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  • Review of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    The tone of Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth was unlike any fantasy novel I’ve read—Gideon’s speech is #fantasyscifi, #series, #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fourstarbookreview

  • Another Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    What are your favorite witchy stories? In book two, El continues to be a fantastically grumpy, powerful, whip-smart, socially awkward, straightforward

  • Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

    Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang #fantasyscifi, #historicalfiction, #siblings, #youngadult, #comingofage, #threestarbookreview

  • Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year

    societal expectations for women, great adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fantastic What's some of your favorite historical fiction? Any favorites I should add to my outrageously unmanageable to-read list?

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/10/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Sara Holland's upcoming fantasy novel Break Wide the Sea ; I'm

  • Six Powerful Memoirs About Facing Mortality

    This is a departure from many of my other Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young adult favorites, Her, waiting on the street in Paris while he visits his favorite bookstore but she's too sickly to climb

  • Review of Run for the Hills by Kevin Wilson

    Mad is quickly developing revenge fantasies involving her dad, but a cross-country road trip in close

  • Review of A Deadly Education: Lesson One of the Scholomance by Naomi Novik

    dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading

  • Review of The Best of Me by David Sedaris

    The section of limericks centered around dogs and their rude behavior wasn't my favorite, but I sometimes

  • Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite

    written by chefs and by people who are obsessed with food, and the books listed here are some of my favorites and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl Garlic and Sapphires may be my favorite Reichl includes her own photographs and some of her favorite recipes, which together make the book feel

  • Review of Chosen Ones by Veronica Roth

    But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the #fantasyscifi, #timetravel, #series, #dystopian, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

    He was my absolute favorite element, and I adored every scene that involved him.

  • Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

    Here are six of my favorite fiction works that have to do with rock and roll, writing songs, performing This book was listed in the Greedy Reading Lists My Favorite Six Summer Reads of 2020 and My Twelve Favorite Daisy Jones and the Six explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop

  • Review of The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

    thoughtful and self-effacing, curious, sensitive, and I reveled in his explorations of his own glorious favoritism

  • Review of In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

    This is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy, but the book is truly character driven. In Other Lands is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy—there’s a portal; there are mermaids, elves #fantasyscifi, #youngadult, #fourstarbookreview

  • Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love

    airborne dragon battles within the books, and yes, the human protagonists are wonderfully faulted and fantastic What are some of your favorite fairy tale-type books or retellings? For the purposes of this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil conflicts

  • Review of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells

    decision-making and astute threat assessment; and retreats from overwhelming interactions to watch its favorite

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/25 Edition

    Kuang In Kuang's dark academia fantasy novel, Alice Law is a graduate student in a ruthlessly competitive

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/20/23 Edition

    But The Survivors, which is set on the Tasmanian coast, is my favorite Harper novel so far. 02 The Dream

  • Review of Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin

    The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy trilogy was unabashedly dramatic and angsty, and I was

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/13/23 Edition

    Along with number rituals and frequent mental images of scenes from her favorite children's book, tracking

  • Review of The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

    The Unhoneymooners is fun escapism, even if it's not my very favorite Christina Lauren book. I listened to The Unhoneymooners and it was fun escapism, even if it's not my very favorite Christina

  • Six Fascinating Books Set in Maine

    I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. era when this was not the norm, and the details of her care for new mothers and babies was one of my favorite

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/6/23 Edition

    spreading happiness; I'm reading the third in Naomi Novik's dark, wonderful Scholomance series, the fantasy Novik is also the author of many other wonderful fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love. 03

  • Review of The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

    This book is on my Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels. #youngadult, #dystopia, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview

  • Six Book Club Books I Loved in 2021

    Here are my personal book club favorites from last year. I also enjoyed two of my favorite authors' newest books, Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet and Matt Haig's The For my favorite book club reads of 2020, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Book Club Books I Loved

  • Review of The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart

    Everhart includes one of my favorite setups, in which a woman dresses as a man in order to achieve some

  • Review of The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

    The elaborate escape plans and rescue plots in the book were one of my favorite elements. I already miss my favorite characters from the series.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Nocturne, Alyssa Wees's fantasy novel about a prima ballerina in 01 Nocturne by Alyssa Wees In Alyssa Wees's slim (it's 240 pages) fantasy novel Nocturne, set in the

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    Davies includes fantastic details of amateur Western exploration that I adored. 04 One for the Blackbird Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, four young adult fantasy books plus related Do you have any favorite books set in the American West?

  • Review of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

    over, paid for, published, successful, and various rights are sold all feels like a happy dream-state fantasy

  • Review of Fable by Adrienne Young

    young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne Young's young adult fantasy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/21/25 Edition

    Schwab's historical fiction-fantasy story about vampires linked together through centuries.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/31/25 Edition

    Chakraborty's Daevabad fantasy trilogy, The City of Brass ; and I'm reading Olivia Hawker's upcoming

  • Review of The Lonely Hearts Book Club by Lucy Gilmore

    Maisie is one of my favorite characters, but she struggles with her self-esteem and seems open to verbal

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/27/21 Edition

    corruption in Russia and the significant repercussions of doing so; The Guide, a new book by one of my favorite The Guide is a literary thriller by one of my favorite authors, in which Jack (from Heller's book The

  • Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch

    Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo #timetravel, #mysterysuspense, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    grating aw-shucks quality that was important to the character's development, and while she shed this in favor fascinating dynamics of Evelyn's romantic and professional relationships, which were without question my favorite

  • Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

    Both of these books are listed in my Greedy Reading List of Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

    captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic Their common disjointedness brings them together, and the mashup of personalities and histories was fantastic

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition

    I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Restless Truth, the second book in Freya Marske's historical fiction fantasy Restless Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition

    01 Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth Libby Weeks is the author of the wildly popular fantasy series

  • Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken

    The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family home in New England and travels to her mother's favorite

  • Review of Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger

    The first in the author's young adult steampunk Finishing School series offers wonderful, typically strong Carriger women with unique talents, clever minds, a nose for mystery, and next-level bantering capabilities. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick constantly tests her mother's patience, as she's more apt to occupy herself by dismantling a clock or to arrive to tea disheveled, having climbed a nearby tree to ponder life's mysteries, than she is to master the proper curtsy or perfect her needlework, as is becoming to a Victorian-era young lady. So she is horrified to learn that she's been enrolled in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes that the students at Mademoiselle Geraldine's aren't simply learning to dance and dress, but to use household items as weapons, use their feminine wiles to distract, and use diminishing assumptions about young women to craftily spy on unsuspecting victims. Sophronia is an immensely likable, clever, quick study who defies societal expectations. I loved the steampunk aspects--the airship transport, steam-powered mechanical animals, and the mechanical robot servants within the alternate Victorian England setting. I was also intrigued by the crafty finishing school nemesis, the oddball teachers and quirky school leadership, the persistent young people's shifting knowledge base, and the strange mystery at hand. This is the first in the four-book young adult steampunk series Finishing School. I listened to Etiquette & Espionage as an audiobook. More Love for Author Gail Carriger I loved the first book in Gail Carriger's five-book (plus a prequel short) Parasol Protectorate series, Soulless and its sequel, Changeless .

  • Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    I'm working on a new list for this summer, but meanwhile I hope you'll enjoy some of these Bossy favorites It's Real by Ann Liang I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically

  • Review of The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

    When she discovers that the kingdom is in peril, our favorite fourteenth century teenage heroine must #fantasyscifi, #russia, #youngadult, #series, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci

    Listening to the author read his favorite recipes rather than reading them myself didn't leave me with

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/30/24 Edition

    preacher Beth Moore's memoir, All My Knotted-Up Life ; I'm listening to Melissa Caruso's time-travel fantasy

  • Review of Let's Not Do That Again by Grand Ginder

    Much of Ginder's novel is focused on a revenge fantasy, but I was drawn more to Nancy Harrison's strong but I had trouble locking into the story's tone, which wavers into extended dark, vindictive revenge fantasies

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