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You can see where one of the storylines is going before the character involved understands it, and it might I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year.

unprecedented skill at breeding, breaking, riding, amassing, and trading horses as well as their revolutionary fighting nonfiction, you may like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction

You might also like the books on my first Greedy Reading List of short stories: Six Short Story Collections was interested in the facts but didn't feel drawn into the characters or their stories during those sections 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

Anyway, I wanted new, fresh ideas for titles in that vein that I might like. Three other titles suggested to me as promising adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian

Radden Keefe Patrick Radden Keefe, a journalist with an Irish name but without a dog in this particular fight 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

career, and his future at an East London commune; Revelations, Mary Sarratt's immersive historical fiction In Revelations, Sharratt offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched

A frantic search takes place, and as the locals look for Barbara, various Van Lear secrets come to light But Lucy suffered a head wound the night of Savvy's death and now she can't remember anything about the night Savvy was murdered.

Emily Habeck's odd and sweet novel Shark Heart: A Love Story; I'm reading Heather Webb's historical fiction

ICYMI: This young adult historical fiction story was a five-star read for me. I adored it. Laura Amy Schlitz's book The Hired Girl is fantastic young adult historical fiction written in diary

sixteen sunsets and sunrises in twenty-four hours, watching familiar geographic shapes come in and out of sight astronauts are facing what feels like the inevitability of the winding down of human space exploration in light

Fagin--and gradually, driven by a measure of empathy, taking in and training young people who are also fighting In Fagin the Thief , Oliver Twist is a minor character (and an irritating, careless, selfish one who might You might also be interested in these Bossy reads that are also set in the 1800s.

This is introspective literary fiction in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes the romantic A Passage North is introspective literary fiction in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes

Morris's historical fiction novel, set in 11th century Scotland with events surrounding the imagined

Are you interested in a historical fiction retelling of the story of King Edward, Lady Jane Grey, and Scots--with an oddball fantasy element in which the life-and-death conflict is not religion, but the rights

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Last Green Valley, World War II-set historical fiction by Mark Sullivan built this historical fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from

In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I wonderful), and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction

story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted reasoning, criminal actions Kuang puts forth here, she wavers between attempting to justify her compounded, ethically devastating actions appropriation, she builds elaborate justifications for her increasingly complicated lies, theft, and the fictional

I can't help comparing this lighthearted fiction about the formation of a group of unlikely friends to

Harding bases his slim historical fiction novel This Other Eden on a real-life, racially integrated island

You might also like the witchy books on these lists: Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You Charm You And if you like books about magic, here are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong. I think the second book in the All Souls series ( Shadow of Night ) is even stronger, as it delves more When Zeus, fearful of what she might be capable of, banishes her to a deserted island, Circe perfects

in her father's scam of a career pays the bills, but it doesn’t pay enough for Lily to deal with the sight involves mishap after mishap, the travelers begin to wonder whether the legend of the treasure was fiction

from London to the family's neglected country estate, The Bridge, to bury him and set the house to rights superstitious hatred of the village folk for the family make Elsie begin to believe something is not right and contribute to her fear, her reluctance to trust, and her doubts about what is fact and what is fiction

As we witness memories from childhood and adulthood, each character considers how they might have remained The scene late in the book with Corinne was heartwrenching but clumsy and unfinished and felt just right

In Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction The Rachel Incident, main character Rachel is an Irish

I like to give This Book Is a Planetarium to hard-to-buy-for giftees, especially teens who might especially Plus, while kids might not love chores, they do like leaving out the middleman (parents) and feeling I'm Bossy about buying and merchandising fiction for my kids during the year, as in: "Here is a tableau But for holiday book gifts, other than providing the first in a fiction series I think they'd like, typically You might also like the list Shhh! Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday.

