she rides her mule Eugenia through all the hollers and up through the mountains, delivering sought-after local schoolchildren) by the local doctor and his colleagues, initially so insistent about studying every

Lockwood notes that she is not a Christian but is very much “of” the church because of her upbringing But it's truly unlike anything I have ever read, and the second section, which is an enormous departure wonders about whether she has a claim to beloved extended relatives who shaped her life but are not, after issues; and she considers her potential legacy to her own child—all while panicking about who she is after This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you

pleasure, and saw that I was on the brink of squandering a wondrous gift, the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise, this grand marketplace lovingly stocked with every sublime

After a canceled flight, a carload of people head on a cross-country journey to the "poppy fields," as One had a rejected application, one is a hopeful participant, one lost a brother after he spent time

In Sloane Crosley's memoir Grief Is for People , she explores life after the loss of her closest friend with his peers, reflecting on the works and his reactions to them, and searching for and finding peace after Patrick Bringley, a former New Yorker  staffer, after facing the tragic death of his beloved brother, adored this element--possibly because with a senior in high school, I am also facing enormous pending alterations Hamptons store Barefoot Contessa--necessitating extended time apart from Jeffrey and, eventually, a very

I've been listening to two great, very different books and reading a third. After Hitler's invasion of Russia, Mila becomes a lethal hunter of Nazis who earns the nickname Lady to herself, she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have a lot of friends, and she's holding true to form after favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

his family's cattle farm in Iceland, appreciating the beauty of nature, the relief in green shoots after But he yearns to see more of the world, and after he journeys to Reykjavik to study at the university

Trace Temple is a disillusioned, angry young man whose family lost its ranch after hard times. mother's three husbands and a beloved figure from Daphne's childhood--whom she never saw nor heard from after This is lovely, poignant, and unexpected--and it's possibly my favorite Ann Patchett novel ever, certainly evil" stepmother, who is here actually a savvy, strong woman determined to provide for her household after respectability of her deceased husband's title to secure invitations for her daughters (who are not, after

And everyone seems to be forgetting that Jenna Chen ever existed. fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy afternoon Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year , Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , and My Bossy Favorite Reads of Summer  the year I read it.

Trace Temple is a disillusioned, angry young man whose family lost its ranch after hard times.

death and then a feud (the impetus of the bitter rift is the making of a family-favorite apple cake after the most powerful to me, as I was able to witness interactions and dynamics among the larger group (after

Now they operate as a team to try to determine who is after Maggie and why. The second book in the series is The Summer Guests. 05 The Thursday Murder Club #1 by Richard Osman I

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading what may be a perfect summer read with plenty of nostalgia; a dark 01 Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland Two families meet for the summer at their formerly sought-after resort in the Catskills, but the Weingold and Goldman families aren't as close as they It feels like a perfect book for summer reading.

My very favorite Bossy November reads! Lila has planned her million-dollar wedding down to the last detail, and Phoebe's depression and her very But after Sciona blasts the competition at her entrance exam and is admitted, she finds that not all The misogyny and contempt of her peers means she faces a lack of respect and resources at every turn. Main protagonist Violet Powell is being released after 22 months' imprisonment for the drunk-driving

and go-to grains, all built around the idea that "simple is something so perfectly constructed that every are friends with José Andrés, head of the nonprofit World Central Kitchen, which feeds populations after From Lahmajoun Flatbread prepared after a Beirut explosion in 2020 to Ukrainian Borsch offered to families

Fifty-year-old Elle is in her happy place--the house where she's spent a whole life of summers. example, “I’ve never been able to make myself throw up, no matter how hard I try" follows some pages after with no bearing on anything significant that nevertheless kept jumping out at me: almost all--possibly every

After a few days you receive multiple personalized reading recommendations in an email. Voila! In fact, after remembering how fun it was the last time, I just submitted another request.

The reality-show setting and LGBTQIA+ representation in Ever After flips the traditional fairy tale Dev has dedicated his career to the reality dating show Ever After , helping to shape it into the popular

The very end of the book quotes from a personal set of writings and for some reason this felt a little Jimenez is also the author of Part of Your World, The Friend Zone, and The Happy-Ever-After Playlist. You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer

Bookworms, I hope your summer is full of fun, relaxation, adventure, and some breaks from the day-to-day I sometimes like to dig into a big nonfiction read during the summer, when I feel like time stretches

In Rebecca Thorne's cozy sci-fi adventure Moss'd in Space, it's sometime after the year 90,000, and Torian's

More from Jennifer Weiner Weiner is also the author of the novels Good in Bed,   That Summer,   Good Summer , The Summer Place , and more.

But after her father's untimely death, daughter and mother quickly face the hard reality of women's inability

And Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald, a dear friend of Alice's, goes missing just after Veronica shares Berry After her grandmother dies, Sydney finds an old photo that looks almost exactly like her--but she No one ever speaks about Carol.

