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Jackson's sequel to the young adult mystery The Good Girl's Guide to Murder, which again features the fantastic Cue the ball gowns, thousands of years of customs and traditions to learn, tricky rivalries and jealousies answers but many fascinating gray areas to consider. 03 Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson Yay, the fantastic His twenty-four-year-old brother Jamie is missing, the police aren't responding with any urgency, and

Laura Amy Schlitz's book The Hired Girl is fantastic young adult historical fiction written in diary It's 1911, and fourteen-year-old Joan's life is far from the romantic, sweeping novels she loses herself When she runs away to the big city of Baltimore, she presents herself as an eighteen-year-old named Janet

If I figured anything out in these last six years, it is this: human beings are unknowable. I could become the thing I'd always feared, and then I might never be afraid of anything again. In some worlds, Cara recognizes common characteristics in those she loves or fears; she sometimes barely If you like books with a postapocalyptic feel, check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Austin Channing Brown's book is slim (185 pages), but I'm wearing She is wise, thoughtful, frustrated, and fascinating. 03 The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Girls, Gilbert writes about a young woman's coming of age in 1940s New York City and traces the later years It's not entirely clear why the recipient of the letter would want to hear the full details of Vivian's (Actually, I listened to this as an audiobook, and the narrator Blair Brown was fantastic.)

positive company for Garrett, who tends to be morose--particularly after the tragic death of their dear friend years earlier. Finally, the story focuses on the fits and starts of a version of complicated forgiveness after years

the same end in this life, after all, and those brave enough to commit their feelings, experiences, fears Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year Her recollections include a childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, an encounter with a The construct of tracing near-death experiences to tell the story of her life didn’t feel forced at all

Yeah, they talked. but I wanted it too badly and the child was like a cat, solidly rejecting my overzealous interest for years Games series) offers a unique setting while doing something fascinating: turning the most detested and feared

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! is shipwrecked off the coast of Australia, and Gil, an eccentric Australian boy living three hundred years I was brought to tears at the end. is a professor and podcaster, and she has left firmly in the past the events of her boarding school years When he meets driven, plan-focused Julia in his freshman year of college, she pulls him into her high-spirited

My book club has been meeting for 17 years; we're all from a moms' group we joined when our kids were These are my favorite book club reads from the past year. book club reads from the past, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year Have you had any favorite book club reads this year? to marry the cult's leader when she was thirteen and worked as secretary for "The Family" for many years

--and that Lucy would unquestioningly adhere to it for years. are lovingly dedicated to each other, but their sobbing, dramatic dependence on each other, and long, tear-filled

demonstrates the hubris of the uber-wealthy upper classes in the environmentally devastated world of the near more dystopian stories, check out Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Fantastic

The weekend we got engaged in New York City, we sat near Paul and Joanne at Sam Shepherd's play True Anyhoo, Paul was wearing the ugliest sweater with abstract stripes across it, and Barbara Walters came to work into this review the not-quite-anecdote of sitting two rows behind Paul Newman over twenty years promise of a future friendship between us that was born from our proximity in that theatre lo those many years Paul allowed his best friend to interview him over a period of years--the recordings that, along with

Thing, click here. 03 A Song for the Road by Kathleen Basi Miriam lost her husband and teenage twins a year Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave In The Last Thing He Told Me, Hannah has just celebrated her one-year information; and the only lawyer Hannah knows to turn to for help is her ex-fiancé, who she left at the altar years McManus Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through This year, gossip problems and power plays are back, in the form of forced Truth or Dare.

It's that time of year: it seems everyone has an opinion about the year's best books and their personal Haylah is an excellent friend, she's patient with her incredibly frustrating four-year-old brother, and Elliott offers a fantastic, boy-crazy, British story about missteps, facing change, accepting the past It's June 1954, and eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has just served fifteen months on a juvenile work Emmett's planning to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head west to start a new life.

In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores It meanders as Beard is unmoored after heartbreak and betrayal, and her dear friend is dying. distract and inspire or comfort—and the disrupted rhythm and skipping around seems to reflect her many fears

Reading Now I'm listening to The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher's memoir focused on the early Star Wars years Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year last year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books I love listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she reads her memoir in audiobook form, and I'd

It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight technology in general. 02 A Song for the Road by Kathleen Basi Miriam lost her husband and teenage twins a year I admit I Bossily feared that painfully sentimental tones might creep in, but in cases like this I love

I think you should know that going in, because it’s not the only fantastic thing, but it is one of the fantastic things in Elan Mastai's All Our Wrong Todays. Click here for my full review of Life After Life. 05 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Dannie is on the path to achieving her five-year goals in spectacularly efficient fashion. Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected.

for Your Holiday Gift List ; and it was on my recent list of Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year published Greedy Reading Lists of favorite mystery reads: Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year and Six More Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year . And you can find my favorite mystery reads from the year before here .

Carr's The Alienist , a suspenseful novel about the evolution of forensic science that I adored reading years I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

the story, Sager does a good job of providing her with a stubborn grip on what she sees as truth over fantasy protective, sometimes put-upon wife, mother , and teacher (although we never see her head to work or hear

terrorized boys for over a century, shares a tale of racial injustice, abuse and horrors, terrible fear The Nickel Academy is based on a real-life reform school that, horrifyingly, abused boys for 111 years

Cue the ball gowns, thousands of years of customs and traditions to try to learn, introductions to tricky is listed as Tokyo Ever After #1, with the second book in the series, Tokyo Dreaming, expected next year For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

These great books are listed in the order I read them last year and not in order of preference, because with Black-and-White Covers, which is apparently the look of most of the nonfiction I read during the year but the list of books is the same) under the title "Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year This book was published in 2014, but I finally read it this year and am so very glad. I had requested this book from the library last year and when it was available weeks or months later,

heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like Before She Disappeared, which I thought was a fantastic Phillips Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. With the passing of the years, however, those memories become distant and malleable, and we shape them Ivey's fantastical elements are inspired by Native American folklore and stories, and they work well

Bossy Favorites of 2025 So Far I love looking back on my reads of the year to date and taking stock of These are six of my most-loved titles from the first half of this year. As Marguerite enters into her early teens, she begins to fear that her cousin views her as a creepy match During the annual, chaotic community fair preceding this holidays, which this year is a rainy business In one timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear

“You need a plan,” she hears—or seems to hear—her old nurse, Sofia, say, from a place near her elbow. Wearing an enormous gold dress meant for her now-deceased sister, Lucrezia marries a stranger, immediately facing a swirl of emotions, fears, and pressures.

