This interactive locked-room mystery allows readers to identify the murderer in a grisly crime, after

She's determined not to stop until she finds out what really happened that summer.

Jimenez is also the author of Part of Your World, The Friend Zone, and The Happy-Ever-After Playlist.

Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama I read Michelle Obama's wonderful book Becoming, but after father's death that he has become obsessed with centers around the striking servant girl under his very

Just listen to this premise for book two: After a mission gone awry two years ago, Remy Castell has been

Hell, my mother said, and more of us marching there every day.

repercussions of doing so; The Guide, a new book by one of my favorite authors, Peter Heller, which picks up after the events of his book The River as main character Jack serves as a fishing guide at an elite but eerie One Man's Fight for Justice, and in it, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after After Browder escaped Russia, he became determined to bring to justice those in the Putin regime who After suffering a great loss in The River, he's eager to lose himself in nature and meet the needs of

My very favorite Bossy reads so far this year! A servant girl is fleeing her early colonial household in the brutal aftermath of plague and starvation “Nobody else is ever going to care as much as you do about the things that you want, Gwendoline. It's hundreds of years after King Arthur's reign, and his descendant and namesake Arthur, a future lord And when they're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot to prepare for their upcoming nuptials

, four men in a rowboat struggle to rescue a family trapped by the rising waters of the Mississippi after

(Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for all my best-of reads from last year.) I love that the crew of the Wayfarer feels like a close-knit group of summer camp counselors somehow, Upgrade presents a future version of our world in which humans are teetering closer than ever to extinction Trapped in the eerie space station with three grumpy, unwilling teachers trying to prepare her for the able to answer this enormous question, but the robot wonders if the matter is really so complicated after

Bay, Alabama, seems to attract the strongest of hurricanes, and the only building that's withstood every

, four men in a rowboat struggle to rescue a family trapped by the rising waters of the Mississippi after Can he and Julia go on--and will her family ever be the same?

able to answer this enormous question, but the robot wonders if the matter is really so complicated after

particularly fraught for someone like Lola, who can't let go of the past, who has meticulously saved every memento from every man in her life, who constantly questions whether she has it in her to remain committed

relationship with his father to sharing how he attempted to cope with the loss of his mother decades after

And Emma would very much like to make it out of this alive as well. longest night of their lives as they work to evade the thousands of cameras documenting London citizens' every Sign me up for every bit of this!

The issues Reid explores are enormous and are important to all of us, every day, and she wraps them in

his career solving cold cases; and I'm reading Samantha Markum's young adult You Wouldn't Dare, about summer Only, the lengths Junie went to to keep their summer fling a secret might turn out to be unforgivable

In Kelly Link's wonderfully oddball debut novel The Book of Love , she uses every bit of the book's 640

Zamora takes us through what often feels like his literal step-by-step journey, without summarizing or I read Michelle Obama's wonderful book Becoming, but after my wise friend Katherine mentioned having

After an encounter with a fortune-cookie message and a flock of ravens who seem to be following her,

Six More Four-Star Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Two other historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and The book is built from letters Bird wrote to her sister (with some key notes added after the fact), which That there would be two lines, heading in very different directions... ; finding the strength to go on despite few options; and the surprise of new determination and hope after

combines with her lack of commanding details around the mission she has set out on to cause upheaval at every

cutthroat tennis legend making a comeback, Carrie Soto Is Back; and I'm listening to Empire of the Summer a prepublication edition of this book courtesy of Ballantine Books and NetGalley. 03 Empire of the Summer Gwynne In Empire of the Summer Moon, S.C.

They had learned, fundamentally, every child washes in from the sea, washes up against the ankles of

Lockwood notes that she is not a Christian but is very much “of” the church because of her upbringing But it's truly unlike anything I have ever read, and the second section, which is an enormous departure wonders about whether she has a claim to beloved extended relatives who shaped her life but are not, after issues; and she considers her potential legacy to her own child—all while panicking about who she is after This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you

“I’m jealous of the armor that holds you when I can’t, the sheets on your bed that caress your skin every

Every choice he makes is to further his chances of snatching the next fix. This book made my Greedy Reading List for My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

After all, the Vanguards, giant, deadly AI robots, are headed from deep space to destroy Earth at any

But after the school opened, Ellingham's wife and daughter were kidnapped.

