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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/1/26 Edition

    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

  • Newer Romantic Novels Perfect for Savoring Summer's Last Gasp

    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

  • Review of A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst

    books, you might like the titles on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads , Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year , Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved , Six of My Favorite

  • Review of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/27/26 Edition

    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

  • Review of Funny Story by Emily Henry

    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

  • Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    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?

  • Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World

    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?

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries to Keep You Guessing

    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) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    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?

  • Review of The Lost Book of Elizabeth Barton by Jennifer N. Brown

    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

  • Review of Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/25 Edition

    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

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year

    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?

  • Review of Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

    If you enjoy memoirs, you can find Bossy reviews of my favorites here . And check out some of my favorite foodie memoirs here .

  • Review of Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock

    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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/21/25 Edition

    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

  • Review of The Last Hour Between Worlds (Echo Archives #1) by Melissa Caruso

    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

  • Review of Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan

    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 More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    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

  • Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    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

  • Review of A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang

    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

  • Review of Wreck by Catherine Newman

    More from Catherine Newman Catherine Newman is also the author of Sandwich  (one of My Very Favorite

  • Review of Forty Love by Jane Costello

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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/15/25 Edition

    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

  • Review of In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner

    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.

  • Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

    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

  • Review of Tropesick by Lauren Okie

    You might also want to check out my favorite romance reads from the past year--as well as many other

  • Review of The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

    also want to check out these books featuring friends like family and these historical fiction Bossy favorites

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/27/25 Edition

    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

  • Review of I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang

    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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/15/24 Edition

    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

  • Review of The Shippers by Katherine Center

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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/4/23 Edition

    Donoghue So far, Learned by Heart is giving me major Little Princess vibes...that was one of my absolute favorite Donoghue is also the author of Room, The Pull of the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite established characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites

  • Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

    you might like to check out some of my Bossy memoir reviews , or some of my Greedy Reading Lists of favorites Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite

  • Review of A Far-Flung Life by M. L. Stedman

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

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/29/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book by a favorite author, Katherine Arden, The Warm 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

  • Review of Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite

    For more of my Bossy science-fiction favorites, check out the titles at this link .

  • Review of Famesick by Lena Dunham

    Like You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of other celebrity memoirs or these lists of favorite

  • Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

    Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and Keegan is one of my favorite authors, and I'm in for all of her books.

  • Review of Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune

    This wasn't my favorite element.

  • More 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    also check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites 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

  • Review of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher

    the preliminary circumstances, the aftermaths, and the various movements of potential suspects over months Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads--and stay tuned for my upcoming list of Six Nonfiction Bossy Favorites

  • Review of Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser

    This is my favorite read of the spring so far.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/23/24 Edition

    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

  • Review of Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever

    Bossy Foodie Memoir Favorites You might also be interested in the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading

    Some Lighter Fiction Favorites What I love about a romantic, rom-com, lighter fiction read is that real I'm due to create another Greedy Reading List of my more recently read light fiction favorites, but meanwhile reviews of Lauren's The Unhoneymooners , In a Holidaze , Love and Other Words , The Soulmate Equation (a favorite ), and Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem). 05 Beach Read by Emily Henry

  • Review of Iron Flame (Empyrian #2) by Rebecca Yarros

    My favorite elements were the action sequences, the opportunities for humor, and the pacing of this 640 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)

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/7/24 Edition

    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

  • Review of Platform Decay (Murderbot #8) by Martha Wells

    One of my favorite elements is SecUnit's constant analysis of escape routes, outlandish or ambitious

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