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- Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels
I think I have enough other favorite reads in these categories to make two more Greedy Reading Lists. Which other postapocalyptic or dystopian books do you love? Some of this is odd, other parts are disturbing, and there are some wonderful implausibly amusing standoffs man with two stark options: safety and loneliness or potential danger and finally making contact with others But the other, the more certain, the more inevitable, is that those thousand thousand points of light
- Review of Memorial Days: A Memoir by Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks is also the author of the novels People of the Book , Horse , Year of Wonders , and others
- Review of This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Patchett
relationship and adulthood filled with creativity, business, and various deeply felt connections with others time, in the crowd of the world, we are practically invisible, not even a dot, and yet we have each other State of Wonder, Run, Bel Canto, The Dutch House, The Magician's Assistant, These Precious Days, and others
- Review of Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei
You can find other books about life near the ocean , ocean voyages , and environmentally focused novels
- Yet Another Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Year
But on day one, Barrett's ruthlessly straightforward manner, defensive way of keeping others at a distance finding your own true self, listening to your gut, finding the strength to put yourself on the line for other For other postapocalyptic stories I've loved, check out Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is an epic view of a lifetime of friendship and love, tragedy, renewed faith in others overcoming incredible hardship...and a captivating account of the making of a video game, love for other
- Six Illuminating Memoirs to Check Out
Walder explores her own glowing pride in doing her job well and protecting others from danger—even when own situation and showed herself to be wonderfully faulted, and she also delved into the details of others extensive emotional manipulation, his elaborate interview accounts of his sexual escapades with her and others
- Review of An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell #6) by Deanna Raybourn
title about retired middle-aged assassins, Killers of a Certain Age , and its sequel Kills Well with Others
- Review of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken
Giant's House, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination, Here's Your Hat What's Your Hurry, and other I mentioned one of McCracken's short story collections, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, in the Greedy
- Review of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant
is set in the wilds of Idaho, with a wilderness expert of a main character who has fought to trust others
- Review of The Second Death of Locke (The Hand and the Heart #1) by V. L. Bovalino
Unbeknownst to others, she and Kier have gone through a forbidden process to become tethered, so that
- Review of Spellslinger (Spellslinger #1) by Sebastian de Castell
I'd love to hear your thoughts about this book or other fantasy books you've loved!
- Review of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
Lauren also authored the books The True Love Experiment , The Unhoneymooners , In a Holidaze , Love and Other
- Review of Moonbound by Robin Sloan
focuses on the interplay between Ariel and the omniscient Anth inside him, but the book moves in several other
- Review of The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
adventure in her new married life; Margery is independent and strong-willed; and together with three other (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II), and other
- Review of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley
her specifically, and feels as though solving the mystery of who stole from her and why could resolve other
- Review of The Maid by Nita Prose
protagonist Molly finds a hotel guest dead in his room, and her access to the room, her eccentric manner, and other's might be too central of a plot point in that it might allow for too-easy deception, and that seeing others than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the many personal qualities that have led others
- Review of Anatomy of an Alibi by Ashley Elston
of Aubrey's--and the way they worked their savvy systems for their own benefit and to support each other
- Review of Sandwich by Catherine Newman
Catherine Newman is also the author of other books I love: We All Want Impossible Things , Waiting for
- Review of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
female-focused vampirism of the story, women demand even more from their lives, refusing to be limited by other
- Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Her other selves seem uncannily apt to die, so Cara is able to visit 372 other Earths where her counterparts purpose of which has never been of interest to her--she's more focused on tracking the shadows of her other together the various bits of knowledge and savviness she's gained through tracing the steps of her many other lives--and the shape of each is dramatically affected by her own various small and large decisions, others common characteristics in those she loves or fears; she sometimes barely recognizes the same people in other
- Review of One Golden Summer by Carley Fortune
scenes didn't invite involuntary squealing or cringing on my part--they couple is really drawn to each other
- Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
And her encounters with others in the apartment at different points in time--as well as her ability to Other life rules and quotes from her aunt frequently felt so whimsical as to be absurd.
