Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval Mary Sharratt offers an exhaustively researched, fascinating historical fiction account of the life of Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother

Camelot will be secure from would-be usurpers, and the kingdom will be inspired again by bravery and might which an unlikely young upstart and a ragtag group of aging, grumbling, disillusioned knights try to do right important roles in the tale--are all misfits who don't inspire great confidence, but collectively, they fight

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Go as a River, historical fiction from Shelley Read; I'm listening Mary Otis's Burst, a story about a mother and daughter; and I'm reading Mary Sharratt's historical fiction Mary Sharratt offers an exhaustively researched, fascinating historical fiction account of the life of

with time--the possibilities of trying things a different way, the second chances, the peeks into what might You might also like the books on the list Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories. fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate selves in this science fiction But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking Suddenly she's plunged back in time to begin the holiday anew and try to get things right, Groundhog

Unsinkable is historical fiction by Jenni L. Walsh that's set in two timelines. You might like my Bossy reviews of other spy stories; you can find them here.

French's Irish-set Cal Hooper mystery series, The Keeper ; and I'm reading a mystery built around a fictitious podcast, This Story Might Save Your Life by Tiffany Crum. You might also be interested in my Bossy reviews of other Tana French novels . 03 This Story Might Save

Waters is also the author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and The Night Watch. Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of others aren't tuned into, if she's mentally ill, or if the ghostly voices are real and influencing her actions For my full review, check out The Silent Companions. 06 Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft I adored For my full review, check out Down Comes the Night.

You might also be interested in the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants ' Experiences. 03 Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre for my full review of Big Swiss. 04 Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall Marshall's debut historical fiction In this historical fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada-- handy parasol, her unshakable nerve, some savviness, and the armor of the latest fashions in order to fight

The power of books and of friendship ultimately triumph in Martin's historical fiction.

Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of In Revelations, Sharratt offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched Our main protagonist puzzles and angers those around her by challenging the limitations of what women might Sharratt has authored at least seven other historical fiction novels--including Illuminations, about

the aftermath of World War I in this irresistible first installment of Winspear's 18-book historical fiction Check out this Greedy Reading List for Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You. malaise occurring for the adults, who are largely without pressing business or life missions where they might Walsh I loved each of the historical fiction story's two timelines--following a stewardess on board The If you like this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great

The subtitle of Browder's nonfiction book is A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight Browder's doggedly investigative, cannily media-focused, and sometimes desperate political actions drew If you like nonfiction books that read like fiction, you might try the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction or Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read

If you love memoirs, you might also like the titles I listed on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Paul's School came to light, she added her voice to the throng of the attacked and abused, opening her Wild Life's subtitle, Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, felt whimsical and light to think deeply about her place in the world, her responsibility to humans and animals, and how she might

Kim Michele Richardson's historical fiction offers a 1936 Appalachian setting, the magic and unassuming Kim Michele Richardson's The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, except for pre-reading anxiety that it might But this is a solid historical fiction story that I loved.

Kate Quinn, the queen of historical fiction about women during wartime, recommends these titles that If you like stories about brave women during wartime, you might also like the books I listed on the Greedy I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? regiment of night bombers. full review, see The Huntress. 03 Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein In Wein's young adult historical fiction

loved reading this past month: a beautiful, poignant nonfiction book about living and dying; a science fiction story about an inherited villain's career, heavily featuring savvy and communicative cats; a historical fiction featuring female doctors, set in 15th century China; a gothic, magical-realism Western; a historical fiction If you're interested in books about mortality like I am, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading And Anequs is just the fearless catalyst who might be able to shift it all.

O Caledonia is a modern classic, literary fiction that encompasses darkly funny passages and tragic

Mason's novel isn't simply a historical fiction story linked through timelines. But North Woods isn't a charming historical fiction novel.

A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.” I mentioned Gilead in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil

mother and daughter, which also plays with time; and The Love of My Life, Rosie Walsh's contemporary fiction And if she can cope with her own sadness and dive into the unfathomable experience, she just might learn Emma finds herself fighting aggressive lymphoma, and Leo, an obituary writer, privately copes with his The tone of this feels like contemporary fiction, but The Love of My Life is also a psychological thriller

insufferable, and she glosses over anything that doesn't fit the narrative she has created and the fictional

The female characters are often strong, and there's often lush historical fiction detail. If you like these stories too, you might enjoy the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy

fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate selves in this science fiction existences, piecing together the lives of her counterparts, and keeping a journal of all that was and might But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking I could become the thing I'd always feared, and then I might never be afraid of anything again. But we were right, the scientists said. And so were we, the spiritual said.

