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If you like unlikely heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like Before She Disappeared, which McGuire is also the author of Incredible Bodies and The Abstainer. 03 First Light by Rebecca Stead Peter The pacing of First Light is a little slow at first, and I would have liked to see more science-based The standouts for me in First Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, ship Endurance became trapped in the ice and crushed, leaving the crew marooned on the ice in a brutal fight

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Horse, the newest historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks; She's starting to think that her handsome new editor might just be the inspiration she needs. The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all the fascination and suspicion one might

Some other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might like featuring a number of young adult books redefining of class-driven limitations (as with the attraction between Gwen's lady's maid and Arthur's right-hand-man focused on settling responsibility (and while Carver is being vilified), this felt like something that might Zentner, who also wrote The Serpent King and Rayne and Delilah's Midnite Matinee , and In the Wild Light

Multiple families are affected by a tragic occurrence, and secrets come to light that affect the entire

to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village, etc.) than to pin down their specific taste in fiction You might also like to check out some of the books on my many past Bossy Book Gift Guides: Shhh! Perfect for flipping through or referencing, each section has key information, dates, births, deaths, Klosterman is the bestselling author of eight nonfiction books (including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs To all who might suggest that Sam Heughan's heartthrob role as Jamie in Outlander or his rugged good

friends and musicians in 1700s Vienna; I'm reading Beyond That, the Sea, Julia Spence-Ash's historical fiction If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists

sixteen sunsets and sunrises in twenty-four hours, watching familiar geographic shapes come in and out of sight astronauts are facing what feels like the inevitability of the winding down of human space exploration in light

college students, a death, and a missing girl; and I'm reading Sleeping Giants, Rene Denfeld's literary fiction I've read and reviewed another book called Sleeping Giants; that one was a science fiction story by Sylvain

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Sally Hanan's My Heart Went Walking, upcoming fiction with plenty of family drama set in 1980s Ireland; the science fiction story Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir, the It might be an understatement to say that she has mixed emotions about returning, but Henrik has plans

own origins, practical Bethany has the power to jump in and out of books, immersing herself in the fictional This setup might have felt gimmicky or too convoluted, but Riley uses a sure hand: the logistics of how characters to root for--and satisfying and intriguing intersections between Bethany and Owen and the fictional

The majority of page time in the historical fiction title is spent showing the tasks of daily life (and Utopia Avenue contains endless imagined cameos, fictional adventures, and gems of wisdom from real-life This title was listed in Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year. This title was listed in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year. Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the upcoming The Secret Life of Flora Lea, historical fiction with If this book is of interest to you, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List

This is an appealingly cozy and old-fashioned mystery, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial March's 400-page book is an immersive story, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial India underlying You might also like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to

Nagamatsu's science fiction centers around a resurgence of an ancient Arctic plague. The stories are steeped in death and in coming to terms with mortality while fighting for answers. the virus passes like a whirlwind through societies and nations around the globe, Nagamatsu's science fiction

Side note: Kat is said to be quite naturally talented; it felt awfully convenient in light of Heath's

Harris's action-packed World War II story moves between the terrors of 1930s Germany and the glamour It's action-driven World War II intrigue, and it's a quick, compelling read. Thomas Silkstone series and the Constance Piper Mystery series as well as The Light We Left Behind. If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great

Appalachian-set novel Betty with my book club, Xiran Jay Zhao's young adult blend of Chinese history and science fiction Betsy Carpenter was the sixth child of eight born to a white mother and Cherokee father, and life in first read of 2022. 02 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Xiran Jay Zhao blends Chinese folklore with science fiction robots and aliens in this feminist young adult action story that's fascinating me so far.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Down Comes the Night, a young adult fantasy story featuring magical healing and warring kingdoms; Fugitive Telemetry, the newest book in Martha Wells's science fiction 01 Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft I love the setup of Saft's romantic young adult fantasy novel , Down Comes the Night. Through the voice of the fictional Ziggy, a dance instructor and key connector of various figures in

I had several literary fiction reads, a dystopian fantasy, and a fun nonfiction book. point of view and the version of a reckoning that it offered, but it was an interesting way to set up slight check out Silver Elite . 06 O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker O Caledonia  is a modern classic, literary fiction

Dunlap's debut novel is dark, twisty, gothic, and it's set in 19th-century Scotland as fictionalized

books, perennial classics, modern favorites, nonfiction must-haves, or other new-to-you titles that might love her small-kitchen, simple-ingredient, delicious-looking "snacks," prepared in lovely atmospheric lighting Evie. ...from Party Food, to Seafood, to Poultry and Meat, to Desserts ("This is one of the largest sections The 225 recipes in Cook What You Have offer practical methods for finding creative inspiration right

