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Professor Lyall is one of my favorite characters, as is Lord Akeldama, a fantastic, over-the-top, preternaturally

) bitingly funny novel about politics and family; I'm listening to Seth Rogen’s funny, silly memoir Yearbook book, scheduled for publication tomorrow (April 5), courtesy of NetGalley and Henry Holt & Company. 02 Yearbook If you're familiar with actor Seth Rogen (Freaks and Geeks, Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and Steve Pineapple Express), you won't be surprised by the breadth and depth of drug-related stories he includes in Yearbook books I loved), check out the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year

Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six years teaching creative writing in the American

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

Both of these books are listed in my Greedy Reading List of Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic

Keefe Patrick Radden Keefe, a journalist with an Irish name but without a dog in this particular fight, fantastically communications that were made possible by Gordievsky's insights into the Soviet leadership's motivations and fears

The man happens to be Stoker's former expedition partner, who he punched on the street a year ago--and

I read Conversations with Friends a few weeks ago (and I loved Normal People last year). . 03 Wholehearted Faith by Rachel Held Evans Rachel Held Evans was the author of Faith Unraveled, A Year

Twenty years later, Hazel is working in a bookshop when she unwraps a package and can't believe her eyes

finding the strength to go on despite few options; and the surprise of new determination and hope after years

makes Viva vulnerable to thwarted dreams and pain, echoing her mother's disappointment from her younger years

It's been ten years since she made the biggest mistake of her life in the wondrous place where she spent

femininity and control within the male-controlled power structures of the time, Shoulder Season spans forty years Clancy's first novel, The Second Home, was published last year, when the author was 52.

Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton is spent in the hospital during a mysterious illness Lucy experienced many years adores but who requires careful avoidance of certain topics or realities, and who she hadn’t seen in years ruthlessness, I think, comes in grabbing onto myself, in saying: This is me, and I will not go where I can't bear interesting—Lucy recounts a passing (but consequential for her) encounter with an author in New York City years

extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter, a spunky and fantastic

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong “A moth will never know what a zebra finch hears

In Tracey Lange's new novel We Are the Brennans, twenty-nine-year old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a haze Five years earlier she'd abandoned her family and friends and anyone tied to her past, including her

This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. If you're game to roll with hearing about his unique viewpoint and approach to life, Greenlights is a

last of his own shaky family, they're unable to take him in and he's sent into foster care, beginning years His rock-bottom--it isn't a moment; it feels as though he drags the bottom for years--sets up a situation

young people from different worlds within the same small Irish town and how they come together and tear This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls.

Wizenberg fears that her life will unravel if she explores her complex sexuality--but she is even more you might also like to take a look at the Greedy Reading List Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

Stevie Bell solved one mystery last year--the mystery of her murdered classmate.

That pedestal kept me stuck, emotionally stunted, living in fear, dependent, in a near constant state

Twyford's largely condemned, simplistic, prejudiced stories and the vanishing of his teacher so many years

The girl's confusion about the word "savages" was particularly poignant; she hears it used by the British Kline's research and resulting detail is fantastic, and I'm in for all the Christina Baker Kline books

01 The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles It's June 1954, and eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has just served Emmett's planning to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head west to start a new life.

Twenty years later, Hazel is working in a rare bookshop when she unwraps a package and can't believe

I loved listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she read her memoir in audiobook form and feel Mary Deerfield is a twenty-four-year-old, faithful Puritan wife trying to escape her violent, often drunk

In The Last Thing He Told Me, Hannah has just celebrated her one-year anniversary of marriage to Owen information; and the only lawyer Hannah knows to turn to for help is her ex-fiancé, who she left at the altar years

Bill Harley's newest work, the middle-grade novel Now You Say Yes, we follow newly orphaned fifteen-year-old Mari and her nine-year-old stepbrother, Conor, who is on the spectrum, as they strike out on a cross-country

implausible premise--one in which a famous singer doesn’t recognize the person who provided the pivotal years-long adult Josie is Girl One, the first of nine baby girls who were famously conceived without male sperm years Joseph Bellanger, who tragically died in a fire on the commune years earlier.

Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years

But two years ago on their vacation, something BIG happened. Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List

When the characters from the two rich stories that make up Wingwalkers briefly intersect, it's fantastic

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year Mike Ayers I've given this book to two of my most music-loving people for their fall birthdays this year the multiple rabid Seinfeld fans in my circle, a new Jerry Seinfeld book--his first in twenty-five years favorite notes from his career in stand-up comedy, featuring selected material he's saved over the years illustrations and his in-depth, extensively tested recipes and meticulous product reviews, and last year

Will There Be Good News, and many more books. 02 Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson Sixteen-year-old

After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes

If you read or have read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

explores what she realizes may be a more complex sexuality than she had previously understood, and she fears If you like memoirs, you might also like Six Illuminating Memoirs I Read This Year.

something of a recluse in her quiet seaside Maine town ever since her husband's death in a car crash a year But having a listening ear in Dean, who is completely separate from Evvie's "before" life, means she

The sisters are meanwhile trying to find a way back together after grave betrayals and years of broken Harrow provides a villain you'll love to hate: he oppresses women, smugly and sneakily instills fear,

Someone will need to stand up to the ruthless thugs ruling the area with fear and corruption in order I had to force myself to come around to living with the fear, that feeling of being overwhelmed by a

I mentioned another title (The World's Most Adventurous Kid) from the Atlas Obscura series last year the co-owner of Nashville's Parnassus Books. 06 A Course Called America by Tom Coyne Coyne spent a year indies that keep readers swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year

I can't stop thinking about this fascinating near-future climate-change story of desperation, loyalty In a near-future Kolkata, India, Ma is the manager of a food pantry for those in need. As the time for departure from India nears for Ma, her elderly father, and her small daughter, a few

Period, but I wanted it too badly and he was like a cat, solidly rejecting my overzealous interest for years

Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl. Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl. simultaneously wanted to scoop her up and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years

but fiercely loving life lived under one roof with extended family, and a young but tough main twelve-year-old wrote Beyond the Bright Sea, a middle-grade adventure story with sweet character development, and last year's

I love a brave-young-protagonist setup, and the brothers' love and determination were fantastic.

her marriage--the give and take (or lack thereof), the power imbalance, the resentment, the unspoken yearnings Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

Except...Andra soon realizes she wasn't sleeping for 100 years. She was asleep for 1,000. language spoken by those in the future world is slightly shifted, as though it has evolved over 1,000 years At one point Andra calls her friend Zhade (who is from a time 1,000 years past her origin time) an insult I reck [reckon] I was born about a thousand years too late. I missed all the best words."