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- Review of Yellowface by R. F. Kuang
witnesses Athena's death and then mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers during World War Kuang is also the author of Babel and The Poppy War trilogy.
- Review of Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi
In Tochi Onyebuchi's fantasy mystery, main protagonist Boubacar is a war veteran and a private investigator
- Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris
Harris's action-packed World War II story moves between the terrors of 1930s Germany and the glamour In the newest World War II-set novel by Tessa Harris, it's 1930, and Jewish ballet dancer Lilli Sternberg It's action-driven World War II intrigue, and it's a quick, compelling read. If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II.
- Review of Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection by John Green
In face, between 1985 and 2005, roughly as many people died of tuberculosis as in World Wars I and II
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/9/25 Edition
by Tochi Onyebuchi In Tochi Onyebuchi's newest fantasy mystery novel, main protagonist Boubacar is a war
- Review of Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu
You may see much of this young adult story coming, but Warcross is an action-packed quest to right wrongs circumstances to become a bounty hunter seeking out those who bet illegally on the worldwide phenomenon Warcross Warcross is a teen dream: the intersection of immersive video gaming (à la Ender's Game) and romaaaaaantic I've been putting Marie Lu series (Legend, The Young Elites, and Warcross) into my son's hands for years
- Review of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller
There's a minor, secondhand, yet powerful focus on the brutality and destruction of war, but also significant
- Six More Books about Brave Female Spies
recent Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II. 01 Miss Graham's and provides fascinating details of life in Germany at the end of World War II. has a degree in German (and, more importantly and unbeknownst to her, an old connection to a hunted war The Invisible Woman is historical fiction about the real-life World War II-era spy Virginia Hall. peeks at real-life Cold War intrigue from the talented author Ben Macintyre.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/1/25 Edition
of Natalie Haynes's A Thousand Ships , a woman-centered retelling of events surrounding the Trojan War Samantha is a scholarship MFA student at the progressive Warren University in New England.
- Review of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War II code breaking come alive through the stories of three young Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer the wartime I love a World War II story about strong women making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about Reading Lists Six Books about Brave Female Spies, Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War
- Review of Skylark by Paula McLain
fiction, which comes to life through incredible details of life in seventeenth-century and early World War
- Review of Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
memoir details the former American intelligence officer's true story of her family during the Cold War Army Intelligence Officer to lead intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War For more nonfiction spy stories about the Cold War, check out two great books by Ben McIntyre, the gripping Sonya and a book I loved even more, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/27/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amy Harmon's Revolutionary War-set historical fiction about a young As the Revolutionary War looms, Deborah's large frame allows her to pass as a male and join the Continental
- Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Sports Nonfiction
, and they can order almost anything they don't have in stock. 01 When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season by Rich Cohen In When the Game Was War, Rich Cohen shares the gritty back story of the 1987 NBA Global Color Line, about the world's first Black heavyweight boxing champion. 05 Freedom to Win: A Cold War
- Review of Only Pretty Damned by Niall Howard
Niall Howard's debut is a noir story about the underbelly of life in a post-World-War-II circus, with
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/25 Edition
Be Right Here by Amy Bloom Gazala must be crafty, humble, and alert to get by as a Jew while World War
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/22/22 Edition
listening to The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin, charming historical fiction set during World War 01 The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin The Last Bookshop in London no interest in), Grace heads to her deceased mother's old friend in London to take refuge as World War The young women's wartime experiences take Viv to glamorous Harrod's, settle Grace in a dusty old bookshop
- Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads
my full review of Just Mercy. 03 The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War is a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, and the twists double agent for Britain’s MI6, to be appointed Resident in the KGB—and to ultimately help end the Cold War He does an excellent job of immersing the reader in Cold War-era mindsets, priorities, and sometimes
- Review of The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
gripping, detailed, life-and-death period in the life of an ethnically German family at the end of World War tells a tale of a family's incredible bravery and determination in the waning, cruel days of World War The Martels run west with the Nazi wolves--finding themselves caught between two ruthless, warring armies fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from the Ukraine at the end of World War
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
elements, Brown crafts a character-driven story of the shocking, widespread, deadly West Virginia Mine Wars presents a historical novel centering around the real-life events of the 1920 and 1921 West Virginia Mine Wars a Lebanese-American doctor (inspired by Taylor Brown's great-grandfather); Big Frank, a black World War
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/24/22 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Last Green Valley, World War II-set historical fiction by Mark tells a tale of a family's incredible bravery and determination in the waning, cruel days of World War The Martels run west with the Nazi wolves, finding themselves caught between the two ruthless, warring fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from the Ukraine at the end of World War
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/13/25 Edition
Kuang is also the author of Yellowface , The Poppy War , Babel , The Burning God , and The Dragon Republic
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Click here for my full review of The Humans. 03 The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin This World War II-set novel is a love letter to books, to looking out for others, I love a World War II-set book, and I adored The Last Bookshop in London. If you like World War II stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II.
