August TBR list


  1. Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age By John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
  2. Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy
  3. Nectar in a Sieve By Kamala Markandaya
  4. The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton
  5. The Gentlemen's Guide to Vice + Virtue By Mackenzi Lee
  6. Ramona Blue By Julie Murphy
  7. The Improbable Theory of Ana + Zak By Brian Katcher

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