McCracken is a fantastic writer who highlights odd, strangely beautiful elements in small moments. Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years here is, as always, exquisite, and within these 14 stories, he turns his attention to characters who yearn

01 Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein Nineteen-year-old Avery Abrams was set to be the next big gymnastics For the next few years she dabbled in college, she partied, she drifted, she dated a professional football The premise of Dear Emmie Blue made me wonder if the story would feel too far-fetched. For my full review, please see Dear Emmie Blue. She decides that she's in--for a fantastic wardrobe, incredibly awkward moments, scripted romance, and

If you've read any of these books, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? finding the strength to go on despite few options; and the surprise of new determination and hope after years This made it bearable to read Sharratt's account of Hildegard's claustrophobic, dark years behind a dank There's relatively little page time spent on the later years of Hildegard's life at the abbey.

My very favorite reads so far this year! Great Circle is my favorite book of the year so far! Duchess is a thirteen-year-old girl trying to keep her family together. Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read it's a temporary break or permanent--yet she is able to sit within the feeling that Connell and their years

Daisy Jones & the Six  explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop

tackling another; striving to hold on to culture while navigating unfamiliar pitfalls; and facing the fears Pachinko is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese by criminals' financially ruinous scams against undocumented workers; the family members experience years of constant fears of deportation; and then they must face the shocking potential reality of deportation immigrants and a reality that is more brutal and uncertain than the children and their parents may have feared

But her general relief turns to fear when she learns that her husband, serving out of harm's way on a these set the stage of time and place and establish some of the outside influences on our characters as years pacing (appropriately, but sometimes painfully) flags for a time as our protagonists spend months and years

I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! Samantha Harvey is also the author of The Shapeless Unease: A Year Without Sleeping , The Western Wind , Dear Thief , The Wilderness , and All Is Song .

the same end in this life, after all, and those brave enough to commit their feelings, experiences, fears Greedy Reading Lists: Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into and Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year (last year). Her recollections include a childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, an encounter with a The construct of tracing near-death experiences to tell the story of her life didn’t feel forced at all

More Witchy Book Love It's the perfect time of year to read a spooky book full of magic and feisty witches In book two, El continues to be a fantastically grumpy, powerful, whip-smart, socially awkward, straightforward The tone frequently felt geared toward young readers to me, and I had no trouble predicting the twist

Rule of Wolves is the second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology.

In Seattle, Tina Cannon is trying to figure out what happened to her dear friend Ruth, who disappeared When she hears about the horrifying events in Tallahassee, she becomes convinced that what happened to The capable Pamela yet again must take charge despite her fear and rage and pain. I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

My very favorite reads this year! , and now that 2021 is almost over, it's time to share the best books I've read during the calendar year In no particular order, here are my absolute favorite reads of the year. Duchess is a thirteen-year-old girl trying to keep her family together. Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read

Here are the new science and nature books--published at the end of last year or during this calendar year--that I'm most excited to give as gifts this holiday season. indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year They have a fantastic selection of titles, offer spot-on recommendations, and can order almost anything We brought our first puppy into the family this year (Leo!)

Now they've been engaged for six years, they're desperately in love, and they've been dating long-distance For years they've taken annual trips to their friend Sabrina's cottage in Maine with the rest of their So this year, when their friends surprise Harriet upon her arrival with the fact that Win was able to Henry emphasizes that dissatisfaction with the actuality of the job is what spurs the abandonment of years Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans, and Alien Life and AI Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year I'd love to hear what you thought! Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met, never even spoken to--someone who is light years

Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into and Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year who is half-Korean, half-Japanese, and who lived under oppressive totalitarian rule for thirty-six years I first saw Busy Philipps acting on my beloved Dawson's Creek many years ago, and since then, I've remained a Little, Philipps conversationally takes us through her youth in Scottsdale, Arizona, her awkward years Paul delves fully into her meandering post-college years--during which Bob provides more structure in

The past concerns of fulfillment and fears around financial security feel grotesque when set alongside She notes that there is a 37% chance of a massive earthquake in the Pacific Northwest in the next 50 years

community, found her world turned upside down when she discovered in 2020 that her husband of over 25 years Having inspired women for years as a leader in authenticity and a proponent of healthy relationships, By tracking back to her youth and young-adult years and alternating with scenes from more recent life

The tension between Juliette and Oskar begins to drive them apart, and Juliette begins to fear that her Fifty years later, Caroline and Patrick, two Cambridge students who are falling in love, are also on

Ivan Koubek is ten years younger, a competitive chess player, a loner, and, he has always thought, his I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

reading a light fiction book about a dedicated single mom who gives love another try, listening to a fantastic But then she hears about a DNA-based, data-driven dating program that makes sense to her--and she's got “I want to enter a room and people will hear me even before I open my mouth to be speaking. She fought to get off the godforsaken island where she'd been stuck for years after her father abandoned