Hero Is a Four Letter Word by J.M. Frey
The Blackgloom Bounty by Jon F. Baxley
King Arthur and Her Knights by K. M. Shea
A Court of Bovines and Destiny by Eoghan R. Cunningham
Foolish Hopes and Spilled Entrails: Retellings by Devan Barlow

That I have read:
Greenteeth by Molly O'Neill
The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
The Dragon's Boy by Jane Yolen
Spellbinder by Thea Harrison

That I have not read, so ymmv

Silver in the Bone by Alexandra Bracken
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
The Merlin Legacy by Stephen Davis

No goals for me. It gets too close to the 'make your hobby your job until all the joy is gone' territory for my brain.

I love the implication that I have a choice about. I need to pay rent!

Kids is different to me. I'd share a lot of T Kingfisher books, or other graphic works. And explain that DNF is okay if it's not an assignment

Reading is so personal, I don't know how I'd even try. There's so many reasons people prefer not to read. If someone wanted to make me go to movies or get cable, I'd hope they'd understand my no in the same way.

same

Of course, solving mysteries and injustices is the thing that gives her and her husband purpose. Trying to build the rest of their life, day to day is harder, as is not seeing all her friends as needing protection.

2/fin

Doesn't seem creepy to me, more like very shy and meeting a new person

How do they swallow is always my question

This question gives me the horrors