present, and future in this post-apocalyptic story about a pandemic (which has been made into a limited series My smarty friend Laura recently told me that Station Eleven has been adapted into a limited HBO series

Six More Four-Star Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Two other historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and That there would be two lines, heading in very different directions... researched, richly detailed historical fiction is based on the life of the medieval mystic who long served Looking for Jane is a story of women living in three timelines who are linked through decades by a mysterious

But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking Between Worlds. 03 In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren In a Holidaze is a romantic holiday time twist with sexy between the characters--I'd rather watch interpersonal intimacies unfold than be thrust into scenes serving Click here for my full review of In a Holidaze. 04 One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle Rebecca Serle's

Elizabeth McCracken; I'm reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built, the first in Becky Chambers's Monk and Robot series Chambers is also the author of the Wayfarers series; click here to read my review of The Long Way to

My very favorite reads this year! and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

In this first book of Donati's Wilderness series, it's 1792 and Elizabeth Middleton has traveled with ruse to get her to New York--and he then planned to push her into considering marriage in order to serve

My very favorite reads this year! But when one of Cara's eight remaining selves mysteriously dies while she is world walking, shocking If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books The music is all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands But then her daring best friend (who writes sexy romance novels!)

are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy: Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series Katherine Arden finishes out the trilogy in typical mesmerizing fashion, with her usual masterful balance romance of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books and the angst, emotions, and forbidden love of the Twilight series I think the second book in the All Souls series (Shadow of Night) is even stronger, as it delves more There are four books in this series from Harkness, and I found the others even more magical than this

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jessica Knoll's novel inspired by real-life events surrounding a serial Young Women is inspired by real-life events--specifically, a sorority targeted by the first "celebrity serial In 1978 Tallahassee, Florida, the serial deaths in the Pacific Northwest couldn't feel farther from the tempted to defy her mother by not following her bossy demands, but when Stella arrives in Paris, a series

I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Divine Rivals, the first in Rebecca Ross's Letters of Enchantment series

My Very Favorite Bossy Summer Reads! Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late protecting tourists from the wild animals who live in the park, stopping drunken fights at campgrounds, and serving

But a series of coincidences and misunderstandings lead to her being unaware that the head physicist

But Liz, who is often embedded with the baseball team to gather footage and social media material, isn't And although this title is labeled as part of the series Better Than the Movies, book 2, this one has I didn't connect the first book's beloved characters to these characters until very late in the book. But for me, the story didn't support these romantic, sexy fantasies--I remained somewhat irritated by

a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical mystery

Al Hess is also the author of Yours Celestially, Key Lime Sky, and the series Hep Cats of Boise.

When are They going to make this into a television series, hmmm?

This category also includes the Hunger Games series, the Insurgent series, Station Eleven, The 5th Wave They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift. you're going to also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone book in the same series But bringing back their surprising findings might very well mean the wholesale rounding up and destruction

For my review of the first book in this series, please see An Absolutely Remarkable Thing. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about either book in this series?

Napolitano takes the reader through a series of disastrous events and through sometimes unconventional

Harding meanwhile offers a quickly unraveling series of events on the island as government officials

Caroline O'Donoghue is also the author of Scenes of a Graphic Nature, Promising Young Women, and the teen series

adversity and overcoming difficulties; I'm reading This Woven Kingdom, the first in Tahereh Mafi's series father's death that he has become obsessed with centers around the striking servant girl under his very

my review, see Today Tonight Tomorrow.) 02 The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins In Rachel Hawkins's mystery

Stout is also the author of the Penelope Crumb series, the Not-So-Ordinary Girl books, and the historical

The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while Madeline Martin is also the author of The Librarian Spy and various romance series.

01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life

I mentioned the Folk of the Air trilogy in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

Ships as an audiobook. 03 The Guncle Abroad by Steven Rowley It's been five years since Patrick O'Hara served Patrick's acting career has taken off, and he's wrapping his second successful TV series.

Tokyo Ever After is listed as Tokyo Ever After #1, with the second book in the series, Tokyo Dreaming And for young adult royal stories, try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

Nothing Like I Imagined is a short (118 pages, if you're reading; 1 hour 22 minutes if you're listening) series

Jiminez provides the drama and angst and romance for picture-perfect escapism with a sexy center. I expected her to simply summarize the sexy parts, but no, she did not. their mesmerizing lead singer Daisy, the group's complicated interpersonal conflicts, and the band's mysterious And if you don't know yourself very well, you might even believe that they are right.

My very favorite books from May! In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding But all of these players and times feel mainly to be in place to serve as a structure for our true main

feel is reminiscent of the fervor and intensity of his conversations in the fascinating documentary series

Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.

by misleading details or bogged down by red herrings, and that he struck what was for me a perfectly eerie heard this one compared to The Haunting of Hill House, but I haven't read that one (or watched the TV series Eerie books are great escapism, though--for example, during a PANDEMIC.

My very favorite books from July! After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

influences, and her life; The Last Graduate, the second in Naomi Novik's dark, brooding, funny Scholomance series about a magical school filled with evil and darkness; and Very Sincerely Yours, lovely light fiction Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling prepublication digital edition of this book courtesy of NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group. 03 Very Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise

My very favorite books from February! I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys and he's got two dead crewmates, a chatty AI robot caregiver, a lot of complicated equipment, and a mysterious

A smart master thief bends time and finds her loyalties divided in turn-of-the-century New York. I appreciated the character of Esta as a smart master thief who can bend time, and I loved the 1901 New I don't think it benefited me to listen to The Last Magician, the first in Maxwell's series, as an audiobook The second and third books in this series are published; I seem to often start series and have to wait

Marilynne Robinson offers another gentle yet affecting book in her Gilead series, this time about faith When we pick up with him at the start of Robinson's book, he has frequently been very drunk, often sleeping willing to enter into such a fraught--and, at the time, illegal--relationship, one that is sure to at the very If you've read the gentle, lovely Gilead, one of Robinson's other three novels in the Gilead series (

important assertion from Lucy; she is finally owning who she is as well as her story, her choices, and her very Much of the page time in Elizabeth Strout's My Name is Lucy Barton is spent in the hospital during a mysterious important assertion from Lucy; she is now owning who she is as well as her story, her choices, and her very

Jansson is also the author of the fanciful children's books in the Moomin series as well as the short

I loved Raybourn's A Curious Beginning, the first in her Veronica Speedwell series, which I can't wait

My very favorite books from August! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. The list skews toward light fiction, but I've got a mystery, a great novel by Allison Larkin, and a wonderfully Some of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly

I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books (all but one are fiction) offers that very thing But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old. Elizabeth Wein is also the author of many other novels, including additional novels in the Code Name Verity series

As with book one in the Arthur Less series, I was pleasantly surprised by the heart and vulnerability

Three days later, she was recovered in a miraculous series of events that ended up with her rescue and Missing Girls, which I thought was interesting in its structure (it begins in the present day after a series

author Cate Kay has written a bestselling postapocalyptic trilogy (which is about to be made into a series satisfying: one of the characters, the one I was most intrigued by, is essential earlier in the book but served

Willingham's debut thriller offers an unreliable narrator haunted by her father's decades-old serial that summer, Chloe's father had confessed to the crimes of killing those girls, was convicted as a serial The story has been optioned by actress Emma Stone to be produced as a limited television series.

Early on, the television series The Last Movie Stars interviews children from Newman's first marriage questioning whether I was interested in investing time in listening to his story and whether there would be very