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The Books I'm Reading Now At the moment I'm listening to Timothy Egan's narrative nonfiction account Timothy Egan is also the author of The Worst Hard Time, fascinating narrative nonfiction about the Dust

become her gorgeous, high-achieving, Harvard-bound cousin comes true; and I'm reading Jonathan Haidt's nonfiction research into moral psychology to address the reasoning between a timely, potent issue: the power in conflicting

fiercely loving woman; and I'm reading All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, Rebecca Donner's narrative nonfiction funeral. 03 All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days by Rebecca Donner The subtitle of Rebecca Donner's nonfiction This powerful work of narrative nonfiction tracks Mildred through her courageous efforts, through immeasurable

She is a historian and a nonfiction author with several other works to her credit.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Cultish, nonfiction by Amanda Montell; the upcoming (to be published 01 Cultish: The Language of Fanatacism by Amanda Montell In her nonfiction work Cultish: The Language

adhering, for now, to the satisfyingly arcane Dewey Decimal System developed in the late 1900s for the nonfiction

Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: contemporary fiction, young adult, nonfiction, fantasy Empire of Pain is essential nonfiction that details the shocking narcissism, relentless ambition and Patrick Radden Keefe is a master of compelling, important nonfiction. book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the Best Nonfiction by Douglas Stuart Young Mungo offers a striking story of disappointment, abuse, Protestant-Catholic conflict

Only one title on this list is nonfiction, but because I'm nothing if not greedy, other nonfiction books I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? This is the only nonfiction book on the list.

I had several literary fiction reads, a dystopian fantasy, and a fun nonfiction book. is reeling from economic troubles; Brendan's older adoptive brother deeply resents his presence; and conflicts Tommy Tomlinson's playful, intriguing nonfiction Dogland takes an engaging look at dogs--particularly remain separate, I was taken with the double-edged quest, elite training, magical abilities, and complex conflicts

There's a book of short stories; one nonfiction book; a memoir; an atmospheric, mysterious novel; historical Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green In John Green's nonfiction John Green is also the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed  (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads  the year I read it) as well as the young adult novels An Griffin Sisters  also takes on deep familial conflicts, coping with loss and a devastating blow for future

standalone novel, The White Lady, a World War I-set novel, The Care and Management of Lies, and the nonfiction

fascinating, thought-provoking science fiction The Humans; and I'm reading The Quiet Zone, captivating nonfiction Kurczy's nonfiction explores the treasure of quiet in a world largely filled with noise, stimulation,

Australian outback at the end of the 19th century, Only Killers and Thieves centers around one family’s conflicts Doc is nonfiction, but it reads like historical fiction (as opposed to a heavier nonfiction title like

Nagamatsu's recently published science fiction How High We Go in the Dark; listening to Angela Duckworth's nonfiction Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth In researcher and professor Angela Duckworth's nonfiction

Despite some small moments that felt heavy-handed, this is a powerful, fast-paced, compelling nonfiction The subtitle of Browder's nonfiction book is A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight If you like nonfiction books that read like fiction, you might try the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction and Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read

don't forget to check my past Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites, nonfiction Nonfiction and Hobby Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas A Bossy book-buying note: If you're buying books this holiday season

Crosley's upcoming literary fantasy; Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe's exhaustive and infuriating nonfiction Meticulously researched, interesting, and infuriating, Empire of Pain is essential nonfiction reading

Bird's narrative nonfiction set in the late nineteenth century West; I'm reading Kate Morton's dual-timeline

young man without direction who inherits a supervillain business, Starter Villain; and I'm reading nonfiction

Accidental Empress, Sisi, The Queen's Fortune, and The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post, as well as the nonfiction

reading Jessica Anya Blau's 1970s-set music-focused story Mary Jane; I'm listening to Katherine May's nonfiction 02 Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May In Katherine May's nonfiction

heart of British codebreaking, The Bletchley Riddle ; and I'm reading feminist activist Mona Eltahawy's nonfiction

The author includes nonfiction footnotes that link race, socioeconomic disparity, and imprisonment.

Sara Nović is also the author of Girl at War and the illustrated nonfiction work America Is Immigrants

boarding school years, when her roommate Thalia was murdered--and the school's athletic trainer was convicted For more Bossy reviews of fiction and nonfiction books about boarding schools, click here.

You can click here to find fiction and nonfiction books I've read and reviewed that explore issues of

ultimately be able to read it, but I wanted to find out how McCurdy's significant command of narrative nonfiction

In John Green's nonfiction book Everything Is Tuberculosis , he tells his story of befriending a young John Green is also the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed  (which was one of my six favorite nonfiction reads  the year I read it) as well as other novels. is reeling from economic troubles; Brendan's older adoptive brother deeply resents his presence; and conflicts

Quinn offers plenty of interpersonal conflict, romance, suspected double-crossing, and details of life The nonfiction Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy is made up of vividly recounted behind-the-scenes Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year last year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books

Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers; and I'm reading the slim, powerful nonfiction

collaboration between Clinton and Penny kept me on the edge of my seat through heart-stopping political conflicts still making me feel invested in the story and the ins and outs of the various complicated political conflicts Lady may have informed her fictionalized peeks into the government, Oval Office, and interpersonal conflicts seventeen Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the author of numerous nonfiction

I spend most of the year focusing on fiction titles, with a healthy dose of memoirs and some nonfiction Nonfiction and Hobby Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh!

