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- Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year
guilt and self-doubt lead her to track down the almost-victim, Wade Austin, he assures her that her actions Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell #2) by Deanna Raybourn This second book in Raybourn's historical fiction up emotional barriers to a deeper connection, and the agency is focused on trying to take down the fictional
- Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth
judgment leads to another, foolish choices end in bloodshed, and one brother makes justifications for his actions of tone and spirit, you might also like those listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction And stay tuned for this Friday's upcoming list of Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/19/22 Edition
to evade a killer who has it in for them; I'm reading Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver's newest fiction
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
protagonist, a jazz pianist, is tasked with saving humanity; and I'm listening to This Other Eden, historical fiction
- 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 Course of All Treasons: An Elizabethan Spy Mystery by Suzanne M. Wolfe
If you like mysteries and historical fiction like I do, you might also like some of the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/4/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry's newest light fiction Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction
- Review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles
This is character-driven historical fiction at its best. This is character-driven historical fiction at its best. I loved loved loved it.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/22/20 Edition
She exposes the raw truths of tough situations in character-driven historical fiction so deftly, I have I'm really greedily excited about reading all three of these books--historical fiction (Austraaaaalia , celebrity-focused fiction, and a memoir with a quirky hook.
- Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd
Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of I really liked recently was A Curious Beginning, and it shares some of these elements of historical fiction
- Review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
Russell has also written Children of God (The Sparrow, #2); the character-driven historical fiction book Holliday), which I really liked; and other books set in the American West (such as Epitaph); historical fiction
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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, 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.
- 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, 7/31/23 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 The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart
This Depression-era-set historical fiction story tracks characters in intensely difficult situations
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences
But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles resonated with me, each offering glimpses into
- 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 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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, 11/7/22 Edition
coping with the difficulties of life; and I'm listening to The Librarian Spy, World War II historical fiction
- 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
- 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 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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 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
















































