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I mentioned Circe in the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You, and I recently

of Black's The Queen of Nothing; I mentioned the Folk of the Air trilogy in the Greedy Reading List Six

If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs

She weaves songs into her stories and personal history, and the placement of the music feels seamless For other light fiction books I've enjoyed, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories in immigrant stories, you might also want to check out some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

stark climate-change dystopian future, in which her small community fights to survive and to preserve history --from the roof of the American Museum of Natural History--before a horrific storm sends them fleeing Their settlement is on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH, or "Amen), and they in a confined boundary of existence, wandering the partially destroyed museum and wondering at the history Nonie and her group carry a book holding precious history preserved from Amen, and on their journey they

far. 02 The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six

but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like time to share the best books I've read in the past six Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History

also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading List Six the final book in Black's Folk of the Air trilogy (I mentioned the series in the Greedy Reading List Six

Kline deftly exposes the raw truths of tough situations in her character-driven historical fiction. emergences of hope with a richly drawn Australian backdrop--while laying bare the country's often-painful history

For more light fiction with heart, you might check out the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic And for more young adult stories about royalty, you might try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

If you're interested in this title, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Musicians

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

World War II historical fiction, a tough female protagonist, a mission of uncovering war criminals in #historicalfiction, #WWII, #spy, #missgrahamscoldwarcookbook 03 The Silent Companions Elsie thought she #historicalfiction, #mysterysuspense, #gothic, #dualstoryline, #silentcompanions What are you reading One spooky suspense story, one World War II historical fiction title, and one combination: a spooky historical

Bridie is a strong female protagonist, and Things In Jars offers solid historical fiction details of Another book I really liked recently was A Curious Beginning, and it shares some of these elements of historical #mysterysuspense, #gothicnoir, #ghosts, #femaledetective, #historicalfiction, #mermaids, #fourstarbookreview

For more memoirs you might like, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore

but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like time to share the best books I've read in the past six Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History

one of McCracken's short story collections, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, in the Greedy Reading List Six

I loved his gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six I mentioned Life After Life in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life And for more summer reads, see the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism

I love Jiles's richly imagined Civil War-era historical fiction, and I'm in for her other books. 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.

The summer Chloe Davis was twelve, six girls went missing in her rural Louisiana community.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a historical fiction story set just before the Civil War, about a young enslaved woman haunted by her sister's ghost, Junie ; I'm listening to middle-grade historical War II-focused books here , and you can also check out my review of Kate Quinn's great codebreaking historical

We Meet on Vacation, Christina Lauren's Soulmate Equation, or the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

Dark , the newest novel by Chris Whitaker ( We Begin at the End ); I'm listening to In Memoriam , a historical set in World War I from Alice Winn; and I'm reading Elliott Gish's fascinating gothic horror feminist historical the End , a novel I adored. 02 In Memoriam by Alice Winn Alice Winn's gorgeous, brutal, captivating historical

If you like books with cold settings, you might like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Books

Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays), and I hope the ideas here (and those to come) will help you I mentioned the music-focused book Music Is History in an earlier book gift list this season and included

Gideon the Ninth was also mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Six More Postapocalyptic and Dystopian

If you like nonfiction books, you might like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Stephen Graham Jones's historical fiction-horror story, The The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a horror/historical fiction story with key supernatural elements.

You might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read

Hidden Valley Road is the true story of a family with twelve children, six of whom are ultimately diagnosed One by one, six siblings develop mental illness.

If you like books like this, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Magical Fairy

He tracks historical concerns, ways of thinking, and trends in political parties. I was particularly interested in the history of political leanings and the reasoning for the entrenched

If you enjoy retellings, you might also like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Magical

If you like books about witches, you might like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully

loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six

This historical fiction story in two timelines introduces the little-known real-life figure of librarian I love a book about scrappy librarians , and Janet Skeslien Charles's historical fiction novel Miss Morgan's

of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History

Grossman's reimagined Arthurian legend gives center stage to a ragtag band of misfits, celebrates diversity, and builds a patchwork of adventures, discovery, and widened horizons culminating in a satisfying new, reimagined path forward. Collum is an instinctually gifted, strong knight who has literally fought for sword training as a lowly ward; his family has little use for him; and his heart is set upon joining King Arthur's court. But when he finally makes his way to the Round Table, only elderly, impaired, has-been knights are left, and he learns that Arthur was killed weeks earlier. But Collum refuses to believe that a life as a knight is no longer possible for him. Along with Merlin's apprentice, Nimue, he becomes determined to usher in a new age, where Excalibur will be reclaimed, Camelot will be secure from would-be usurpers, and the kingdom will be inspired again by bravery and might. I loved the twist on Arthurian legends, in which an unlikely young upstart and a ragtag group of aging, grumbling, disillusioned knights try to do right by Camelot and by their idol, Arthur. I appreciated the epic length of the book (688 pages), in which each remaining knight gets page time and a recounting of key adventures. But the many points of view and meandering stories also felt a little broad at times, and I wished for more focus on Collum, while understanding that his early-days position didn't warrant the majority of the storytelling. The Nimue-Merlin-Morgan le Fay conflicts were an intriguing side plot, and I enjoyed Grossman's unexpected take on the (misunderstood) Lancelot-Guinevere dynamic--and Guinevere's own power and promise as a leader. Grossman addresses issues of diversity in satisfying fashion; a transgender knight, a Muslim knight, and a gay knight are all represented. The full roster of knights--and the women who hold important roles in the tale--are all misfits who don't inspire great confidence, but collectively, they fight to find a path forward in a world that is changing around them. I listened to The Bright Sword  as an audiobook (it was twenty-three hours long). More from Lev Grossman Lev Grossman is also the author of the Magicians trilogy. I read the first in that series, The Magicians , for but me it was short on magic and fantastical elements and long on unsympathetic characters' entitlement and malaise.

Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith's beautiful memoir about divorce and life; Go As a River, Shelley Read's debut historical fiction set in mid-century rural Colorado; Illuminations, Mary Sharratt's historical fiction about a of Go As a River. 05 Illuminations by Mary Sharratt Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical Mary Sharratt offers an exhaustively researched, fascinating historical fiction account of the life of Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother

builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering truths, family history I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

of Force of Nature (Aaron Falk #2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six

This book is listed in the upcoming Greedy Reading List Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year, to be

woman while stumbling into her iconic lifetime role as Princess Leia; The Invisible Woman, World War II historical independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time; Hour of the Witch, Chris Bohjalian's historical book, please see The Princess Diarist. 02 The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck The Invisible Woman is historical Great Circle. 04 Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical If you like stories about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully

This book was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year.

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

Gideon the Ninth was also mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Six More Postapocalyptic and Dystopian

Sara Donati's historical fiction includes nods to Outlander and The Last of the Mohicans, considers the Regardless of its true origins, Into the Wilderness did scratch the itch of reading a combination of historical also the author of the wonderful book The Gilded Hour as well as Where the Light Enters and ten other historical

I listed the Queen's Thief series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series,

Allision Epstein shapes Charles Dickens's greedy criminal mastermind Jacob Fagin into a character with a rich backstory, showing him to be a man shaped by personal and societal circumstances in mid-1800s London and imagining his efforts to teach thievery to his wards as valuable survival instincts that allow for a desperate survival. Men and women pass by in the street, shadows that avert their gaze and adjust their paths. Maybe they don’t hear him. Maybe they do. Just as his survival depends on hiding his tears until it’s safe to drop them, maybe theirs depends on not taking any grief that isn’t their responsibility. Children have been orphaned before today. More will be orphaned tomorrow. It’s only to him that the pain feels unprecedented. In Allison Epstein's version of mid-nineteenth-century Dickensian London, the traditional villain of Jacob Fagin acquires a rich backstory. Jacob has been scrabbling for existence since he was a young boy. When his father was murdered as a thief in the Jewish quarter, the family's situation became increasingly desperate. His beloved mother Leah kept her son fed and supplied with books, and she worked relentlessly at menial jobs to keep them afloat--until her own untimely demise from disease. Now Jacob's options for survival are limited, and he begins to train as a pickpocket, soon eclipsing his teacher and the other thieves in the area, beginning to be known as Fagin--and gradually, driven by a measure of empathy, taking in and training young people who are also fighting for a chance in a tough world. I haven't read Oliver Twist in many years, yet Fagin has remained ingrained in my head as a selfish, greedy, detestable character. In the Dickens novel, he sings, " In this life, one thing counts / In the bank, large amounts / I'm afraid these don't grow on trees, / You've got to pick-a-pocket or two / You've got to pick-a-pocket or two, boys, / You've got to pick-a-pocket or two." Epstein's textured story imagines what shaped the figure of Fagin into a ringleader of young thieves in that place and time: personal tragedy, societal and class prejudices and limitations, and a strength of will alongside the need to eke out a living. She reworks his gleeful thievery from Dickens's original story, instead showing his emotional connection to other colorful characters living hand-to-mouth in the same slum; his acting through reluctant necessity in training and putting a roof over the heads of young boys who have no other options; and the poverty, strong will, and lack of options that drove him. In Fagin the Thief , Oliver Twist is a minor character (and an irritating, careless, selfish one who might be the undoing of them all). Fagin's motivations and character development inspire empathy for Dickens's traditionally wily, cutthroat, notorious exploiter of young children. Epstein's writing is lovely, and she skillfully evokes details of the place and time, exposes Victorian London's stark class contrasts, and presents the filthy rabbit warren of streets, alleys, and squares flanking the polluted Thames where the band of thieves scrape by, care for each other, sometimes betray one another, and live their complicated lives. More from this Author Allison Epstein is also the author of A Tip for the Hangman and Let the Dead Bury the Dead . You might also be interested in these Bossy reads that are also set in the 1800s.

This book is on my Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels.