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I think you should know that going in, because it’s not the only fantastic thing, but it is one of the fantastic things in Elan Mastai's All Our Wrong Todays . Please click here for my full review of Life After Life . 05 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Dannie is on the path to achieving her five-year goals in spectacularly efficient fashion. Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected.

Here's the premise of Hannah Orenstein's latest book: nineteen-year-old Avery Abrams was set to be the For the next few years she dabbled in college, she partied, she drifted, she dated a professional football I mentioned this book (along with the epic science fiction/fantasy To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and a young

The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully But in the ensuing years, Camilla can't stop obsessing over the unusual aspects of the siege: the violence Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke? Reading List Six More Time-Travel Stories to Explore , but included as one of my favorite books of the year

If so, I'd love to hear what you thought. Do you have any favorite books that involve time travel? After being involved in multiple disasters in only her first day of classes, she fears college may become But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the Except...Andra soon realizes she wasn't sleeping for 100 years. She was asleep for 1,000.

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

In Lynn Painter's rom-com Betting on You, rule-following seventeen-year-old Bailey and sarcastic, joking Please click here for my full review of Betting on You. 05 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl's beautiful, striking observations range from a New Year's Day sighting of a crow and her exploration of crows' senses of community and cleverness, which she hopes set a tone for the year to come; to a captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic

Bossy Book Gift Ideas Each year I offer lists of Bossy book gift ideas for the holidays, including a indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling children, past secrets, friendship, romantic relationships, and previously unknown blood relatives near From "The Final 196 seconds of Kobe Bryant's Career" to "Shaq's Three-Year Path of Destruction"; and

In 2014 Turkey, ten-year-old Narin is living near the Tigris and is affected by a disorder that will Her relationship with Sonny Bono (eleven years older) began when she was a teenager, and his control I was particularly intrigued by the fits and starts of Morgan's younger years, her struggles to find Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis is engaged in top-secret work alongside other bright minds, trying to crack The Civil War is looming, and Junie is a sixteen-year-old who has spent her whole life enslaved on an

01 Dear Emmie Blue This is a lovely light summer read so far. So far, Lia Louis's Dear Emmie Blue doesn't require the reader to do much, if any, LA-LA-LA-ing and taking (Click here for my full review of Dear Emmie Blue.) These are short books with a fantastically unique point of view, and they're perfect escapism. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #uniquePOV 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea ​ I like to listen to fantasy

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. of You by Anne Egseth Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old simultaneously wanted to scoop up Luna and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years She has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl.

science fiction story Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir, the author of The Martian; and a young adult fantasy Una, Ellie, and Cullen cope with grave situations and life-and-death struggles that threaten to tear

Crosley's memoir traces a treasured friendship and the gutting loss of that dear friend. She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in on her messy, sometimes fantastical, often poignant search She obsesses over trying to track down the robber, can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted

For more fantasy novels I've loved, please check out the titles at this link . I haven't read Oliver Twist  in many years, yet Fagin has remained ingrained in my head as a selfish, this timeline, Tom Metcalfe, one of our main protagonists, is an academic fascinated by the past (the years

powers uniquely in some instances, and as the group wavers between silly teasing, joking, curiosity, and fear , Eleanor wavers between overwhelming joy and bitter suspicion and revenge fantasies.

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. Seventeen-year-old girls aren't safe on their own, so Jess cuts her hair, binds her chest, and saddles Jess's voice was fantastic. and Johanna isn't a willing participant in this venture, having become more culturally Kiowa over the years

Favorites These were just a few of my favorite historical fiction reads during Bossy Bookworm's first year societal expectations for women, great adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fantastic in 1924 South Carolina were wonderful, and I still think about this book although I read it almost a year ago (technically, at the end of last year). Years after I first read this book, I still think of it often and fondly.

Gaige's Heartwood  offers the story of Beverly, a dedicated Maine State Game Warden who has fought for years Valerie's poignant letters to her mother as she struggles to survive in the wild, and witness to 76-year-old Meanwhile, the novel explores imperfect parenting, compounding mistakes by clinging to fear or regret and bonding, the in-charge warden who has worked hard and earned her place, and the behind-the-scenes gears

Eason is also the author of the On the Bones of Gods fantasy series.

