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 the past in case you need a great long-weekend read or a book gift idea for the holidays. I always hope to love a book, but a five-star Bossy read is fairly rare. A book I rate five stars often makes me feel all the feelings, it's typically intriguing and makes me think, and it's usually tough for me to put down. You might also like the book

Powerful Books about the Experiences of Immigrants We've had violent Border Patrol activity in our city this week, with people snatched from places of work and off the street because of the color of their skin. Many are suffering and afraid in the face of this discriminatory kidnaping, and tens of thousands of children have been absent from public school, too frightened to attend. So it feels like an opportune time to highlight just a few powerful stories about or by immigran

Six Great Australian Reads Fridays are for highlighting books I've loved, and I have a thing for books set in Australia (this is illustrated by my demonstrated Jane Harper obsession alone; two of her books are listed here and I stand by this wholeheartedly). Side note: Am I using "fair dinkum" correctly? I have a feeling someone will correct me if I'm wildly off base here. If you've read any of the books mentioned here, I'd love to hear what you think! Do you have any favorit

Bossy Favorites of the Month In October I read a number of books that I liked but didn't love. Luckily, a few of my reads during the second half of the month were standouts. Here are my six favorite reads of October. What were some of your favorite reads this month? 01 Katabasis by R. F. Kuang I loved the dark--and often darkly funny--journey of Cambridge postgraduate magick students Alice and Peter to hell, a quest they undertake because their advisor has died and they reall

Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! I love a peek at a secret world and books about spies specifically. My first Greedy Reading List on this topic was Six Books about Brave Female Spies . If you like stories about brave women during wartime, you might also like the titles I listed on the recent Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II . 01 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees Rees does an excellent job of taking us t

Bossy Short Story Love Some of you bookworms have told me in the past that you don't like or at least don't gravitate toward short...

Finding Your Next Great Read Librarians are amazing. They welcome everyone who comes through the door, they shepherd visitors through...

The Second-Chance Stories I love a good second-chance book in which the main character gets the opportunity to go back and try again,...

Tough women, secrets and smarts, and sneaky spying! I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books (all but one are fiction)...

Just a Few of My Many Historical Fiction Favorites These were just a few of my favorite historical fiction reads during Bossy Bookworm's...

Do you love witchy books? I love a good witch-focused book. Magic, intrigue, strong women, defiance of societal rules; yes to all of...

I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie When I was compiling this list and double-checking page counts, I kept surprising myself with my own...

The Time-Travel Books I love a time-travel book in any genre. Time-travel and time shifts allow a story to go places it otherwise never...

Bossy Romantic Favorites The heat of August feels like a perfect time to dive into recently published romantic stories, and these have...

More Funny and Sweet Light Fiction Adorable rom-coms can be perfect summertime reading. These Bossy favorites from a summer past stand...

A Varied List of Maine Books I was recently visiting my old stomping grounds in Maine for a whirlwind trip to see family, and I started...

The Summer Favorites These titles aren't classic, light "summer reads," but they were my favorite reads from a summer past, and they all...

The Robot Books It's been a long time since I've talked about science fiction and robot stories. I just love a good artificial...

Spring Bossy Book Favorites On Fridays I love to post Greedy Reading Lists of my favorite books. I recently gave a talk to a wonderful...

My very favorite Bossy April reads! I've been reading like a maniac this past month, and I had so many favorite books, it was tough to...