Ashley Poston's newest romantic fiction is centered around Clementine, a harried book publicist who falls “My aunt used to tell me that summer nights in the city were meant to be impossible." Uh...what?

Miranda uses the framework of a famous fictional rescue story to imagine the characters' turmoil and Now Olivia is sleepwalking again, and she can't be entirely sure what she does in the night. wonders if someone is protecting her or possibly seeking some kind of revenge--and if that someone might She takes a famous fictional rescue story and imagines the characters' turmoil and desperately cobbled-together

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier's newest historical fiction Trackers by Charles Frazier In The Trackers, Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction

For more fantasy/science fiction stories I've loved, please check out these titles .

More about Emma Pattee Emma Pattee is a climate journalist as well as a fiction writer.

Stories of various characters are interwoven through the historical fiction novel and add depth to the

Perilous Undertaking, the second in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction

Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet Witch is a reason to kill you; witch might be someone to heal you; witch can be the Devil, or witch can What's true is often hidden from sight--religious fervor disguises cruelty, dark desires hide behind If you're interested in books about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six

Hartnett is also the author of the wonderful novel Unlikely Animals , which was one of my  Bossy Favorite Fiction

Nagamatsu's science fiction centers around a resurgence of an ancient Arctic plague. The stories are steeped in death and in coming to terms with mortality while fighting for answers. the virus passes like a whirlwind through societies and nations around the globe, Nagamatsu's science fiction

general, from Kate Bowler; The Saints of Swallow Hill, Donna Everhart's recently published historical fiction and its captivating capabilities and wonders; Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir's space-focused science fiction Sparks Like Stars, Nadia Hashimi's luminous historical fiction about a childhood lived in Kabul and a re-tabbed everything, and would have been perfectly willing to read the book again in its entirety right for Being Human. 02 The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart This Depression-era-set historical fiction

own origins, practical Bethany has the power to jump in and out of books, immersing herself in the fictional This setup might have felt gimmicky or too convoluted, but Riley uses a sure hand: the logistics of how characters to root for--and satisfying and intriguing intersections between Bethany and Owen and the fictional

serves up true-crime fascination while its middle-aged protagonist makes mistakes, seeks justice, and fights For more Bossy reviews of fiction and nonfiction books about boarding schools, click here.

conflicts and political upheaval won't touch them out in the wild, and they figure that the charged friction might even die down while they're in the woods.

Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds,

illustrating the interconnectedness of grief, love, community, and nature in this heartwarming literary fiction The ending section is lovely, with heartwarming promise, hope, resolution, and a fig-tree-related revelation

Ashley Elston's mystery First Lie Wins (it was on my December favorites list ; it was one of my Bossy Fiction Jennifer Givhan is also the author of River Woman, River Demon; Trinity Sight; Jubilee ; and other novels

The secretive, haunted author has attempted to work through the pain and complications of her past by fictionalizing

Appalachian-set novel Betty with my book club, Xiran Jay Zhao's young adult blend of Chinese history and science fiction Betsy Carpenter was the sixth child of eight born to a white mother and Cherokee father, and life in first read of 2022. 02 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Xiran Jay Zhao blends Chinese folklore with science fiction robots and aliens in this feminist young adult action story that's fascinating me so far.

I'm sooooo very excited to be reading each of these books: Blake Crouch's upcoming science fiction, Upgrade ; Gabrielle Zevin's upcoming science fiction Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow; and Kelly Barnhill's speculative fiction, When Women Were Dragons.

Even the people we loved kept pieces of themselves hidden away from the light.

Zusy notes that the character of Ginny was inspired by Zusy's own brother, and the fictional interactions special-needs, grown sibling is conveyed with all of the awkward, upsetting, challenging elements one might

and garnering sympathy from Sadie, whose shadowy bosses in government and business are directing her actions of Nottingham, things get complicated for both Mariel and Clem in this sassy, fun, queer historical fiction

The majority of page time in the historical fiction title is spent showing the tasks of daily life (and Utopia Avenue contains endless imagined cameos, fictional adventures, and gems of wisdom from real-life This title was listed in Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year. This title was listed in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year. Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction

If you like unlikely heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like Before She Disappeared, which McGuire is also the author of Incredible Bodies and The Abstainer. 03 First Light by Rebecca Stead Peter The pacing of First Light is a little slow at first, and I would have liked to see more science-based The standouts for me in First Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, ship Endurance became trapped in the ice and crushed, leaving the crew marooned on the ice in a brutal fight

They realize their whole lives could be shattered as the lies they've been telling each other come to light The trick occurs early (also, one major aspect of the true situation directly echoes a fictional setup

for coping, celebrating, and exploring, while also delving into our main protagonist's deep grief and fight While the young widow fights to get her footing back, she thinks back on her relationship with Joe, who More Books You Might Enjoy Libby Page is also the author of The Lido, The Vintage Shop of Second Chances You might also want to check out these other Bossy reviews of books about books and books that deal with

