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More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year, Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year , and Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year. I'd also love to hear about some of your favorite fiction reads, from last year or from this one so far Lenni and Margot was one of my top twelve reads of last year. The revenge-fantasy element is particularly satisfying.

Reads So far in 2024 I've been posting Friday Greedy Reading Lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre; for my all-around favorites of last year, you can check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads You can find my first list of novels I loved reading last year here. I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite reads, whether you loved them last year or more When he meets driven, plan-focused Julia in his freshman year of college, she pulls him into her high-spirited

The gems of What I Ate in One Year are, as promised in the title, the food-related moments Stanley Tucci delves into over the course of a year--cooking, eating, appreciating, entertaining, and bringing together is an essential part of Stanley Tucci's satisfaction, and in the nonfiction book What I Ate in One Year the food and wine that he prepares, eats, or enjoys (and, occasionally, pans) over the course of a year I listened to What I Ate in One Year  as an audiobook.

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads This is the time in the year when you may be asking yourself , "Is she going to just keep rehashing all the big hits of her past year of reading?" of my favorite reads of the past year by genre, so the hits are going to keep coming! If you want more favorite-mystery lists, stay tuned for round 2 of last year's Bossy favorites, coming Last Year.

Some of my very favorite reads of the year...so far! five-star reads in 2023, and I'm hoping I rack up some more for a post to be made up solely of the year's Meanwhile, here are the six books I've loved and have given 4.5 Bossy stars this year. is shipwrecked off the coast of Australia, and Gil, an eccentric Australian boy living three hundred years Zamora keeps us in his nine-year-old perspective, which also serves to keep us focused on moment-by-moment

Six Bossy Favorite Light Fiction Reads from Last Year I love spending Fridays highlighting books I've These six did the trick for me in the past year. This Time It's Real was one of my Favorite Bossy Reads of the Summer last year. 03 The Seven-Year Slip of a teen who wakes up as a thirty-year-old, engaged to her high school nemesis. Unless she's hallucinating or dreaming, she's thirty years old.

Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads If you want more favorite-mystery lists, check out round 1 of last year's And if you're greedy about reading lists like I am, you can also check out the lists I posted last year Last Year. You can also check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year A year ago, Isabelle Drake's toddler son was taken from her.

Six Bossy Favorite Light Fiction Reads from Last Year I love spending Fridays highlighting books I've These six did the trick for me in the past year. (You can check out my roundup list Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year, which I You can also check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year What are some of your favorite romantic fiction reads, from the past year or from this one so far?

I've been posting roundups of my favorite reads from last year by genre. Last Year, Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year, Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year. Now I offer you six of my favorite memoirish reads from last year. Did you read any favorite memoirs last year or have you read any new favorites this year?

A while back I posted about Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and here are six more of my favorite science fiction reads from the past year. You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. Me an Ending. 03 The Humans by Matt Haig The Humans was one of my Bossy favorite books of the whole year last year.

I've been posting about favorite reads from lots of genres that I've loved reading in the past year: Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year last year. What are some of your favorite nonfiction reads, from the past year or from this one so far?

Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads "Is she going to just keep rehashing all the big hits of her past year of my favorite reads of the past year by genre, the hits are going to keep coming! I recently posted about Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year. This list highlights six more of my very favorite mystery reads of last year (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.)

ICYMI: Geraldine Brooks crafts a historical fiction story of 1666, a year in which disease, fear, and book, Horse, and I realized that I haven't posted a Bossy review of another Brooks favorite of mine, Year But through the pain, witch-hunting, loss, and confusion of the year, the community finds unexpected In Year of Wonders, Brooks shapes a vivid world that comes to life because of the author's painstaking

genres to read, and I recently posted about Six Four-Star (And Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year ; here are six more Bossy loves I read last year. I posted last year about Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six More Four-Star (And Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year. 01 A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains There's relatively little page time spent on the later years of Hildegard's life at the abbey.

Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres, and just as I do every year I posted last year about Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six More Four-Star (And Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year. 01 The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook The Madstone When nineteen-year-old orphan and frontier carpenter Benjamin Shreve encounters Nell, he determines to tongue, and she feels like the poor treatment her husband shows her may be deserved, as after eight years

Here are six of my favorite mystery and suspense reads of last year--with another list to come! If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite mystery reads? twisty events, unsolved elements from the past and present, and a denouement I didn't predict. “...hear , Allison, Nate, Janelle, and David--and their dialogue--are fantastic as always.

behind the scenes of three college admissions offices where he was given access during the course of a year teenage brain is still maturing throughout high school...every month in high school is mentally like a year Selingo aims to eliminate the unknown in order to offer some sanity to those geared up about the overwhelming about the varied, specific criteria desired by these varied college admissions committees in a certain year

I love a favorites list--check out my favorites lists, posted at the end of each month and year and sometimes of April seemed like a great time to take stock in a Greedy Reading List of my favorites so far this year You might also like the books on my monthly Greedy Reading List roundups so far this year: January Wrap-Up Weir provides Grace with unexpected company, fascinating collaboration, fantastic interpersonal relationships Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi ​This peek into a childhood in Kabul and a lifetime of searching and yearning

Others I've enjoyed during the past year include: The Dead Romantics, Something Wilder, Weather Girl, : Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year You can check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my absolute most favorite reads from last year.

I read over 100 books a year, and a five-star read is a special one for me. Which standout books have you read this year? What made them your favorites? established of Alzheimer's disease, he considers the cases of those he has known who suffered for many years

He's a fantastic character I loved. This great book by C.A. #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #youngadult, #fourstarbookreview 02 The Grace Year ​ The Grace Year is also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone book in the same series, is fantastic

In today's post I highlight six more of my favorite fiction reads from last year. past year of reading? I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.

In Johnson's book, fifteen-year-old Jennifer struggles with an eating disorder and enters a residential of Everything and This Girl Is Different. 02 A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi It's been a year since the events of 9/11, and Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who lives in the United States, I know they yearned for connections with each other, but this didn't seem to fit. will be published in August. 06 Driving by Starlight by Anat Deracine Leena and Mishie are sixteen-year-olds

Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives in the terminal ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital In the hospital's arts and crafts class, she meets 83-year-old Margot, a spirited, rebellious new friend Collectively they've been around 100 years, but this just doesn't feel like enough, and they each want care nurse, the friends make a plan to create one hundred paintings, one to represent each of their years The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot explores mortality, but also friends who are like family, failings

Here are six of my favorite science fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! a strange, dark, captivating sequel (Harrow the Ninth), and one of my top favorite reads from last year (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for all my best-of reads from last year.) out Harrow the Ninth. 05 Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir In one of my favorite overall reads of last year One of my reading regrets from last year is not listening to this as an audiobook.

death-row inmate's desperate need for escapism leads to an elaborate world of magical thinking and fantastical He imagines a rich imaginary world full of fantastical visions, and these thoughts sustain him through

six more of my favorite fiction reads from last year in a second Greedy Reading List. : Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Year, and Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my absolute most favorite reads from last year. What are some of your favorite fiction reads, from the past year or from this one so far?

But when Sam spots a grizzly bear swimming alongside the ferry--a bear that then shows up near their Elena chooses to see the bear as a sign of something positive, and she begins drawing the bear in with Their mother is failing, the bear is beginning to destroy their home, Elena is increasingly convinced The bear is a lumbering, drooling, stinking metaphor for the brutal truths set to implode Sam and Elena's The bear does ultimately shift everything for their family, and the story is brutal in its climax, yet

Here are six of my very favorite historical fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? always seen associated with letters, voices, and emotions--which she has always been told to ignore, for fear

The stories Immanuelle hears about her deceased mother Miriam all have one thing in common: her defiance

I posted last month about Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, but I had six more And four historical fiction books were on my overall favorites list for last year: The Last Bookshop check out all the titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my very favorite reads from the past year No other book seemed to come up in conversation as frequently last year with my fellow book lovers as After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes

; I'm listening to Jen Hatmaker's memoir Awake ; and I'm listening to my newly discovered favorite fantasy territory of Alaska sets his men the task of recovering the skeleton of a creature not seen for a hundred years Having inspired women for years as a leader in authenticity and a proponent of healthy relationships, Kingfisher imagines richly imagined fantasy worlds, and within them slots fantastically imperfect and This is my fantasy sweet spot. T. Kingfisher is also the author of many other novels.

Keefe Patrick Radden Keefe, a journalist with an Irish name but without a dog in this particular fight, fantastically This book was published in 2014, but I finally read it this year and am so very glad. Listening to Stevenson narrate the audiobook was fantastic. These great books are listed in the order I read them this year rather than any order of preference. with White Type on Dark Covers, which is apparently the look of most of the nonfiction I read this year

relaxation, adventure, and some breaks from the day-to-day schedules and pressures of the rest of the year I'm taking a short break from posting--and I hope to read some fantastic books to share with you when But not this year! published favorites to come soon, as well as a Greedy Reading List featuring my favorite books of the year I've got these books going at the moment: recently published fantasy-historical fiction, the second in

Kim Liggett's The Grace Year is a Lord of the Flies-esque situation of trapped girls who devolve into This book is on my Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels.

