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  • Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year

    And here's a list of Six Historical Fiction Mysteries I Loved, if you like the melding of those two The tone of this is more toward contemporary fiction, and the book offers satisfying character development But she's also alert enough to know that because of the inevitable publicity, the fiction of her current The title and cover made me think "science fiction," but Quantum Girl Theory is rooted in historical fiction and offers a solid, twisty mystery as it moves through fascinating potential realities that might

  • Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year

    conditional loyalty, and he allows characters to craft chosen relationships into a beloved pod that functions What were some of your favorite fiction reads this year? Heartwarming or quirky fiction are the types of books that have really been fitting the bill for me lately If you're looking for more great fiction, you might also want to check out the Greedy Reading List My

  • Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West

    Doc is nonfiction, but it reads like historical fiction (as opposed to a heavier nonfiction title like What are some of your favorite historical fiction books? If you like historical fiction mysteries, you might try the books listed here: Six Historical Fiction And for great historical fiction of all types, look at: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year and Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year.

  • Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West

    Erin Bowman offers up great action along with what I thought were perfect amounts of self-actualization Turner has also written a couple of other historical fiction books that look promising. 03 West ​ This

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two memoirs, two historical fiction titles, a science fiction story, and a contemporary fiction book. full review of Between Two Kingdoms. 03 The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn The Diamond Eye is historical fiction Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress, But this is a solid historical fiction story that I loved.

  • February Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    general, from Kate Bowler; The Saints of Swallow Hill, Donna Everhart's recently published historical fiction sometimes fails, and its captivating capabilities and wonders; Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir's space-focused science fiction that's filled with innovation, optimism, creativity, connection, and tons of heart. Sparks Like Stars, Nadia Hashimi's luminous historical fiction about a childhood lived in Kabul and a for Being Human. 02 The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna Everhart This Depression-era-set historical fiction

  • Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

    I recently posted about Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year, Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year, Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year, Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year. Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of This Book (altbough McCracken asserts that this is not a memoir, but fiction Her mother's volatile emotions; upsetting and controlling actions; pushy manner; mental, emotional, and

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's historical fiction mystery, based on real-life double agents fiction work about missing girls and the exploration of the futures that might have been. Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American fiction centers around a resurgence of an ancient Arctic plague.

  • Review of Doctors and Friends by Kimmery Martin

    It's satisfying to witness the recognition and success within this fictional version of events. The cover and title gave me the initial impression that this was a light fiction book, but the topic

  • Shhh! Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday

    This book is the perfect gift for someone who likes accessible, remarkable science factoids about the I've got lots of e-reading giftees on my fall and holiday gifting list--and I already offer many of my fiction Lewis's book) and/or books related to a specific interest of my giftee's (cooking, comedy, science).

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    favorite reads of the month: Hank Green's second book in his quirky, lovely, character-driven, big-hearted science fiction duology; A Song for the Road by Kathleen Basi; it involves messy feelings and grief, yet it is brothers with the prolific and talented young adult author John Green, and the two also put out science

  • My Twelve Very Favorite 2021 Reads

    I loved this science fiction debut. Cara is one of a dwindling number of traversers. is brothers with the prolific and talented young adult author John Green, and the two also put out science

  • Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    More Funny and Sweet Light Fiction Adorable rom-coms can be perfect summertime reading. If you're into lighter fiction with some romance and often some laughs, you might also like the books Reads of the Past Year Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Light Fiction Stories Six of My Favorite Rom-Com This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved.

  • Review of The Fraud by Zadie Smith

    In her first historical fiction novel, Smith offers a Victorian England tableau featuring a wonderfully The situation parallels in haunting fashion with the modern-day rejection by factions of our society of facts, sense, and reality; of negating science and evidence; and of dismissing educated, indispensable

  • Review of The Resurrectionist by A. Rae Dunlap

    Resurrectionist  and Caleb Carr's The Alienist , a suspenseful novel about the evolution of forensic science Dunlap's debut novel is dark, twisty, gothic, and it's set in 19th-century Scotland as fictionalized

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition

    training college for wartime dragon riders, Fourth Wing; I'm reading Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction discovery with an Irish financial crisis as its backdrop; and I'm listening to Ali Hazelwood's newest science-focused about dragons. 02 The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue In Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading

    More Funny and Sweet Light Fiction Adorable rom-coms feel like the perfect summertime reading, and I've If you're into lighter fiction with some romance and laughs, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories. Have you loved any other romantic comedy or lighter fiction stories lately? This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved.

  • More 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List 2024 Bossy Book Gift Guides Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Science Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World Shhh! Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas   Shhh! For the Biology Major or Science Buff 06 Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy by Mary Roach Mary In Replaceable You , Roach explores the evolving, advancing science of body part replacements, venturing

  • Review of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan

    Ian McEwan's new literary fiction looks back upon our present with a cutting 2119 eye. two timelines a calculated rewriting of history, our brave and hubristic present-day existence, and fictional I treasured the crazy music and fads and troubled movies and serious science, serious history, serious upstaged by her egomaniac husband's much-hyped work, and she realizes that within the corona he has fictionalized For more Bossy reviews of literary fiction titles, please check out the posts at this link .

