societal expectations for women, great adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fantastic What's some of your favorite historical fiction? Any favorites I should add to my outrageously unmanageable to-read list?

The tone of Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth was unlike any fantasy novel I’ve read—Gideon’s speech is #fantasyscifi, #series, #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fourstarbookreview

I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. era when this was not the norm, and the details of her care for new mothers and babies was one of my favorite

is a favorite moment in the story.

The section of limericks centered around dogs and their rude behavior wasn't my favorite, but I sometimes

dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading

thoughtful and self-effacing, curious, sensitive, and I reveled in his explorations of his own glorious favoritism

Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang #fantasyscifi, #historicalfiction, #siblings, #youngadult, #comingofage, #threestarbookreview

But The Survivors, which is set on the Tasmanian coast, is my favorite Harper novel so far. 02 The Dream

Here are six of my favorite fiction works that have to do with rock and roll, writing songs, performing This book was listed in the Greedy Reading Lists My Favorite Six Summer Reads of 2020 and My Twelve Favorite Daisy Jones and the Six explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop

over, paid for, published, successful, and various rights are sold all feels like a happy dream-state fantasy

Schwab's historical fiction-fantasy story about vampires linked together through centuries.

Along with number rituals and frequent mental images of scenes from her favorite children's book, tracking

Chakraborty's Daevabad fantasy trilogy, The City of Brass ; and I'm reading Olivia Hawker's upcoming

But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the #fantasyscifi, #timetravel, #series, #dystopian, #fourstarbookreview

airborne dragon battles within the books, and yes, the human protagonists are wonderfully faulted and fantastic What are some of your favorite fairy tale-type books or retellings? For the purposes of this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil conflicts

spreading happiness; I'm reading the third in Naomi Novik's dark, wonderful Scholomance series, the fantasy Novik is also the author of many other wonderful fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love. 03

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Nocturne, Alyssa Wees's fantasy novel about a prima ballerina in 01 Nocturne by Alyssa Wees In Alyssa Wees's slim (it's 240 pages) fantasy novel Nocturne, set in the

decision-making and astute threat assessment; and retreats from overwhelming interactions to watch its favorite

Maisie is one of my favorite characters, but she struggles with her self-esteem and seems open to verbal

Here are my personal book club favorites from last year. I also enjoyed two of my favorite authors' newest books, Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet and Matt Haig's The For my favorite book club reads of 2020, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Book Club Books I Loved

Everhart includes one of my favorite setups, in which a woman dresses as a man in order to achieve some

The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy trilogy was unabashedly dramatic and angsty, and I was

I'm working on a new list for this summer, but meanwhile I hope you'll enjoy some of these Bossy favorites It's Real by Ann Liang I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically

01 Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth Libby Weeks is the author of the wildly popular fantasy series

captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic Their common disjointedness brings them together, and the mashup of personalities and histories was fantastic

grating aw-shucks quality that was important to the character's development, and while she shed this in favor fascinating dynamics of Evelyn's romantic and professional relationships, which were without question my favorite

The first in the author's young adult steampunk Finishing School series offers wonderful, typically strong Carriger women with unique talents, clever minds, a nose for mystery, and next-level bantering capabilities. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick constantly tests her mother's patience, as she's more apt to occupy herself by dismantling a clock or to arrive to tea disheveled, having climbed a nearby tree to ponder life's mysteries, than she is to master the proper curtsy or perfect her needlework, as is becoming to a Victorian-era young lady. So she is horrified to learn that she's been enrolled in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes that the students at Mademoiselle Geraldine's aren't simply learning to dance and dress, but to use household items as weapons, use their feminine wiles to distract, and use diminishing assumptions about young women to craftily spy on unsuspecting victims. Sophronia is an immensely likable, clever, quick study who defies societal expectations. I loved the steampunk aspects--the airship transport, steam-powered mechanical animals, and the mechanical robot servants within the alternate Victorian England setting. I was also intrigued by the crafty finishing school nemesis, the oddball teachers and quirky school leadership, the persistent young people's shifting knowledge base, and the strange mystery at hand. This is the first in the four-book young adult steampunk series Finishing School. I listened to Etiquette & Espionage as an audiobook. More Love for Author Gail Carriger I loved the first book in Gail Carriger's five-book (plus a prequel short) Parasol Protectorate series, Soulless and its sequel, Changeless .

This is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy, but the book is truly character driven. In Other Lands is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy—there’s a portal; there are mermaids, elves #fantasyscifi, #youngadult, #fourstarbookreview

preacher Beth Moore's memoir, All My Knotted-Up Life ; I'm listening to Melissa Caruso's time-travel fantasy

Davies includes fantastic details of amateur Western exploration that I adored. 04 One for the Blackbird Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, four young adult fantasy books plus related Do you have any favorite books set in the American West?

The Unhoneymooners is fun escapism, even if it's not my very favorite Christina Lauren book. I listened to The Unhoneymooners and it was fun escapism, even if it's not my very favorite Christina

The elaborate escape plans and rescue plots in the book were one of my favorite elements. I already miss my favorite characters from the series.

The Hero of This Book faces the sale of the family home in New England and travels to her mother's favorite

corruption in Russia and the significant repercussions of doing so; The Guide, a new book by one of my favorite The Guide is a literary thriller by one of my favorite authors, in which Jack (from Heller's book The

I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Restless Truth, the second book in Freya Marske's historical fiction fantasy Restless Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy

This book is on my Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels. #youngadult, #dystopia, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview

young lady staring unflinchingly at the reader from the striking cover of Adrienne Young's young adult fantasy

Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

Listening to the author read his favorite recipes rather than reading them myself didn't leave me with

And I'm listening to The Blood of the Old Kings , the first in Sung-Il Kim's fantasy series in which

Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo #timetravel, #mysterysuspense, #fantasyscifi, #fourstarbookreview

Both of these books are listed in my Greedy Reading List of Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview

Much of Ginder's novel is focused on a revenge fantasy, but I was drawn more to Nancy Harrison's strong but I had trouble locking into the story's tone, which wavers into extended dark, vindictive revenge fantasies

I resisted reading this young adult fantasy for a long while.

The best-friendships are fantastic. I think Emma's best friend Maddy probably needs her own book (a la Christina Lauren's fantastic True

When she discovers that the kingdom is in peril, our favorite fourteenth century teenage heroine must #fantasyscifi, #russia, #youngadult, #series, #fourstarbookreview

Do you have any favorite reads set in Australia? the adults in Eli's life (and the terrible consequences he suffers because of them), he emerges as a fantastic

My book club read this refreshing twist on one of my favorite historical fiction book topics, World War

Do you have any favorite short story collections I should read? McCracken is a fantastic writer who highlights odd, strangely beautiful elements in small moments.