- Review of The Humans by Matt Haig
humans--their violence, their greed and selfishness, their carelessness with their world and with each other I love a book that looks at our many human absurdities through alien or other eyes. The Murderbot series (check out my reviews of three first three books here; the others are searchable
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/25 Edition
but no one but her adoptive uncle is aware that she can, dangerously inconsistently, incite--forcing others
- Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading
another Greedy Reading List of my more recently read light fiction favorites, but meanwhile, you can find other solidly in love with Christina Lauren's and Emily Henry's books, and I haven't yet read everything by the other What other lighter fiction authors or stories do you love? Yet the authors clearly care deeply about their characters, the characters care deeply about each other Click here for my reviews of Lauren's The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, Love and Other Words, The Soulmate
- Review of The Blood of the Old Kings (Bleeding Empire #1) by Sung-Il Kim
her future would end with her locked in chains in a casket, an essential, dark end used to benefit others
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/29/23 Edition
Steven Rowley's upcoming novel, The Celebrants, about old friends holding living funerals for each other through a crisis and needs to know they are loved more than they love themselves, they can call upon the others
- Review of Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Other historical fiction books with faith elements that I've loved include Revelations and Illuminations
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/23/26 Edition
Check out these other celebrity memoirs I've Bossily reviewed; or you might like my reviews of these
- Review of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller
Listen for the voice that speaks when all others go silent. Be alone--be entirely alone.
- Review of Festival Days by Jo Ann Beard
The last, longest, and titular essay, "Festival Days," is far longer than the others. She reflects on various travels and other measures meant to distract and inspire or comfort—and the disrupted Her partner is Scott Spencer, the author of Endless Love and many other novels.
- Review of The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr
If you survived, it means others did not.
- Review of Not for the Faint of Heart by Lex Croucher
Clem has only noble intentions of helping others, and she doesn't differentiate between those on the
- Review of The Measure by Nikki Erlick
Some choose not to look into their boxes at all, while others use the knowledge of their short strings
- Review of The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason
The other doctors have all left.
- Review of Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
closed-off William has always leaned on Lucy for support, despite the fact that he has been married two other But I became impatient with Lucy's extensive ruminations and her speculation about what other people We see Lucy begin to scrape the surface of discovering others' vulnerabilities, to realize her own self-told lies, and to recognize shortcomings in herself and in others, but while her own cherished versions of
- Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Books about Media, Movies, and Music
Other contenders for this list were: Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from ‘Soul Train Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites, nonfiction must-haves, or other fragile masculinity, 1970s nostalgia, and more." 02 Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other
- Review of A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst
the Year , Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved , Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads , or these other
- Review of The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan
Fagan is a former professional basketball player and ESPN journalist who wrote What Made Maddy Run and other
- Review of Slow Burn Summer by Josie Silver
There are some truly zany moments in the novel (a T. rex costume and others, literal pies in faces).
- Review of Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
In Nethercott's Thistlefoot, estranged siblings Bellatine and Isaac Yaga find their way back to each other Bellatine and Isaac find their way back to each other, bonded by trying to untangle the dangerous, sentimental
- Review of The Stolen Heir (Stolen Heir #1) by Holly Black
takes us deeper into the story of characters Wren and Oak as they determine whether they can trust each other
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/10/25 Edition
Sara is detained along with other women who are desperately asserting their innocence.
- Review of Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
have blown all opportunities through laziness and then blamed his failure on his circumstances--and on others If you like stories with heart, you might want to check out other books I've reviewed as heartwarming
- Review of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
shamans ballyhooing bad health advice, online hate groups radicalizing new members, and kids sending each other through their paths pre-cult, through the emotions and logistics and follower mentality, then out the other conclusion felt brief and somewhat unsatisfying in the absence of further thoughts, introspection, or other
- Review of The Guncle by Steven Rowley
They are each going through grief and confusion, but they adore each other and have their love to fall I was distracted by the brief, repeated shifts in point of view from Patrick to other characters. that we gained much insight or information from the jarring moments in which we were swept into the other Have you read either of his other books?
- Review of What In the World?! A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne Morgan
You can find Bossy reviews of other memoirs--and Greedy Reading Lists of my favorites by theme-- here
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/27/23 Edition
until our main protagonist, a jazz pianist, is tasked with saving humanity; and I'm listening to This Other , strong women, a heist setup, and, ultimately, a ragtag group of underdogs saving the day. 03 This Other
- Review of The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
This sci-fi thriller is about betrayal and revenge, but it's not the other-woman story you might expect This sci-fi thriller is about the forces that drive apart a husband and wife, but it's not the other-woman There are loops and layers to Gailey's story that have to do with identity, autonomy, freedom, shaping others to suit your expectations and desires--and recognizing how you're shaped by others in turn. This is my first Sarah Gailey book, but she's authored many others, including Upright Women Wanted, Magic
- Review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
They clash, hurt each other deeply, and wonder if they can ever reconcile.


















