Dannie is on the path to achieving her five-year goals in spectacularly efficient fashion. Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected.

I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Sarah Rees Brennan's darkly playful dive into life as a villain in a fantasy dying, and in a panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of her favorite fantasy Sarah Rees Brennan is also the author of the fantastic character-driven young-adult fantasy In Other And her brother disappeared fourteen years earlier. He was never found. In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried,

I thought I'd offer a full list of giftable fiction published in 2025 that I've loved reading this year indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year This is the type of romantic fantasy I adore. Other great literary fiction titles published this year: The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr, Buckeye Other captivating fiction titles published this year include: The Correspondent , A Guardian and a Thief

Scorah tells a fascinating personal story of growth and fear and change.

Pan decided to deliberately put herself into extremely uncomfortable social situations for a year, and She regrets her one-year plan almost instantly but feels compelled to continue her terrifying exercises We used to brainstorm book ideas for the following year and then, honestly, I would push through my own that my book club friends now patiently and kindly wade through to cast their votes for the coming year We've been happily meeting monthly for about fourteen years now, so let's just say we're all clear on

The author offers a vivid account of the fear and dread—intermixed with sparks of hope—that sustained societal expectations for women, great adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fantastic in 1924 South Carolina were wonderful, and I still think about this book although I read it almost a year ago (technically, at the end of last year).

Earth ​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year I still think about this book from time to time, and I read it over a year ago. 04 The Last Child I loved including societal malaise, ignorance often overpowering facts, and longstanding patterns of power and fear Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo). It feels like the time of year to be stocking up on spooky books and mysteries.

His wife Elisabeth fears his involvement in the resistance that plans to assassinate Hitler. into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young woman forced to grow up too quickly--a woman who for years Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West, Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year

her five-year goals in spectacularly efficient fashion. Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected. For my full review of this book, see In Five Years. What were some of your favorite fiction reads this year? reading many of these books as the Covid-19 pandemic began to shape life in the United States this year

postwar San Francisco; I'm listening to The Knight and the Moth , the first in Rachel Gillig's rich fantasy the Moth , considers Sybil Delling and a group of five other foundling girls who have given up ten years So far this is a richly built fantasy world with a minor romance aspect; it's a balance I'm really liking Gaige's Heartwood offers the story of Beverly, a dedicated Maine State Game Warden who has fought for years Valerie's poignant letters to her mother as she struggles to survive in the wild, and witness to 76-year-old

Three other titles suggested to me as promising adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian Carey (which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels Interdependency #1) by John Scalzi and Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman (which I've thought about reading for years For other science fiction and fantasy books I've read and reviewed, please check out the titles at this

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Tochi Onyebuchi's dark, broody fantasy mystery, Harmattan 01 Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi In Tochi Onyebuchi's newest fantasy mystery novel, main protagonist Harmattan Season is a dark, broody, mysterious fantasy story that takes place in post-colonial West I'm listening to this as an audiobook. 02 Sunny Side Up by Katie Sturino Sunny Greene is a 35-year-old

In Kuang's dark academia fantasy novel Katabasis , Alice Law is a postgraduate student in a ruthlessly This is a clever, strange, dark, and often darkly funny fantasy. This is the type of romantic fantasy I adore. Tale of Two Cities  offered a compelling story of redemption and self-sacrifice with a significant fantasy In this historical fiction-fantasy, characters from Dickens's tale are plunged into a dark, powerful

Brown's debut fantasy novel offers a swirl of magical books, a makeshift team of world-savers, plenty In Gareth Brown's debut fantasy novel The Book of Doors, main protagonist Cassie Andrews works in a New Cassie's years-long hiatus sloooooowed the pace of the book too much for my taste. did set into motion an important yet brief plan for the future, and she and her companion spend those years bonding in a sweet way, but I felt like those were years that could have been filled with Cassie's gaining

The Books I'm Reading Now I guess this list is an Escape from Reality attempt, as I have three fantasy I'm listening to Ruby Dixon's sassy fantasy novel, Bull Moon Rising ; I'm reading M. L. The cover is arresting, and the sparkles and art are a nod to the novel's fantasy genre. Wang For twenty years, Sciona has single-mindedly set out to learn enough complex, intuitive, precise . 03 Voyage of the Damned by Frances White To honor Concordia's thousand years of peace between its twelve