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List

    Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World Shhh! Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas   Shhh! For my full review, please see Happiness Falls . 03 A Literary Fiction Novel about Life and Love You I loved this literary fiction--the increasing vulnerability and search for connection after heartache For my full review of this book, please see Listen for the Lie . 04 Smart Historical Fiction with a Time-Travel

  • Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

    whip-smart young Indigenous woman in a steampunk 1800s Nordic setting, with plenty of dragons, dragon science Breath delivers the dragons: in-depth training around being partnered with dragons, dragon-related science

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/23/23 Edition

    of Cormac McCarthy's two books in his Passenger series, both released last year; and I'm reading a science-and-sex-focused suspicious investigators track Billy to try to find answers. 03 Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science Nagoski builds her book around brain science and groundbreaking research to debunk myths about women's

  • 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    2024 Bossy Book Gift Guides Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Science and Nature Bossy Holiday Book Gift Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World Shhh! Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas   Shhh!

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/15/22 Edition

    She's using science to inspire the upending of the status quo for her largely female audience. This cover says "light fiction" to me, but by all accounts, this book has depth and addresses deeper involves mishap after mishap, the travelers begin to wonder whether the legend of the treasure was fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/17/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Horse, the newest historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks; Based on the true story of the thoroughbred Lexington, Horse delves into science, art, and race as it

  • Review of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth

    This spurred her to work hard enough to found a nonprofit, teach children math and science, and eventually nonfiction books, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction

  • Review of The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken

    The Hero of This Book straddles the line between fiction and memoir, as the book feels like a deeply The freedom one fictional man grants you is immeasurable. The blurred line between fact and fiction allows the true heart of the book, a daughter's wonder, grief

  • Review of All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall

    parents' researcher friends, her family helps try to save and further the exhibits of human history and science

  • Review of The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds #1) by Megan E. O'Keefe

    destruction drives the plot, and various characters' belief in their own judicious use of technology and science

  • Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Cookbooks

    Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas Shhh! Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World Shhh! constructed that every component is essential and in balance." 02 Veg-Table: Recipes, Techniques, and Plant Science

  • Shhh! Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays

    For my full (rave) review, please click here. 03 Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach Science Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal; Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex; and Grunt: The Curious Science of

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/16/24 Edition

    Resurrectionist compared to Caleb Carr's The Alienist , a suspenseful novel about the evolution of forensic science

  • Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Cookbooks

    Bossy Book Gift Ideas: Science and the Natural World Shhh! Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas   Shhh! Evie. ...from Party Food, to Seafood, to Poultry and Meat, to Desserts ("This is one of the largest sections

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/6/25 Edition

    parents' researcher friends, her family helps try to save and further the exhibits of human history and science

  • Review of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

    The Paradise Problem is the perfect light fiction read to close out the summer, with a high-stakes fake In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young married couple on the verge 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 Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading , and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a favorite author's most recent historical fiction, The Briar Club by Kate Quinn; I'm listening to my first Zadie Smith novel, the Victorian-England-set historical fiction Quinn's historical fiction offers the stories of multiple women in a females-only Washington, D.C. boardinghouse In her first historical fiction novel, Smith offers a Victorian England tableau featuring a wonderfully

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/15/25 Edition

    Ukraine-set darkly comic novel of an unlikely journey; and I'm reading Jo Harkin's Tudor-era historical fiction offered intriguing secrets, a swirling mystery, terrible betrayal, heartwarming found family, steady action Here, Harkin builds a rich historical fiction story of John Collan, a ten-year-old who transforms from For my review of Jo Harkin's speculative fiction Tell Me an Ending , please click this link .

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's I looove a historical fiction mystery. If you do too, you might want to check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction The Invisible Woman is historical fiction about the real-life World War II-era spy Virginia Hall. The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

  • Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Books about Media, Movies, and Music

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  • Review of The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd

    The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby is a historical fiction art-focused mystery told in two timelines husband and wife writing team of Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos) offers a gorgeously wrought historical fiction This was immensely satisfying historical fiction. You can click here for lists of more historical fiction novels and historical fiction mysteries I've

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music

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  • A Short Bossy Break

    I've got these books going at the moment: recently published fantasy-historical fiction, the second in novel about an unconventional family in late 20th century Manhattan, Victorian-England-set historical fiction

  • Review of The Poppy Fields by Nikki Erlick

    grief, loss, family conflicts, strangers' bonds, and sticky moral dilemmas related to a speculative-fiction allows those who are grieving or coping with tragedy to soften their emotions and emerge better able to function

  • Review of An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell #6) by Deanna Raybourn

    danger and solving the mysteries in book six of this series, Raybourn repeatedly evokes images of the fictional In the sixth book of the wonderful Deanna Raybourn's  feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction there's plenty of intrigue, and Raybourn evokes repeated images of mountain climbing in the Alpenwald, a fictional

  • Review of Trust by Hernan Diaz

    Characters come off as less realistic than their fictionalized versions (who are main protagonists of story inside a story), and the ability of those with money and power to manipulate the truth into pure fiction often more interesting and potentially bolstering to a powerful persona than the elaborately imagined fiction

  • Review of Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

    Henry's story-within-a-story adds a historical fiction element to her signature big-hearted, banter-driven I loved the historical fiction aspect of Margaret's recounting of her history. my favorite books the year I read it, and it also made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction my review here , and you might like to check it out on the Greedy Reading List Six More Great Light Fiction

  • Review of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

    This historical fiction novel from Quinn is a departure from much of my favorite Quinn fiction--brave You can find more Bossy historical fiction reviews at this link .

  • Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas

    to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village, etc.) than to pin down their specific taste in fiction Science and Nature Bossy Book Gift Ideas Shhh! Holiday Cookbook Gift Ideas Shhh! Perfect for flipping through or referencing, each section has key information, dates, births, deaths,

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