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 The Bossy Bookworm during its very first year.

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 Reads of the Month February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

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? He takes the reader on a roller coaster of emotions, and I love every bit of it. Schur, creator of the television series The Good Place, explores various schools of thought about ethics

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? For my full review, check out Every Summer After.

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? The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while And Emma would very much like to make it out of this alive as well.

Six Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads I'm having so much fun spending Fridays highlighting books I've loved : 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? of a close-knit network of community members) and a successful city doctor with expensive taste and very

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series Welga Ramirez is an elite bodyguard who is former special forces, and she's on the verge of retirement

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. Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads Doctors and Friends. 03 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub This Time Tomorrow was also one of my overall Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads.

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. the Edge of the Universe (Salvagers #1) by Alex White The first in Alex White's Salvagers space opera series White's science fiction novel A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in White's Salvagers series

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? heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined power and scope of gene engineering, the world on the verge

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?

Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my absolute most favorite Trying) by Cristina Fernandez How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) was also one of my overall Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads. And Not Die Trying). 03 Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Marcellus the octopus is the very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads.

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 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! The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

My very favorite books from March! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, in no particular order. 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! road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very

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? I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails

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 of sweetness; The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first in Becky Chambers's science fiction series I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? some surprises, and Molly seems more than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the very

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

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! The music is all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands Novik builds upon her irresistible Scholomance world in The Last Graduate, and I'm so very glad there

My very favorite books from November! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? I read Caste with a group and met every other week to discuss it--and we went months past our original

#comingofage, #heartwarming, #faith, #nordic, #fourstarbookreview What have been your favorite books published this summer, or favorite books you've read this summer?

Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise

My very favorite books from September! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? And for more young adult stories about royalty, you might try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

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? Some of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List

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 Summer 2020 Reads list.

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? by Hank Green This was one of my very favorite reads of the month!

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? this book, please see The Invisible Woman. 03 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Great Circle was my favorite Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this.

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? No one's forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of The Survivors is my favorite Harper book yet. The Last Graduate, the second book in this series, is slated for publication in June 2021.

My very favorite books from March! What are some of your recent favorite reads--or books that weren't for you? the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series). I loved having more time with my favorite minor character, the plain-speaking, tough, brutal but fair , plus the series ending I didn’t even know I wanted.

I do like a thoughtful memoir if I can get it, and in A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir, Colin Jost offers Jost begins A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's gripping

That is, until she stumbles across Brody's email laying out how he's prepared to sack her in favor of own life while caring for her dying mother until she passed away; and a second-chance love (one of my favorite The retirement-community setting and Vera's eventual role in it were two of my favorite elements. This is entertaining reading; it doesn't very often feel realistic but it's fun, and it offers the happy ending it seems to promise from the very beginning.

advance copies of almost all of the titles I list here, so I need to get to work reading and sharing my favorite Some of these upcoming titles are books by favorite authors and others are from authors new to me, but

Through precocious fifth-grader Vera's point of view in Vera, or Faith , we get to know her family, the Yet Vera idolizes him for much of the book, until she comes to some sober realizations. duo falls into a promising friendship in which Vera can be her true self. Many of the key elements of her observations are placed in quotation marks, and this is a very funny, This was wryly funny, sometimes zany, and so very heartwarming.

Saga series, has cover art that to me evokes fantasy, but the series is actually captivating historical It's a little dark, consistently fascinating, sometimes funny, and very satisfying. Shadow and Bone is my favorite among multiple great Bardugo series, and it's also the title of the first 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.

Decay, we catch up with the delightfully grumpy Murderbot (SecUnit), who in this eighth book in the series And without SecUnit's opportunities for much interaction with ART in this installment of the series, One of my favorite elements is SecUnit's constant analysis of escape routes, outlandish or ambitious

She is often exasperated and very funny. I enjoyed this very much and wished it were a full-length novel. More Olivia Waite Olivia Waite is also the author of the Feminine Pursuits series and many other stand-alone For more of my Bossy science-fiction favorites, check out the titles at this link .

