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  • Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the Heretic's Daughter, Martha Carrier's tenth generation descendant Kathleen Kent offers a historical fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/22/21 Edition

    In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships Here he offers a literary fiction story in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes his romantic

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/20 Edition

    World War II historical fiction, a tough female protagonist, a mission of uncovering war criminals in One spooky suspense story, one World War II historical fiction title, and one combination: a spooky historical fiction book.

  • Review of The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

    The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell turns her attention to Renaissance Italy to tell a historical fiction

  • Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

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

  • Review of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

    Towles crafts a solid historical fiction adventure for his young-men protagonists, balancing weighty

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

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Restless Truth, the second book in Freya Marske's historical fiction With sections read by stars of The Good Place, Schur's How to Be Perfect is funny, interesting--and a

  • Review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C. Pam Zhang

    And I love historical fiction set in the Western United States. (If you do too, take a look at my Greedy Reading List of Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in (Ba shares sensitive reflections, regrets, and advice with Lucy in his own sections of the story--but

  • Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You

    Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the Heretic's Daughter, Martha Carrier's tenth generation descendant Kathleen Kent offers a historical fiction

  • Review of The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart

    This Depression-era-set historical fiction story tracks characters in intensely difficult situations

  • Review of The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda

    Miranda uses the framework of a famous fictional rescue story to imagine the characters' turmoil and She takes a famous fictional rescue story and imagines the characters' turmoil and desperately cobbled-together

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/31/23 Edition

    life was built upon a lie, and his years of unchecked abhorrent, violent, narcissistic, horrifying actions Movies by Lynn Painter I've been on a rom-com kick this summer, and while I'm picky about my light fiction

  • Review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

    Jen Beagin's literary fiction novel is consistently bizarre, at times base, and often darkly funny as

  • Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre

    extrication from Russia (and the use of a British diplomat’s baby as a distraction) reads like suspenseful fiction Macintyre's nonfiction book was wonderful; it really read to me like fiction.

  • Review of Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles

    I love Jiles's richly imagined Civil War-era historical fiction, and I'm in for her other books. The action scenes, when they occur, are fast and furious, with aftershocks the characters scramble to This is the kind of richly imagined historical fiction I adore, and I'm in for each of Paulette Jiles's This is the third Paulette Jiles Civil War-era historical fiction book I've read.

  • Six More Satisfying Novels about Revenge

    In Vengeance Road, Erin Bowman offers up great action along with what I thought were perfect amounts This book appears on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American You might also like the books on the list Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American assassins was the right book at the right time for me: entertainment in the perfect combination of action

  • Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet

  • Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year

    For me, this was nonfiction that was so compelling it read like fiction. 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

  • Review of Out of Love by Hazel Hayes

    Out of Love is not light fiction. revealed along the way, allowing for some illumination about (sequentially) earlier motivations for actions

  • Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning

    also like stories like this, you might enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction

  • Review of Sarahland: Stories by Sam Cohen

    fantasies; to a Sarah who is a reimagined trans biblical character; to a Buffy-obsessed Sarah writing fan fiction

  • Six of My Pandemic-Era Book Buys

    Pride of Eden just might be the literary fiction version of what I think Tiger King sounds like: exotic I can't wait to see what the heck this book is all about. 02 Rodham ​ Curtis Sittenfeld offered a fictionalized In A Witch in Time, Constance Sayers is offering us historical fiction, witches, and repeated reincarnation

  • Review of State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Penny

    reading, I imagined how Clinton's experiences as Secretary of State and First Lady may have informed her fictionalized

  • Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences

    But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles resonated with me, each offering glimpses into

  • Six Captivating Nordic Stories

    King by Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction Carsten Jensen provides epic historical fiction also said to be humorous, and it includes Vikings, seafaring #Vikings, #nordic, #historical fiction 06 Kristin Lavransdatter ​ I also own this book (this is actually haven’t already, because: Sigrid Undset offers an epic story, first published in 1920, of historical fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/2/21 Edition

    Cosby; a light fiction story that's multigenerational, features a winery backdrop, and references racy So far this is a lovely light fiction story that also focuses on racy reads from the 1980s in the form

  • Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

    offers fascinating, wonderfully detailed perspectives in a rich, layered family memoir that reads like fiction I thought it read like fiction. For historical fiction about female spies, you might want to check out the Greedy Reading List Six Books

  • Review of The Distance from Four Points by Margo Orlando Littell

    Margo Orlando Littell is also the author of Each Vagabond by Name, which is suspenseful fiction that's

  • My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books

    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. for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition

    coping with the difficulties of life; and I'm listening to The Librarian Spy, World War II historical fiction

  • Review of Writers & Lovers by Lily King

    It was tough to witness Casey's struggles and pain (even fictionalized, the disastrous trifecta of money That was suuuuch a different book (dark historical fiction set in 1933 New Guinea), but as in Writers

  • Review of Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman

    In Out Front the Following Sea, new historical fiction by Leah Angstman, it's 1689 and King William's

  • Review of The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

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

  • Review of The Bodyguard by Katherine Center

    Katherine Center's newest light fiction offers an irresistible premise--a female bodyguard poses as the And her newest client is the Jack Stapleton, action star, household name--and, in recent years, recluse

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads

    In Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction The Rachel Incident, main character Rachel is an Irish Incident. 04 Chenneville by Paulette Jiles Jiles's newest stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical fiction I got full-body chills when I saw that Paulette Jiles had a new historical fiction novel coming out.

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

    mind-bender that's also about responsibility and causality; and I'm listening to a stand-alone historical fiction

  • Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories I Loved

    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

  • Review of The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

    This book made it onto my Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year and My

  • My Six Favorite Book Club Books of 2022

    review, check out Doctors and Friends. 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

  • Review of Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

    control, secrets of all kinds are revealed and key characters must each determine their courses of action This is enjoyable light fiction, and I had fun with the various siblings' stories and with the glamorous

  • Review of Burn by Peter Heller

    conflicts and political upheaval won't touch them out in the wild, and they figure that the charged friction

  • Review of So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

    role he may have played in adding to his playmate Cletus's potential anguish over his father's tragic actions Much of his largely autobiographical fiction explored loss--he was haunted by losing his own mother when

  • Review of Flying Solo by Linda Holmes

    Holmes is a pop culture correspondent for NPR and is also the author of Evvie Drake Starts Over, a light fiction

  • Review of Blush by Jamie Brenner

    This is a lovely light fiction story with elements that offer appealing weight.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/16/22 Edition

    enslaved people at the center of our nation's history; and Part of Your World, romantic, funny light fiction

  • Review of The Forgotten Kingdom by Signe Pike

    Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book--or any historical fiction/fantasy series you love?

  • Review of Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

    Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating totally fits the bill as light-fiction escapism--in this case, with Light, romantic fiction like this is a genre that's working well for me during Pandemic Times.

  • Review of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

    O'Farrell imagined Agnes, wife to John (the fictionalized William Shakespeare character) as an independent

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: contemporary fiction, young adult, nonfiction, fantasy , and light fiction titles, including several LGBTQ reads perfect for Pride month.

  • Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition

    Paulette Jiles also wrote two other Civil War-era historical fiction books I loved, News of the World Concurrently reading a young adult LGBTQ mystery, a comedian's memoir, and a historical fiction story

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