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- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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 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 The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
Jessica Shattuck's The Women in the Castle felt different to me than many of the other World War II books Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II and search the blog for many other
- 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
- Review of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Hollywood star who meets his demise at the start of the devastating pandemic, through the lives of others John Mandel is also the author of The Glass Hotel as well as other novels, and her novel The Sea of Tranquility
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
After Hitler's invasion of Russia and the Ukraine, Mila, along with so many others, enlists to fight chases; the most intense sibling rivalry imaginable, interesting scenes of superhumans' outsmarting each other ; and noble desires to "save the world" that conflict with others’ similar desires in crucial ways--and 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
- Review of Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
When I first read Skeletons at the Feast, I was eager to dive into Bohjalian's other books, but clearly from Hour of the Witch and the difficult but riveting story The Guest Room, I still haven't read many others Bohjalian himself, The Sandcastle Girls, as well as the popular books Midwives, The Flight Attendant, and others
- Review of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
What do we owe to each other? How do you measure a successful, fulfilled, worthy life?
- Review of Being Henry: The Fonz...and Beyond by Henry Winkler
He also shares his lifelong joy in putting on other personas and his professional ups and downs, including
- Review of One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash
North Carolina's Rash (he teaches at Western Carolina University) is also the author of other books set Straight, Burning Bright, Above the Waterfall, The Risen, The Cove, and Nothing Gold Can Stay, among others
- Review of How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur
What do we owe to each other? What is our duty to our fellow humans in different situations? charity; whether rigidity to rules such as "no lying" will win a person friends; and when and why to help others
- Review of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
They clash, hurt each other deeply, and wonder if they can ever reconcile.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/24/22 Edition
Body: A Guide for Occupants; and I'm reading Kate Bowler's absolute gem No Cure for Being Human (And Other Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday. 03 No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) I mentioned Kate's book Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) in the Greedy Reading
- Review of Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey
When others' decisions set Teddy adrift even further, she's forced to consider her life and the person Winfrey also wrote Love and Other Alien Experiences, Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites It, Waiting For other light fiction books I've enjoyed, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories
- Review of Tilt by Emma Pattee
Some buildings and landmarks are flattened, others still standing.
- Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
time to cozy up with a science fiction story with fantastic characters and some space adventure or other-world You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. like a close-knit group of summer camp counselors somehow, palling around, sometimes irritating each other chases; the most intense sibling rivalry imaginable, interesting scenes of superhumans' outsmarting each other ; and noble desires to "save the world" that conflict with others’ similar desires in crucial ways--and
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/25 Edition
But when a slick local developer associated with their own retirement community is murdered, and other
- Review of Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
awkward logistics of sex and of finding places to have sex, and their bodies' unique features and each other's revolting fashion; her body is increasingly unreliable and uncomfortable (with bleeding, itching, and other
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition
Clem is a jovial healer from the country who has only noble intentions of helping others.
- Review of Queens of London by Heather Webb
Heather Webb is also the author of Strangers in the Night, The Next Ship Home, and other novels.
- Review of Half Wild: Stories by Robin MacArthur
featuring women, men, and young people tied to the beautiful and wild land of rural Vermont and to each other The themes feel potentially universal to other small, rural communities.
- Review of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Others keep sighting Freddie, and Laura herself feels that he is near.
- Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams
every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and unforeseen connections to each other Summer Wives, The Wicked City, A Hundred Summers, The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Certain Age, and other
- Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
Haig dives into Hazard's wonder at new experiences and his and other characters' perspectives on the the heartbreak of their loneliness and the weight of the constant loss of their beloved “mayflies” (other Midnight Library and his memoir-ish book that I'm reading now, Reasons to Stay Alive, as well as many others
- Review of The Knight and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig
Stonewater Kingdom series, The Knight and the Moth , considers Sybil Delling ("Six") and a group of five other
- Review of Dimestore: A Writer's Life by Lee Smith
I adored reading her mentions of University of North Carolina English professors, other Chapel Hill figures
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition
Okorafor is also the author of the Binti trilogy, Akata Witch , Noor , Remote Control , and other works
- Review of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
I read Caste with a group and met every other week to discuss it--and we went months past our original Isabel Wilkerson is a journalist and is also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/25 Edition
Ten years later, a documentary exploring those events draws Kat and Heath back into each others' orbits
- Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year
her specifically, and feels as though solving the mystery of who stole from her and why could resolve other His shared conversations with other guards illustrate a range of motivations for pursuing the work. consider the intentions of artists, the stories behind the artwork, his own feelings about the works, and others
- Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese
The two enchant each other within an unconventional, unacceptable relationship and a swirl of irresistible What other dark secrets is the city hiding?
- Review of The Caretaker by Ron Rash
North Carolina's Rash (he teaches at Western Carolina University) is also the author of other books set
- Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook
Elizabeth Crook is also the author of The Which Way Tree; The Night Journal; Monday, Monday; and other
- Six Four-Star Mysteries to Check Out, ICYMI
Cam had been bothered by something before dying unexpectedly in the Australian outback desert, but was Hart has written many other books, including The Hush, which is the second in the Johnny Merrimon series
- Review of Bunny (Bunny #1) by Mona Awad
own sometimes dark writing, she is disgusted by the rest of her cohort--childish women who call each other
- Review of There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
of abusing natural resources, as well as the questionable morality of private or museum ownership of other
- Review of Harrow the Ninth (Locked Tomb #2) by Tamsyn Muir
Characters sometimes inhabit each other's bodies, so they may look like one character and sound and behave and ethereal beings ("the Body") appear to only be known to Harrow; characters lie steadily to each other
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
by the premise of this story--two people tied together by a past tragedy who stumble back into each other's off that she and Grant both comfortably and immediately made specific, bossy sexual demands of each other
- Review of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
occasionally she feels compelled to take a different path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other Behind the Scenes at the Museum and Human Croquet are two other Kate Atkinson books I've enjoyed; she has also written the Jackson Brodie series and other books as well.
- Review of Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
His whole life has been a steady procession of him passionately loving what other people merely liked
- Review of A Power Unbound (Last Binding #3) by Freya Marske
Through unexpected attractions to each other and the uncovering of weighty secrets, the group works to
- Review of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe by Lauren James
They message each other, share their hopes and fears, and quickly grow to rely on each other--the only End of the World, The Next Together and its sequel The Last Beginning, The Starlight Watchmaker, and other I haven't read any of these others yet.
- Review of Ready or Not by Cara Bastone
the Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading , and you can find other
- Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories
Which other books should I add to my second-chance book list? these books also made it onto my Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes Greedy Reading List--along with four other Some lives are notable, others comfortable, and still others are full of pain. and occasionally she feels compelled to take another path, rush to check on a loved one, or take some other not seem as though she is grieving him--fortunately, this is made easier by how real he seems in this other
- Review of The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
The tone of The Enchanted is sometimes gorgeously, darkly ethereal and other times so grim and alluding


















































