My very favorite Bossy August reads! Welcome to the last gasp of summer---and the final Bossy summer book reviews. I hereby present to...

The Paradise Problem is the perfect light fiction read to close out the summer, with a high-stakes fake marriage, comeuppances for the...

Elizabeth Strout examines the range of characters from her many books and their intersecting stories, their imperfections, and their...

The fantasy-science-fiction novel Moonbound spans time and splits into several stories, for me never quite gelling into a coherent tale I...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Christina Lauren's newest fake-marriage, tropical-island-set rom-com The Paradise Problem ; I'm...

Memoir Love! In case you haven’t noticed yet, I have a major thing for memoirs, and I especially love listening to an author read their...

A leviathan lurks in the ocean, threatening destruction on a grand scale, while an unorthodox, brilliant investigator and her stalwart...

The first installment in Faizal's Blood and Tea series offers intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery, terrible betrayal, heartwarming...

Megan E. O'Keefe's first space opera in the Devoured Worlds series presents failing worlds filled with conflict, shifting loyalties,...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the novel Liars , Sarah Manguso's exploration of art, marriage, and power; I'm reading Catalina ,...

You Had Me at "Time Travel" I love a time-travel story in any genre, and this Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light...

The author of Disappearing Earth offers a story of bleak prospects, poverty and illness, a sister bond with fault lines ready to crack...

Ready or Not is a light take on unplanned pregnancy. It felt so easy for Eve to plan to enter into single parenthood despite the many...

The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby is a historical fiction art-focused mystery told in two timelines. I found the story immensely...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first in Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series, A Tempest of Tea , in which our main...

Lighter Fiction Set in Show Biz I love a peek behind the scenes, and each of the novels here provides a fictionalized version of a movie...

Wilson overcame tough childhood circumstances before setting her sights on becoming a performer, and her memoir celebrates her...

David Nicholls's characters, some of whom are strangers to each other, meander through the English countryside on a days-long jaunt--and...

Laurie Devore's novel goes behind the scenes of a reality dating show, complete with sordid details, manipulation, and manufactured...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby, an art-focused historical fiction mystery in two timelines;...