love years ago with Newman's blog about her life, family and kids, Ben and Birdy, and I loved Newman's nonfiction

These four fiction works and two nonfiction titles resonated deeply with me. is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese cultural conflict

I loved Newman's nonfiction book about motherhood, Waiting for Birdy. 02 Big Swiss by Jen Beagin Greta

Pacific octopus; and I'm listening to How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur (creator of The Good Place), nonfiction

Bird Isabella Bird's nonfiction account of her 1873 travels through the rugged, wondrous American West Through the vividly recounted adventures in this lively narrative nonfiction, Bird shares her many discoveries

I included two titles from my continuing light fiction run, but I also listed a great nonfiction book This is a powerful, fast-paced, compelling nonfiction read. The subtitle of Browder's nonfiction book is A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight

making a comeback, Carrie Soto Is Back; and I'm listening to Empire of the Summer Moon, fascinating nonfiction and the complications and implications of his white-Native American heritage are emblematic of the conflicts

But these four fiction works and two nonfiction titles resonated with me, each offering glimpses into is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese cultural conflict

This 1000-page fantasy novel is intense, brutal (significant trigger warnings are warranted), extremely dark, and not at all a universal recommendation. I struggled with and was also fascinated by the fact that in its original form, the story was Harry Potter fan fiction about Hermione and Draco. The structure and timeline is intriguing and illuminating. This beast of a fantasy novel (it's 1040 pages) tracks a healer and alchemist suffering from significant memory gaps through three periods of time in her life. When we meet Helena Marino in medias res, she is a prisoner. All of her fellow Resistance members have been captured or killed, and Helena is being treated cruelly largely by a staff of animated undead, directed by evil masterminds. On paper, Helena is a figure of little importance, but the obvious and deliberate tampering with her memories of the final months of the Resistance has led many to believe that she was an essential part of their fight--and that accessing her memories may be the key to understanding the entire Resistance system. But Kaine Ferron, a dark necromancer who is attempting to release her memories, turns out to be a key part of Helena's past, and the book eventually begins to illuminate their complicated enemy/friend/destroyer/savior history. The heart of this story was originally a work titled Manacled , and it was dark Harry Potter fan fiction about Hermione, who had an Order secret buried in her mind, and Draco, tasked by Voldemort with unearthing it. I didn't recall this when I first began the book, and I developed complex feelings about this premise and its implications. This begins as a dark, dark novel. The setting is literally dark, and more importantly, Helena is imprisoned, confused, grieving those she lost, and reeling from the trauma of the stasis in which she was conscious but unmoving, unspeaking, and unacknowledged for many months. She continues to be imprisoned, fully reliant on her captors, and discussed and treated as an owned object. Her body and mind are used to her enemy's desired ends. Rape, forced entry into her brain, and practical starvation are all part of her life. This was brutal text to dive into, and reading about her mental and sexual violation for significant page time in SenLinYu's novel almost sent me packing. But if you can steel yourself to continue, you might find the structure fascinating, as I did. The cruelty is real, and tough to take, but when, after the first grim, nerve-racking section ends, we skip back in time to read the origin story of Helena and Kaine, we find an unlikely love story built within a time of upheaval; trust overshadowing secrets and deception; and an opposites-attract scenario that serves as ballast for the novel. Context doesn't erase the horrors that we read about initially, but it softens some of the blows after the fact. An eventual second skip in time in the book follows chronologically from the first section, so it picks up the story and explores what happens to all surviving characters in the end. Mental images of Hermione and Draco slipped in and out of my mind as I read the book, causing uncomfortable feelings that were at times difficult to sit with yet, admittedly, fascinating. This is not a universal recommendation because of the shocking abuse (and the novel's significant length), but fantasy die-hards might want to test their mettle with this read. I listened to Alchemised as a library audiobook (it was over 36 hours long), narrated by the fantastic Saskia Maarleveld, through Libby. More Dark Fantasy Novels Alchemised  is SenLinYu's first published novel. The intense darkness and necromancy of this novel reminded me at times of Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb series; Gideon the Ninth is the first book, followed by Harrow the Ninth , Nona the Ninth , and the future publication Alecto the Ninth .

the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings to Read by the Fire or the nonfiction

Nonfiction and Hobby Book Ideas for the Holidays And for even more ideas, check out my past book gift More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens 01 Games of Deception by Andrew Maraniss In Maraniss's nonfiction

Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine's expansion of the 1619 Project into a full-length nonfiction

fascinating historical fiction stories; an unorthodox friendship story about the meaning of life; and nonfiction Filled with sometimes playful, sometimes weighty questions, scenarios, and ideas, How to Be Perfect is nonfiction

Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of the Confederate-Union Civil War conflict.  For more nonfiction titles that focus on race, please click here . 06 Buckeye by Patrick Ryan Patrick

Sullivan (author of Beneath a Scarlet Sky); I'm listening to wonderful, smart, entertaining Bill Bryson's nonfiction

Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, which include contemporary fiction, suspense, nonfiction 1619 Project highlights tragic, uncomfortable aspects of our nation's history in an important work of nonfiction

Where Are You, Sally Rooney's newest triumph; Isabel Wilkerson's disturbing, fascinating, and important nonfiction by Isabel Wilkerson Caste is consistently powerful, profound, disturbing, and absolutely necessary nonfiction

Gilbert is a lovely writer who authored the very interesting nonfiction book Last American Man and the