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intrigued by the peeks at various groups that inspire fanaticism, but I found myself wishing for more first-person

to each other and to our earth while highlighting the pivotal contributions to science by woman and persons

Sharratt injects an undercurrent of what feels like modern feminism in her first-person story.

a slow, twisting shift from her role as a young woman holding papers asserting ownership of another person that she does so in order to excoriate those enslaving others and to encourage the freeing of enslaved persons

descriptions of the cold climate, and by tough, grumpy Sena, who has a big heart and a soft spot for Iska, her personality

Author Byron Lane was Carrie Fisher's personal assistant in real life, and in this novel, Byron's main Kathi Kannon is a character with a big, wacky personality who also struggles with addiction. spirit of the book felt authentic to what we know about Carrie Fisher's strong, wonderfully unique personality maintain balance in an odd employer-assistant relationship that blurs the lines of the professional and personal

only complicate Jill and Kit's finances, but threaten Kit's identity and shake the family's sense of personal

His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to

make room in the mix for Rosemary, who's grateful--and who's frankly glad to leave her significant personal

Hazel is a strong personality, and I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem). 05 Beach Read by Emily Henry Is it fair for a person

After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time,

She's not satisfied in her job, she's unhappily single, she still lives with her parents--and she just kissed

to prepare for their upcoming nuptials, it doesn't take long for them to realize that Art has been kissing

Wholehearted Faith was most powerful to me when it centered around Evans's personal anecdotes and experiences

His personal situation is complicated by his grief for his recently deceased daughter, and he aims to

This personal account of his experiences digs into moments that have shaped his life, his goals, and

This Time Tomorrow indulged my own personal desire for sentimentality, while also emphasizing the value

Odenkirk shares intriguing details about what he has experienced professionally (with a little personal

about the nature of their relationship, the groom's reticence to commit, and the reporter's painful personal Her plan is shifted by the arrival of another person she feels she must care for, at which point she polis, and I had started keeping an unofficial tally in my head of how much I trusted each new white person

and they've been dating long-distance while Harriet pursues her residency and Win, a furniture repair person

Delving into Meena's story makes clear to Smita that tradition continues to overpower personal choice

Neuvel explores concepts of personal responsibility, how the possibility of life beyond Earth affects

Guest Room, I still haven't read many others I want to: a book about the Armenian genocide that is personal

I loved that book even more than this one because I felt that Taylor's personality came through in it

The situation may lead to personal and career frustration--and maybe something closer to heartbreak.

Almost any house, caught unexpectedly or at an odd angle, can turn a deeply humorous look on a watching person

and master the spells they've been taught by their witchy grandmother, while also navigating various personal So far, this is a slow climb toward a societal calamity (in the form of the plague) and personal tragedy

Hazel is a strong personality, but I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much She wavers between being an unapologetically big personality bursting with joy and essentially asking But I didn't love that a man was swooping in to help cement that who she was as a person was acceptable

The process of letting go of a person was always done in gradual stages, from what he'd seen, from the

and a string of murders rock the community, Mickey's need to solve the mystery becomes relentless and personal the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery becomes relentless and personal

When others' decisions set Teddy adrift even further, she's forced to consider her life and the person

her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while she acknowledges that any story is only one person's

When she implodes her publishing career on a destructive whim, then lucks into a position as a personal

civilization and safety--and as she considers what it would mean to try to cobble together some version of personal

Here are my personal book club favorites from last year. civilization and safety--and as she considers what it would mean to try to cobble together some version of personal

This likely goes without saying, but a significant personal interest in Tombstone and the main players Reading this book reinforced the fact that my personal taste leans more toward character-driven historical

He constantly feels that he must disguise and push down his personal and professional desires, and this

This Time Tomorrow indulged my own personal desire for sentimentality, while also emphasizing the value

back together after grave betrayals and years of broken trust, and they're each navigating various personal women, smugly and sneakily instills fear, and stokes the fires of disturbance, all while holding a personal

Ford feels an intense desire to be her own person, someone both of and separate from her challenging

Sharratt injects an undercurrent of what feels like modern feminism in her first-person story.

draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through it, she cannot even say her true name to another person Then Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred

The subject matter is weighty and emotional, and McCann manages to make the story both personal and political

a faithful man who disagrees with the politics of the faith at the time, but most essentially as a person

and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years, intensely spiritual young person the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery becomes relentless and personal Kathi Kannon is a character with a big, wacky personality who also struggles with addiction. draw, she cannot disturb the snow by walking through it, she cannot even say her true name to another person Then Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred

She feels an intense desire to be her own person, someone both of and separate from her challenging beginnings

oddball, incisive, skewering observations are poignant, funny, heartfelt, complicated moments from his personal

In What Doesn't Kill You, Miller explores the isolation of enduring chronic disease, her own personal

science and faith; and a light fiction read about pen pals (and a modern-day Fred Rogers-esque television personality She weaves songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music feels seamless

Feast, the difficult but riveting story The Guest Room, and a book about the Armenian genocide that is personal