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I spend most of the year focusing on fiction titles, with a healthy dose of memoirs and some nonfiction

is desperate to find her missing son--even if it means facing the painful truth of her own traumatic history

Harrow, with imperfect characters, a noble, messy quest, layers of history, and a captivating end.

I learned about Deaf history, culture, and the politics that have disrupted and damaged those in the

charge toward change, but typically teenage: to escape into role-playing video games and write fan fiction

Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency...

audiobook but when it came up, I didn’t remember at first what the book was about; the beginning reads like fiction

The trick occurs early (also, one major aspect of the true situation directly echoes a fictional setup

Egyptian artifacts, revelations about Alexia's mysterious father (and about her husband's centuries of history

teammates, and the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, a televised program at the heart of CAPE, or Criminal Action Adjei-Brenyah offers glimpses of characters' histories and their lives before the tragedies that led

When William's painful history resurfaces, it shakes the entire family with its repercussions.

I adore a character-driven science fiction tale. Also, time travel! This totally hit the spot.

and the intricacies of nations' relationships and airborne dragon battles within the books' alternate history

If you like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking

Blake Crouch writes character-driven science fiction that I love (Dark Matter is another of his that I adore a character-driven science-fiction tale. Also, time travel! This totally hit the spot.

by William Faulkner‘s story The Old Man and is set at the beginning of the worst flood in American history

Sometimes I find that I have to suspend my disbelief about human behavior in order to delve into a light fiction

fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate selves in this science fiction

But disaster strikes, and Jax finds herself trying to unravel the twisted, complicated history of her family and its land--a history Lexie had been researching and had become obsessed by.

As Emily digs into the villa's complicated and dark history and delves into the past, the growing tensions

those who have struggled to America, imagining their salvation; and explores the binds of family and history

moment with some implausible early details in Holidaze, which I sometimes struggle with in lighter fiction

essential to the productive understanding of the past and current racial situation, including a basic history person of color (and, more importantly, listening without defensiveness), how "the antidote to guilt is action reading this or other books on race and anti-racism that you recommend for a better understanding of history So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo is wonderfully actionable, and Raising White Kids: Bringing

“We are, on this earth, so incredibly small, in the history of time, in the crowd of the world, we are

One faction wants to use the horrifying knowledge of Nazi doctors who enacted abuse and torture upon the machinations of the Nazis or offer background on the politics of the American and British postwar factions

faulted, privileged few are terrifying in their elaborate, exclusive plans, which exclude all but a fraction

In Rachel Hawkins's new mystery The Wife Upstairs, each of the main players and their histories aren't But each of these characters turned out to be hiding elements of their histories that put into context

involving unapologetic body positivity, and I hope Bea doesn't fall into the somewhat common light fiction

wishing for more exploration into the human condition as contrasted with the carefully scripted robot functioning

Poet Maggie Smith's memoir traces the end of her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while The book is made up of many short sections, and much of Smith's exploration is focused on the way in

But issues of race and their inextricable involvement in our nation's history are really the bedrock

complicate Jill and Kit's finances, but threaten Kit's identity and shake the family's sense of personal history

Female characters--as well as their female friends and relatives who appear in retold stories and histories and bravery required by Rum's female characters--but also many other real-life women--to write a new history

Kalb shares rip-roaring tales of family history; Bobby's distinct pride in generations of the family

This book traces the history of the Tearling as a kingdom crushed by famine, feudalism, corruption, greed Elyssa recalls that the history shared by her tutor Lady Glynn was made up of: "...tales of good, but book in the trilogy is the widespread suffering (and significant effect on the plot) caused by the actions

"What strategies will help our children learn to function well in a diverse nation? With the goal of bringing up children "who are able, engaged, and high-functioning when it comes to matters

the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious and complicated) history

country--and her journalistic discoveries threaten to unearth the painful secrets of Smita's own family history

Morris A faction of my book club attends (virtually, the past couple of years) our local Library Foundation's

of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History

disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—she begins a quest to discover the truth about her history judgment leads to another, foolish choices end in bloodshed, and one brother makes justifications for his actions builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering truths, family history

into Hazard's wonder at new experiences and his and other characters' perspectives on the world and history

feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships

The bad-character/good-character split is pretty clear, with purely evil actions set against hearts of Legend touches on but doesn't fully explore potentially intriguing aspects of Lu's world--the history

She weaves more than thirty songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music

They return to Beirut, each broken in a way, each searching for home, fulfillment, history, peace, or

villages of her home country--and threatens to unearth the secrets of Smita's own family and their history

feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships

sacrificed everything to get her to the top, setting records that have cemented her place in tennis history

make ends meet in California and drifting a little bit--oh, and she's been telling her parents about fictitious