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Like every boy in Lee County I was raised to be a proud mule in a world that has scant use for mules. You have to wonder how much of the whole world's turning is fueled by that very fire. Barbara Kingsolver is also the author of The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer, The Lacuna, Unsheltered

But after the school opened, Ellingham's wife and daughter were kidnapped.

Robin is trying to keep the household afloat after the deaths of his parents, to support his bright,

This interactive locked-room mystery allows readers to identify the murderer in a grisly crime, after

After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any

After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes On the other hand, wasn't that the very definition of life?

It's the last day of high school, and nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every once allows Rowan and Neil to see sides of the other person that aren't so infuriating and off-putting after few small valuables into her pockets, to sell for cash or just because she can, no one is likely to ever is desperate to leave her dark past behind her--has wormed her way into the idyllic community in the aftermath

Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins I tried to get my older child to read Gregor the Overlander with me after

She fought to get off the godforsaken island where she'd been stuck for years after her father abandoned throughout, which is clearly a nitpicky issue and a personal problem, but I am nothing if not Bossy, after

Every choice he makes is to further his chances of snatching the next fix. This book made my Greedy Reading List for My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

Six More Four-Star Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Two other historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and The book is built from letters Bird wrote to her sister (with some key notes added after the fact), which That there would be two lines, heading in very different directions... ; finding the strength to go on despite few options; and the surprise of new determination and hope after

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

My very favorite books from June! Robin is trying to keep the household afloat after the deaths of his parents, to support his bright, After being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, Barrett fears that college to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends, and she's holding true to form after

My very favorite books from November! I wasn't sure if I was ready for another Sally Rooney book after reading Conversations with Friends so I read Caste with a group and met every other week to discuss it--and we went months past our original

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

01 Where the Forest Meets the Stars Joanna is feeling adrift after her mother's death, and she disappears The characters, the story arc that isn’t too easy but leaves you in a promising place after all, and For my full review of this book, see When We Were Vikings. 04 Nothing to See Here I was very glad to Very very happy. looking for more great fiction, you might also want to check out the Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer

odd tone shifts and what felt like repeated nonsensical or strange timing for characters' reactions (after

Hell, my mother said, and more of us marching there every day.

(Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for all my best-of reads from last year.) I love that the crew of the Wayfarer feels like a close-knit group of summer camp counselors somehow, Upgrade presents a future version of our world in which humans are teetering closer than ever to extinction Trapped in the eerie space station with three grumpy, unwilling teachers trying to prepare her for the able to answer this enormous question, but the robot wonders if the matter is really so complicated after

novel so far. 02 The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after city full of malls and the promise that all will be newer, bigger, shinier, and better than India has ever The story is narrated by Soneela Nankani. 03 American Mermaid by Julia Langbein I've been so very excited

Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

The issues Reid explores are enormous and are important to all of us, every day, and she wraps them in

relationship, Ann Liang's This Time It's Real; and I'm reading the third book in Tamsyn Muir's dark, eerie He's already seen how convincing her writing can be, after all. She's got everyone fooled. But she woke up in a stranger's body six months ago and has lived in it ever since.

In Lisa Jewell's psychological thriller None of This Is True, successful podcaster Alix Summer is celebrating

And Ryan Murphy is showing some weak points, and every time he does, Strike gets a bigger chance with

woman is one of many civil servants offered a mysterious job: she'll be a handler for expats--and paid very Lucy is wild, mischievous, mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house for the summer Amanda and Larry are closer than ever to uncovering the whole, heartbreaking truth. Denfeld's book The Child Finder in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

The very early scene-setting didn't feel as authentic to me as the rest of the book. Just afterward, she says "...that [old] January probably would've slathered herself in glitter, put on The sections of this light fiction book that are about writing light fiction felt very true and real. Another light fiction book I enjoyed this summer, but which had characters with job-interview-level fake faults (too caring, too beautiful, too artistic) was The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez.

For a committed science lover, this title could very well do the trick. 04 Brave the Wild River: The But goldfish can remember that a colored paddle means food is coming, even months after the association octopus, who goes without food while keeping her eggs safe; the strange, vicious Bobbitt worm (named after And although we now know much more about these amazing journeys than ever before, the process of how

The Museum is an elite killing force, but after four decades, Billie, Natalie, Helen, and Mary Alice

Soulless (I also listed it on the Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love), but after ‘You haven’t even picked out a new duvet set; I’m told that’s a very important milestone.” Ever since her last detective work ended in a resolution (see Good Girl, Bad Blood, book two), Pip has

But several years later, just a few hours after Hua was at his party, Ken was killed in a carjacking.

My very favorite Bossy reads so far this year! A servant girl is fleeing her early colonial household in the brutal aftermath of plague and starvation “Nobody else is ever going to care as much as you do about the things that you want, Gwendoline. It's hundreds of years after King Arthur's reign, and his descendant and namesake Arthur, a future lord And when they're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot to prepare for their upcoming nuptials

Zamora takes us through what often feels like his literal step-by-step journey, without summarizing or I read Michelle Obama's wonderful book Becoming, but after my wise friend Katherine mentioned having

And after we've gone, to know who we were.

Bay, Alabama, seems to attract the strongest of hurricanes, and the only building that's withstood every

My very favorite books from February! shaped by choices out of our control and her reckoning with the way in which she considers her body after I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails

If a person pleads ignorance or credits terrible actions to the power of fear, can such acts ever be Can a person--or a nation--ever truly move on from evil? They're trying to cobble together their lives during and after World War II, and the tone and the angle

My very favorite books from July! After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight Surmounting challenge after challenge, Mila ultimately becomes a sniper trainer and a lethal hunter of Upgrade presents a future version of our world in which humans are teetering closer than ever to extinction

combines with her lack of commanding details around the mission she has set out on to cause upheaval at every

“You don’t ever have to say anything," he says. "Always remember that as a thing you need never do. young girl in Ireland is taken by her unreliable, frequently drunk gambler of a father to spend the hot summer Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'.

Marilynne Robinson that's focused on a meandering romance between an unlikely pair of characters just after from Marilynne Robinson, focuses on a meandering romance between an unlikely pair of characters just after

to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends, and she's holding true to form after hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's events have happened after

In Kelly Link's wonderfully oddball debut novel The Book of Love , she uses every bit of the book's 640

I've had Small Things Like These on my to-read list for a while, but after recently talking to my friend

differing points of view regarding the same chain of events in this rural South Carolina community after

Why not take this fantasy all the way, after all?).

“I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every

01 Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving along with what I thought were perfect amounts of self-actualization and character development, without ever Vengeance Road is a rough and tumble story with enough suspense that I wasn't ever confident that the After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time, Five loosely linked Bayview High students walk into detention on Monday afternoon, all busted for having

of Stuart Turton's The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle are fascinating: Evelyn Hardcastle will die every But every day Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. But being able to track every detail and how it fit wasn't required (I kept reminding myself that I was She's determined not to stop until she finds out what really happened that summer.

They had learned, fundamentally, every child washes in from the sea, washes up against the ankles of