Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war, duty, brainwashing, escaping limitations, and reinventing I absolutely loved Tesh's writing, the scope of her work, her characters, their connections, the world-building

Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a like this, but so far it's an odd mix of everyday, regular-human concerns with an unlikely-feeling god-war curious to find out how it all comes together, as it seems one or both characters are preparing to become war correspondents--and to give the reader glimpses into the god war. 02 To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit

Chen writes a deeply felt warring of emotions and conflicting responsibility and duty. Harrow has crafted a lovely adventure through different wonderfully imagined worlds (including the early Teenager Holly Sykes is suddenly drawn into the world of “the radio people,” people whose voices she She disappears from her family and leaves behind a tragic mystery, while in her forays through new worlds Our main protagonist Tom makes a decision that strands him in our version of the world, which feels like

There is talk of war's return, and three warriors will shape the future of the land of Vigrid: Elvar, 02 A Power Unbound (Last Binding #3) by Freya Marske Marske's quirky, funny, richly imagined magical world In The Stolen Heir , the first book in Holly Black's Stolen Heir duology, the story returns to the world But now she's dying, and in a panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of But wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the heroine of the story.

Kuang is also the author of Yellowface , The Poppy War , Babel , The Burning God , and The Dragon Republic She reflects, sorts out her thoughts and makes sense of the events of the world.

Paulette Jiles's newest historical fiction novel, Chenneville; and I'm reading Al Hess's dystopian novel World The enthusiasm of my obsession with her book News of the World was (borderline? full-on?) Chenneville, titular character John Chenneville is a former Union soldier who has spent a year since the war Paulette Jiles also wrote News of the World, Simon the Fiddler, and The Color of Lightning. 03 World Running Down by Al Hess Al Hess's World Running Down tracks the adventures, challenges, unexpected meetings

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But now she's dying, and in a panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of But wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the heroine of the story. Liz Moore is also the author of Long Bright River as well as Heft and The Unseen World . 03 What the

Her explorations threaten to destroy her relationship with her mother even past the world-war-level disagreements

War I and the beautiful young men set against each other in the trenches serves as a backdrop for a Alice Winn's gorgeous, brutal, captivating historical fiction In Memoriam  is set during World War I. But by 1914, World War I is drawing most of these young boys into a swirl of wartime horrors. You might also be interested in these Bossy reviews of books set during World War I . 03 Being Mortal Liz Moore is also the author of Long Bright River  as well as Heft and The Unseen World .

young life, analyzes the romantic twists and turns he's experienced, and questions his place in the world He begins the long journey to the war-torn area of northern Sri Lanka to pay tribute to Rani, and along way he's forced to more fully consider the devastating effects of his nation's thirty-year-long civil war young life, analyzes the romantic twists and turns he's experienced, and questions his place in the world Much of the book focuses on Krishan's revisiting of the past as he considers various aspects of war and

memoir details the former American intelligence officer's true story of her family during the Cold War parents again, Hanna eventually settled in the United States--an ocean away from her family, but a whole world Army Intelligence Officer to lead intelligence operations in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War For more nonfiction spy stories about the Cold War, check out two great books by Ben McIntyre, the gripping Sonya and a book I loved even more, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

For my full review of this book, please see World Running Down. The enthusiasm of my obsession with her book News of the World was (borderline? full-on?) titular character John Chenneville is a former Union soldier who has spent the year since the end of the war Jiles writes gorgeously about the unforgiving landscape, post-Civil-War wasteland, and the sprigs of Paulette Jiles also wrote News of the World, Simon the Fiddler, and The Color of Lightning.

centers around the riveting battles and rebellion against oppression surrounding the West Virginia Mine Wars Brown presents a historical novel centering around the events of the 1920 and 1921 West Virginia Mine Wars loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War

audiobook. 02 A Language of Dragons: An Epic Tale of Forbidden Romance, Dragon Languages, and Civil War with the dragons is corrupt--and her unraveling of the secrets holding it together might start a civil war

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Annis is a young Southern woman enslaved, sold, and abused in the years before the Civil War. Annis lives with her mother on a Carolina rice plantation in the years before the Civil War, and when

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. There's a ton to unpack here, including the exploration of the good and evil warring within each of us

McEwan's newest novel, we're introduced to characters living in a 2119, post-global-warming, post-nuclear war the population has been cut by more than half, inland seas spread across the globe, and much of the world's variation, richness, and natural world no longer exist. I would propose Derangement itself. In 2119, to prevent destruction of further information, the world's digital file backups ("everything

of dramaaaaatic teen angst, a cutthroat path to becoming a warrior, bucking expectations, a looming war Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war college for dragon But the war is raging, leadership is clearly keeping secrets, and working with the ruthless, deadly dragons creative cursing, so at the risk of being a Grumpy Old Lady for mentioning this, I have to say that the word There are many dramaaaaaatic teen angst moments here ("As if knowing him would somehow make me want him

to rural North Carolina with a wooden leg and haunting memories of his time fighting in the Korean War loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War Rash Ron Rash's Appalachian-set novel explores a small town shaken by upended expectations, the Korean War When his best (and only) friend Jacob is sent to serve overseas in the Korean War, Blackburn promises Blackburn and Naomi grow close as they anxiously await word of Jacob's fate halfway around the world.

Abigail is a high schooler dating a man in his twenties, a former military man nicknamed War Crimes Wes Cash commits her protagonists to unsympathetic behavior and uses their out-of-bounds acts and words to

Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of the Confederate-Union Civil War conflict.  Because she hopes that a Union woman would take pity on her husband in the same situation, she secretly injuries, realizing that if Confederate soldiers were aware of his presence in her home, the family would story is based upon a real account of a Southern woman who helped a Union soldier during the Civil War Time to Panic , Nothing to See Here , Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine , The Family Fang, Perfect Little World

evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty, family, and love in Civil War-era Rash's newest Appalachian-set novel explores a small town shaken by upended expectations, the Korean War When his best (and only) friend Jacob is sent to serve overseas in the Korean War, Blackburn promises Blackburn and Naomi grow close as they anxiously await word of Jacob's fate halfway around the world. It almost seems as though the school heads would like to forget either of the troublesome young ladies

game" at hand is revealed; Operation Bounce House is a VR wargame in which humans on Earth purchase war

June witnesses Athena's death and mysteriously comes up with a story about Chinese laborers during World War I.

she considers what she truly wants from her life; and she writes songs to cope with and interpret the world choices large and small cause enormous repercussions for an individual--and sometimes for the entire world on the character of Ursula, her relationships with members of her family, and details of life during World Wars I and II. Blakemore Blakemore's book--which is based upon witch hunts during the seventeenth-century English Civil War

There is talk of war's return, and three warriors will shape the future of the land of Vigrid: Elvar,

I love Jiles's richly imagined Civil War-era historical fiction, and I'm in for her other books. Simon the Fiddler is set at the end of the Civil War. This is the third Paulette Jiles Civil War-era historical fiction book I've read. She also wrote News of the World, which I loved. (In Simon the Fiddler there's a cameo from Captain Kidd, a character I adored from News of the World.

Bree has to keep in her trusted longtime friend in the dark about her delving into magical worlds and In the face of restrictions and rules, Bree repeatedly challenges the world's limitations, forging her And war is coming. expectations, and pending danger for her strong young Black heroine who's figuring out her place in the world

Forgetting, he is learning, is how the world heals itself. In twentieth-century Idaho, Zeno has lived a long life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life She largely lives in a vivid virtual world but leaves to scribble scraps of information about the same Was it a simple fable about a fool, or a genius examination of how essential hope is to the world? Cloud Cuckoo Land also explores devastating environmental destruction, human culpability, cruel wars,

Gardner Frankie Elkin is the best at finding missing girls and women that have been forgotten by the world mother's death; the cruelties of her husband, to whom she was wed at 15; the surrounding, constant wars

loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War We can see that Natalie believes she is as flawless as her painstakingly curated posts would have others I love how Blake shapes a story in which privileged education comes up against gritty, real-world life Tremaine is single-minded about protecting her daughters and trying to secure futures for them in a world The story would have stood on its own for me, but the references to the Cinderella story were a fun added

Liz Moore is also the author of Long Bright River  as well as Heft and The Unseen World . Both the world and the characters' personal lives are complicated, messy, wonderful, and fragile. Through it all, both Ivan and Peter are repeatedly forced to consider their place in the world and what But wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the heroine of the story. Rooney is also the author of Normal People , Conversations with Friends , and Beautiful World, Where

Sera's former mentor is out in the world wreaking havoc, grasping at ever-increasing power, and frightening Wren's fierce loyalty to her kind is complicated by the secrets she's keeping about abilities that would even more feared, a deeper outcast, and a terrifyingly unknown quantity to both types of person in her world Centuries-old resentments and conflicts threaten to bubble up into war--and Nahri and Dara's arrival misfits who don't inspire great confidence, but collectively, they fight to find a path forward in a world

Christopher Buehlman is also the author of The Blacktongue Thief and The Daughters’ War.

historical fiction novel, Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of the Confederate-Union Civil War story is based upon a real account of a Southern woman who helped a Union soldier during the Civil War I love an honest memoir that lets a reader into the author's inner world, and Zarna has lived a fascinating With violent storms on the horizon, no line of communication open with the outside world, and enormous seeds for the future--if they can trust each other long enough to work together for the good of the world

Centuries-old resentments and conflicts threaten to bubble up into war--and Nahri and Dara's arrival

loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War The existence of the kingdom and magic itself are reliant upon Vera's time-travel back to Arthur's world make the story, with understated poignancy, humor, and heartbreaking moments that bring the book's world Tremaine is single-minded about protecting her daughters and trying to secure futures for them in a world The story would have stood on its own for me, but the references to the Cinderella story were a fun added

most loved reading this past month: a heartbreaking, lovely, epistolary Western; a fantasy story with war evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty, family, and love in Civil War-era Iris's beloved brother is missing in action in the war among the gods, and sending letters through a The gods' war provides the structure for the book's main conflict, but the story feels primarily focused on everyday, regular-human wartime concerns--with an unlikely-feeling god-war and magical letter-sending

01 The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo Bardugo's rich world-building sets the scene in Spain during the Inquisition attracts the attention of more and more powerful people, and she soon finds herself navigating the complex world twisty as some other Bardugo novels, The Familiar  hit the spot for me with trademark Bardugo detail and world-building I would, I would. There is talk of war's return, and three warriors will shape the future of the land of Vigrid: Elvar,

True Biz, by the author of Girl at War, is a coming-of-age story that also explores the importance society When people around the world are notified that they have requested and have had specific memories removed

Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. 02 The Future by Naomi Alderman Alderman offers a dive into a future world twisty, compelling, futuristic, technology-driven attempt at survival--and at maybe just changing the world The behavior of three key tech billionaires might seem like the symptom of all the biggest world problems and myriad inhabitants show the interconnectedness of us all and celebrate the wonders of the wild world June Farrow. 05 Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war

premise for me: a flawed human gets another shot at existing in this unpredictable, problematic, glorious world Our main protagonist Tom makes a decision that strands him in our version of the world, which feels like Either to change a world--many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every on the character of Ursula, her relationships with members of her family, and details of life during World Wars I and II.

What We Can Know, we're introduced to characters living in a 2119, post-global-warming, post-nuclear war the population has been cut by more than half, inland seas spread across the globe, and much of the world's variation, richness, and natural world no longer exist. But the world of the story is grounded in day-to-day stressors and challenges. in order to savor the world the author so gorgeously created.

break all the rules of time travel to preserve the existence of his daughter without destroying the world Stewart would have to break all the rules of time travel to attempt the impossible: preserve the existence Within the world of Here and Now and Then, Mike Chen masterfully explores: Is the past set in stone or Chen writes a deeply felt warring of emotions and conflicting responsibility and duty. I especially love how Chen explores Kin's emotions in both of his realities, his warring loyalties,

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Lorne Michaels developed SNL , his ups and downs, his vision, and how he created the institution that would ) by Rebecca Yarros Violet Sorrengail has been training as a dragon rider for 18 months at Basgiath War

Vargas is, frankly, tired of being reminded that her parents were part of the movement that saved the world Rash's newest Appalachian-set novel explores a small town shaken by upended expectations, the Korean War When his best (and only) friend Jacob is sent to serve overseas in the Korean War, Blackburn promises Blackburn and Naomi grow close as they anxiously await word of Jacob's fate halfway around the world.

friends get him through multiple winters--until an unexpected visitor changes everything, opens up Sven's world There's a minor, secondhand, yet powerful focus on the brutality and destruction of war, but also significant In twentieth-century Idaho, Zeno has lived a long life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life She largely lives in a vivid virtual world but leaves to scribble scraps of information about the same Doerr's characters persist, each in their own way, in trying to make a positive mark on the world and