Six More Bossy Favorite Reads I've been posting lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre; for my all-around favorites,...

In Beautyland, Bertino offers a poignant, funny, strange story full of extraterrestrial observations of humans and their behavior that...

I loved each of the story's two timelines--following a stewardess on board The Titanic as well as a British spy working with the WWII...

My very favorite Bossy January reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a beautiful, poignant nonfiction book...

ICYMI: This is an irresistible story and set of characters, but with fascinating depth. The issues Reid explores are enormous and are...

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...

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...

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...

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...

First: this amazing cover. Second: Starter Villain is playful, darkly funny, big-hearted, and wonderfully weird. I loved it and I can't...

My very favorite Bossy December reads! I hope every Bossy reader who celebrates had a wonderful Christmas this week! I scheduled a little...

I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing wartime struggles and challenges, but I was surprised that the book's fantasy...

The first in the Legends & Lattes series is a cozy fantasy story about new beginnings, the transformative power of coffee, and...

In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional growth, potentially...

ICYMI: In Naomi Alderman's novel The Power, teenage girls develop unimaginable powers, including the ability to inflict harm. This resets...

Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and then turns them on their heads,...