My very favorite books from February! shaped by choices out of our control and her reckoning with the way in which she considers her body after I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails

year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six Favorite Summer Derek and Isiah were estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't

Their secret tryst at the end of season one ended badly, and they've been far from friendly ever since their final season, they'll have to play nice--and get more intimate on screen than either of them ever 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

You can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall favorite Forty women (one is a young girl, our main protagonist) live year after year as prisoners in an underground

Soulless (I also listed it on the Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love), but after ‘You haven’t even picked out a new duvet set; I’m told that’s a very important milestone.” Ever since her last detective work ended in a resolution (see Good Girl, Bad Blood, book two), Pip has

The very early scene-setting didn't feel as authentic to me as the rest of the book. Just afterward, she says "...that [old] January probably would've slathered herself in glitter, put on The sections of this light fiction book that are about writing light fiction felt very true and real. Another light fiction book I enjoyed this summer, but which had characters with job-interview-level fake faults (too caring, too beautiful, too artistic) was The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez.

The Museum is an elite killing force, but after four decades, Billie, Natalie, Helen, and Mary Alice

about a young poet hyper-focused on her interactions and romantic encounters; The Project, Courtney Summers's to Frances so far as she pursues a reckless dalliance with a married man. 02 The Project by Courtney Summers My book club is reading this suspenseful young adult book by Courtney Summers. one as a favorite of his while we talked about reading and books on his Maybe I'm Amazed podcast last summer

with family drama and dating again, Definitely Better Now ; and I'm listening to Jacqueline Harpman's eerie It feels like every messy part of her life is about to converge in a destructive collision. Harpman's slim novel is mysterious, eerie, and strange.

01 Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving along with what I thought were perfect amounts of self-actualization and character development, without ever Vengeance Road is a rough and tumble story with enough suspense that I wasn't ever confident that the After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time, Five loosely linked Bayview High students walk into detention on Monday afternoon, all busted for having

of Stuart Turton's The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle are fascinating: Evelyn Hardcastle will die every But every day Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. But being able to track every detail and how it fit wasn't required (I kept reminding myself that I was She's determined not to stop until she finds out what really happened that summer.

to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends, and she's holding true to form after hasn't killed anyone, he hasn't been arrested, and in fact, none of last night's events have happened after

But several years later, just a few hours after Hua was at his party, Ken was killed in a carjacking.

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

And after we've gone, to know who we were.

Vivienne Featherswallow is angling for a summer internship studying dragon languages--and if she frees

I recently posted about some of my very favorite young adult books, and I just mentally added In the I hold every memory of him like a match I let burn down to the end, singeing my fingers until it hurts

My very favorite books from July! After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight Surmounting challenge after challenge, Mila ultimately becomes a sniper trainer and a lethal hunter of Upgrade presents a future version of our world in which humans are teetering closer than ever to extinction

I've had Small Things Like These on my to-read list for a while, but after recently talking to my friend

She fought to get off the godforsaken island where she'd been stuck for years after her father abandoned throughout, which is clearly a nitpicky issue and a personal problem, but I am nothing if not Bossy, after

And inside the enigmatic pages are the words Any door is every door.

Eve spent very little time exploring options upon discovering her unplanned pregnancy; it was so easy You might also like the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

This was wryly funny, sometimes zany, and so very heartwarming. books I've reviewed . 06 The Knight and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig The shadowy, eerie to disappear, and Sybil doubts for the first time whether their collective purpose is holy and noble after

Why not take this fantasy all the way, after all?).

thirteen-year-old Frank Dunn experiences crises of faith during the unforgettably complicated and tragic summer secrets, adultery, accidents, suicide, and murder shape the lives of those in New Bremen that fateful summer refers to the grace of God that Frank experiences during the crises and uncertainty and pain of that summer

Now I Rise, Lada is tough as nails but faulted, and we see her forge her identity more fully through every It's a little dark, consistently fascinating, sometimes funny, and very satisfying. and Storm, The Darkness emerges with a destructive and dangerous plan to crush everything Alina has ever In The Cruel Prince, Jude and her sister are sent to live with the enemy in the High Court of Faerie after

Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year You can also check out My Very For my full review, check out The Body. 06 Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. In Empire of the Summer Moon, S.C. Digging into the motivations and machinations that shaped the genocide that is detailed in Empire of the Summer For my full review, check out Empire of the Summer Moon.

And if you're interested in My Very Favorite Bossy Reads of Last Year across all genres, check out the "You don't know how beautiful you are" types of lines; unrealistically convenient run-ins; not-dead-after-all I was glad when Laura began to allow herself to be vulnerable toward the end of the novel, and I very

I loved every bit of the story of willful, sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi and her quest, her

differing points of view regarding the same chain of events in this rural South Carolina community after

If a person pleads ignorance or credits terrible actions to the power of fear, can such acts ever be Can a person--or a nation--ever truly move on from evil? They're trying to cobble together their lives during and after World War II, and the tone and the angle

After four decades of successfully ridding the world of cruelty and destruction one person at a time,

Johnson also wrote the wonderful books The Theory of Everything and This Girl Is Different. 02 A Very Theodore Finch considers his balance between life and death every day, weighing the factors that entice loved all of these aspects of Benway's novel. 05 Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner Carver's life was rocked after When wild and awful, heartbreaking thoughts are flying after a tragedy, and when some people are focused Goodbye Days is so very very sad and so very very funny.

Marilynne Robinson that's focused on a meandering romance between an unlikely pair of characters just after from Marilynne Robinson, focuses on a meandering romance between an unlikely pair of characters just after

husband abruptly leaves her penniless and alone, jumping on a ship departing Massachusetts shortly after

Teenage Andra wakes up after being cryogenically preserved for a century-long journey to a new planet

Zamora takes us through what often feels like his literal step-by-step journey, without summarizing or of Shrines of Gaiety. 06 Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Marcellus the octopus is the very After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night shift at her local aquarium as a custodian

Amanda and Larry are closer than ever to uncovering the whole, heartbreaking truth. Denfeld's great book The Child Finder in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house next to a fraternity house for the summer

job, offering incredibly lucrative terms and making demands about having the biography released only after

​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year after second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this was a series until after

I wondered if Less Is Lost would rely heavily on the context of the first book, and after reading it,

Jack focuses on the meandering, excruciating, grace-filled romance of a star-crossed couple just after When we pick up with him at the start of Robinson's book, he has frequently been very drunk, often sleeping money he may or may not owe to unsavory characters--he drinks so much that in his sober hours he isn't ever willing to enter into such a fraught--and, at the time, illegal--relationship, one that is sure to at the very If we were the only ones left after the world ended, and we made the rules, they really might work just

I'm very much enjoying Lloyd's writing style and structure so far. You might also like the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

influence of drug cartels upon football officials, to the killing of the defender Andres Escobar, who died after

His writing is just gorgeous and I'm in for every word.

Anton is searching for redemption after horrific events surrounding his students and school. I would very happily read a full Little House on the Prairie -length series about Bertie and her life

Roots, musical director for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and director of the documentary Summer The book includes an index of every song listed inside. 05 Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint They need and appreciate our business now more than ever!

Her psychic, emotional link to Red is thin, and she's not sure if she'll ever find him again. After the unprecedented twists and developments Talin experiences in Steelstriker, she must reimagine

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