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

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.

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

Jack focuses on the meandering, excruciating, grace-filled romance of a star-crossed couple just after When we pick up with him at the start of Robinson's book, he has frequently been very drunk, often sleeping money he may or may not owe to unsavory characters--he drinks so much that in his sober hours he isn't ever willing to enter into such a fraught--and, at the time, illegal--relationship, one that is sure to at the very If we were the only ones left after the world ended, and we made the rules, they really might work just

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

(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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Johnson also wrote the wonderful books The Theory of Everything and This Girl Is Different. 02 A Very Theodore Finch considers his balance between life and death every day, weighing the factors that entice loved all of these aspects of Benway's novel. 05 Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner Carver's life was rocked after When wild and awful, heartbreaking thoughts are flying after a tragedy, and when some people are focused Goodbye Days is so very very sad and so very very funny.

job, offering incredibly lucrative terms and making demands about having the biography released only after

​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year after second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this was a series until after

After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time,

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

husband abruptly leaves her penniless and alone, jumping on a ship departing Massachusetts shortly after

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

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

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

Her psychic, emotional link to Red is thin, and she's not sure if she'll ever find him again. After the unprecedented twists and developments Talin experiences in Steelstriker, she must reimagine

is over and the knaffea is just a pleasant memory—like a lovely dream that you forget a few seconds after He does have sordid tales to tell, but he seems less puffed up over his kitchen war stories after the I pledged after reading this book I wasn't going to forget to not eat fish on Sunday or Monday because of supply and delivery patterns (I did forget this, but now after rereading my original review I'm reminded written a memoir about marriage, unexpected yearnings, and the messy process of finding herself again 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

Now I Rise, Lada is tough as nails but faulted, and we see her forge her identity more fully through every It's a little dark, consistently fascinating, sometimes funny, and very satisfying. and Storm, The Darkness emerges with a destructive and dangerous plan to crush everything Alina has ever In The Cruel Prince, Jude and her sister are sent to live with the enemy in the High Court of Faerie after

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

A new United States administration has been sworn in after a period of upheaval and upset.

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.

In "Happily Ever After" the main character faces the possibility of not being able to have a biological Through the artist's gimmicky attempts to try to move on, the story shows the limitations of an apology after It was the winter after the most depressing election of my adult life, a low point for my faith in the

I wondered if Less Is Lost would rely heavily on the context of the first book, and after reading it,

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

Rwanda and through six other African countries—with her tough, hustling older sister Claire—during and after In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Wamariya recalls her experiences through

royalty Lila loves to hate; Rhys, Kell's prince and brother; and one of my favorites, Captain Alucard Emery Necessity makes for strange bedfellows; as crisis after crisis erupts, situations require ingenuity,

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

deflect racism from casting heads and writers; and digs in to try to be one of what he hopes will be an ever-increasing various early road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very few roles, and consistently stereotypical ones at that. and grilling about where he was "from," and he wondered if this acting thing would ever work out. service to others, and he tried to reconcile his two seemingly conflicting paths, wondering if they can ever

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

It meanders as Beard is unmoored after heartbreak and betrayal, and her dear friend is dying.

Deadly danger and darkness lurk around every corner. the same name (Blood & Honey is the second, with the third, Gods & Monsters, set for publication this summer This is all very angsty and dramatic so far, and I love it!

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

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

relationship with his father to sharing how he attempted to cope with the loss of his mother decades after

family is lovely, and there's a subplot in which Jack and his brother Hank are furious with each other after

she rides her mule Eugenia through all the hollers and up through the mountains, delivering sought-after

After she drunk-blogs scathing comments about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze sight of embracing each new experience while reflecting on what she wanted her future to look like after

This was wryly funny, sometimes zany, and so very heartwarming. books I've reviewed . 06 The Knight and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig The shadowy, eerie to disappear, and Sybil doubts for the first time whether their collective purpose is holy and noble after

Yet Lena, in a wheelchair after being stricken with polio, is bright and driven--and would much prefer

After the World Falls Apart I have a fascination with postapocalyptic and dystopian books, and I think Teenage Andra finally wakes up after being cryogenically preserved for a century-long journey to a new

It's possible very little in the book was changed in light of real-world events, but, and maybe this is unreasonable, but I very much wished that Martin's pre-Covid-19 version of events had been purely technological advancements that allowed for the scientists' and government's responses in the novel, and I'd very After she spoke at our library foundation event last year, my book club read this book together.

And if you're interested in My Very Favorite Bossy Reads of Last Year across all genres, check out the "You don't know how beautiful you are" types of lines; unrealistically convenient run-ins; not-dead-after-all I was glad when Laura began to allow herself to be vulnerable toward the end of the novel, and I very

“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'.