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The Time-Travel Books What are your favorite time-travel books? Very very happy.

French is the author of six books in the Dublin Murder Squad series: In the Woods, The Likeness (my absolute favorite of hers), Faithful Place, The Trespasser, Broken Harbor, and The Secret Place, plus the stand-alone

The character of Charlie was so very cocky at the start of the book, I found him somewhat irritating One Golden Summer features characters Percy (Persephone) and Sam (Charlie's brother) from Every Summer Love for Author Carley Fortune Carley Fortune is also the author of Meet Me at the Lake  and Every Summer

Do you have any favorite reads set in Australia? 01 Exiles (Aaron Falk #3) by Jane Harper The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural Can a person’s character or morality be decided in a moment, or in a series of defining moments?

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

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

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

01 The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells You can click the links here to find my full Bossy reviews It gleans tips about holding conversations and functioning around others by watching its favorite show The Murderbot series is funny and poignant and odd and wonderful. Click here for my glowing reviews of the first three books in this series and click here for my reviews The next books in this series are Waking Gods and Only Human , and I enjoyed them both.

Here are some of my favorite books on this theme. Either to change a world--many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every deed a consequence, and in every love and every sorrow truth--or nothing at all.” emotionally invested in Nora's story although I appreciated the implications of her experiences and was very Very very happy.

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

Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and I also enjoyed the second book in this series, A Course of All Treasons. The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books

Do you have any favorite books that involve time travel? In despair about having had a rotten holiday and realizing that future holidays at her favorite place

"If you must look back, try to find the beauty and the benefit in every cruelty done to you. Some of my absolute favorite aspects of the book were the various characters the Martels encounter, characters

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

Set in 2022 Ukraine as war begins to break out, this oddball, zigzagging story explores broad themes It's 2022, and roving, passionate scientist Yeva is only dating in the Ukrainian marriage industry to This was not the kidnappers' intention, but in yet another turn, an oddball series of heroes emerge,

boys for over a century, shares a tale of racial injustice, abuse and horrors, terrible fear, and the very we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every

connection on a cruise to Alaska; and I'm listening to Nora Roberts's first book in The Dragon Heart Legacy series recommendations so that I could beef up my Dragons shelf on Goodreads and put together a post of my favorite , several people asked if I'd read Nora Roberts's Dragon Heart Legacy series.

In 1906 San Francisco, two very different women seek new beginnings: Gemma is a gifted soprano whose When the authorities require too much time and evidence to take control, the varied women he's left in rich early-1900s San Francisco setting, the focus on the arts, the strong women characters, and the varied

A Varied List of Maine Books I was recently visiting my old stomping grounds in Maine for a whirlwind Sometimes I did wish for more of a Maine presence in these reads, but I hereby present to you A Varied The list includes: literary fiction that's part of an interconnected series; a romantic story about starting historical fiction about a midwife that's based on a real historical figure; the first in a mystery series era when this was not the norm, and the details of her care for new mothers and babies was one of my favorite

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My friend James mentioned this book as a favorite of his when we talked about reading and books on his

It gleans tips about holding conversations and functioning around others by watching its favorite show The Murderbot series is funny and poignant and odd and wonderful. The sequel, Devil in the Device, is set for publication in August 2021. 03 Machinehood by S.B. The sequel is set for publication in September 2021. The next books in this series are Waking Gods and Only Human, and I liked them both.

The beauty of the complementary, mismatched partnership between Devlin and Falco is my favorite aspect adult mystery with a nerdy heroine and a dark plot twist; and a prolific mystery author's first in a series I kind of love reading such different books at one time--a book for every mood.

Avery, the oldest, ten years sober, is a married lawyer (her wife is her former therapist, eek) making Bonnie, Avery, and Lucky come together and push each other away throughout the story. I stayed very nervous while the three survivors made destructive decisions that seemed destined to cause

Do you have any favorite short story collections I should read? They were all in the closet, with the minuscule footed pajamas and hand-knit baby hats, and every day

Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers; and I'm reading the slim, powerful nonfiction The Secret Book of Flora Lea is scheduled for publication May 2. 02 Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Sutanto Vera Wong is running a largely unvisited tea house, lamenting her grown son's lack of time for When a dead body shows up in her tea house, Vera takes charge of what she is certain is a murder. How to Say Goodbye is scheduled for publication July 18, 2023.

