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  • Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    whip-smart young Indigenous woman in a steampunk 1800s Nordic setting, with plenty of dragons, dragon science Breath delivers the dragons: in-depth training around being partnered with dragons, dragon-related science

  • Review of The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy

    Zusy notes that the character of Ginny was inspired by Zusy's own brother, and the fictional interactions

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/24/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a light fiction book about a dedicated single mom who gives love another try, listening to a fantastic audiobook of Abi Daré's Nigerian-set fiction, and reading the big-hearted young female pirate; specifically: The Soulmate Equation, Christina Lauren's newest light fiction

  • Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier

    But she's also alert enough to know that because of the inevitable publicity, the fiction of her current

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/4/21 Edition

    series about a magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise

  • 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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/2/20 Edition

    I've got historical fiction/fantasy, royal historical fiction, and a compelling nonfiction story that reads like fiction going right now.

  • Review of Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

    Mitchell takes us through the twists and turns of a fictional psychedelic British sixties band on its In Utopia Avenue, Mitchell takes us through the twists and turns of a fictional psychedelic British sixties (The fictional band focus reminded me, in a good way, of Daisy Jones and the Six.) Utopia Avenue contains endless imagined cameos, fictional adventures, and gems of wisdom from real-life

  • 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 American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

    Cummins offers a fictional Mexican family’s urgent motivation, incredible fortitude, fears, failures, Through her American Dirt characters (both sympathetic and unsympathetic), Jeanine Cummins offers one fictional The balance of unlikely joys and brutality puts fictional but plausible faces on an important situation

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition

    Light fiction, historical fiction mystery, and celebrity memoir. I recently offered a roundup of Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism if that feels down your

  • 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 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • Review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

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

  • 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

  • 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 Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/3/20 Edition

    robots, #timetravel 02 Beach Read ​ Is it fair for a person (me) with particular requirements for light fiction connections that warm my heart, and a little romantic something-something) to continue reading light fiction Because I think Emily Henry's Beach Read is going to be a major gem on the light fiction-escapism-pandemic-era Is this kind of a young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast? I'm really hoping so.

  • Review of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

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

  • Six Fascinating Books about Immigrants' Experiences

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

  • 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 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.

  • 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 Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

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

  • 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.

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

    01 Country People by Daniel Mason Mason plays with the tone of his newest literary fiction, offering

  • 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 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.

  • Shhh! Coffee Table Bossy Book Gift Ideas

    Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas Shhh! Holiday Cookbook Gift Ideas Shhh!

  • 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

  • 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 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 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 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

  • 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 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, 11/7/22 Edition

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

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

    Kingdom Will Not Kill Me shines in so many ways: Maggie's love of books, Maggie's entering into the fictional despairing, and often gallows-humor-fed path through the depths of her grief to a place where she can function

  • 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 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 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

  • 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 Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

    The pacing of First Light is a little slow at first, and I would have liked to see more science-based

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