ICYMI: Smith evokes a vivid sense of the regional South in her fiction, and in this memoir she traces Lee Smith has written numerous fictional stories about the Appalachian South, including Fair and Tender

Mountain, and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction the Cranes Fly South. 05 This Is Happiness by Niall Williams This is gorgeous Niall Williams literary fiction You might also be interested in Bossy reviews of other retellings.

with emotional barriers to a deeper connection, and the agency is focused on trying to take down the fictional If you're interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six

book to fully enrage a reader, yet the tone of Majumdar's debut title is, interestingly, relatively light gym teacher, a vulnerable and opportunistic fellow who stumbles into being a powerful lynchpin of the right-wing Jivan had been kindly teaching Lovely English, and Lovely might be able to serve as a valuable alibi- injustice and crooked dealing here to fully enrage a reader, yet the tone of this book is relatively light

Interviews with family, friends, and coworkers shed light on the ups, downs, and various factors behind Reilly were two weeks into the several months they spent alternating the roles of Lee and Austin each night If you love memoirs, you might like some of the books on my many Bossy lists of favorites: Six Illuminating

In Nicole Galland's historical fiction tale Boy , Alexander "Sander" Cooke is a famed, sought-after "

Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a I really liked this, but I was surprised by how light it felt on fantasy elements.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Natasha Pulley's The Kingdoms, which involves historical fiction and time travel; I'm listening to Marie Lu's young adult science fiction book Warcross, the first in Natasha Pulley is also the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, another historical fiction story with science fiction elements. research equipment and heading to Greenland to track the last Arctic terns in the world during what might

I love a science-fiction story in which elements of humanity are explored, I love an alternate-history

This was nonfiction that was so compelling it read like fiction (and served as the inspiration for this Macintyre's nonfiction book was wonderful; it really read to me like fiction. carefully researched and documented, with twists and turns that feel so outlandish as to seem like fiction and I admittedly may have been a little mentally off, but I initially thought this not only read like fiction but was fiction.

This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction mystery series, set in Victorian London, hooked me Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction

Gupta explores her Indian American culture, her parents' expectations, society's pressures, and the fiction If you like to read memoirs, you might be interested in the titles on my various memoir-focused Greedy

In this historical fiction novel by Kate Quinn, the stories of two women—an imagined World War I spy

I listed Amina in the Greedy Reading List Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I

01 The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens by Chris DeRose The young men of McMinn County, Tennessee , are coming home after fighting in World War II. I've got historical fiction/fantasy, royal historical fiction, and a compelling nonfiction story that reads like fiction going right now.

For more more more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists I was going to be happy with a light, surface-level look at therapy and the ins and outs of a therapist's Never fight to injure, fight to uplift. Fight because you know that in this life, you deserve safety, joy, and freedom. Fight because it is your life.

fairytale-like turns of events, and decadent experiences with food and fashion are fun, heartwarming, and light

Klune's newest novel is heartwarming, earnest, light, and sweet, with a vision of an in-between afterlife Klune, the author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, offers another whimsical, tender, light-LGBTQ-love toward a more juvenile audience than the story (it is at heart an exploration of mortality and what might The last quarter of the book involved some transformation, action, and surprises, and the ending is very

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

despairing, and often gallows-humor-fed path through the depths of her grief to a place where she can function More Books You Might Like Mai Nguyen is also the author of Sunshine Nails.

In The Vanishing Half, Bennett follows the history of the fictional Vignes twins, Desiree and Stella, as they grow up in a town made up of those who identify as light-skinned black people.

In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding Olive writes about an almost identical personal experience; and detective Gaspary from the future's Night You might like the books I list on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life

Ashley Elston's mystery First Lie Wins  (it was on my December favorites list ; it was one of my Bossy Fiction

There's a major leaning toward science fiction and speculative fiction in this list, so I am apparently But right when Cassie is ready for redemption, it looks like the world is about to end. can stand being locked up with her friend's bratty little sister and her own ex-boyfriend, she just might

In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer about strong women making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction

feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life , Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships that this is a second reality for Lydia and unaware of anything odd about this life, and Lydia must fight complicated set of circumstances that show the realistically plausible challenges and crossroads the couple might

Goldfinch Foundation , which was formed in honor and in memory of Owen Willers, and which shines a light