The Ballad of Perilous Graves
Alex Jennings
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2 of 5 finished · 2026
didn't finish: Kelley, McKenzie, Emily
41
books read together
3.51
club average rating
14,827
pages, give or take
updated Sep 1, 2026
The standings
← don't take it personallyMost books finished
the completionists- 1 Michael 41 books
- 2 Taylor 39 books
- 3 Emily 39 books
- 4 McKenzie 36 books
- 5 Kelley 35 books
Most generous
easy graders- 1 Michael ★ 3.88
- 2 Emily ★ 3.46
- 3 McKenzie ★ 3.38
- 4 Kelley ★ 3.30
Harshest critic
tough room- 1 Kelley ★ 3.30
- 2 McKenzie ★ 3.38
- 3 Emily ★ 3.46
- 4 Michael ★ 3.88
Out of step
their own beat- 1 Kelley ±0.71
- 2 Michael ±0.68
- 3 Emily ±0.68
- 4 McKenzie ±0.52
Best completion rate
a clean record- 1 Michael 41 of 41
- 2 Emily 39 of 40
- 3 Taylor 39 of 41
- 4 McKenzie 36 of 38
- 5 Kelley 35 of 40
By the year
2022 1
2023 20
2024 8
2025 4
2026 8
How we rate them
the shape of our taste 1.0★
1
1.5★
0
2.0★
0
2.5★
5
3.0★
8
3.5★
11
4.0★
7
4.5★
3
5.0★
5
What we read
genre by genre Fiction 41
Literature 24
Fantasy 23
Thriller 22
Mystery 20
Book Club 19
Horror 18
Science Fiction 13
By page count
quick wins vs. slogs ≤200 2
201–400 30
401–600 7
601–800 1
800+ 1
Every book we've read
the whole shelfsort:
year:
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Yesteryear
Caro Claire Burke
★★½2.5
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Kelley★★★
Emily★★
The Green Mile
Stephen King
★★★★★5
4 of 5 finished · 2026
didn't finish: Taylor
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Michael★★★★★“4.5”
- Kelley★★★★★
- Emily★★★★★
“4.5, rounded up”
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
★★★3
4 of 5 finished · 2026
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- Michael★★★★
- Kelley★★
“2.5”
The Merge
Grace Walker
★★★3
3 of 5 finished · 2026
didn't finish: Taylor, McKenzie
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- Michael★★★
- Kelley★★★
- Emily★★★
Bird Box
Josh Malerman
★★★½3.67
5 of 5 finished · 2026
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- Michael★★★★
“terrifying and atmospheric<br /><br />-biblioteca”
- Kelley★★★
“3.75”
- Emily★★★★
A Short Stay in Hell
Steven L. Peck
★★★★4
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- Michael★★★★
“4.25”
- Kelley★★★★
“Wild ride.”
- Emily★★★★
Theo of Golden
Allen Levi
★★★★★4.75
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- Michael★★★★★
“4.75.”
- Kelley★★★★★
McKenzie★★★★★- Emily★★★★
We Love You, Bunny
Mona Awad
★★★★4
4 of 5 finished · 2025
didn't finish: Kelley
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- Emily★★★★
Bunny
Mona Awad
★★½2.5
5 of 5 finished · 2025
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- Kelley★
“1.75”
- Emily★★★★
“3.75, rounded up”
Notes on an Execution
Danya Kukafka
★★★★★5
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- Emily★★★★★
“4.5, rounded up”
The Night Shift
Alex Finlay
★★★3
5 of 5 finished · 2025
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- Michael★★★
“3.5”
- Kelley★★★
“3.5”
- McKenzie★★★
“3.5”
- Emily★★★
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones
★★★½3.25
5 of 5 finished · 2024
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- Michael★★★
- Kelley★★★
- McKenzie★★★
- Emily★★★★
The Secret History
Donna Tartt
★★★3
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- Michael★★★
“3.25”
- McKenzie★★★
- Emily★★★
“3.5”
The Clinic
Cate Quinn
★★½2.33
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- Michael★★★
- Kelley★★
“2. Hated every single character. Good idea, poor execution.”
- McKenzie★★
Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
Matt Ruff
★★★★3.75
5 of 5 finished · 2024
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- Michael★★★★
Taylor★★★- Kelley★★★★
- McKenzie
“DNF”
- Emily★★★★
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
★★★½3.25
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- Michael★★★★
“4.25”
- Kelley★★★
“3.5”
- McKenzie★★★
“3.5”
- Emily★★★
“3.5, read during a book slump so that probably caused the lower rating”
All the Sinners Bleed
S. A. Cosby
★★★★½4.5
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- Michael★★★★★
- Kelley★★★★★
- McKenzie★★★★
- Emily★★★★
“4.25”
This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
★★★★4
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- Michael★★★★★
“4.75, loved it.”
