Marin Robinson

Literary Fiction • 2026 Night Road By Kristin Hannah • ★★★★ Kristin Hannah gives me emotional hangovers — I genuinely can’t read her books too close together. Night Road was no exception. I blew through it in just a few days and still needed time to recover. It wasn’t as compelling as The Great Alone…

Literary Fiction • 2026 Go Gentle By Maria Semple • ★★★ Bernadette is one of my favorite books and honestly what got me back into reading as an adult. I later tried Semple’s other books and they were horrible, so when Go Gentle was announced as a similar vibe I was thrilled but skeptical. When…

Romance • 2026 First-Time Caller By B.K. Borison • ★★★ Technically I’d give this 3.5 stars, but since Goodreads hasn’t evolved to half-star ratings yet, here we are. This book is honestly the best argument for why half stars need to exist. This has been everywhere on BookTok, and I love Sleepless in Seattle —…

Literary Fiction • 2026 The Shampoo Effect By Jenny Jackson • ★★★★ The book title was an absolute mystery to me when I picked this up — was I living under a rock, or does nobody else know what the shampoo effect is either? Either way, I went in curious and came out mostly satisfied.…

Romance • 2026 In Her Own League By Liz Tomforde • ★★★★★ I love baseball. Truly, it’s the best sport and one of the most underappreciated. I’d been waiting weeks for this one to become available at the library, and when it finally did, it did not disappoint. This book was almost a grand slam…

Romance • 2026 The Mysterious Bakery on Rue de Paris By Evie Woods • ★★★ I was actually looking for a different Evie Woods book, but it wasn’t available at the library — this one was. It sounded fun and whimsical, and since I’m learning French, the Parisian setting tempted me enough to give it…