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- Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth
judgment leads to another, foolish choices end in bloodshed, and one brother makes justifications for his actions of tone and spirit, you might also like those listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction And stay tuned for this Friday's upcoming list of Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
to evade a killer who has it in for them; I'm reading Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver's newest fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition
Historical fiction, light fiction, and fantasy/science fiction is the wacky concurrent combo working
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/3/22 Edition
Hawkins, and I'm listening to the audiobook version of A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, a science fiction In this first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Rosemary feels lucky
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
protagonist, a jazz pianist, is tasked with saving humanity; and I'm listening to This Other Eden, historical fiction
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the Heretic's Daughter, Martha Carrier's tenth generation descendant Kathleen Kent offers a historical fiction
- Review of The Course of All Treasons: An Elizabethan Spy Mystery by Suzanne M. Wolfe
If you like mysteries and historical fiction like I do, you might also like some of the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry's newest light fiction Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction
- Review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles
This is character-driven historical fiction at its best. This is character-driven historical fiction at its best. I loved loved loved it.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition
She exposes the raw truths of tough situations in character-driven historical fiction so deftly, I have I'm really greedily excited about reading all three of these books--historical fiction (Austraaaaalia , celebrity-focused fiction, and a memoir with a quirky hook.
- Review of Recursion by Blake Crouch
More wonderful character-driven science fiction by Blake Crouch. Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo
- Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of I really liked recently was A Curious Beginning, and it shares some of these elements of historical fiction
- Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Russell has also written Children of God (The Sparrow, #2); the character-driven historical fiction book Holliday), which I really liked; and other books set in the American West (such as Epitaph); historical fiction
- Review of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell turns her attention to Renaissance Italy to tell a historical fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/21 Edition
In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships Here he offers a literary fiction story in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes his romantic
- Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light Fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/16/21 Edition
magical healing and warring kingdoms; Fugitive Telemetry, the newest book in Martha Wells's science fiction Through the voice of the fictional Ziggy, a dance instructor and key connector of various figures in the storied Detroit neighborhood of Black Bottom, Randall offers short sections about fifty-two mostly
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Restless Truth, the second book in Freya Marske's historical fiction With sections read by stars of The Good Place, Schur's How to Be Perfect is funny, interesting--and a
- Review of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Towles crafts a solid historical fiction adventure for his young-men protagonists, balancing weighty
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Horse, the newest historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks;
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition
World War II historical fiction, a tough female protagonist, a mission of uncovering war criminals in One spooky suspense story, one World War II historical fiction title, and one combination: a spooky historical fiction book.
- Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You
Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the Heretic's Daughter, Martha Carrier's tenth generation descendant Kathleen Kent offers a historical fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/31/23 Edition
life was built upon a lie, and his years of unchecked abhorrent, violent, narcissistic, horrifying actions Movies by Lynn Painter I've been on a rom-com kick this summer, and while I'm picky about my light fiction
- Review of The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
This Depression-era-set historical fiction story tracks characters in intensely difficult situations
- Review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times base, and often darkly funny as
- Review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang
And I love historical fiction set in the Western United States. (If you do too, take a look at my Greedy Reading List of Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in (Ba shares sensitive reflections, regrets, and advice with Lucy in his own sections of the story--but
- Review of The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda
Miranda uses the framework of a famous fictional rescue story to imagine the characters' turmoil and She takes a famous fictional rescue story and imagines the characters' turmoil and desperately cobbled-together
- Six More Satisfying Novels about Revenge
In Vengeance Road, Erin Bowman offers up great action along with what I thought were perfect amounts This book appears on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American You might also like the books on the list Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American assassins was the right book at the right time for me: entertainment in the perfect combination of action
- Review of A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe (The Salvagers #1) by Alex White
In Alex White's science fiction novel A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in White's Salvagers A Big Ship is a space heist book with lots of action, strong women characters driving the plot, and a
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/21 Edition
I'm Reading Now I'm reading a romantic book about aspiring musicians with intertwined pasts; the rich fictional history of an esteemed figure in early twentieth century New York and his mysterious death; and a science fiction-slanted
- Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet
- Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
extrication from Russia (and the use of a British diplomat’s baby as a distraction) reads like suspenseful fiction Macintyre's nonfiction book was wonderful; it really read to me like fiction.
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles resonated with me, each offering glimpses into
- Review of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles
I love Jiles's richly imagined Civil War-era historical fiction, and I'm in for her other books. The action scenes, when they occur, are fast and furious, with aftershocks the characters scramble to This is the kind of richly imagined historical fiction I adore, and I'm in for each of Paulette Jiles's This is the third Paulette Jiles Civil War-era historical fiction book I've read.
- Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
also like stories like this, you might enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/28/21 Edition
This young adult science fiction story has been on my list for a while because of its irresistible premise I'm liking this mix: young adult space science fiction story, dystopian fantasy series prequel, and character-driven
- Review of Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
Out of Love is not light fiction. revealed along the way, allowing for some illumination about (sequentially) earlier motivations for actions
- Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year
For me, this was nonfiction that was so compelling it read like fiction. Macintyre's nonfiction book was wonderful; it really read to me like fiction. carefully researched and documented, with twists and turns that feel so outlandish as to seem like fiction
- Review of State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny
reading, I imagined how Clinton's experiences as Secretary of State and First Lady may have informed her fictionalized
- Review of Sarahland: Stories by Sam Cohen
fantasies; to a Sarah who is a reimagined trans biblical character; to a Buffy-obsessed Sarah writing fan fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition
Cosby; a light fiction story that's multigenerational, features a winery backdrop, and references racy So far this is a lovely light fiction story that also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form
- Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore
offers fascinating, wonderfully detailed perspectives in a rich, layered family memoir that reads like fiction I thought it read like fiction. For historical fiction about female spies, you might want to check out the Greedy Reading List Six Books
- Review of The Distance from Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell
Margo Orlando Littell is also the author of Each Vagabond by Name, which is suspenseful fiction that's
- Six of My Pandemic-Era Book Buys
Pride of Eden just might be the literary fiction version of what I think Tiger King sounds like: exotic I can't wait to see what the heck this book is all about. 02 Rodham Curtis Sittenfeld offered a fictionalized In A Witch in Time, Constance Sayers is offering us historical fiction, witches, and repeated reincarnation
- Six Captivating Nordic Stories
King by Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction Carsten Jensen provides epic historical fiction also said to be humorous, and it includes Vikings, seafaring #Vikings, #nordic, #historical fiction 06 Kristin Lavransdatter I also own this book (this is actually haven’t already, because: Sigrid Undset offers an epic story, first published in 1920, of historical fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition
coping with the difficulties of life; and I'm listening to The Librarian Spy, World War II historical fiction
- My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books
The majority of page time in the historical fiction title is spent showing the tasks of daily life (and Utopia Avenue contains endless imagined cameos, fictional adventures, and gems of wisdom from real-life This title was listed in Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year. This title was listed in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year. for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read
- Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories I Loved
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
- Review of Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman
In Out Front the Following Sea, new historical fiction by Leah Angstman, it's 1689 and King William's
- Review of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
Katherine Center's newest light fiction offers an irresistible premise--a female bodyguard poses as the And her newest client is the Jack Stapleton, action star, household name--and, in recent years, recluse

















