- Review of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war, duty, brainwashing, escaping limitations, and reinventing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition
Reading Now I'm reading the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series about a training college for wartime #1) by Rebecca Yarros Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war But the war is raging, leadership is clearly keeping secrets, and working with the ruthless, deadly dragons
- Review of Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan
But when she dives into the book, wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the
- Review of Conform (Reform #1) by Ariel Sullivan
Ariel Sullivan's futuristic world is centuries past a catastrophic world war that eliminated much of
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/31/25 Edition
During a con she accidentally summons a djinn warrior, Dara, and the two must flee across the desert Centuries-old resentments and conflicts threaten to bubble up into war--and Nahri and Dara's arrival
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/21 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Tessa Harris's recently published World War II-set story Beneath 01 Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris In the newest World War II-set novel by Tessa Harris (author If you like World War II-set books, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II. 02 The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller
- Review of Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Kuang is also the author of Yellowface , The Poppy War , Babel , The Burning God , and The Dragon Republic
- Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music
most popular performers on the planet--and along the way created the background soundtrack for the Civil
- Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year
Rivals (Letters of Enchantment #1) by Rebecca Ross I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing wartime Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a magical wardrobe is the only way she can reach him. The gods' war provides the structure for the book's main conflict, but the story feels primarily focused on everyday, regular-human wartime concerns--with an unlikely-feeling god-war and magical letter-sending
- Review of Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
There's enough strength, redemption, and beauty amid the World War II suffering to give you warm fuzzies pulling together the Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War then reading Bohjalian's Hour of the Witch last week, I was reminded of Bohjalian's captivating World War tough sometimes--the book is about refugees trying to evacuate west across Germany at the end of World War There's enough strength and redemption and beauty amid the pain and suffering to give you warm fuzzies
- Review of Onyx Storm (The Empyrean #3) by Rebecca Yarros
Violet Sorrengail has been training as a dragon rider for 18 months at Basgiath War College, but a real-life
- Review of Boys I Know by Anna Gracia
Her explorations threaten to destroy her relationship with her mother even past the world-war-level disagreements
- Review of A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
It felt conceivable that an unorthodox melding of priorities and futures could occur between the warring
- Review of The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
The world is unraveling on the cusp of World War II, and three strong women will be tested beyond anything they imagined before the end of the war and the end of the book. My book club read this refreshing twist on one of my favorite historical fiction book topics, World War The Light After the War is another World War II title I recently really liked.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/16/24 Edition
of more and more powerful people, including the king--who is desperate for an advantage in Spain's war
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/17/25 Edition
) by Rebecca Yarros Violet Sorrengail has been training as a dragon rider for 18 months at Basgiath War
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/21/22 Edition
about her great-great-aunt, an American who led a powerful underground resistance to the Nazis in World War great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups of World War An American PhD candidate in Germany as World War II unfolded, Mildred witnessed the emergence of Nazi
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/3/21 Edition
Reading Now I'm listening to The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher's memoir focused on the early Star Wars reading Agent Sonya, Ben Macintyre's nonfiction book about a famous female Russian spy during the Cold War reading The Invisible Woman, historical fiction from Erika Robuck based on the life and work of World War behind-the-scenes peeks at Cold War intrigue from Ben Macintyre. Here, Fisher considers: the phenomenon of Star Wars, which drew her into its unprecedented whirlwind
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/12/25 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading John Boyne's novel told in two timelines, World War II and present-day
- Review of Lone Women by Victor LaValle
There's a ton to unpack here, including the exploration of the good and evil warring within each of us
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/25 Edition
widowed swordswoman, and a street-smart young man searching for his disappeared friend just might spark a war
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/7/22 Edition
to try to avoid coping with the difficulties of life; and I'm listening to The Librarian Spy, World War this link for my review of Andrew Sean Greer's Less. 03 The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin As World War
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/9/24 Edition
Lost Queen #3) by Signe Pike I loved the first story in this series, The Lost Queen , which offered warriors When book three begins, the story's key characters have been reunited, but the warrior Artúr is myst There is talk of war's return, and three warriors will shape the future of the land of Vigrid: a noblewoman
- Review of Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk
I loved this post-World War II book about bravery and rural life for middle-grade readers. Betty moves to town and begins to push people around, cruelly setting her sights on Toby, a local World War I veteran who hasn't been the same since the war. Rural life just after World War II, a godawful bully, an odd but lovely area wanderer, a sometimes claustrophobic
- June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
dark secrets, zany hijinks, and redemption; Beyond That the Sea, historical fiction set during World War relationships, found family, growing up, and balancing two lives, all set against the backdrop of World War That, the Sea tells the story of two families on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean during World War Her explorations threaten to destroy her relationship with her mother even past the world-war-level disagreements
- Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre
Before the war, she had spied against fascists and anti-communists, Chinese, Japanese, and German; during the Allies; after it, and henceforth, she would be spying against the West, the new enemies in a Cold War Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy is made up of vividly recounted behind-the-scenes peeks at real-life Cold War intrigue from the talented author Ben Macintyre. revelations about clandestine operations and the workings of the Soviet spy network during the Cold War
- Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
gripping, detailed, life-and-death period in the life of an ethnically German family at the end of World War tells a tale of a family's incredible bravery and determination in the waning, cruel days of World War fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from the Ukraine at the end of World War It's 1926 in London, and recovery from the Great War inspires many in the city to dive into the wild
















































