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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/21/25 Edition

    also the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/18/21 Edition

    a beautiful modern classic from a bestselling author who writes about faith and life; and a recent mystery is Alexandra Andrews's first book, and so far the mystery's twists and turns are fantastic. If you like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking

  • Review of Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

    and The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone #2), which I included on the Greedy Reading List Six If you like lighter fiction, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction

  • Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas

    These six nonfiction books look like excellent last-minute additions to a holiday gift list if you're Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! In Waypoints, Sam Heughan points out places along Scotland's ninety-six-mile West Highland Way that hold

  • Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

    Her sister steps in to help with their dad at home, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition

    If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories--or you can search

  • Review of The Bletchley Riddle by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

    behind-the-scenes World War II British codebreaking of Nazi messages, along with a rich back story and mysterious Lizzie finds a secret notebook of her mother's, she becomes more determined than ever to solve the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/25 Edition

    , the Victorian-England-set historical fiction The Fraud ; and I'm reading Richard Osman's charming mystery In the first installment in Osman's mystery series, four septuagenarians meet each week to discuss unsolved

  • Review of Rednecks by Taylor Brown

    The Gods of Howl Mountain, and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/5/22 Edition

    If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories--or you can search

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/24/23 Edition

    Love Experiment, a spinoff of The Soulmate Equation, which I loved; I'm reading the upcoming Western mystery Undertaking, the second in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries tortured and killed nearby, Porter will need to delve into the area's history, ties to the Russians, and mysteries Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Undertaking, Victorian lepidopterist and adventurer Veronica Speedwell teams up with her natural-history and mystery-solving

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition

    If you like the sound of this book, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Romantic

  • Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre

    Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year last year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books If you like reading about female spies, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Books

  • Review of The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick

    A mysterious therapy center lies in the California desert, and its services are free, but they're only But participation requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious, purportedly helpful

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/30/25 Edition

    Day in December , and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd , a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • ICYMI: My Very Favorite Reads from the First Half of 2021

    but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like time to share the best books I've read in the past six 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 Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition

    trilogy, Akata Witch , Noor , Remote Control , and other works. 03 The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick A mysterious without debilitating sorrow, but participating requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious

  • Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson

    ICYMI: The second in Johnson's young adult mystery series offers growing friendships, determined sleuthing Stevie Bell solved one mystery last year--the mystery of her murdered classmate. But just as she's pulling closer to solving the original mystery that drew her to Ellingham Academy ( And far from forgetting about the decades-old mysteries of Ellingham Academy, Stevie is more obsessed She kept me hooked and moved things along while not making me feel mystery-manipulated.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/17/22 Edition

    enjoy reading books that play with time, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories and Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes. 03 Dolly

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery that plays with time, Wrong one of my favorite authors, Claire Keegan; and I'm listening to Janice Hallett's unreliable narrator mystery 01 Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Things Like These. 03 The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett Janice Hallett's The Twyford Code explores a mysterious he's out of prison and mainly resists sinking back into illegal habits...but he's got a hunch that the mystery

  • January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Anyway, here are my six favorite (and varied!) reads of the first month of 2023. Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery

  • October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a bitingly funny, poignant book of essays; a candid Jennette became a child actress at age six in order to please her mother, pushing down her own anxiety If you're interested in books about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You. 04 The Fire and the

  • May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious

  • Review of Antarctica by Claire Keegan

    Antarctica showcases Keegan's masterful ability to distill varied lives into seemingly small moments, If you like short stories, you might also be interested the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Short

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/29/25 Edition

    justice, Heart, Be at Peace ; I'm listening to the 31-hour audiobook of the latest Cormoran Strike mystery I'm reading the newest in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, in which a dismembered body and Freemason

  • Review of Bear by Julia Phillips

    I mentioned Julia Phillips's fascinating novel Disappearing Earth  in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly

  • A Short Bossy Break

    got these books going at the moment: recently published fantasy-historical fiction, the second in a mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition

    He lays bare some of the mysteries of college admissions--aiming to offer some sanity to those of us Thomas A Study in Scarlet Women was the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery Lady Ingram is seeking confidential answers to the mystery of the disappearance of someone revealed as client and her duty to reveal the hurtful truth to her friend as she dives into solving this complicated mystery

  • Review of Charm City Rocks: A Love Story by Matthew Norman

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List, Six

  • Review of Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    Taylor Jenkins Reid is the author of Daisy Jones & the Six, a book I really liked and that I included in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music, as well as the books The Seven

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/4/22 Edition

    I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light listed other heartbreaking and beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

    I mentioned Dani Shapiro's fascinating memoir Inheritance in the Greedy Reading List Six More Illuminating

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/19/24 Edition

    For more cold-setting stories, check out my Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings

  • Review of You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead

    If you like short stories, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Short Story Collections

  • Review of No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler

    Kate's book Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) in the Greedy Reading List Six For more books I thought warranted five big stars, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Five-Star Bossy

  • Review of Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

    Blau is also the author of six other books. Because of the music involved in the story, Mary Jane reminded me of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/3/21 Edition

    Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year last year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books If you like reading about female spies, you might like the Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave Fisher is candid, funny, charmingly offbeat, and she's mastered the art of honest self-examination. If you like reading about female spies, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Book

  • Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

    estranged parents, her other heartbreaking losses, her unaccounted-for hours sleepwalking, and others' mysterious podcaster taking too deep of an interest in Isabelle's personal past rather than trying to solve the mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key plot point of Willingham's newest mystery Click here for Bossy reviews of more mystery and suspense books.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/6/22 Edition

    If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories.

  • My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far

    but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like time to share the best books I've read in the past six 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 Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache

  • Review of The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

    Henry Thornton is a wealthy railroad magnate and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary Five years later, the crown reappears--spurring more mystery and questions than answers.

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two memoirs, two historical fiction titles, a science After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress, You can find my review of Blake Crouch's Recursion (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Riveting

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/17/20 Edition

    When a mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, our main protagonist Talin Last week I offered a roundup of Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism; this week I'm bravely

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/21 Edition

    pasts; the rich fictional history of an esteemed figure in early twentieth century New York and his mysterious If you like stories about music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition

    listening to the fourth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing will-they-won't-they a tease, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition

    Reading Now I'm reading A Restless Truth, the second book in Freya Marske's historical fiction fantasy mystery Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery A Marvellous Light was full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery, magic, wonderful dialogue to an elderly woman on an ocean liner (so she can help her beloved older brother resolve a magical mystery Is it possible that Marcellus holds the key to finding answers regarding her son's mysterious disappearance

  • Review of Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros

    But the mysteries surrounding the power of their enemies, her own dragon, and the future of her beloved The ending leaves us on another cliffhanger and sets up potentially intriguing, mysterious conflicts

  • Review of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, in no particular order. Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's historical fiction mystery, based on real-life double agents broken up by and bound together by tragedy; Quantum Girl Theory, Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction-mystery-speculative Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is Revival of Opal & Nev. 06 Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan In Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction mystery

  • Review of Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World

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