Come and Get It is the story of an RA and the consequences of her actions related to privacy and safety; the book dabbles in issues of...

I loved the 1700s wintry Maine setting and the convictions of the historical fiction novel's strong midwife character, based upon a...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book by a favorite author, Katherine Arden, The Warm Hands of Ghosts, a historical...

Six More Four-Star Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres to read, and I recently posted...

Schwab returns to the world of the four Londons in the first of a wonderfully paced new series featuring established characters, their...

Lauren Groff's beautiful and brutal novel The Vaster Wilds follows a young servant girl running from the Jamestown colony's disease and...

The Heiress is set on a North Carolina estate that's always felt claustrophobic to Cam. But his adoptive mother Ruby, an infamous...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Lauren Groff's newest novel about a colonial servant girl in the wilderness, The Vaster Wilds;...

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres, and just as I do every year,...

Blackgoose offers a fascinating, layered story about a strong-willed, whip-smart young Indigenous woman in a steampunk 1800s Nordic...

LaValle mixes a Western setting with strong feminist messages, magical realism, haunting elements, and the terrifying, freeing truth in...

Marske's quirky, funny, richly imagined magical world, complex character-building, relationship exploration, and storytelling continues...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Murderbot series, System...

Six Bossy Favorite Light Fiction Reads from Last Year I love spending Fridays highlighting books I've loved. And I do love rom-com...

Lisa See offers a vivid peek at the lives of women in 15th century China, complete with a fascinating female-doctor element that kept me...

Atul Gawande writes clearly and poignantly about the search to achieve maximum well-being rather than prolonging diminished life at all...

Dowry of Blood is a shadowy, spooky, sultry story imagining Dracula's wife Constanta and their relationship, in which he exerts control...

The Books I'm Reading Now For my book club I'm reading Lady Tan's Circle of Women, Lisa See's newest story of women in ancient China; I'm...

My very favorite reads of 2023! I post my favorite reads each month, and I was having such a great reading run, in late spring I posted...

In this return to the world of Elfhame (Folk of the Air trilogy), Holly Black takes us deeper into the story of characters Wren and Oak...