Harris's action-packed World War II story moves between the terrors of 1930s Germany and the glamour It's action-driven World War II intrigue, and it's a quick, compelling read. Thomas Silkstone series and the Constance Piper Mystery series as well as The Light We Left Behind. If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Down Comes the Night, a young adult fantasy story featuring magical healing and warring kingdoms; Fugitive Telemetry, the newest book in Martha Wells's science fiction 01 Down Comes the Night by Allison Saft I love the setup of Saft's romantic young adult fantasy novel , Down Comes the Night. Through the voice of the fictional Ziggy, a dance instructor and key connector of various figures in

Hartnett is also the author of the wonderful novel Unlikely Animals , which was one of my Bossy Favorite Fiction

to evade a killer who has it in for them; I'm reading Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver's newest fiction If you're a fan of the most recent season of White Lotus on HBO, the setting and tone of this book might

Festival Days is not light reading: "Cheri" delves into the last days of a woman who is terminally ill with cancer; "Last Night" relates the final moments of the author's beloved dog's life; and the backbone

But she's begun to realize that her fictional family and chosen family in her new life have become precious

In the sixth book of the wonderful Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction

The book's pace felt halting at times and its substance somewhat light at points. The pace of the book is sometimes halting and its sections about scripture at times felt a little light

In order to see the story through, I kept reminding myself that I was bearing witness to a fictional

Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, my book club's most recent read, it's In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's

I spend most of the year focusing on fiction titles, with a healthy dose of memoirs and some nonfiction You might also like to check out the books on some of my past Bossy Book Gift Guides: Shhh! Two-Fers" show you how to turn leftovers from one dinner into a different and delicious meal on another night Bedroom Pastrami, Newman's Jambalaya, The Opposite of Tuna on Toast, and muffin tops, this cookbook might

rom-com, the first in a series, Done and Dusted ; and I'm reading Elspeth Barker's modern literary fiction

My favorite science fiction novels examine the Big Issues: What makes us people?

In this recent book by Anthony Doerr (author of All the Light We Cannot See), young Anna lives in fifteenth-century It feels unfair to compare Cloud Cuckoo Land to Doerr's beloved and quite different book All the Light Anthony Doerr also wrote the exquisite All the Light We Cannot See, as well as The Shell Collector, Four

In the midst of a global panic, Welga is drawn back into intelligence work in order to identify and fight If you like books with wintry settings, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six This mix is working well for me: science fiction with themes about society's reliance on attention and mystery with beautifully imperfect characters bringing it all to life; and a woman-powered historical fiction

swordswoman willing to make deep sacrifices to ally with the fated, powerful, dangerous dragon who might And in 2019 Boston, Alice is trying to break out of her shell at college, and a one-night stand feels You can check out my review of book 3, A Conjuring of Light , here .) 04 A Sorceress Comes to Call by The key might lie within the centuries-old war her people have waged against the ruthless summerlings

The Grace Year is the type of book I could’ve stayed up all night reading. I felt as though the later sections glossed over some major issues (consorting with the gruesomely brutal Carey's story is also hopeful, but not in the way I might have expected. And he just might find himself questioning his decisions either way. But the other, the more certain, the more inevitable, is that those thousand thousand points of light

Impossible Things; I'm listening to Jen Beagin's recent (public February 7) darkly funny contemporary fiction Beagin offers comic contemporary fiction that promises to be wonderfully eccentric and unexpected.

The Revenge Fantasies...and Revenge Enacted Whether it's about righting wrongs, saving face, renegade Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots If you're in for a character-driven, superhero-focused, smart, wicked, action-packed of a missing girl, along the way uncovering dark, disturbing patterns of abusive power and shining a light they're formidable, but together, they build a collective power that is the community's only hope to right (I just checked, and the rights have been sold. I hope this project happens sooner than later!)

enormous and are important to all of us, every day, and she wraps them in an immensely readable work of fiction

There's a book within a book here, and the fictitious author of the stories has explored every different Maggie struggles to establish what is and was real and what might be imagined; tries to piece together It's action-packed but character driven. a little while to get going for me, but just shy of halfway through, the setup is complete and the action I Read Last Year and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

professional environments, and she expresses her horror about the infamous revelations that came to light For more more more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists

The two-hundred-old story speaks to her so completely, it feels like it might just save her: "Sometimes "Now that she was before him, Mia wondered if it might be a mistake to tell him anything about his future Nathaniel Hawthorne--although the author treats him very differently as a character--is the historical fiction