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It's the last day of high school, and nemeses Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have battled bitterly for every The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins In Rachel Hawkins's mystery The Wife Upstairs, set for January 5, 2021 Today Tonight Tomorrow, my book club's first title of the year, and I do like the idea easing into 2021

allegiance to a personality-over-substance faith leader reminded me of Godshot, although the tone is very

Orbital recently won the 2024 Booker Prize. I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

This section of the book is presented in very short snippets that are often comments, jokes, questions

This book will be published March 9, 2021. I received a prepublication copy of this book, which will be out March 9, 2021, courtesy of Houghton

The misogyny and contempt of her peers means she faces a lack of respect and resources at every turn. Wang is also the author of The Sword of Kaigen  and the YA fantasy series The Volta Academy Chronicles

Welga Ramirez is an elite bodyguard, former special forces, and on the verge of retirement. This book will be published March 2, 2021. I received a prepublication copy of this book, scheduled for publication March 2, 2021, courtesy of Henry

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.

The Books I'm Reading Now It's the first Bossy list of 2022! In this first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series, young Rosemary feels lucky

Henderson's witchy tale is taking its main protagonist to a very dark place so far, and I'm not sure

The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands

The books' tones are very different, but the dark side of stardom is present in both novels. 03 Sorry

It felt as though for much of the story, every character was teetering on the edge of destruction, and This was my book club's first read of 2022. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

In 2020, we meet Mirella and Vincent (characters from The Glass Hotel).

of the boys Orenstein interviewed who had had such conversations said the talks had been somewhat or very

also offers a few links to his Silent Patient characters, including an oddly specific reference at the very

Book two of the series sees our septuagenarian characters each trekking their own paths while working I laughed while listening to this one; Osman's series has me hooked. More about This Series Richard Osman is an author and also a producer and television presenter. The Thursday Murder Club is a five-book series, and there's a film based on the first book. For my review of the first book in this series, The Thursday Murder Club , please check click this link

I'm listening to The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, the first installment in Shannon Chakraborty's series Every Osage was a potential target--and many of those who risked investigating the deaths were killed Chakraborty I'm listening to the first wonderful installment in Shannon Chakraborty's Amina al-Sirafi fantasy series

This book is generally very well received, so my bossy desire for more character development and motivation

Sometimes the trudge toward disaster makes me a very nervous reader.

Ken, who was Japanese American in a family that had lived the United States for generations, favored I received an electronic prepublication edition of this book, to be published September 27, 2022, courtesy

The issues Reid explores are enormous and are important to all of us, every day, and she wraps them in Side note: I’d love a spinoff in the form of an alternate reality series in which they have adventures

finding and spreading happiness; I'm reading the third in Naomi Novik's dark, wonderful Scholomance series here. 02 The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik A Deadly Education was the first in Novik's Scholomance series Danger and darkness lurk around every corner for grumpy, powerful El and her classmates. In The Golden Enclaves, the third installment of the series, the unlikely allied force of students faces

I received a prepublication copy of this book, published May 4, 2021, courtesy of Sourcebooks Casablanca This is the first in a series by Axelrod about Toni and the Lillys.

Bay, Alabama, seems to attract the strongest of hurricanes, and the only building that's withstood every The reclusive author Cate Kay has written a bestselling trilogy (which is about to be made into a series

It looks as though Vanderah has a second book set for publication in spring 2021, The Light Through the

Carr's newest novel is a captivating series of character studies within a tightly knit Irish seaside They had learned, fundamentally, every child washes in from the sea, washes up against the ankles of

by and also deeply irritated by her academic rival, Peter Murdoch, who seems to be showing her up at every and the pacing flagged at times for me as the protagonists passed through court after court--but the eerie

paths of two Southern women; I'm listening to Inside Man , the second book in the Head Cases mystery series Inside Man (Head Cases #2) by John McMahon The initial installment of John McMahon's police procedural series In the second book in the Head Cases series, Camden is back on the job--with two enormous, strange, urgent I heard about this series in a roundup of mystery novels recommended by national security agents. 03

I received a prepublication digital edition of this book, to published May 11, 2021, courtesy of Celadon

The initial installment of John McMahon's police procedural series follows a genius, socially awkward Bossy Love for Mysteries The next installment of this series, Inside Man , was recently published. Marsh series.

Shteyngart's story of a precocious young girl finding her way in her complicated family and in the world, Vera 01 Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart Through fifth-grader Vera's point of view, we get to know her family They live in New York City and Vera's parents, Anne Mom (her stepmother, a stay-at-home-mom) and Daddy editor and writer), struggle to cope with financial pressures and relationship issues, while precocious Vera

collection of interconnected stories about a Jamaican family in Miami; I'm reading Carley Fortune's debut, Every Disappeared, a mystery about a decades-past disappearance that involves time travel and is the first in a series Wow You, or you might like some of these other collections of short stories that I've reviewed. 02 Every Summer After by Carley Fortune In Carley Fortune's debut Every Summer After, Persephone Fraser knows Every Summer After is a love story told over the course of six summers and a weekend. 03 And Then She

Deepti Kapoor; I'm reading The Passenger, the first of Cormac McCarthy's two books in his Passenger series Passenger #1) by Cormac McCarthy The Passenger is the first of Cormac McCarthy's two books in his Passenger series explore how feelings are at the center of women's sexuality; and explain how women's sexuality is as varied

Lisa Gardner's recent mystery One Step Too Far is the second in her Frankie Elkin series (the first was One Step Too Far felt far more eerie than Before She Disappeared, and haunting, creepy elements are uncovered I love a character-driven mystery but haven't read any of Lisa Gardner's other series. Gardner is also the author of Before She Disappeared, the first in the Frankie Elkin series, as well as multiple other mystery series (Tessa Leoni, Detective D.D.

makes enemies of multiple fellow contestants, she struggles with the staged and manipulated nature of every fighting against her feelings for the producer--and he is fighting against his feelings for her--with varying

Harrow has another amazing-sounding book coming out in October 2020, The Once and Future Witches.

I received a prepublication copy of this book, published May 11, 2021, courtesy of Alcove Press and NetGalley

from Ava Glass; I'm listening to The Becoming, the second book in Nora Roberts's Dragon Heart Legacy series son of Russian dissidents as they work to evade the thousands of cameras documenting London citizens' every Heart Legacy #2 by Nora Roberts In The Awakening, the first book in Nora Roberts's Dragon Heart Legacy series In book two of the series, Breen Siobhan Kelly is coming into her own.

I was delighted by the poignancy, humor, and layers in the first installment of this series of stories The fifth book in the series is about to be published--and now there's a movie based upon the first book In this first installment in Osman's mystery series, the story begins in medias res , as the reader witnesses More Aging Amateur Detectives Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age is another series about capable

listening to A Steeping of Blood , the second in Hafsah Faizal's supernatural fantasy Blood and Tea series of Blood (Blood and Tea #2) by Hafsah Faizal The first installment in Hafsah Faizal's Blood and Tea series For my review of the first book in this series, please see A Tempest of Tea .

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Shadowed Land , the third in Signe Pike's wonderful Scottish series 01 The Shadowed Land (Lost Queen #3) by Signe Pike I loved the first story in this series, The Lost Queen I thought the second book in the series, The Forgotten Kingdom (you can find a link to my review below Gwynne is also the author of book two in this series, The Hunger of the Gods , the series Of Blood and Bone, and The Faithful and the Fallen series.

Fable is the first in a two-book series, and the blurb promises "romance, intrigue, and adventure." Murder in Old Bombay will be published November 10, 2020. What are you reading now?

British Baking Show, hosts a Netflix cooking show, Time to Eat, and this is the companion book to that series to streamline meal preparation, precise instructions, and make-ahead and freezer tips for recipes as varied multiple other cookbooks, the memoir Finding My Voice, and a trilogy of novels in her Amir Sisters series The book includes an index of every song listed inside. 05 Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint in case you find yourself in the middle of an English Murder Village straight from a quaint mystery series

The songs are all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands

I can't wait to read his book A Beginning at the End, published in early 2020.

O'Keefe's first space opera in the Devoured Worlds series presents failing worlds filled with conflict O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , studious Tarquin Mercator is the unlikely heir universe-spanning drama in The Blighted Stars , and it sets up complexities for the books to come in this series O'Keefe is also the author of the The Protectorate series and The Scorched Continent series.

This is the sixth installment in Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series, but it can be read as a stand-alone Leigh Bardugo is also the author of Ninth House , Hell Bent , the King of Scars series ( Rule of Wolves is book two), the Six of Crows series, the Shadow and Bone series ( which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series ) and The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and

The Summer Guests (Martini Club #2) by Tess Gerritsen In book one of Tess Gerritsen's Martini Club series This is the second book in Tess Gerritsen's Martini Club series. Power , Vengeful , and the wonderful Invisible Life of Addie LaRue , as well as the Shades of Magic series (The first two books in that series are A Darker Shade of Magic  and A Gathering of Shadows , each of

father's death, Intermezzo ; and I'm listening to the first in Rachel Aaron's Tear Down Heaven fantasy series playful fantasy book (see Hench and Starter Villain ), and I'm hoping Rachel Aaron's Tear Down Heaven series Rachel Aaron is also the author of the DFZ Changeling series, the Heartstrikers series, the Crystal Calamity series, and other books.