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- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious
- Review of books 1-3 of the Murderbot series by Martha Wells
My smart friend Kathy mentioned these books on social media and was correct that these are fantastic. Rogue Protocol tracks Murderbot's travels to look into the goings-on of the questionable and mysterious
- Six Long Contemporary Novels to Sink Into
She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds immensely readable book rich in period detail, with great dialogue and satisfying elements of love, mystery making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master
- Review of The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
Family Upstairs, Jewell provides sinister goings-on, incredible cruelties, desperate self-preservation, mysteries #mysterysuspense, #dysfunctionalfamily, #threestarbookreview
- Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore
When she finds a mysterious book her father had acquired, it shows January unlikely possibilities about She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds
- Review of Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn
Beginning , the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries
- ICYMI: My Very Favorite Reads from the First Half of 2021
We Begin at the End is a great character-driven, suspenseful mystery. If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache Lee's detail is just fantastic in terms of Green's emotions, hopes, dreams, everyday life at the time
- 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy
- Review of The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
connection, to the young daughter of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries
- Review of The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
setup of key characters leaving off without finishing their illuminating thoughts in order to keep the mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition
But the mysteries surrounding the power of their enemies, her own dragon, and the future of her beloved
- Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle
In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide's mysterious trunk opens
- 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, 2/24/21 Edition
themes about society's reliance on attention and outside stimulation; a gritty modern-day, small-town mystery
- Review of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
I resisted reading this young adult fantasy for a long while.
- Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love
boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious interesting read. 05 The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo The Night Tiger is a wonderful historical fiction mystery I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You. 06 Uprooted airborne dragon battles within the books, and yes, the human protagonists are wonderfully faulted and fantastic For the purposes of this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil conflicts
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition
that may get them both killed; and Jennifer McMahon's dive into a family's haunting history that has mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition
depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction story about multiverse travel, mysteries and she lives in uncertain status, without citizenship or security aside from her employment for the mysterious But when one of her eight remaining selves mysteriously dies, shocking secrets are revealed that connect
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/20/22 Edition
Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/21 Edition
the attention of a nearby diner, who mistakenly interprets what's happening and leaves Finlay with a mysterious
- Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
She shares that because of the gloomy mystery of years of suffering, her multiple sclerosis diagnosis lays bare her experiences with depression and her attempted suicides after heartbreaks; her long-term, mysterious
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition
the Dark; listening to Angela Duckworth's nonfiction book Grit; and reading Katherine Faulkner's new mystery When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--she threatens to
- Review of Goodnight Beautiful by Aimee Molloy
made famous by a well-known author that is directly referenced within the text), so there isn't much mystery
- My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far
We Begin at the End is a great character-driven, suspenseful mystery. If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache Lee's detail is just fantastic in terms of Green's emotions, hopes, dreams, everyday life at the time
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/24 Edition
But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious
- Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson
heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery justified) intense feelings of responsibility for being the one to not only find elusive answers to various mysteries
- Six Great Stories about Robots
Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands , a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising
- Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West
The two disparate stories intersect in an unlikely way in 1890s Arizona Territory, and fantastical elements Jess's voice was fantastic. If you like historical fiction mysteries, you might try the books listed here: Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.
- Review of Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
The best-friendships are fantastic. I think Emma's best friend Maddy probably needs her own book (a la Christina Lauren's fantastic True
- One More List of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year
by Katherine Arden Katherine Arden, the author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious Freddie is reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious
- Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo
ICYMI: When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious multiple homicide
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition
In Nikki Erlick's debut novel, one morning, each adult around the world receives a mysterious box with
- Review of The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz
And my heart raced while I read to find out if this fraught situation would blow up in fantastic form
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/9/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Ava Glass's newest Emma Makepeace spy mystery, The Trap ; I'm listening
- Review of Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) by Sylvain Neuvel
great series by Neuvel, in which a girl stumbles upon pieces of a giant robot and makes solving the mystery to unlock the secrets of the hand and the curious artifacts she stumbled across as a child, but the mysteries
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition
Meanwhile, mysterious forces with dangerous plans converge upon Lovesend, drawn by the resurrection
- Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
the story, Sager does a good job of providing her with a stubborn grip on what she sees as truth over fantasy #mysterysuspense, #gothicnoir, #booksaboutbooks, #unreliablenarrator, #ghosts, #spooky, #hauntedhouse
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/22/24 Edition
introduced her to it; this is a brutal existence buoyed only by thoughts of the past and wonder at the mysteries
- Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year
She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in on her messy, sometimes fantastical, often poignant search can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted her specifically, and feels as though solving the mystery
- Review of Funny Story by Emily Henry
The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan) courtesy of Libro.fm
- Review of When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
It's necessary for the plot for Alex to wait an interminably long time to review mystery items she is when these individuals then disappear, Alex doesn't feel the impetus to explore their letters or a mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/3/25 Edition
Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the mystery
- Review of Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen
working for the charming complex's owner, all the while cultivating her obsession with a reclusive, mysterious
- Review of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
Then a mysterious package arrives at the shop, and A.J. Fikry is suddenly...changed.
- Review of The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
, comfortable current life, the husband she loves, and her kids--or upset everything to explore the fantasy
- Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier
In Dawes, he meets eccentric, wealthy art lovers John and Eve Long--mysterious, possibly hiding something
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/14/22 Edition
during the communist coup of 1978, Sparks Like Stars; I'm reading Lisa Gardner's recently published mystery Stars as an audiobook. 02 One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner Lisa Gardner's recent mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition
thriller, which is set in the wilderness and concerns old lovers thrown together in hopes of finding a mysteriously
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking Notice, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after its breakup--and the crimes, mysteries For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic
















































