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Set in sixth century Scotland, The Forgotten Kingdom traces the story of Languoreth, a strong, imprisoned

The Piano Tuner is a strange, slowly paced adventure story but also an anti-imperialist, pro-music take

The long-ago brutal death of a young woman in the town was introduced early but faded in weight in what

1960s girl groups, their often working-class backgrounds, and the power disconnects between the young women

his 1940 Ford, driving fast, avoiding federal agents, and living with his grandmother, a healer with strong

In the charming story We'll Prescribe You a Cat , a winding, hard-to-find Kyoto alleyway leads to a strange

author of The Island of Missing Trees . 03 Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by Sebastien De Castell “I’m a woman

Williamson In an alternate 1923 London, a young woman inadvertently disturbs the peace between humans

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's story of Cold War espionage 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow

and Irish Stories Donal Ryan is also the author of The Queen of Dirt Island ,  The Spinning Heart ,  Strange

in the story Grey, Kier, and choice members of their army are assigned to the protection of a young woman

II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women

In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious building bonds deeper than either could have imagined; the love story between the bridge and Gore is strange

The Humans is funny, strange, deep, and lovely. I loved it. on each other's nerves work together to determine who is responsible for a puzzling murder and other strange But the young woman he has found may have died of an ancient virus, and thawing the body for study could

This was sweet and strange, and I really liked it.

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Rachel Hartman's Tess of the Road, fantasy about a headstrong young woman In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval (I love a "woman dresses as a man to achieve an end" trope!)

In City of Girls, Gilbert writes about a young woman's coming of age in 1940s New York City and traces Vivian, now an older woman, is writing letters to a younger woman about her own youthful indiscretions entertaining, sexy, and an interesting burst of feminism and freedom in an era when many believed that a woman's

and helps achieve justice by using her smarts, eschewing societal tradition and traditional limits on women

Hazel is a strong personality, and I found myself bristling at her questioning whether she's too much about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze (a reality TV show in which a single woman

indicate Cozy Mystery (well, aside from the blood in the teacup), while the story feels more intricate and strange

Rebecca Serle's love letter to Italy plays with time to allow a grieving young woman to know her mother I enjoyed how Serle played with time to allow a young woman to know her mother at her same age.

mentions of endless projects, ideas, collaborations, and plans make clear she's one of the hardest working women

Jessica is a single, middle-aged mom, a successful lawyer, and a helpful mentor to the younger women

They were all strange. They were all flawed. Together, they managed to survive.

Catalina is a high-energy coming-of-age novel about a spirited young woman trying to save everyone she

and unrest--which spurs on some citizens to attempt to shift the kingdom toward becoming a land with strong

elusive Irish musician, and Christy reveals that he is on a greater mission to find and apologize to a woman

Meanwhile, his small-town mother is exploring her feelings for a wealthy woman who is also her business

But his mother's story helped Jost set the scene for his own origins and his strong Staten Island roots

Clever beavers feature heavily in this book, and I never felt as though this strange element gelled with

references a scene in which the main character's sculptor friend is working on a headless piece of a woman

I loved the dark academia setting; the brilliant, socially awkward, unlikely heroine Neema; and the strange

wasn't the only Dolly Parton book published this year (She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Pyle Last year I gave Strange Planet to teenagers and young-at-heart family members on my gift list;

really liked; and other books set in the American West (such as Epitaph); historical fiction (2019's Women

It also features racy reads from the 1980s in the form of past and current book clubs for women, an element Women explore traditional roles and push back against infuriating chauvinism; characters consider their

that someone is plunging the party down through layers of reality, through echoes of time in which strange “I’m a woman, kid.

A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne

I'm reading I Am Not Jessica Chen , Ann Liang's newest young-adult novel, about an unassuming young woman

She's falling for her famous client, the musician Trace Thorne--but when a woman shows up claiming to

Hester and her friends--with Cordelia's help--set out to fend off the woman's murderous intentions.

Is it strange that I was so fascinated by a book about tuberculosis that I kept setting it aside so that

These are my current Bossy book wishes, whether because my library doesn't have a copy (Strange Gods; Click here to check out my full review of The Book of Delights. 03 Strange Gods by Alison Kimble In Alison Kimble's Strange Gods (published in 2021), Spooky arrives at a wilderness camp for troubled teens bracing generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange

Veronica and Stoker; the allusions to each of their complicated pasts; their hilarious banter; and their strong-willed

But the revealed backstory in the second part of the novel was dark and strange and creepy, with surprises

I love a Gold Rush story, a young adult story, a story about brave young women meeting challenges.

But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and

characters are presented as selfless but are shown to in truth be horribly selfish; some of those who seem strange

reasons for their fractured relationship (ahem, Doug wanted a "cuddle bunny" robot instead of a complex woman

When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest

nonfiction book about a famous female Russian spy during the Cold War; and I'm reading The Invisible Woman Princess Diarist was Fisher's last book, published in 2017 and based upon the diaries she kept as a young woman It was fun but also poignant, and I loved it. 03 The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck The Invisible Woman