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My very favorite October reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a bitingly funny, poignant book of essays; a candid And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads?

Bossy Bookworm's Very Favorite Books of 2022..So Far! I love a favorites list--check out my favorites lists, posted at the end of each month and year and sometimes The end of April seemed like a great time to take stock in a Greedy Reading List of my favorites so far John Mandel, and Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett), so stay tuned for more Bossy Favorites lists! Reads of the Month February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads

My very favorite September reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two new novels from favorite authors who each include stories; one nonfiction book I've been meaning to read for years; a book that plays with time (one of my favorite And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads?

01 Recursion by Blake Crouch Recursion is more fantastic character-driven science fiction from Blake

ICYMI: Bossy Bookworm's Very Favorite Books of 2020! I love an end-of-year, best-of, favorite books list, and I loved putting together my very first year-end A year later, I stand by all of these titles as favorites! This book made the Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads. This title was also listed in My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

My very favorite books from August! What a fantastic Bossy reading month! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, all of which I rated 4.5 stars. And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads?

Six Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads I'm having so much fun spending Fridays highlighting books I've loved I've also been posting about favorite reads from lots of genres that I've loved reading in the past year : Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Memoir Reads Last Year You can check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my absolute most favorite What are some of your favorite lighter fiction reads, from the past year or from this one so far?

You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into She's hacked into the game plenty of times and glitched the system to work in her favor.

Six More Favorite Fiction Reads I listed Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year in this Greedy In today's post I highlight six more of my favorite fiction reads from last year. I read and loved so many books in the past year, I can't resist more more more roundups of my favorites Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads I'd also love to hear about some of your favorite fiction reads, from last year or from this one so far

My very favorite books from July! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two memoirs, two historical fiction titles, a science And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

My very favorite books from June! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: contemporary fiction, young adult, nonfiction, fantasy And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? the power of menopausal women and the poignant strength of friendship; supplies satisfying revenge fantasies The revenge-fantasy element is particularly satisfying.

My very favorite books from May! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, which include contemporary fiction, suspense, nonfiction And I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads?

My very favorite reads this year! I post a monthly wrap-up of my favorite reads, and now that 2021 is almost over, it's time to share the In no particular order, here are my absolute favorite reads of the year. What are some of your recent favorite reads? Let's do some Bossy book talking! Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read

My very favorite books from April! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? 01 The Rose Code by Kate Quinn This was my favorite read of the month!

Six More Favorite Fiction Reads I love spending Fridays raving about books I've loved! I listed Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year in this Greedy Reading List, then I highlighted six more of my favorite fiction reads from last year in a second Greedy Reading List. Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my absolute most favorite What are some of your favorite fiction reads, from the past year or from this one so far?

My very favorite books from March! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, in no particular order. historical fiction mystery, based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring (spoiler: this was my favorite I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams This was my favorite read of the month!

My very favorite books from February! Here are my favorite reads of the past month, in no particular order: No Cure for Being Human, a funny I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Weir provides Grace with unexpected company, fascinating collaboration, fantastic interpersonal relationships

My very favorite books from January! Aaaaaand here we are in February! My favorite reads of the past month include, in no particular order: The Maid, Nita Prose's recently I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores

My very favorite books from December! that time of year: it seems everyone has an opinion about the year's best books and their personal favorites My own Favorite Books of 2021 comes out on December 31. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? In her novel from my favorite publishing company for young people, Peachtree Publishing, Rebecca Elliott

of the Sea ; I'm listening to Jen Hatmaker's memoir Awake ; and I'm listening to my newly discovered favorite fantasy author T. 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.

My very favorite books from November! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads?

My very favorite books from October! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? This was my favorite read of the month! In book two, El continues to be a fantastically grumpy, powerful, whip-smart, socially awkward, straightforward

My very favorite books from September! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

My very favorite books from July! Here are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads--or books you've read recently that just Cosby This was my favorite read of the month. loved his gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six Favorite In this second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology, Nikolai, Zoya,

My very favorite books from August! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List

This book made the Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads. This title was also listed in My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads. Which books were your favorites this year? I love an end-of-year, best-of, favorite books list, and I loved putting together this very first year-end list (which is not precisely in order of most to least favorite, although the titles are numbered for

My very favorite reads so far this year! I post a monthly wrap-up of my favorite reads, but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like time Great Circle is my favorite book of the year so far! What are some of your recent favorite reads? Let's do some Bossy book talking! Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read

My very favorite books from June! strong, ruthless, clever young seafaring woman, Fable; A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, one of my two favorite maudlin or sappy despite the tragedy and yearning at the book's heart; Soulmate Equation, my other favorite What are some of your recent favorite reads--or books you've read recently that weren't for you? series, Fable, click here. 02 A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor by Hank Green This was one of my very favorite

My very favorite books from May! Hall, a courageous, idealistic, determined, and imperfect heroine I was intrigued by; Great Circle, my favorite What are some of your recent favorite reads--or books you've read recently that weren't for you? I loved listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she read her memoir in audiobook form and feel this book, please see The Invisible Woman. 03 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Great Circle was my favorite

my summer post on the topic, here are my favorite reads from the first half of the year! My year-end list of 2021 favorites is coming soon! My very favorite reads so far this year! I post a monthly wrap-up of my favorite reads, but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like time Great Circle is my favorite book of the year so far! What are some of your recent favorite reads? Let's do some Bossy book talking!

