ICYMI: The Winter Soldier is a World War I tale full of medical details and lovely, unlikely bonds. This is a five-star read from the...

Madame Restell is compelling nonfiction about an ambitious feminist in pre-Gilded Age New York and her profession as a surgeon offering...

Spears's slim memoir offers vulnerability, the shocking details of her now-infamous 13-year conservatorship, self-reflection, and her...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a novel in two timelines about a young woman posing as a cabin boy on a pirate's ship and a...

My very favorite Bossy November reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a wonderful story about a grumpy...

Alderman offers a dive into a future world that's crumbling due to greed, disregard for the environment, a loss of human connection, and...

Yarros's experience as a romance author remains showcased in book two through teen-angst-dramaaatic, romaaantic dialogue. My favorite...

I loved the premise of a teen who wakes up as a thirty-year-old, engaged to her high school nemesis. Some of the small moments didn't...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the second in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrian series, Iron Flame; I'm reading C. Pam Zhang's...

Science and Nature Book Gift Ideas I spend most of my reading time on fiction titles, but my favorite book titles to give as gifts are...

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I'm always thankful for books and reading, so I wanted to reshare some of my five-star reads from...

Mason's novel isn't simply a historical fiction story linked through timelines. The book builds to be an often-sinister, Gothic-feeling...

This darkly funny story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted reasoning, criminal actions, and...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading recently published stories by Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men; I'm...

More Bossy Short Story Love Some of my fellow readers have mentioned to me in the past that they don't seek out short stories, whether...

Keegan turns her keen eye to the small moments that transform a life in this riveting short story collection. The settings range from the...

I loved every bit of the story of willful, sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi and her quest, her strategic swearing, her strength,...

Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery, but Happiness Falls is primarily an exploration of a complicated, loving, messy family and each...

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a recently published Western by Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone ; I'm reading David Grann's literary...

Historical Fiction Mysteries I adore historical fiction and mystery books, and I love the intersection of the two genres. Something about...