For more fiction and nonfiction books about race Colson Whitehead is also the author of The Underground

Bossy reviews of books set in Ireland, including the nonfiction book Say Nothing , Claire Keegan's fiction

They realize their whole lives could be shattered as the lies they've been telling each other come to light The trick occurs early (also, one major aspect of the true situation directly echoes a fictional setup

Festival Days is not light reading: "Cheri" delves into the last days of a woman who is terminally ill with cancer; "Last Night" relates the final moments of the author's beloved dog's life; and the backbone

Dani Francis's dystopian romance series, Silver Elite ; and I'm listening to Garrett Carr's literary fiction

In the midst of a global panic, Welga is drawn back into intelligence work in order to identify and fight If you like books with wintry settings, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six This mix is working well for me: science fiction with themes about society's reliance on attention and mystery with beautifully imperfect characters bringing it all to life; and a woman-powered historical fiction

Ashley Poston's newest romantic fiction is centered around Clementine, a harried book publicist who falls “My aunt used to tell me that summer nights in the city were meant to be impossible." Uh...what?

serves up true-crime fascination while its middle-aged protagonist makes mistakes, seeks justice, and fights For more Bossy reviews of fiction and nonfiction books about boarding schools, click here.

The book's pace felt halting at times and its substance somewhat light at points. The pace of the book is sometimes halting and its sections about scripture at times felt a little light

01 Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles In Table for Two: Fictions, Amor Towles offers six short stories

Zusy notes that the character of Ginny was inspired by Zusy's own brother, and the fictional interactions special-needs, grown sibling is conveyed with all of the awkward, upsetting, challenging elements one might

This month my favorite reads were a retelling of a Mark Twain story; historical fiction set in North Carolina; contemporary fiction about an unplanned pregnancy; the real story of a beloved figure from 01 What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway The historical fiction story about the building of the Maria von Trapp by Michelle Moran I was hooked on the behind-the-scenes feeling of Moran's historical-fiction

I was hooked on the behind-the-scenes feeling of Moran's historical-fiction conversations between Maria

Tess's long-held ability to get into trouble might just lead her on an adventure of a lifetime. 02 Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama by Bob Odenkirk You might know Odenkirk from his role as the sleazy lawyer with Or you might know him from his older work as a Saturday Night Live writer (he wrote the iconic "Motivational The incomplete sentences and lightning-fast topic shifts are taking some getting used to, but they add history, the west of the United States is a region called the Republic, and it frequently clashes and fights

I'm sooooo very excited to be reading each of these books: Blake Crouch's upcoming science fiction, Upgrade ; Gabrielle Zevin's upcoming science fiction Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow; and Kelly Barnhill's speculative fiction, When Women Were Dragons.

In this recent book by Anthony Doerr (author of All the Light We Cannot See), young Anna lives in fifteenth-century It feels unfair to compare Cloud Cuckoo Land to Doerr's beloved and quite different book All the Light Anthony Doerr also wrote the exquisite All the Light We Cannot See, as well as The Shell Collector, Four

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier's newest historical fiction Trackers by Charles Frazier In The Trackers, Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction

II-focused books here , and you can also check out my review of Kate Quinn's great codebreaking historical fiction

conflicts and political upheaval won't touch them out in the wild, and they figure that the charged friction might even die down while they're in the woods.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Iida Turpeinin's upcoming historical fiction novel Beasts of the slots fantastically imperfect and wondrous main protagonists whose thoughts, dialogue, motivations, and actions

Perilous Undertaking, the second in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction

She spoke with a slight accent and kept largely to herself. year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction If you like reading about female spies, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Books

Even the people we loved kept pieces of themselves hidden away from the light.

The Grace Year is the type of book I could’ve stayed up all night reading. I felt as though the later sections glossed over some major issues (consorting with the gruesomely brutal Carey's story is also hopeful, but not in the way I might have expected. And he just might find himself questioning his decisions either way. But the other, the more certain, the more inevitable, is that those thousand thousand points of light

Stories of various characters are interwoven through the historical fiction novel and add depth to the

to evade a killer who has it in for them; I'm reading Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver's newest fiction If you're a fan of the most recent season of White Lotus on HBO, the setting and tone of this book might

I spend most of the year focusing on fiction titles, with a healthy dose of memoirs and some nonfiction You might also like to check out the books on some of my past Bossy Book Gift Guides: Shhh! Two-Fers" show you how to turn leftovers from one dinner into a different and delicious meal on another night Bedroom Pastrami, Newman's Jambalaya, The Opposite of Tuna on Toast, and muffin tops, this cookbook might

Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, my book club's most recent read, it's In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's

nonfiction about the Westminster Dog Show, Dogland ; I'm listening to Carys Davies's luminous historical fiction