Six Favorite Contemporary Fiction Reads I love looking over my favorite reads from the past year and considering my favorite 2025 reads in each genre. favorite reads from last year, you can read about past Bossy contemporary fiction favorites here . What are some of your favorite contemporary fiction reads, whether from the past year or beyond? 01 The Correspondent by Virginia Evans This was my favorite read of 2025!

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Six More Bossy Favorite Reads I've been posting lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre ; for my all-around favorites, check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads. I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite reads, whether you loved them last year or more the small moments, impulses, generosities, omissions, and aversions that make up a day, a week, and a month This was absolutely my favorite part of the book.

Six More Favorite Fantasy Reads This is the second of three fantasy-favorite lists I'll have for you You can find my first list of favorites from the past year here . You can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall favorite reads from last year, or you can read about past Bossy fantasy favorites here . What are some of your favorite fantasy reads, whether from the past year or beyond?

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matriarchs are split by a death and then a feud (the impetus of the bitter rift is the making of a family-favorite "Do me a favor. Take this from me." More Love for Allegra Goodman Allegra Goodman is a longtime favorite author for me. Her novel Isola   was one of my favorite reads of 2025.

These Bossy favorites from a summer past stand the test of time. And soon I'll post another set of Bossy romantic favorites, this time titles that were published this also like the books on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six 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 Rom-Com Reads of the Year , and Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year Have you loved any

The Summer Favorites These titles aren't classic, light "summer reads," but they were my favorite reads WWII, with its giant hotels, piers, and general hubbub, is the backdrop for the story of a few summer months Florence Adler Swims Forever , the story of a few summer months in the life of an extended family--including

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fantasy gems, great rom-com reads, offbeat books, funny titles, or something in between, I've got Bossy favorites

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading favorite author Maggie O'Farrell's newest novel (out tomorrow), 01 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Maggie O'Farrell is a favorite author of mine, and in her newest novel, she

Bossy Romantic Favorites The heat of August feels like a perfect time to dive into recently published romantic stories, and these have been six of my favorites this year. Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six 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 Rom-Com Reads of the Year , and Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year Have you loved any

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.

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Dead; and I'm listening to Ilona Andrews's novel about a superfan who wakes up in the world of her favorite Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying #1) by Ilona Andrews Maggie has long leaned on rereading her favorite

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Six Great Bossy Nonfiction Reads I promise that this is the last roundup list of 2023 favorites, which seems appropriate now that we have entered the month of May, 2024, ahem. You can find some of my many other lists of favorite nonfiction and memoir roundups here: Six of My Favorite What are some of your recent favorite nonfiction or memoir reads?

And as far as she can tell, Miles does odd jobs and traveled around without a permanent address for months Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

Science and Nature Book Gift Ideas I spend most of my reading time on fiction titles, but my favorite And don't forget to check my past Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites My favorite bookstore is my local independent bookstore here in Charlotte, Park Road Books. But goldfish can remember that a colored paddle means food is coming, even months after the association How can such a small fish hold on to the memory of the snaking path of a maze for three months?

More Historical Fiction Favorites This is Jennifer N. Brown's first novel. For more historical fiction Bossy favorites, please check out the Greedy Reading Lists and titles here

Mystery and Suspense Reads These six four-star mysteries are all so good and so different--they were my favorites I'd love to hear about your favorite mystery reads! radar, French is the author of six Dublin Murder Squad books (In the Woods, The Likeness--this is my favorite by Julia Phillips ​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite I posted last month about Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, but I had six more favorites to share...and here they are! You might want to check out all the titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my very favorite I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads?

Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds, When I read a collection of short stories, I inevitably develop favorites, and while reading Buried Deep

champions who dramatically split--until a documentary tell-all comes back to tell their story, The Favorites received a prepublication edition of Broken Country courtesy of Simon & Schuster and NetGalley. 03 The Favorites

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they tell the truth about others' wrongdoings, and a heartwarming chosen-family element (one of my favorite You can check out some of my Bossy favorites at the links here.

I love a Favorites list, and I've made a Bossy spreadsheet (ahem!) 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 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 mystery reads?

Annie Hartnett is also the author of the wonderful novel Unlikely Animals , which was one of my Bossy Favorite the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six favorite

More about Melissa Caruso books--and more favorite Bossy reads that play with time: This is the first For Bossy reviews of many other books that play with time--this is one of my favorite elements--you can

Six More Four-Star Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Two other historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy I read Illuminations with a group of women over a period of months, and we were captivated by the details

I love a story that flips a traditional setup, and Long Live Evil  is my most recent favorite in the dying, and in a panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of her sister's favorite

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Two historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and Chenneville I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy The two had eloped just months after meeting, which led to Jacob's being disowned by his wealthy family

Time It's Real , read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year , Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , and My Bossy Favorite

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Forty Love is a rom-com with depth, my favorite type.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a favorite author's upcoming novella, The Summer War by Naomi 01 The Summer War by Naomi Novik Naomi Novik is one of my very favorite authors, and I'm excited to read

I recently posted about some of my very favorite young adult books, and I just mentally added In the This ticked all of my boxes for a favorite young adult read.

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I think I have enough other favorite reads in these categories to make two more Greedy Reading Lists. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. This is one of my all-time favorite books. Carey Months into their save-the-world mission, the soldiers and scientists on the Rosalind Franklin

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I loved how much warmth Thorne injected into this story; bighearted sci-fi is my absolute favorite type

Time It's Real , read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year , Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , and My Bossy Favorite

The Shippers offers up one of my favorite premises, in which old friends realize that their love is more

And as far as she can tell, Miles does odd jobs and traveled around without a permanent address for months Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

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living off the land, reimagined family dynamics, characters who show depth and growth (including my favorite

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