If you've read any of these titles, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? historical fiction about a figure whose existence the Catholic church has officially denied for a thousand years

Harris winds her tale through Lilli's journey to the United States and her glamorous years dancing in Then Lilli's path leads back to Marco, who has in recent years risen through the ranks to work for Goebbels After a stranger wanders near their remote cabin, Cooper's longtime struggle to stay hidden seems increasingly

following the mysterious death of Landon Fitzroy, the governor's handsome son, in the midst of that year's

Inti has hardened her heart in the years since she was a child, but she begins opening up because of Her account of coping with the loss of her mother and her fears about her son's development feel more 03 We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange In Tracey Lange's new novel We Are the Brennans, twenty-nine-year abandoned her family and friends and anyone tied to her past, including her high-school sweetheart, five years

Ten years after her arrival, Riley is twenty-one and has begun to chafe at the small scope of her life But stress and the constant fear of illness and tragedy make for a high-anxiety household, and young When her mother faces a health crisis, as they’ve long feared, the family's security and future may be

Eventually Parker is removed from the vicinity and only vaguely referenced again, but neither the years of systematic bullying and hateful behavior nor other family members' years of support of Parker and

There are dark issues underlying the mystery (related to strict rules about caste and class, a deadly fear This is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk. Which mysteries hooked you this year? This is a pretty eclectic group of mysteries. mysteries, you might also like titles from the Greedy Reading Lists The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year

The Books I'm Reading Now To start off the year, I'm listening to Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan's Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love), but after raving about it for two years With unnerving similarities to a serial killer caught years ago.

Molly found herself yearning for more time with her busy, glamorous mother. Erica was focused on basking in the success of her book Fear of Flying , and Molly spied her mother in Can Luke help Emmy overcome her fears of riding and get back to her love of horses again?

it's ridiculous and fanciful, but the idea that they're fated to be together feels real, and for a year Silver provides readers with lots of tears and drama, gasping, longing, and breathlessness. frustrating (for example, calling a moment's sighting without even speaking “love” and clinging to it for years --YEARS! Watch yer livers, characters!

including societal malaise, ignorance often overpowering facts, and longstanding patterns of power and fear Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo). I mentioned this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

I mentioned Station Eleven in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

caused them experiences drug-induced hallucinations and faces vulnerability as the end of her life draws near into the past where the reader witnesses the actuality of firsthand events, not colored by Barbara's yearning

She was walled up in a monastery although she yearned to continue roaming the natural world as she did This made it bearable to read Sharratt's account of Hildegard's claustrophobic, dark years behind a dank There's relatively little page time spent on the later years of Hildegard's life at the abbey.

Yet she often yearns for her more carefree youth and connection to nature. A late portion of the story takes places in a time period years later than Birdie and Emaleen's foray

Twenty years later, Chloe struggles, but she has more good days than bad. Chloe's past and the recent disappearances, he sparks disturbing old memories and exacerbates the lurking fears

secretive nature of her desire and single close relationship--which ends in heartbreak, followed by years of prolonged angst, yearning, and continual disappointment. author of Room, The Pull of the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite Books of the Year

Ten years later, a documentary exploring those events draws Kat and Heath back into each others' orbits

I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's memoir of pivotal near-death experiences that shaped her life Her recollections include a childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, an encounter with a The construct of tracing near-death experiences to tell the story of her life didn’t feel forced at all

century of music, providing context in the form of snapshots-in-words glimpses of the turning events of a year Pyle's Stranger Planet (as well as Strange Planet) in one of my gift guides last year (Shhh! Ideas for the Holidays), and he has a new book out in time for the holiday gift-giving season this year Pyle draws yet again from his popular Instagram comics to point out our absurd habits, traditions, fears indies that keep readers swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year

irritating to the rest of my book club years ago, but I couldn't help myself. In Jiles's Chenneville, titular character John Chenneville is a former Union soldier who has spent a year

Sally's frank observations and kind heart are the stars of the early chapters of the book, but her older years

Her relationship with Sonny Bono (eleven years older) began when she was a teenager, and his control

Penn pulls his memoir into another gear when he adds the fascinating layer of his accidental political Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

The details of princess life, privilege, and pressures are fun and fantastic, including elaborate clothing

historical fiction about a figure whose existence the Catholic church has officially denied for a thousand years

Flashbacks delve into their friends-like-family years of linked lives--and a disturbing revelation that

Morris A faction of my book club attends (virtually, the past couple of years) our local Library Foundation's from and speak about their recent books, and we try to read a couple of these books in the following year Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided Her memoir focuses largely on her younger years, but also explores her mainly positive, almost dreamlike Saturday Night Live years, her friendship with Lorne Michaels, and more.

I first read her work 25 years ago, when I enjoyed her novel Kaaterskill Falls .

Impossibly, the centuries-old figure bears a shocking resemblance to Elsie. Horrors from her childhood are alluded to and contribute to her fear, her reluctance to trust, and her Purcell takes us through the disturbing events surrounding one family living two hundred years apart

Avery, the oldest, ten years sober, is a married lawyer (her wife is her former therapist, eek) making

And her newest client is the Jack Stapleton, action star, household name--and, in recent years, recluse root of their connection--but I wished Hannah's vulnerability didn't center around her bursting into tears

A hundred and fifty years later, a young archivist, Elodie Winslow, is drawn to the mystery.

In Lynn Painter's rom-com Betting on You, rule-following seventeen-year-old Bailey and sarcastic, joking

much of the material that fills in the blanks: what really occurred between Ada's parents over the years

unknown, but it quickly becomes clear that each person's string length correlates to the number of years

His rock-bottom--it isn't a moment; it feels as though he drags the bottom for years--sets up a situation This was one of my favorite books of the year when I read it. 02 The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell This In twentieth-century Idaho, Zeno has lived a long life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life

Patrick's life in recent years has been primarily focused on shutting off the outside world, but the demands of a six- and nine-year-old reeling with pain and in desperate need of constancy mean he can't To honor his friend, he'll need to be strong enough for Maisie and Grant, despite his own pain and fears

bleary-eyed from single-parenting her newborn, and she's questioning why she agreed to come to a work New Year's

In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. It's 1894, and seventeen-year-old Ada is a newlywed, following contentedly the path set out for her as Fearful for her life, she flees to a convent (where she quickly establishes that she is not destined

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? 01 Lost in Time by A.G. twisty events, unsolved elements from the past and present, and a denouement I didn't predict. “...hear , Allison, Nate, Janelle, and David--and their dialogue--are fantastic as always. I prefer listening to my memoirs read by the author, and I loved hearing U2's songwriter and lead singer

01 Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby I was so excited to see that S.A. I loved last year's gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made In Razorblade Tears, two men are coping with the tragic, violent, mysterious deaths of their married to put a foot out of line, has built his landscaping company from the ground up and stayed clean for years

Perry recounts the daily reality of his years in a chokehold of addiction to drugs and alcohol, his struggles I found myself yearning for more introspection but appreciated his honesty. The book zigzags through time to paint a picture of years of damaging substance abuse, and Perry's honesty Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

to marry the cult's leader when she was thirteen and worked as secretary for "The Family" for many years Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year prepublication edition of this book courtesy of Atria Books and NetGalley. 03 Stay True by Hua Hsu Eighteen-year-old Several years later, Ken was killed in a carjacking, and Hua was left reeling.

This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this connections and surprisingly (to Murderbot, if no one else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically These are short books with a fantastically unique point of view, and they're perfect escapism.

During the annual, chaotic community fair preceding this holidays, which this year is a rainy business

or "beautiful"; and on multiple occasions Browder relates that his words brought various crowds to tears --and that they had never been brought to tears before in such a situation--or that something related Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction or Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year

Others keep sighting Freddie, and Laura herself feels that he is near. Arden is also the author of the Winternight trilogy, which I loved: The Bear and the Nightingale, The

Bo yearns for a deeper connection with his son. past and Bo's many memories begin to become more vivid and realistic to Bo than the present-day or near-past

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