My very favorite books from November! I wasn't sure if I was ready for another Sally Rooney book after reading Conversations with Friends so I read Caste with a group and met every other week to discuss it--and we went months past our original

Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins I tried to get my older child to read Gregor the Overlander with me after

My sister-in-law was enjoying this book while we were at the beach this summer, which is what finally

odd tone shifts and what felt like repeated nonsensical or strange timing for characters' reactions (after

Leigh Bardugo's second and final book in the young adult King of Scars duology; I'm listening to Life After harboring enormous, dark secrets--and revealing them would almost certainly lead to his undoing. 02 Life After In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships

For a committed science lover, this title could very well do the trick. 04 Brave the Wild River: The But goldfish can remember that a colored paddle means food is coming, even months after the association octopus, who goes without food while keeping her eggs safe; the strange, vicious Bobbitt worm (named after And although we now know much more about these amazing journeys than ever before, the process of how

After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes On the other hand, wasn't that the very definition of life?

Robin is trying to keep the household afloat after the deaths of his parents, to support his bright,

Sally Gould's memoir is named after a darkly humorous term of affection for paramedics in Australia ( And does grasping the information contained in Fault Lines feel more relevant and essential than ever This title was one of My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads across all genres. 04 A Marriage at Sea: A True

After all, last time around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank you very much) the mystery of the Andie Bell and Sal Singh case. Pip is still producing her popular podcast, but after the trial, she's convinced that she'll be finished Pip is as perfectly imperfect a character as ever.

Deadly danger and darkness lurk around every corner. the same name (Blood & Honey is the second, with the third, Gods & Monsters, set for publication this summer This is all very angsty and dramatic so far, and I love it!

relationship, Ann Liang's This Time It's Real; and I'm reading the third book in Tamsyn Muir's dark, eerie He's already seen how convincing her writing can be, after all. She's got everyone fooled. But she woke up in a stranger's body six months ago and has lived in it ever since.

cookbooks in past book gift lists , and I'm dedicated to Kimball's Milk Street magazine, published every Half Baked Harvest: Quick and Cozy by Tieghan Gerard I mentioned Tieghan Gerard's Half Baked Harvest: Every

Klune's newest novel is heartwarming, earnest, light, and sweet, with a vision of an in-between afterlife juvenile audience than the story (it is at heart an exploration of mortality and what might happen after told how many things aren't known about the in-between state--and how little is known about what comes after The last quarter of the book involved some transformation, action, and surprises, and the ending is very

novel so far. 02 The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after city full of malls and the promise that all will be newer, bigger, shinier, and better than India has ever The story is narrated by Soneela Nankani. 03 American Mermaid by Julia Langbein I've been so very excited

Then Monica's mother became inspired after the tragic death of John F. and community in a crisis and in common suffering, and figuring out the impossible: how to move on after I'm also going to admit here that in the notes I made with my five-star rating just after reading this

My very favorite books from June! Robin is trying to keep the household afloat after the deaths of his parents, to support his bright, After being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, Barrett fears that college to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends, and she's holding true to form after

It's the last day of high school, and nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every once allows Rowan and Neil to see sides of the other person that aren't so infuriating and off-putting after few small valuables into her pockets, to sell for cash or just because she can, no one is likely to ever is desperate to leave her dark past behind her--has wormed her way into the idyllic community in the aftermath

intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction

01 Where the Forest Meets the Stars Joanna is feeling adrift after her mother's death, and she disappears The characters, the story arc that isn’t too easy but leaves you in a promising place after all, and For my full review of this book, see When We Were Vikings. 04 Nothing to See Here I was very glad to Very very happy. looking for more great fiction, you might also want to check out the Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer