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The focus on the power of books is fantastic. This is my favorite kind of lighter-tone contemporary fiction. the power of menopausal women and the poignant strength of friendship; supplies satisfying revenge fantasies

Naomi Novik is one of my very favorite authors, and The Summer War is her recently published novella. My Extensive Love for Naomi Novik's Fiction Naomi Novik is the author of richly wrought fantasy novels Novik has also written the Temeraire series of nine fantastic books about dragons, their riders, their

She realizes that the revenge fantasies that have been instilled in her since birth--along with a distrust My favorite science fiction novels examine the Big Issues: What makes us people? Glory examines deep matters in a fascinating chain of events, reflections, unexpected do-overs, and fantastic

This historical fiction novel from Quinn is a departure from much of my favorite Quinn fiction--brave And Quinn's inspiration for the Grace March storyline is a personal favorite; The Americans  is one of my all-time favorite shows. More from Kate Quinn Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress

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

fake-marriage, tropical-island-set rom-com The Paradise Problem ; I'm listening to Moonbound , Robin Sloan's fantasy-science-fiction 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 More Great Light Fiction Stories . 02 Moonbound by Robin Sloan In Robin Sloan's science-fiction-fantasy

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 rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You   here and my review of Liang's young-adult historical fiction fantasy

Here are six of my favorite science fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! Two of these share one of my favorite setups (a ragtag crew with heart has adventures in space; The Long (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for all my best-of reads from last year.) You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads?

Six More Favorite Contemporary Fiction Reads This is the second of three contemporary fiction lists I'll 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 contemporary fiction favorites here . What are some of your favorite contemporary fiction reads, whether from the past year or beyond? The Favorites  is heavy on the skating--which I loved.

advance copies of almost all of the titles I list here, so I need to get to work reading and sharing my favorite Some of these upcoming titles are books by favorite authors and others are from authors new to me, but

ICYMI: My favorite Kate Quinn books center around strong young women proving their mettle during wartime I would have been in favor of having the romantic element be tied up without the Eve aspect, or having Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress , The Rose Code , and

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 rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You   here  and my review of Liang's young-adult historical fiction fantasy

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. Author Jeff Zentner is also the author of Goodbye Days , a book I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

I loved Ashley Elston's mystery First Lie Wins  (it was on my December favorites list ; it was one of More Mystery Love I recently published Greedy Reading Lists of favorite mystery reads: Six Four-Star And you can find my favorite mystery reads from the year before here .

Six More Favorite Contemporary Fiction Reads This is the third of three contemporary fiction lists I've put together as I've mined my recent-past reading for my favorite reads of the past year--you can find my first list of contemporary fiction favorite reads from last year here and my second list here . favorite reads from last year, or 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?

The Revenge Fantasies...and Revenge Enacted Whether it's about righting wrongs, saving face, renegade Do you have any favorite books that involve revenge? the power of menopausal women and the poignant strength of friendship; supplies satisfying revenge fantasies The revenge-fantasy element is particularly satisfying. Echo Wife. 06 The Harpy by Megan Hunter This slim, intriguing book packs a punch, featuring revenge fantasies

Soon I'll be posting about my favorite December reads--and my favorite reads of 2024!

Which witchy books are your favorites? 01 The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. multimillion-copy bestselling book (or the Tony award-winning Broadway musical based upon it, or the fantastic made it even more rich. 04 Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy

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!

Six More Favorite Bossy Mystery Reads I love looking over my favorite reads from the past twelve months You can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall favorite reads from last year, you can read about Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading Last Year here What are some of your favorite mystery reads, whether from the past year or beyond? memory. 06 Heartwood by Amity Gaige Amity Gaige's Appalachian Trail-set novel offers several of my favorite

I love books about dragons (check out some of my favorites). One of my criticisms of the currently popular romantic fantasy Fourth Wing is that I wanted more more

The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan) courtesy of Libro.fm Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

dramaaaaatic teen angst, a cutthroat path to becoming a warrior, bucking expectations, a looming war--and, my favorite Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war college for dragon Aside from the dragons, my favorite element of the story is Violet's determined coping with and accommodations

In her second fantastic short-story collection, Curtis Sittenfeld explores middle age, fame, friendship My favorite writing often turns expectations on their heads, and In Show Don't Tell , Sittenfeld draws

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I'm always thankful for books and reading, so I wanted to reshare Do you have all-time favorites you always recommend to others? What makes them your favorites? The Autoboyography dialogue is fantastic and witty but feels effortless and like it comes from actual This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid.

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) Have you read the fantastic Temeraire series by Naomi Novik?

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.

also check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling 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

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a favorite author's most recent historical fiction, The Briar Club Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress , The Rose Code , and

The diary's author is a Lutheran pastor who met and was witness to the fantastical, frightening, brutal Jimenez is also the author of Just for the Summer (one of my Favorite Rom-Coms of the Year last year

The fantasy-science-fiction novel Moonbound spans time and splits into several stories, for me never In Robin Sloan's science-fiction-fantasy tale Moonbound , it's eleven thousand years in the future, and

The Summer Favorites These titles aren't classic, light "summer reads," but they were my favorite reads extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter, a spunky and fantastic Cosby This is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk.

Sebastian de Castell's worldbuilding is fascinating, the magic-school setting is a favorite, and the The dark humor is fantastic.

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 She decides that she's in--for a fantastic wardrobe, incredibly awkward moments, scripted romance, and

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! I've posted roundups of favorites each Friday in 2023--check them out! And you can click here for My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads. You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads?

The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully listed in my Greedy Reading List Six More Time-Travel Stories to Explore , but included as one of my favorite

Three other titles suggested to me as promising adult and young adult science fiction, fantasy, and dystopian Carey (which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels For other science fiction and fantasy books I've read and reviewed, please check out the titles at this

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

Don't forget to check my past Bossy gift idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling collects some of the family's favorite recipes, as well as banter between Stephen and Evie. ...from Party Easy Weeknight Dinners , editor in chief Emily Weinstein has curated some of the greatest hits--100 favorite

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

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

Bossy Mystery Reads We've reached the point in the year--the very beginning--when I obsess over my favorite You can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall favorite reads from last year. What are some of your favorite mystery reads, whether from the past year or beyond? I love the second installment's return to my favorite aging assassins and their quick-thinking, spry,

I love a Favorites list, and now that I've got a spreadsheet (ahem!) This list highlights six more of my very favorite mystery reads of last year (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) What are some of your favorite mystery titles or mystery genres? A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding trilogy that began

I think I have enough other favorite reads in these categories to make two more Greedy Reading Lists. He's a fantastic character I loved. This great book by C.A. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone book in the same series, is fantastic This is one of my all-time favorite books.

In this historical fiction-fantasy, characters from Dickens's tale are plunged into a dark, powerful I read the first in that series, The Magicians , for but me it was short on magic and fantastical elements

Six More Bossy Favorite Reads So far in 2024 I've been posting Friday Greedy Reading Lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre; for my all-around favorites of last year, you can 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 unlikely Jaryk-Lucy connection captured my heart, the Misha-Jaryk friendship was fantastic, and Chakrabarti's

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 Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo).

Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy worlds, but her characters' conflicts, hopes, The fantastic main players are back: Kell, the ward of the Red London's royal family who once thought magic; Holland, White London royalty Lila loves to hate; Rhys, Kell's prince and brother; and one of my favorites Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy world (with some historical fiction elements The series is adult fantasy but would be appropriate for a young adult reader--if not averse to Lila's

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

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?