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Six Four-Star Bossy Mystery Reads We've reached the point in the year--the very beginning--when I obsess titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall favorite reads from last year What are some of your favorite mystery reads, whether from the past year or beyond? Book two picks up when our main characters, having laid low  and lived their own lives for a year, are An Eastern European gangster has obtained the names of agents who have stood in his way over the years

Six Great Bossy Contemporary Fiction Reads I loved a range of great books last year, and these were six Rocky's family has been vacationing in Cape Cod for twenty years. She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental. This year, she's sandwiched between her half-grown children and her aging parents. Margo is a 19-year-old community college student having an affair with her married professor.

favorite lists I'll have for you as I revisit my reading for the Bossy best of the best from the past year titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall favorite reads from last year What are some of your favorite historical reads, whether from the past year or beyond? The Civil War is looming, and Junie is a sixteen-year-old who has spent her whole life enslaved on an The Nickel Academy is based on a real-life reform school that, horrifyingly, abused boys for 111 years

In Lynn Painter's rom-com Betting on You , rule-following seventeen-year-old Bailey and sarcastic, joking the client, NFL tight end Derek Pender, were college sweethearts, and Nora abruptly broke things off years It's hundreds of years after King Arthur's reign, and his descendant and namesake Arthur, a future lord She fell into the job years ago while trying to find herself--after a youth in which her father died, I think Emma's best friend Maddy probably needs her own book (a la Christina Lauren's fantastic True

favorite lists I'll have for you as I revisit my reading for the Bossy best of the best from the past year titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall favorite reads from last year What are some of your favorite historical reads, whether from the past year or beyond? I haven't read Oliver Twist  in many years, yet Fagin has remained ingrained in my head as a selfish, Nor did I love the house's voice, or the house as a whimsical, yearning character (with somewhat unclear

Six More Great Bossy Literary Fiction Reads I read so many read literary fiction books last year, this is my second best-of-the-year list; you can find my first list here . But when Sam spots a grizzly bear swimming alongside the ferry--a bear that then shows up near their Over the course of the next year, each of those who had been closest to her and who are left behind struggles often she encounters it, the more difficult it becomes for Ada to check her temper, her opinions, her yearning

Favorite Rom-Com Reads This is my second favorites lists of rom-coms and romantic reads from the past year More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My Favorite Light Fictions Reads of the Past Year Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect Henry's Beach Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading Several years after saying goodbye, Anna is struggling to pay for her father's cancer treatment and has

Fiction Reads It's March, and I'm still spending Fridays obsessing over my favorite reads of the past year I loved so many historical fiction books last year, this is my second list of favorite reads. If you've read any of these books, I'd love to hear what you think! The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress , The Rose Code , and

My very favorite Bossy reads so far this year! I've had a wonderful start to 2024 reading, so here are the nine books I've most loved so far this year And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite reads so far this year? It's hundreds of years after King Arthur's reign, and his descendant and namesake Arthur, a future lord A fifteen-year-old Indigenous Masquisit girl Anequs finds a dragon egg, and when it hatches, she befriends

Favorite Bossy Historical Fiction Reads of the Year I loved reading so many historical fiction books last year, this is my fourth list of favorites in that genre. fiction favorites here , and you'll find Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the past year And if you're interested in My Very Favorite Bossy Reads of Last Year across all genres, check out the In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried,

Rachel Hartman's young adult story follows irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval gender roles in favor of adventure and discovery. It's captivating, sometimes weighty, and often playful, but never silly. She felt like she was seeing with two different eyes: an eye full of stars that still saw the romance, and a new eye, one she'd acquired while walking, an eye full of... It was full of fire, she decided. Her second eye saw the flesh of this story burned away, held the bones up to her own story, and saw the injustice. In Hartman's Tess of the Road, Tess doesn't fit the mold of an obedient, quiet young woman in her medieval kingdom of Goredd, where men rule the land and each household within it. Without airing out all of the family's dirty laundry, let's just say that this time Tess has really taken things too far for fine society, and she's not a young lady who can be subdued. So Tess's family decides to send her to a nunnery. But Tess has other plans. On the day she's scheduled to report for the beginning of her cloistered life, she cuts her hair, pulls on walking boots, and runs away, determined to craft a life for herself outside of the narrow parameters set upon her. Tess's long-held ability to get into trouble leads her on an adventure of a lifetime. Tess is irresistibly faulted and headstrong; she is full of wonder and desperate for adventure; she is pushing at the edge of the disappointingly limited possibilities for young women; and she finds herself increasingly frustrated, then furious, about the double standards, injustices, and power inequality between men and women. There are various complex serpent- and dragon-like creatures within the story, and the longtime, unorthodox friendship between Tess and a dragon-adjacent creature (called a quigutl) helps root the story. Yet the heart of this book is based upon timeless issues, a search for justice, and pushing traditional boundaries. There's a "woman dresses as a man to escape gender limitations" trope; the story emphasizes loyalty, duty, and bravery; and there's some dabbling in faith issues as well as feelings of disillusionment related to certain religious conventions. Tess experiences unexpected, touching, and never-cheesy romance. We witness some of Tess's sobering realizations about the dark truths in the world--as well as her sometimes overly simplified, bull-headed, endearing insistence on interjecting herself to try to help others...or advance her own interests. Hartman's 521-page story is immensely satisfying. Tess of the Road is playful yet never silly. The story zigzags in an appealing way through phases of Tess's young explorations. The tale is full of captivating discoveries of all kinds while also addressing deep issues about gender, power, and possibility. It addresses female empowerment within the frustrating constraints of the time, laying out some hopeful, plausible baby steps toward progress. I'm excited to read the sequel. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? Rachel Hartman is also the author of the Seraphina series. The second book in the Tess of the Road series, In the Serpent's Wake, was published last month. I can't wait to read this one!

Renkl's beautiful, striking observations range from a New Year's Day sighting of a crow and her exploration of crows' senses of community and cleverness, which she hopes set a tone for the year to come; to a

Six More Bossy Favorite Reads I've been posting lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre If you've read any of these titles, I'd love to hear what you think! I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite reads, whether you loved them last year or more story collection Antarctica and the novel Foster, which was one of my all-around favorite reads last year

harried book publicist who falls in love with her temporary roommate...then discovers he's living seven years I loved that The Seven Year Slip was about the publishing world and also the restaurant world, and how

If you've read any of these books, I'd love to hear what you think! of favorite nonfiction and memoir roundups here: Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year Zamora keeps us in his nine-year-old perspective, which also serves to keep us focused on moment-by-moment , concern, disconnectedness), and yearning (he is desperate for trust, for assurances, for safety and these cold cases, from Laci Peterson to Jaycee Dugard to the Pittsburgh homicides to, yes, my twenty-year-long

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

; 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.

novel about a boy-band's nostalgic voyage with three thousand of their most dedicated fans, American Fantasy The thoughtful, kind former teacher of the year loves sailing, connects with his students, and is a calming Fantasy ship is headed out on a four-day voyage, and its honored guests are the five-member nineties Annie agreed to come with her sister, whose love for the band has only strengthened over the years. Sarah Damoff is also the author of The Bright Years.

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

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