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

charge toward change, but typically teenage: to escape into role-playing video games and write fan fiction

adored the vivid details Randall offered about everyday life during different eras, but the fifty-two sections Through the somewhat fictionalized voice of Ziggy, a real-life key player in the storied Detroit neighborhood of Black Bottom, Randall offers short sections about fifty-two mostly real-life characters who influenced The book is structured as many sections of Ziggy's storytelling, so some of the meandering felt appropriate relatively short chapters, which necessitates hustling along from story to story, but even within each section

Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency...

Egyptian artifacts, revelations about Alexia's mysterious father (and about her husband's centuries of history

When William's painful history resurfaces, it shakes the entire family with its repercussions.

of indigenous tradition into Daunis's everyday life, pivotal moments, and her personal and cultural history I was distracted by some jumpy transitions between action, thought, and feeling, especially in the earlier sections of the book, but Boulley weaves fantastically fluid and frequent details of indigenous tradition into Daunis's everyday life, pivotal moments, and her personal and cultural history.

The first section of Lockwood's story about an internet darling is absurd, frivolous, vulgar, irritating , and frequently disturbing; the second section shocked me with its meaningful and poignant examinations No One Is Talking about This is fiction from Patricia Lockwood, the author of the memoir Priestdaddy. This section of the book is presented in very short snippets that are often comments, jokes, questions poetic view of the world is gloriously showcased in this section.

familial power structures are wonderful, and the way O'Farrell imagines Agnes as wife of John (the fictionalized

and the intricacies of nations' relationships and airborne dragon battles within the books' alternate history

His various early actions that felt critical toward Olive also didn't feel resolved. I adore the will they/won't they fall in love tension, and lately I've really enjoyed lighter fiction

I adore a character-driven science fiction tale. Also, time travel! This totally hit the spot.

More Books to Explore Shea Ernshaw is also the author of The Wicked Deep, A History of Wild Places, Winterwood

Despite their history, her breathless reactions to Wes didn't feel built upon factors I could believe

and contribute to her fear, her reluctance to trust, and her doubts about what is fact and what is fiction

by William Faulkner‘s story The Old Man and is set at the beginning of the worst flood in American history

author’s note at the end outlines the often ignored life-and-death tragedies that inspired this work of fiction

The janitor is a cultural outsider with a complicated history, and what he lacks in training he makes

I'm alternating between a fictionalized celebrity story with heart; a young adult mystery with a nerdy

I wondered if this would be a sort of young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast, and it IS, in

Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction through which bubbles of hope emerge.

As Emily digs into the villa's complicated and dark history and delves into the past, the growing tensions

baby Jessica" and the well), the third and final book in a captivating fantasy trilogy, and a lighter fiction

and a web of lies that may get them both killed; and Jennifer McMahon's dive into a family's haunting history But disaster strikes, and Jax finds herself trying to unravel the twisted, complicated history of her family and its land--a history Lexie was researching and had become haunted by.

faulted, privileged few are terrifying in their elaborate, exclusive plans, which exclude all but a fraction

wishing for more exploration into the human condition as contrasted with the carefully scripted robot functioning

Sometimes in order to delve into a light fiction book I find that I have to suspend my disbelief about

middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically understated robot banter, there's action

those who have struggled to America, imagining their salvation; and explores the binds of family and history

Carefully researched and documented, with twists and turns that feel so outlandish as to seem like fiction

If you like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking

The trick occurs early (also, one major aspect of the true situation directly echoes a fictional setup

Poet Maggie Smith's memoir traces the end of her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while The book is made up of many short sections, and much of Smith's exploration is focused on the way in

audiobook but when it came up, I didn’t remember at first what the book was about; the beginning reads like fiction

“We are, on this earth, so incredibly small, in the history of time, in the crowd of the world, we are

But issues of race and their inextricable involvement in our nation's history are really the bedrock

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! This totally hit the spot.

disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century—she begins a quest to discover the truth about her history judgment leads to another, foolish choices end in bloodshed, and one brother makes justifications for his actions builds the pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering truths, family history

But disaster strikes, and Jax finds herself trying to unravel the twisted, complicated history of her family and its land--a history Lexie had been researching and had become obsessed by.

Sometimes I find that I have to suspend my disbelief about human behavior in order to delve into a light fiction

moment with some implausible early details in Holidaze, which I sometimes struggle with in lighter fiction

Kalb shares rip-roaring tales of family history; Bobby's distinct pride in generations of the family

complicate Jill and Kit's finances, but threaten Kit's identity and shake the family's sense of personal history

country--and her journalistic discoveries threaten to unearth the painful secrets of Smita's own family history

involving unapologetic body positivity, and I hope Bea doesn't fall into the somewhat common light fiction

Morris A faction of my book club attends (virtually, the past couple of years) our local Library Foundation's

In Rachel Hawkins's new mystery The Wife Upstairs, each of the main players and their histories aren't But each of these characters turned out to be hiding elements of their histories that put into context

feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other seemingly odd action In Life After Life, Atkinson focuses her literary fiction lens on the character of Ursula, her relationships

essential to the productive understanding of the past and current racial situation, including a basic history person of color (and, more importantly, listening without defensiveness), how "the antidote to guilt is action reading this or other books on race and anti-racism that you recommend for a better understanding of history So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo is wonderfully actionable, and Raising White Kids: Bringing

One faction wants to use the horrifying knowledge of Nazi doctors who enacted abuse and torture upon the machinations of the Nazis or offer background on the politics of the American and British postwar factions