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...

In the dystopian food desert of the future, a desperate chef is enlisted to create elaborate dishes for the wealthiest elite on a lush...

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

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Heiress, Rachel Hawkins's upcoming (January 9) gothic suspense novel, set in North Carolina and...

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...

Cookbook Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 cookbooks (with the exception of The National Parks Cookbook, which was published in fall...

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

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Divine Rivals, the first in Rebecca Ross's Letters of Enchantment series, about a magical...

Movie, Media, and Music Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 books about television, movies, and music that I'm most excited to give as...

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,...

The Madstone begins as an against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty,...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling's pen...

Sports Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 sports books that I'm most excited to give as gifts this holiday season. The list...