Steph Opitz Recs

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Steph Opitz Recs

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Beautiful Ruins
The Cold Millions
Parakeet
I Was Told There'd Be Cake
Look Alive Out There: Essays
Maine
Saints for All Occasions
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
Leave the World Behind: A Read with Jenna Pick
That Kind of Mother
Prep
You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories
A Lady's Guide to Selling Out
California
A Children's Bible
Station Eleven
Gold Fame Citrus
Severance
The Brief History of the Dead
The Middlesteins
Hotel Magnifique
The Tiger's Wife
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mouth to Mouth
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Intimacies
Braiding Sweetgrass
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Detransition, Baby
Hamnet
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Jonathan Strange & MR Norrell
The Shame
The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Braiding Sweetgrass
People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--And the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
I Dream of Dinner (So You Don't Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes: A Cookbook
Food52 Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook [A Cookbook]
Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over
Dinner in French: My Recipes by Way of France: A Cookbook
Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi (Vegetarian Cooking, Vegetable Cookbook, Vegetable Cooking)
How to Be a Pirate
Solve Your Child's Sleep Problems: New, Revised, and Expanded Edition
Maps
Niño Wrestles the World
Dragons Love Tacos
A Different Pond
Locomotive
Indestructibles: Love You, Baby: Chew Proof - Rip Proof - Nontoxic - 100% Washable (Book for Babies, Newborn Books, Safe to Chew)
One Girl
White Magic
Milk Blood Heat
The Kissing Bug
Mutiny
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
The Trees
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Palmares
Harrow
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Time's Mouth
Special Topics in Calamity Physics
The Lost Wife
The Vaster Wilds
City on Fire
Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Monstrilio
Disappearing Earth
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Chain Gang All Stars
My Murder
Our Strangers: Stories
Brotherless Night
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
I Have Some Questions for You
You Are Life
The Ski Jumpers
The Bandit Queens
The Great Man Theory