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Cut to years later, when Toni, making a name for herself in the Philadelphia indie music scene, tries

Ross Gay resolved to write about a joy or delight, large or small, every day for a year, beginning on

I still think about this book from time to time, and I read it years ago.

#2) and The Lost Man, which I mentioned in my Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year

Mariana lost her husband a year ago in a holiday accident in her coastal Greek hometown, and she's still

In Blood, Moorer, after years of therapy, reflection, and working through her enormous rage and loss, You might also like the list Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year.

shocked to identify the victim as Rachael Schwartz, a fun-loving, mischievous free spirit Kate babysat years

In a near-death experience, Thomas hallucinates an afterlife, encounters his father, and understands

revealing more and more about their own inner selves as they take their weekly walks and become more dear

Abriel offers a vivid account of the fear and dread—intermixed with sparks of hope—that sustained Vera Her grandmother Vera lived with her family when Abriel was growing up, and she grew up hearing tales

wonderful Ann Patchett's newest novel Whistler, about a reconnected stepfather and stepdaughter who are dear

I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? Yael, a tough young woman who escaped from a concentration camp, has been training as a spy for years

a very different book, The Girl in Green, about a British journalist and an American private twenty years

Alyan is also the author of Salt Houses, You're Not a Girl in a Movie, and The Twenty-Ninth Year.

Woodworking explores interconnected transgender characters' experiences, fears, challenges, and joys

impossible balance of femininity and power within a male-held power structure, Shoulder Season spans forty years

seemingly implausible premise: Nick, a rock star, doesn’t recognize the person who provided the pivotal, years-long

clean and straightforward after such a complex story full of evasion, secrets, and the constant, urgent fear

Malibu Rising tracks each hour leading up to and into the wee hours of the legendary party (and this year's

Now it's been in print for 25 years and is beloved by many readers. Have you read this one?

was a temporary break or permanent--yet she is able to sit within the feeling that Connell and their years

#youngadult, #mystery, #siblings 03 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder ​ It's been years since a local young Two hundred years in the past, Leila is a young Muslim woman struggling to survive.

story of childhood, hope, love, and loss that is spare, lovely, heartbreaking, and that brought me to tears I was brought to tears at the end.

characters ranging from activists to performers and murderers to idealists; a memoir about a young woman's yearning about her childhood in 1980s Mexico, living in poverty with her siblings and a cold grandmother, and yearning After eight long years, Reyna convinced her reluctant father to bring the children to Los Angeles, but

women demand even more from their lives, refusing to be limited by other women, by expectations, or by fear

In Leavitt's novel, Simon and Stella have been in New York City for twenty years, living through the

allow feelings to grow, and all is shaped by the constancy of life-and-death danger and the deep-seated fear

I prefer listening to my memoirs read by the author, and I loved hearing U2's songwriter and lead singer I loved listening to the book in order to hear each of these played.

I'd love to hear your thoughts if you've read this book!

darkness, powerful superstition, and magical realism through a wide-ranging story about family, tradition, fear

illuminating Cleopatra's many facets, and bringing the reader into the titular subject's inner workings, fears

illuminating Cleopatra's many facets, and bringing the reader into the titular subject's inner workings, fears

I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

Many years ago I would have been asking why is this happening?

outlandishly brave decision-making in trying to unravel the tangled web that's been evolving for many years

I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

since learned that if you plan to survive in the Arctic, you must choose one of two paths: emulate the bear

01 A Burning by Megha Majumdar “Many years ago I would have been asking why is this happening?

His wife Elisabeth fears his involvement in the resistance that plans to assassinate Hitler. This book was mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year.

in which Sandra is perilously stuck in a cave tunnel during an expedition in Nepal and rather than fearing

In one timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear

The story keeps in the forefront the looming dangers, the fear of disease and ill intent, and the bone-weary

Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us by Yiming Ma In a future land ruled by the Qin Empire, citizens all wear

It's been five years since a local young woman, Andie Bell, was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh.

I loved hearing how she got into music--really, how music took hold of her and never let go, and how I listened to Williams's Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You as an audiobook and enjoyed hearing

I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! This is Yael van der Wouden's first book.

financially and emotionally upon achieving them, and meanwhile we can see how shocked others are to hear

King also wrote Euphoria, which I read with my book club a few years ago and which I gave four stars.

I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! This is Ruth Reichl's first novel.