- Emily★★★
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
★★½2.5
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- Kelley★★★
- McKenzie★★
“2.75”
11/22/63
Stephen King
★★★★½4.67
5 of 5 finished · 2023
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- Kelley★★★★
“4.5”
- McKenzie★★★★★
- Emily★★★★★
Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia Armfield
★1
5 of 5 finished · 2023
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- Michael★
- Kelley★
“1”
- McKenzie★
- Emily★
The Measure
Nikki Erlick
★★★★★4.75
5 of 5 finished · 2023
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- Michael★★★★★
“4.75”
- Kelley★★★★
“4.5”
- McKenzie★★★★★
“The first book to ever make me cry. I loved every page of it.”
- Emily★★★★★
“4.5”
Rouge
Mona Awad
★★★½3.5
5 of 5 finished · 2023
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- Michael★★★★
- Kelley★★★
“3.5”
- McKenzie★★★
- Emily★★★★
Our Share of Night
Mariana Enríquez
★★★★4
4 of 5 finished · 2023
didn't finish: Kelley
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- Michael★★★★
- Emily★★★★
The Beautiful Bureaucrat
Helen Phillips
★★★½3.33
4 of 5 finished · 2023
didn't finish: Kelley
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- Michael★★★
“3.5”
- McKenzie★★★
- Emily★★★★
Under the Skin
Michel Faber
★★½2.67
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- Michael★★★
- McKenzie★★
- Emily★★★
Weyward
Emilia Hart
★★★★½4.25
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- Michael★★★★★
“4.5”
- Kelley★★★★
“4.25”
- McKenzie★★★
“3.75. We all know Graham was the true hero of the book.”
- Emily★★★★★
FantasticLand
Mike Bockoven
★★★3
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- Michael★★★★
“3.5”
- Kelley★★★
“3.25”
- McKenzie★★★
- Emily★★
“2.5”
The Au Pair
Emma Rous
★★★½3.5
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- Michael★★★
“3.5”
- Kelley★★★★
“4.75”
- McKenzie★★★★
- Emily★★★
“3.5”
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
★★★★4
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- Michael★★★★★
“4.75”
- Kelley★★★
“3.75”
- McKenzie★★★★
- Emily★★★★
“4.25”
The Scent Keeper
Erica Bauermeister
★★★½3.5
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- Michael★★★
- Kelley★★★★
“4”
- McKenzie★★★★
- Emily★★★
The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
Freida McFadden
★★★½3.25
5 of 5 finished · 2023
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- Michael★★★★
- Kelley★★★
“3.5”
- McKenzie★★★
- Emily★★★
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
V. E. Schwab
★★★★★4.75
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- Michael★★★★★
“4.5”
- Kelley★★★★★
“5”
- McKenzie★★★★★
- Emily★★★★
“Stunning. Loved every minute of this brilliant tale.”
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
Freida McFadden
★★★½3.5
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- Michael★★★★
- Kelley★★★★
“4.5”
- McKenzie★★★
- Emily★★★
The New One
Evie Green
★★★½3.5
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- Michael★★★★
- Kelley★★★
“3.25”
- McKenzie★★★★
- Emily★★★
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin, Scott Brick
★★★½3.5
5 of 5 finished · 2023
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- Michael★★★★★
- Kelley★★★
“Overall enjoyed the story, just wasn’t super invested in the characters. 3”
- McKenzie★★★
- Emily★★★
The Lost Apothecary
Sarah Penner
★★★★3.75
5 of 5 finished · 2023
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- Michael★★★★
- Kelley★★★★
“4.25”
- McKenzie★★★★
- Emily★★★
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica
★★★3
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- Michael★★★
- Kelley★★
“2”
- McKenzie★★★★
- Emily★★★
We Are All the Same in the Dark
Julia Heaberlin
★★★3
4 of 5 finished · 2023
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- Michael★★★★★
- Kelley★★
“2.5”
- Emily★★
River Woman, River Demon
Jennifer Givhan
★★★3
4 of 5 finished · 2022
didn't finish: McKenzie
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- Michael★★★
- Kelley★★★★
“4.25”
- Emily★★