ICYMI: This series by Naomi Novik introduces vain, strong-willed, talking dragons, their complex, wonderfully “It seems very strange that the ocean is full of things that one can eat as one likes, and on land everything “I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.” The stories in her book Buried Deep revisit some favorite Novik worlds as well as introducing the world where Novik's future series takes place.

also check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Books about Music Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List 2023 Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas   2021 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell Along with The Egypt Game and The Westing Game , two classic favorites Judith Rossell is also the author of the Stella Montgomery series.

also check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites Bossy Book Gift Guides 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List More 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Books about Music Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List 2023 A Rich Time-Travel Fantasy by a Favorite Author 03 The Everlasting by Alix E. This is the first in a series and I'm really looking forward to reading the next installment.

Maggie has long leaned on rereading her favorite fantasy series for comfort and security. She eagerly awaits the final book in the series, and by now she feels like she personally knows the characters And she doesn't seem to be very good at staying out of trouble, so her undying status might prove to But as the novel progressed I felt as though the story relied very heavily upon this structure of Maggie's They have also co-authored the Kate Daniels, Edge, and Hidden Legacy series, as well as the Innkeeper

also check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites 2025 Bossy Book Gift Guides 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List 2024 Bossy Book Gift Guides Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Books about Music Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List 2023 For the Empty Nesters or Grandparents 02 A Meal for Two: Recipes to Treat Your Favorite People by Emily Ocean: A Journey to the Earth's Last Wild Coasts by Peter and Beverly Pickford I was recently at a Favorite

More about Melissa Caruso books--and more favorite Bossy reads that play with time: This is the first Caruso is also the author of the Rooks and Ruin and Swords and Fire series. For Bossy reviews of many other books that play with time--this is one of my favorite elements--you can

Gadgets, disguises, alternative identities, bugs and surveillance-- The Trap  involves many of my favorite

I wanted more character development and fantasy elements from this second book in the series, but I liked The first installment in the Shield of Sparrows series set up an overlooked princess who became a heroine she's got six-year-old Evie and a fierce baby monster, Faze, tagging along with her with her through every novels; I wonder if the author's focus on romance writing is the reason the fantasy elements of the series More Romantasy Titles Click here to read my review of book one in the series, Shield of Sparrows.

This is the sixth installment in Atkinson's Jackson Brodie series, but it can be read as a stand-alone

I feel compelled to see this series through to its end. The Hallmarked Man is the newest in the Cormoran Strike mystery series, and in the story, a dismembered And Ryan Murphy is showing some weak points, and every time he does, Strike gets a bigger chance with Rowling (Robert Galbraith is the pen name she uses for the Cormoran Strike series). You can also find many other mystery series I've enjoyed here or by searching this site.

My favorite elements were the action sequences, the opportunities for humor, and the pacing of this 640 Yet she also serves up an unexpected (as in, we thought he was dead, so: very unexpected) second chance characters to be less earnest and more playful and to invoke a little bit of dark humor at times (my favorite One of my favorite dragons is almost completely absent from the book (sleeping for hundreds of pages) The tone is very different from the Empyrian series--no teen angst or steamy scenes.

men solve women's problems, but this was entertaining, spicy, and sets up Lyla Sage's Western romance series In Done and Dusted , the first book in Lyla Sage's modern-day Western romance series, Clementine "Emmy Emmy's reinvigorated, independent new outlook--and I acknowledge that a rugged ranch setting might very minor point, but it felt both condescending and potentially (creepily) fatherly to me within their very There are three more books in this series.

And after a series of unlikely, unfortunate events, bookworm Neema becomes one of them--the least threatening competition become ever heightened, characters must forge previously unthinkable loyalties and use every Author--and More Fantasy Novels I've Loved Antonia Hodgson is also the author of the Thomas Hawkins series

Sebastian de Castell's worldbuilding is fascinating, the magic-school setting is a favorite, and the Sebastian de Castell is the author of 16 novels, including 6 in the Spellslinger series and 4 in the Greatcoats series--plus prequels and extras.