Described as Mean Girls meets The Parent Trap, Together for Never explores each girl's point of view, and after complications of potentially blending a family and the layers of complexity involved in sharing a parent after

Sally Gould's memoir is named after a darkly humorous term of affection for paramedics in Australia (

Maisie Dobbs is a formidable, dogged, whip-smart investigator working to ferret out the truth in the aftermath to care deeply about them, their roles in the wartime efforts, and their potential for various happy-ever-afters set in the early 20th century, as Violet, a young ship's stewardess bent on providing for her family after It's hundreds of years after King Arthur's reign, and his descendant and namesake Arthur, a future lord And when they're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot to prepare for their upcoming nuptials

Her husband has been away fighting for the Confederacy since soon after they were married, and Libby After all, she hasn't sacrificed, obsessed, planned, spent all her money on voice lessons, and humiliated He is, after all, an imperfect person whose fear of failure caused him to abandon each chance at a wonderfully making missteps and forging a path forward while adjusting to romantic, family, and work complications after rich inner life filled with wonder. forty women (one is a young girl, our main protagonist) live year after

For my full review of Utopia Avenue, click here. 02 The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez On The other is a shockingly talented artist who abandoned the creation of new work after an incredibly For my full review of this book, see The Happy Ever After Playlist. 03 Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby Annie After a slow start, the story pace picked up, and I was really curious to follow these characters to Taylor Jenkins Reid is also the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Maybe In Another Life, After

So who is after Holmes?

spirit--and the power of books--Harriett's Bookshop remains open today, as do Ida's Bookshop (named after Wells) in New Jersey and a literary installation, Josephine's Bookshop (named after Josephine Baker),

And you can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall The messy resolutions felt appropriately hard-fought after the characters' extended struggles. Sonia is living away from her Indian family while she studies writing in Vermont, and after growing up different boy, a significantly shaped sister Maia, drastically different paths for mother Cora, and altered

challenges of three strong women in her life: her best friend Zikora, a successful lawyer who must regroup after Drawn to locals like high schooler Betty Campbell, who is physically and psychologically changed after

was tough to read and that was so disturbing for me, it made it difficult to continue with the story afterward After he learns what occurred, he feels that it's impossible to go on.

They clash, hurt each other deeply, and wonder if they can ever reconcile. Along with the brothers' divergent paths forward after loss, their distinct voices--one machine-gun-like just-out-of-college, contract-worker brother who feels socially awkward and is doubting his chess prowess after

Nothing was ever enough on Mirabilis. Every discovery made, every hour spent in someone else's sheets, every conversation and collaboration

Kate is a journalist who has hurried hundreds of miles to town after an urgent letter from her sister

Maggie just can't figure out who's still alive and who would suddenly be after revenge. She also suspects that she can't trust the Agency after a data breach revealed the names of the Malta Now they operate as a team to try to determine who is after Maggie and why.

Cleo and Ethan find themselves in a nightmare of grief: their daughter Daisy dies at the hospital soon after

fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real, read it in one rainy afternoon 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 Reads of Summer the year I read it.

Sybil is a strong-willed widow who, after refusing a powerful suitor, is accused of witchcraft and cruelly

The Summer Favorites These titles aren't classic, light "summer reads," but they were my favorite reads from a summer past, and they all stand the test of time. In case you missed them the first time around, I'm reposting them as this summer begins so you can add For classic light fiction and rom-com titles that are also great for summer reading, check out these before WWII, with its giant hotels, piers, and general hubbub, is the backdrop for the story of a few summer

son of Russian dissidents as they work to evade the thousands of cameras documenting London citizens' every Why not take this fantasy all the way, after all?).

More Favorite Bossy Mystery Reads I love looking over my favorite reads from the past twelve months in every You can explore the twelve titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2025 Reads to find out about my overall McConaghy is also the author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves Wild Dark Shore was one of My Very But just after she visits a psychiatrist, Dr. Byrd, Jane goes missing.

Now I Rise , Lada is tough as nails but faulted, and we see her forge her identity more fully through every It's a little dark, consistently fascinating, sometimes funny, and very satisfying. and Storm , The Darkness emerges with a destructive and dangerous plan to crush everything Alina has ever The Cruel Prince , Jude and her sister are sent to live with the enemy in the High Court of Faerie after

fell in love with Ann Liang's fake-dating young adult novel This Time It's Real , read it in one rainy afternoon Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year , Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , and My Bossy Favorite Reads of Summer  the year I read it.

of a close-knit network of community members) and a successful city doctor with expensive taste and very Meanwhile every visit to Daniel and his town builds up Alexis, fills her heart, teaches her about unconditional Jimenez is also the author of Life's Too Short, The Friend Zone (The Friend Zone #1), and The Happy Ever After Playlist (The Friend Zone #2), which I included on the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories

For my full review of Utopia Avenue, click here. 02 The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez On The other is a shockingly talented artist who abandoned the creation of new work after an incredibly For my full review of this book, see The Happy Ever After Playlist. 03 Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby Annie After a slow start, the story pace picked up, and I was really curious to follow these characters to Taylor Jenkins Reid is also the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Maybe In Another Life, After

Phillips Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year after second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and I didn't even realize this was a series until after

This book made it onto the recent Greedy Reading List Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading intriguing, you might also be 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 His writing is just gorgeous and I'm in for every word. This was a wonderful summer read for me and I loved it.