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- Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
Ashley Poston's newest romantic fiction is centered around Clementine, a harried book publicist who falls
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/14/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Kate Atkinson's newest book, historical fiction set in 1926 jazz-era
- Six Books I Want, Bossy Holiday 2022 Edition
There's a major leaning toward science fiction and speculative fiction in this list, so I am apparently
- Review of We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
race, ignorance, privilege, stereotypes, systemic racism, and more within their collaborative work of fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a light fiction book about a dedicated single mom who gives love another try, listening to a fantastic audiobook of Abi Daré's Nigerian-set fiction, and reading the big-hearted young female pirate; specifically: The Soulmate Equation, Christina Lauren's newest light fiction
- Review of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
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- Review of Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Mitchell takes us through the twists and turns of a fictional psychedelic British sixties band on its In Utopia Avenue, Mitchell takes us through the twists and turns of a fictional psychedelic British sixties (The fictional band focus reminded me, in a good way, of Daisy Jones and the Six.) Utopia Avenue contains endless imagined cameos, fictional adventures, and gems of wisdom from real-life
- Review of The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy
Zusy notes that the character of Ginny was inspired by Zusy's own brother, and the fictional interactions
- Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World
Science and Nature Book Gift Ideas I spend most of my reading time on fiction titles, but my favorite earth-shaking discoveries while reflecting on how we came to understand the way in which the world functions
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition
I've got historical fiction/fantasy, royal historical fiction, and a compelling nonfiction story that reads like fiction going right now.
- Review of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Cummins offers a fictional Mexican family’s urgent motivation, incredible fortitude, fears, failures, Through her American Dirt characters (both sympathetic and unsympathetic), Jeanine Cummins offers one fictional The balance of unlikely joys and brutality puts fictional but plausible faces on an important situation
- Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year
guilt and self-doubt lead her to track down the almost-victim, Wade Austin, he assures her that her actions Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell #2) by Deanna Raybourn This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction up emotional barriers to a deeper connection, and the agency is focused on trying to take down the fictional
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition
series about a magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise
- Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
But she's also alert enough to know that because of the inevitable publicity, the fiction of her current
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition
Light fiction, historical fiction mystery, and celebrity memoir. I recently offered a roundup of Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism if that feels down your
- 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, 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
- 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 Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/3/20 Edition
robots, #timetravel 02 Beach Read Is it fair for a person (me) with particular requirements for light fiction connections that warm my heart, and a little romantic something-something) to continue reading light fiction Because I think Emily Henry's Beach Read is going to be a major gem on the light fiction-escapism-pandemic-era Is this kind of a young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast? I'm really hoping so.
- 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
- 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, 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition
Historical fiction, light fiction, and fantasy/science fiction is the wacky concurrent combo working
- 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, 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 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, 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
- 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, 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
- 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
- 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 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.
- Review of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Towles crafts a solid historical fiction adventure for his young-men protagonists, balancing weighty
- 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 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 Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times base, and often darkly funny as
- 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.
- Review of The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
This Depression-era-set historical fiction story tracks characters in intensely difficult situations
- 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
- Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles resonated with me, each offering glimpses into
- Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet
- 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
- 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
- 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 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, 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 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


















