Vern! This is by the author of the Artemis Fowl series, but Highfire is decidedly for adults. My favorite dragon books are the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik; His Majesty's Dragon is the first.

must also face his innate hatred for his counterpart Darnay, which he feels simply because of Darnay's very Escape of Uriah Heep , The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door , Heartless , and The Shadow Histories series

O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , in which the heir to a galaxy-wide mining fortune Sarah Manguso is also the author of Very Cold People . 02 Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicenzio Catalina O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , studious Tarquin Mercator is the unlikely heir O'Keefe is also the author of the The Protectorate series and The Scorched Continent series.

Do you have any favorite books set where you live? I loved every bit of this story. IA series of elaborate falsifications, outrageous subterfuge, and outright lies creates a tangled web Three days later, she was recovered in a miraculous series of events that ended up with her rescue and Hart has written many other books, including The Hush, which is the second in the Johnny Merrimon series

This is the first in Muir's Locked Tomb series, and I'm currently listening to the second, Harrow the The third book, Nona the Ninth, was published in fall 2022. a casual mention around the neck of another character across the world in another time; and we see varied NASA contact, Molly, who sends her audio messages (and occasionally forwards along episodes of Romy's favorite

important assertion from Lucy; she is finally owning who she is as well as her story, her choices, and her very important assertion from Lucy; she is now owning who she is as well as her story, her choices, and her very My favorite Elizabeth Strout books are Anything Is Possible and Olive, Again.

That was their favorite tool. Iron Widow is Xiran Jay Zhao's first novel, and it's labeled as the first in the Iron Widow series, so

Riddle You may already know that I love a time-travel book (see my lists of favorites below).

thousands of titles; my double- and sometimes triple-stacked bookshelves; the fact that many of my favorite

written by chefs and by people who are obsessed with food, and the books listed here are some of my favorites and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl Garlic and Sapphires may be my favorite Then the layers of crisp and sweet and soft intermingle, a series of surprises. Confidential thirteen years ago, well before I spent endless evenings happily watching multiple television series Reichl includes her own photographs and some of her favorite recipes, which together make the book feel

about a magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling Danger and darkness lurk around every corner. prepublication digital edition of this book courtesy of NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group. 03 Very Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise

As Evie's putting her former favorite romance books into a Little Free Library, a wizened old woman approaches

I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light

It seemed very odd that Millie--who is so focused on goals, doing her duty, behaving in a manner that's are just versions of what she was willing to go along with--without asking any questions--from the very this culminating situation of neglectful, inept damage that is ultimately inflicted by practically every

pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime excited to read my prepublication edition of Saunders's upcoming novel Vigil , to be published in January 2026

I very much enjoyed the French Resistance storyline, with its details of safe houses, document drops, For example, the reader may very early on see the truth behind what ends up being a shocking surprise In addition, Martin is the author of the series Mercenary Maidens, Highlander, Wicked Earls' Club, Wedding

And you can find Bossy science-fiction favorites at this link . Have you read any of these books? The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet , the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series I really enjoyed Alex White's Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe , the first in the Salvagers series

In despair about having had a rotten holiday and realizing that future holidays at her favorite place

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

I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician , the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook , what with the jumps through time; varied points of view; layered disloyalties, misdirections, and motivations This was one of my favorite reads of the year last year.

For a more playful take on vampires, check out Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series; you can read I plan to finish this great series at some point. For a very different take, you might check out The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, in

Elizabeth Strout is one of my favorite authors, and this recently published book is her newest in the

Here are six of my favorite fiction works that have to do with rock and roll, writing songs, performing And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right.

be involved. 03 So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell My friend James mentioned this one as a favorite