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;...

My very favorite Bossy July reads! I did a lot of traveling and some great reading last month, but I didn't do a lot of reviewing. My...

Amor Towles revisits a character from the wonderful Rules of Civility and also offers multiple New York-set tales. Towles's evocative...

Grey Dog begins as an immersive historical fiction story of a young teacher with a shocking past in 1900s rural England, but it becomes a...

Alice Winn's account of the unrelenting slog of World War I and the beautiful young men set against each other in the trenches serves as...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Villain Edit, a contemporary romance novel about a dating-focused reality TV show by Laurie...

Some Lighter Fiction Favorites What I love about a romantic, rom-com, lighter fiction read is that real, weighty issues can be raised...

Lisa Barr's World War II-set historical fiction follows a Jewish resistance fighter and spy through the Warsaw Ghetto to her second act...

Sandwich is another case of beautifully wrought complications and mutual adoration from Catherine Newman, with unapologetically...

Whitaker offers several interconnected storylines, and while each one individually appealed to me, I felt a growing lack of connection to...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading All the Colors of the Dark, the newest novel by Chris Whitaker (We Begin at the End); I'm listening...

I hope you're having a wonderful summer, bookworms! I'm going to take an unprecedented Bossy break to spend time with family, but I hope...

My very favorite Bossy June reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. If you've read any of these titles, I'd...

ICYMI: Daniel Mason's atmospheric, mysterious, languorous story is of a shy piano tuner's trip to Burma to get the piano of an eccentric...