But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles resonated with me, each offering glimpses into Rum's female characters--but also many other real-life women in comparable situations--to write a new history

I've been on a rom-com kick this summer, and while I'm picky about my light fiction reads, I've laughed through characters' fixations on details of who said what and how, (mis)interpretations of looks or actions

In Steven Rowley's fun, funny, and heartwarming light fiction story The Guncle, aging former sitcom star I've been on a light-fiction kick lately, but I need some depth in my lighthearted reading in order to

I loved the rich historical detail and meticulous research evident in the text.

At the first of a series of tournaments meant to illustrate Benji's control, a mysterious knight becomes wonders if he and she might find their way to each other again--at least in order to understand the mystery

a beautiful modern classic from a bestselling author who writes about faith and life; and a recent mystery is Alexandra Andrews's first book, and so far the mystery's twists and turns are fantastic. If you like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking

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 to the productive understanding of our nation's past and current racial situation, including a basic history Significant scientific advancements regarding mental illness were made possible because of the genetic material

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

mother and daughter, which also plays with time; and The Love of My Life, Rosie Walsh's contemporary fiction The tone of this feels like contemporary fiction, but The Love of My Life is also a psychological thriller

I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery in two timelines, the privilege and working I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually Many mysterious elements are cleared up at the end of the book in satisfying swirls of truth; all the

This mystery hit the spot for me. earned her place, and the behind-the-scenes gears that begin to turn and are instrumental in solving the mystery

Eowyn Ivey is masterful at intertwining fantastical elements with the grounding of the vivid details of the World explores desperate survival, indigenous peoples' connection to the natural world, and mysterious When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

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 threw me for a loop and I'm not sure I recovered from it; when I woke in the night after reading this section

Stevens offers a bad guy who's easy to despise in this mystery with great passages about surviving in This section was my favorite part of the book. Stevens's fictional Cold Creek Highway setting is based on the real-life "Highway of Tears" in British

recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light Fiction

Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous five years ago); and I'm listening to Karen Thompson Walker's speculative mystery Issues of memory, chosen family, history, loneliness, and love shape Vuong's novel.

of the month: Hank Green's second book in his quirky, lovely, character-driven, big-hearted science fiction ; The Last Thing He Told Me, Laura Dave's great mystery that offers unexpected (but not manipulative) McManus's great, character-driven sequel to her young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying; and The Great behind looming secrets whose answers her mother took to her grave, establishes the link between the mysteries Laura Dave sets up a well-rounded, fascinating mystery; Hannah and Bailey are pushed to work together

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a light fiction book about a dedicated single mom who gives love another try, listening to a fantastic audiobook of Abi Daré's Nigerian-set fiction, and reading the big-hearted young female pirate; specifically: The Soulmate Equation, Christina Lauren's newest light fiction

other letters; and I'm reading Matthew Norman's upcoming (to be published tomorrow) music-focused light fiction lovers, teammates, and the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, a program at the heart of CAPE, or Criminal Action

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

In Thistlefoot, estranged siblings Bellatine, a woodworker with mysterious powers, and Isaac, a con artist and street performer with his own magic, are reunited to claim a mysterious, bizarre inheritance: a and Isaac find their way back to each other, bonded by trying to untangle the dangerous, sentimental, mysterious those who have struggled to America, imagining their salvation; and explores the binds of family and history

Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

Cummins offers a fictional Mexican family’s urgent motivation, incredible fortitude, fears, failures, Through her American Dirt characters (both sympathetic and unsympathetic), Jeanine Cummins offers one fictional The balance of unlikely joys and brutality puts fictional but plausible faces on an important situation

The first book in Hodgson's trilogy is smart, mysterious, charming, and layered. to Neema and to the plot, and they become a mysterious, mischievous, sometimes sulking, often confusing

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

Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. For my full review, check out Exiles. 02 The Wife and the Widow by Christian White White's twisty mystery This was like a Secret Garden for grown-ups, with intertwined, mysterious stories from 1900, 1975, and For my full review, check out Only Killers and Thieves. 06 The Lost Man by Jane Harper Harper's mysteries I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

protagonist may or may not have murdered her best friend and is tracked down by a podcast investigating the mystery Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle Every time Daphne Bell meets a potential love interest, she receives a mysterious Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious do the one thing she swore she'd never do: return to the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young boy is taken from the community, culminating in a mysterious

through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious The situations around relationships and life choices are often messy, complex, mystifying, and frustrating Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power.

series about a magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise

determined) stepmother, Lady Tremaine ; and I'm reading the newest title in Steve Cavanagh's Eddie Flynn mystery But the stranger's intention was always to draw Elly into a mysterious plan, and now Elly is having trouble

For my full review, see One to Watch.) 03 Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery by Nev March It's 1892 in British-controlled He becomes obsessed with an unsolved mystery he keeps reading about in the newspaper: two young ladies Nev March won the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award for her debut title. involving unapologetic body positivity, and I hope Bea doesn't fall into the somewhat common light fiction

Zusy notes that the character of Ginny was inspired by Zusy's own brother, and the fictional interactions

Ashley Poston's newest romantic fiction is centered around Clementine, a harried book publicist who falls

Frances White's debut is a locked-room mystery on a magical ship full of uncertain alliances, deadly If you're interested in other Bossy reviews of fantasy mysteries I've enjoyed, check out the titles at

But she's also alert enough to know that because of the inevitable publicity, the fiction of her current

Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and Morris A faction of my book club attends (virtually, the past couple of years) our local Library Foundation's Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided

Heartwarming books and quirky fiction were two types of stories that suited me then and still hit the If you're looking for more great fiction you may have missed, you might also want to check out the Greedy conditional loyalty, and he allows characters to craft chosen relationships into a beloved pod that functions No Man explores the incredible drive and bravery required by Rum's female characters to write a new history

Sometimes in order to delve into a light fiction book I find that I have to suspend my disbelief about laugh-out-loud funny yet heart-breaking novel about first love and second chances, with a satisfying mystery

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to the first book in Blake Crouch's Wayward Pines mystery trilogy strange place, by a river, horribly bruised and in pain--with no memory of his own name, his job, or his history

kids offers gorgeous images and factoids (in high quality Atlas Obscura style) of "100 surprising, mysterious 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

I've got a mysterious story with an unreliable narrator and an imagined nationwide hubbub (a la "baby Jessica" and the well), the third and final book in a captivating fantasy trilogy, and a lighter fiction

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry's newest light fiction Read was a favorite book of mine last year, and it made it into the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction

Sometimes I find that I have to suspend my disbelief about human behavior in order to delve into a light fiction Management sends lonely, steady, pushed-around Linus, a case worker for magical children in orphanages, to a mysterious Linus is expected to report back with details about what Arthur Parnassus, the mysterious master on site

This book was mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year. wrote One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, which was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West.

In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships Here he offers a literary fiction story in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes his romantic

The tone and the cozy-magical-mystery focus reminds me of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping .

More wonderful character-driven science fiction by Blake Crouch. Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake Crouch, and I found this sooooo

trilogy, Akata Witch , Noor , Remote Control , and other works. 03 The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick A mysterious allows those who are grieving or coping with tragedy to soften their emotions and emerge better able to function without debilitating sorrow, but participating requires traveling to California, consenting to receiving mysterious

series, Ninth House and Hell Bent, we met Alex Stern, who was offered a new start after surviving a mysterious

fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate selves in this science fiction But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking