1, illustrations by Various Artists; The Princeless series: MG?: ***+
Princeless: Make Yourself, Part 1, illustrations by Emily Martin, Brett Grunig, and Alex Smith; The Princeless series, Volume 5: MG?: ***+
Princeless: Make Yourself, Part 2, illustrations by Brett Grunig, Emily Martin, and Alex Smith; The Princeless series, Volume 6: MG?: ****
Princeless: Find Yourself, illustrations by Emily Martin, Ainhoa Aramayo, Christine Hipp, and Brett Grunig; The Princeless series, Volume 7: MG?: ****
Princeless: Princesses, illustrations by Various Artists; The Princeless series, Volume 8: MG?: ***+
Princeless: Love Yourself, illustrations by Various Artists; The Princeless series, Volume 9: MG?: ****
Rat Queens Deluxe Volume 1, illustrations by Tess Fowler and Roc Upchurch; The Rat Queen series, Volume 1: ****+
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories: ***+
Edwina, The Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct: CH: ****+
John Dies at the End; The John Dies at the End series, Book 1: ***+
I Hate Fairyland Volume 1: Madly Ever After; The I Hate Fairyland series, Issues 1 - 5: ***
Time Travel Dinosaur; A Chooseomatic book, Book 3: *****
Interior Chinatown: ****
A Night in the Lonesome October: ***
Forever After (creator): ***
Mechanical Failure; The Epic Failure series, Book 1: ****

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