I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Sarah Rees Brennan's darkly playful dive into life as a villain in a fantasy story that flips a traditional setup, and I have high hopes that Long Live Evil is going to be my new favorite now she's dying, and in a panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of her favorite fantasy series. Sarah Rees Brennan is also the author of the fantastic character-driven young-adult fantasy In Other

I could have listed so many fantastic young adult titles here, but I picked these varied, wonderful six Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read for fun and to edit. What are your favorite young adult books, or books that made you delight in feeling all the feelings I would have been in favor of having the romantic element being tied up without the Eve aspect, or having The story celebrates true friendship, loyalty, and fantastic, clever, clever ladies overcoming obstacles

My very favorite books from April! What are some of your recent favorite reads--or books you've read recently that weren't for you? The Survivors is my favorite Harper book yet. dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic Novik also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading

My very favorite books from March! multigenerational family story told through two timelines; the final book in a darkly playful young adult fantasy series; a quirky, campy mystery and revenge fantasy; and a young adult thriller with outlandish circumstances What are some of your recent favorite reads--or books that weren't for you? I loved having more time with my favorite minor character, the plain-speaking, tough, brutal but fair

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. What are some of your favorite science fiction reads? and the gutsy characters facing wartime struggles and challenges, but I was surprised that the book's fantasy I really liked this, but I was surprised by how light it felt on fantasy elements.

Blacktop Wasteland is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk. #comingofage, #heartwarming, #faith, #nordic, #fourstarbookreview What have been your favorite books published this summer, or favorite books you've read this summer?

Six Great Bossy Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads? I listened to the first installment in Shannon Chakraborty's Amina al-Sirafi fantasy series, The Adventures & Lattes (Legends & Lattes #1) by Travis Baldree The first in the Legends & Lattes series is a cozy fantasy

Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds, Novik's newest work, Buried Deep ,  is a collection of thirteen stories that span the worlds of her fantastic When I read a collection of short stories, I inevitably develop favorites, and while reading Buried Deep Naomi Novik is the author of richly wrought fantasy novels featuring main protagonists I love: Uprooted Novik has also written a series of nine fantastic books about dragons, the Temeraire series.

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Kingfisher writes my favorite kind of fantasy novel: a wonderfully oddball main protagonist, a strange Kingfisher imagines richly imagined fantasy worlds, and within them she slots fantastically imperfect This is my fantasy sweet spot. More Kingfisher and other Fantasy Novels T. You can find my Bossy review of A Sorceress Comes to Call   here and reviews of other fantasy titles

White's And I Darken , the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has cover art that to me evokes fantasy This blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and paranormal continues with LaFevers's Dark Triumph , Mortal relationship growth. 04 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy The Queen of Attolia , The King of Attolia , A Conspiracy of Kings (this was possibly my favorite among favorites), Thick As Thieves , and Return of the Thief are the other books in the series.

She wrapped some of my favorite elements in funny banter, poignant (non-swooning) romance, and enough This funny, poignant, powerful connection is one of my favorite aspects of the novel. Gawain (a favorite, scene-stealing character) is key to that discovery. It's narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan. For more books about time travel, one of my favorite narrative devices, please check out these titles

This debut cozy novel showcases many of my favorite elements--magic, banter, a grumpy-sunshine hard-won Violet Thistlewaite has lots of my favorite elements: magic, a grumpy-sunshine matchup, a fresh-start

The first in Holland's ocean-focused young adult fantasy series leaves much of the story for later books So many elements of this premise are favorites for me--a strong young female main protagonist, ship life More Fantasy Books Sara Holland is also the author of the Everless and Havenfall series. For other fantasy books I've reviewed, check out the titles at this link .

I wanted more character development and fantasy elements from this second book in the series, but I liked around monster treatment more then she embraces the development of these creatures--an aspect that as a fantasy author of forty romance novels; I wonder if the author's focus on romance writing is the reason the fantasy I can be picky about "romantasy;" I generally prefer straight fantasy novels, but for other books I've

I think I have enough other favorite reads in these categories to make two more Greedy Reading Lists. He's a fantastic character I loved. This great book by C.A. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone book in the same series, is fantastic This is one of my all-time favorite books.

And the found-family element is a favorite of mine; Kingfisher builds this aspect poignantly, messily For more fantasy novels I've loved, please check out the titles at this link .

Fairy Tales and Retellings For this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil and airborne dragon battles within the books, and the human protagonists are wonderfully faulted and fantastic

There is a romantic element, but this is, happily for me, a richly built fantasy and not a romantasy. More from this Author--and More Fantasy Novels I've Loved Antonia Hodgson is also the author of the Thomas You might also be interested in other fantasy books I've read and reviewed .

Wang is also the author of The Sword of Kaigen  and the YA fantasy series The Volta Academy Chronicles