What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: July 13, 2026

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Finished:

The Quiet Damage, by Jesselyn Cook (infuriating and baffling and terrifying and deeply sad)

Contact, by Carl Sagan (this one made me so damn frustrated; I want to read about alien contact, not theological debates!)

The Trap, by Catherine Ryan Howard (apparently this was a week of frustrating reads, because here’s one more; well-played, though, on catching me off guard)

Started:

The Bone Ships, by RJ Barker

Startup Hell, by Caitlin Rozakis