Paul's School came to light, she added her voice to the throng of the attacked and abused, reopening tale is taking its main protagonist to a very dark place so far, and I'm not sure there's a bright light

She spoke with a slight accent and kept largely to herself. year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction If you like reading about female spies, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Books

01 Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty Flight attendant Allegra Patel loves her work--despite the sometimes-bossy But on today's flight, an elderly woman is causing a major disruption. the line between hopelessness and possibility, considering his place in the world and what the future might

If you like books featuring female detectives, you might like Paula McLain's When the Stars Go Dark, about a missing persons detective coping with her own tragedy; the historical fiction story A Curious

Donoghue's captivating historical fiction centers around two real-life young women in an early 1800s

The very end of the story brought to light a sudden burst of twisty complications and cemented the course

This activism somewhat mirrors her mother's years-long, public fight for women's rights in India against

A borrowed car and an open mic night open up new possibilities, while a fight with her dad sharpens her will loom large in the story, but ultimately it isn't nearly as weighty an element as April's constant fight I wanted some constancy for her life, even if it might feel too clean or easy for Larkin's story arc. ending offers some resolutions (but I did wonder at the omission of what felt like a key character who might If you like stories about young protagonists facing challenges and realizing their fortitude, you might

Reading Now I'm reading A Rip Through Time, the first in Kelley Armstrong's time-travel historical fiction mystery series; Young Mungo, Shuggie Bain author Douglas Stuart's most recent literary fiction about

You might know Odenkirk from his role as the sleazy lawyer with a heart in the show Breaking Bad, or Or you might know him from his older work as a Saturday Night Live writer (he wrote the iconic "Motivational unexpected satisfaction he has discovered through taking on deeper dramatic roles--and, in a surprise twist, action The incomplete sentences and lightning-fast topic shifts took some getting used to, but they add to the If you like memoirs, you might want to check out this Greedy Reading List, Six More Fascinating Memoirs

Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction through which bubbles of hope emerge. a noble figure; he's a junkie and he steals, lies, and runs, but first he does some version of the right read, but it isn't over the top, and Joy's characters are fascinatingly faulted and keep you humming right

climate-change story of desperation, loyalty, and determination in Kolkata, India, and how a tiny bit of empathy might It was her duty, as a guardian, to put into action the beautiful ideal of hope. Here was her son, capable of battling his mother--and so capable of fighting his way in the world all You might also be interested in these books, which involve shifting loyalties .

Young Toni crosses paths with Sebastian Quick, an older, wiser guy who just might offer her a way out of her little no-name town--and together they just might have a shot at something bigger. If you like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking

Sara herself seeks a sign that they are following the right path, as though falling eerily under her More Books about Cults You might also be interested in these Bossy reviews of books about cults .

If you like short stories, you might also want to check out the stories on the Greedy Reading List Six Short Story Collections to Wow You, or you might like some of these other collections of short stories swept back into the connection she and Sam once had, and her determination to keep her heart closed might He obsesses what he might have done differently and how she might still be here. He repeatedly attempts to time travel to the night Amy disappeared, but the time he can spend in the

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

By tracking the fictional course of events as they spiral out of control, exploring Zeke and Frankie's

This is an appealingly cozy and old-fashioned mystery, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial March's 400-page book is an immersive story, with the flavors, sights, and sounds of colonial India underlying You might also like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Kate Atkinson's newest book, historical fiction set in 1926 jazz-era

“We are here, exactly where we should be, at exactly the right moment, because we are the Raven, and You might also be interested in other fantasy books I've read and reviewed .

race, ignorance, privilege, stereotypes, systemic racism, and more within their collaborative work of fiction

imagining Dracula's wife Constanta and their relationship, in which he exerts control and constricts her actions stayed too long in their fortress in the country; her husband's self-assured confidence and careless actions This could be the end of the "family"--or a sudden opportunity to fight for their freedom. You might also want to check out these gothic-feeling stories. For a very different take, you might check out The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, in

Hearne offers a playful, action-packed, magical, layered modern-day London. Al MacBharrais is a widower who uses unconventional methods to right wrongs, to ferret out those betraying such as human trafficking while the characters' banter and affection for each other keeps you rolling right Are you interested in a historical fiction retelling of the story of King Edward, Lady Jane Grey, and I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel from Gail Carriger.

These four fiction works and two nonfiction titles resonated deeply with me.

of racial and socioeconomic disparities on imprisonment; and the impossible intersection of forced fights in profitable, popular, and controversial televised gladiator death-match performances in which they fight teammates, and the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, a televised program at the heart of CAPE, or Criminal Action Each Chain Gang is a group of prisoner fighters that make up a team, yet each must fight opponents to prison system, a collective obsession with violence, and the concept that there are few taboos on what might