She exposes the raw truths of tough situations in character-driven historical fiction so deftly, I have her memoir, Pan explores whether life really is better for the extroverts, or whether she was on the right I'm really greedily excited about reading all three of these books--historical fiction (Austraaaaalia , celebrity-focused fiction, and a memoir with a quirky hook.

feminism--there are cultures of Wisdom Keepers and islands of strong women training to use their special sight However, this book is right down my alley in tone, character development, and detail. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book--or any historical fiction/fantasy series you love?

“You will stay right here, in your vehicle. More Books You Might Like This is the second book in Tess Gerritsen's Martini Club series. If you're interested in stories set in Maine, you might like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six

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

If you're intrigued by time-travel stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Together, they have to identify and confront dark forces that might be manipulating—and destroying—the Blake Crouch writes character-driven science fiction that I love (Dark Matter is another of his that I adore a character-driven science-fiction tale. Also, time travel!

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Sequoia Nagamatsu's recently published science fiction How High virus begins pass like a whirlwind through societies and nations around the globe, Nagamatsu's science fiction

usually an all-Libby (library) audiobook listener, but I wanted to read Michelle Obama's newest book The Light

conditions are dusty, broken, dated, and dirty; and various disappointing behaviors are brought to light point of view changes and brief scenes with multiple shifts that kept me from feeling as invested as I might

Paul's School came to light, she added her voice to the throng of the attacked and abused, opening her sex, reputation and recommendation, toxic masculinity and willful ignorance on the part of those who might experience and its implications in order to reach some version of justice, or healing, or merely bringing light

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

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

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.

and in Romantic Comedy she offers an outstanding premise: Sally Milz is a sketch writer for a late-night delighted to find that much of the book is focused on the behind-the-scenes making of the SNL-like Saturday night sketch comedy show in the book, The Night Owls, and I was fascinated by this aspect. This was the right book at the right time for me, and I loved everything about it.

I was going to be happy with a light, surface-level look at therapy and the ins and outs of a therapist's I can see possibilities that you might not see quite yet.

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 predict that Odessa will be the unlikely heroine of this story when you find out that she has Dear reader, she is going to end up being brave, and finding love, and and Doing the Right Thing. The dialogue is sometimes dramaaaaatic, but generally the pacing rolled right along in this one.

retelling of the Indian epic Ramayana, with immersive details and an irresistible feminist main character fighting But in this feminist story, she fights for autonomy, for a voice, for strength, for knowledge--and she The people of Bharat have often blamed my father for my sins, as if a woman cannot own her actions. Patel's immersive detail of Indian fabrics, landscapes, and sights and sounds kept me enthralled. If you enjoy retellings, you might also like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Magical

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

published mystery set in the forest, One Step Too Far; and I'm reading Donna Everhart's recent historical fiction Frankie joins the group's annual search of a remote area where Tim might have ended up.

stampede and trampling--plus they attracted lions; the lions themselves were stealthy, deadly, and lightning Wild Life's subtitle, Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, felt whimsical and light to think deeply about her place in the world, her responsibility to humans and animals, and how she might

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

reading experience was going to be enjoyable--reading a book about the plague during a global pandemic might O'Farrell imagined Agnes, wife to John (the fictionalized William Shakespeare character) as an independent

friend, she's patient with her incredibly frustrating four-year-old brother, and she's learned to make light jumps at the chance to write material for his sets--and, against her friends' advice, she sets her sights

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

book in his quirky Ink & Sigil fantasy duology; The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd's historical fiction Sue Monk Kidd spins this historical fiction story, inspired by the real-life Sarah Grimke, and includes Monk Kidd also wrote The Book of Longings, which made it onto my Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction

The teens are trying to come to terms with what their existences might look like now, and their families Plus, Mo is falling for a new guy in town who might or might not be real, Daniel is trying to remember The kids will need to remember what happened the night they died and figure out the reason for their

Violet is smaller than average, without the drive to fight. adversity--even if, within the book's various dangerous scenarios, it repeatedly seemed that Violet might It makes sense that Yarros is the author of a romance series, Flight & Glory, as well as other romance You might also like these other books I've read and reviewed about dragons.

longer angry, I was no longer committed to reaching the conclusion that righteous anger demands we are right Liberals marched for peace, workers' rights, civil rights, and secularism. Within a section about when regulation really may solve major problems, Haidt notes a fascinating theory (Others might put forward different factors as key to this.) level-headed thought, care, compassion, and reason, and so full of destructive pride, cruel and limiting actions

Looking for Jane, Heather Marshall's debut novel that links multiple timelines and women's ongoing fight If you like stories about witches, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You. 02 Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall It all comes down to having the right enormously important recurring dilemmas for women through the ages: unexpected pregnancies; searches (and fights

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

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

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

They had a sexy fling on their wedding night, but various issues almost immediately forced them apart More Books You Might Like Julie Murphy is also the author of Dumplin'. You might also enjoy these books that offer body positivity messages.

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

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

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

the distractingly handsome son of Russian dissidents who she has pledged to protect, on the longest night Emma's creativity and unorthodox ideas just might save them both--but they'll have to be crafty and find I read this start to finish during a flight (and delay), and Glass offers a cat-and-mouse chase through Ava Glass is a pseudonym for Christi Daugherty, author of the YA Night School thrillers.

The Invisible Woman is historical fiction about the real-life World War II-era spy Virginia Hall. If you like reading about female spies, you might like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

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

But I'm still excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in Last week I offered a roundup of Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism; this week I'm bravely What's working (or not working) in your reading life right now?

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

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

And a typical day might involve facing mortal danger from roving pirates, cyborg animals, certain AI Yet he remains hopeful for his future--and begins to believe that despite the constancy of his fight for survival, he might even be falling in love. Val is an underdog and fights for others who have been dismissed or taken advantage of. If this book sounds down your alley, you might want also to check out the books on my Greedy Reading

complicated family dynamics, the growth of her explosive fame--and the shocking loss of freedom and rights She rejoices in her children, grieves the relationship she might have had with her sister, and seems You might very well not come away loving JT the way you might have going into this one, fair warning. If you like to read memoirs like I do, you might be interested in the Greedy Reading Lists here: Six

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

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

But Restell's story also swirls with weighty issues still relevant today--women's rights and autonomy ; the fight for fair wages; power abuses; class divides; societal pressures; wealth, privilege, and power events of the time--particularly society's changing reactions to birth control, abortion, and women's rights

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.

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