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- Review of Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Every Summer After is a love story told over the course of six summers and a weekend. For more books I've loved, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories and Six
- Review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers
Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency... If you're interested in books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are my six favorite reads of October. What were some of your favorite reads this month? Centuries after the death of the legendary Sir Una Everlasting , spindly, awkward, cowardly historian You might also be interested in the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your In this historical fiction-fantasy, characters from Dickens's tale are plunged into a dark, powerful
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories. 02 The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue Caroline O'Donoghue's The bedrock for Lucky Red is made up of wonderful historical fiction details of life in the dusty, volatile
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition
scheduled for publication tomorrow, A Winter in New York; and I'm listening to the first in Sara Donati's historical One Day in December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six
- Review of The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
War II-focused books here , and you can also check out my review of Kate Quinn's great codebreaking historical
- Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik
and the intricacies of nations' relationships and airborne dragon battles within the books' alternate history I mentioned Uprooted (and Novik's Spinning Silver) in the Greedy Reading List Six Magical Fairy Tales
- Review of Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine
Erin Crosby Eckstine's richly detailed historical fiction explores the life of Junie, an enslaved young
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: contemporary fiction, young adult, nonfiction, fantasy For my full review, check out A Marvellous Light. 02 Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler I listened to Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe's exhaustive history of the Sackler family as traced His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes, or these Bossy reviews of books that play with time.
- Review of The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus
Isabel is drawn to Jack, and she ultimately feels destined to head to sea--in a time in history when
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/3/24 Edition
You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories. 03 Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley In
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music
Six more that made my honorable mention list: Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! and they can order almost anything they don't have in stock. 01 How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.
- Review of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith
Smith's historical fiction story in two timelines equally powerfully evokes the bleak Dutch winters of Ellie, now a celebrated art historian, is potentially facing a disaster in which her forgery comes to
- Review of Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
Tomorrow I’ll post Six Fascinating Books about the Immigrant Experience. For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
You might also like the books on my past Greedy Reading Lists Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads and Six If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs for Love . 02 White Houses by Amy Bloom White Houses is gorgeously written, exhaustingly researched historical
- Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo
I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Leigh Bardugo's interconnected Grishaverse is made up of her Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition
If you're interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality.
- Review of The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits by Jennifer Weiner
like to read fiction about music, you might also like the titles I included in the Greedy Reading List Six
- Review of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
I loved the rich historical detail and meticulous research evident in the text.
- Review of All the Broken Places by John Boyne
War II fade in contrast to the responsibility and haunting we witness as Gretel relives her personal history
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. Stories of various characters are interwoven through the historical fiction novel and add depth to the They're from other times in history. protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure from history
- Review of You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn
For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about
- Review of Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp by Michelle Moran
I was hooked on the behind-the-scenes feeling of Moran's historical-fiction conversations between Maria
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/3/22 Edition
one of McCracken's short story collections, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, in the Greedy Reading List Six If you're interested in books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six If you're interested in books about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You.
- Review of In Memoriam by Alice Winn
Alice Winn's gorgeous, brutal, captivating historical fiction In Memoriam is set during World War I.
- Review of Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
Ryan sometimes offers what feel more like lists of historical, societal events than developed factors
- Review of The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren
You might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amor Towles's almost-600-page historical fiction story Lincoln Robert Galbraith's 944-page fifth installment in the Cormoran Strike series, Troubled Blood, and reading Six and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's twists and turns. 03 Six
- Review of Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse is made up of her Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows duology, and
- Review of VenCo by Cherie Dimaline
If you like stories about witches, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You.
- Review of Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
ICYMI: Morton masterfully weaves together timelines, threads of family history, and long-held secrets As Cassandra follows the trail Nell has laid out for her, she discovers more about her family's history Morton is masterful at weaving together several timelines, rich family history, intriguing discoveries
- Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre
History was pivoting around her. 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 If you like reading about female spies, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Books
- Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth
books with this type of tone and spirit, you might also like those listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West. And stay tuned for this Friday's upcoming list of Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two new novels from favorite authors who each include sacrificed everything to get her to the top, setting records that have cemented her place in tennis history If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs West, particularly focusing on Quanah, the chief of the Comanches, the most powerful tribe in American history
- Review of Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen by Mary Sharratt
Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval Mary Sharratt offers an exhaustively researched, fascinating historical fiction account of the life of Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother
- Review of Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
destruction; details of Comanche life; and their position as the most powerful Indian tribe in American history Victorious in war, unchallenged by foreign foes in North America for the first time in its history, the West, particularly focusing on Quanah, the chief of the Comanches, the most powerful tribe in American history For [Colonel] Mackenzie on the southern plains, Comanches were the obvious target: No tribe in the history If you like to read nonfiction, you may like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction
- Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
My Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life
- Review of Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
those who have struggled to America, imagining their salvation; and explores the binds of family and history If you like magical realism and folklore, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six
- Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
into Hazard's wonder at new experiences and his and other characters' perspectives on the world and history If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories and Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes.
- February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Bossy Favorites of the Month Please enjoy this roundup of my six favorite reads of February--three medieval-set fantasy stories I loved; a messy family story of feuding and forgiveness; historical fiction about strong The power of books and of friendship ultimately triumph in Martin's historical fiction .
- Review of The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke
Six authors, many who are strangers to each other, and each one part of the dreaded publishing "midlist
- Review of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn
In The Briar Club , Kate Quinn turns her considerable talent for bringing history to life by tackling This historical fiction novel from Quinn is a departure from much of my favorite Quinn fiction--brave You can find more Bossy historical fiction reviews at this link .
- Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light you might like to check the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/28/24 Edition
01 Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles In Table for Two: Fictions, Amor Towles offers six short stories The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance
- Review of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
For other postapocalyptic stories I've loved, check out Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/23/26 Edition
I mentioned Ian McGuire's novel The North Water in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads
post my favorite reads each month, and I was having such a great reading run, in late spring I posted Six (If you're following along, five out of six of My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer did make it onto The Rachel Incident. 04 Chenneville by Paulette Jiles Jiles's newest stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical I got full-body chills when I saw that Paulette Jiles had a new historical fiction novel coming out. You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Satisfying Novels about Revenge and Six
- Review of Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
For more books I've loved, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories and Six
- Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris
If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great

















