“You’ll never regret a decision more than the one you make out of fear. Fear tells you to make your life small. Fear tells you to think small. Fear tells you to be small-hearted. air you give fear to survive.” Author Jeff Zentner is also the author of Goodbye Days , a book I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

If you've read any of the books mentioned here, I'd love to hear what you think! Meanwhile Harper explores loyalty, procedural details related to the past and near past, beginnings and terms with it, while Abby is an island local whose husband has hidden something significant, and she fears the adults in Eli's life (and the terrible consequences he suffers because of them), he emerges as a fantastic I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year .

But the brave GIs didn't survive years of brutal battles and ensure their much-anticipated homecoming Addie meets a young man in a hidden-away bookstore--and he's the first person in almost three hundred years I've got historical fiction/fantasy, royal historical fiction, and a compelling nonfiction story that

darkly funny, and the situations range from that of a Sarah who is being paid to act out necrophilia fantasies

Henry's Beach Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it also made it onto the Greedy Emily Henry is also the author of Funny Story  (one of my Favorite Reads of the Year ),   Happy Place For one year when they're young adults, the sisters reach mindboggling heights of fame as the pop duo Twenty years later, Zoe is a housewife and Cassie is a recluse who hasn't spoken to her sister at all Are the strange coordinates she's receiving on her phone after seven years a message from Luke?

If you've read any of these titles, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? (inspired by Taylor Brown's great-grandfather); Big Frank, a black World War I veteran fed up with fear fiction--the cutthroat, sometimes deadly efforts of coal-company enforcers to subdue rebellion; the years She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in on her messy, sometimes fantastical, often poignant search

As Marguerite enters into her early teens, she begins to fear that her cousin views her as a creepy match My Daughter ) urging constant preservation of reputation, exuding modesty, maintaining a paralyzing fear the island and her necessary rejection of even the most basic societal expectations for her status (wearing I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book! I first read Allegra Goodman's work 25 years ago, when I enjoyed her novel Kaaterskill Falls .

But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the

I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads--or books you've read recently that just Razorblade Tears is a brutally violent story shadowed with heartbreaking regret. It's a fast read, and after my love of Blacktop Wasteland last year, I'm in for any of Cosby's writing I feared I'd get turned around in time by listening to the book rather than reading it, but narrator In this second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology, Nikolai, Zoya,

Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo Rule of Wolves is the second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy tribute to Rani, and he's forced to more fully consider the devastating effects of his nation's thirty-year-long

Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into and Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year who is half-Korean, half-Japanese, and who lived under oppressive totalitarian rule for thirty-six years I first saw Busy Philipps acting on my beloved Dawson's Creek many years ago, and since then, I've remained a Little , Philipps conversationally takes us through her youth in Scottsdale, Arizona, her awkward years Paul delves fully into her meandering post-college years--during which Bob provides more structure in

This is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy, but the book is truly character driven. In Other Lands is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy—there’s a portal; there are mermaids, elves

this smart, funny young adult book complete with Chinese folklore, a rock-solid friendship, creative fantasy Genie Lo is a Bay Area sixteen-year-old who's tall enough to be generally criticized by her petite Asian adult book--the first in a series--complete with Chinese folklore, a rock-solid friendship, creative fantasy

So Cy leaves his ten-year-old daughter Bess with his sister, Bess's short-tempered aunt, although he expects to be away on his irrational, foolish travels for two years. (Two years!) Davies includes fantastic details of amateur Western exploration that I adored. 04 One for the Blackbird Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, four young adult fantasy books plus related

Reads These six four-star mysteries are all so good and so different--they were my favorites of the year a couple of years ago, and they're so solid that I thought I'd repost again. I'd love to hear about your favorite mystery reads! Phillips ​ Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo).

Rocky's family has been vacationing in Cape Cod for twenty years. She's built years of happy memories in their low-key beach house rental. This year, she's sandwiched between her half-grown children and her aging parents. And the carefree vacations of the past feel light years away, because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance

01 Meet Me At the Lake by Carley Fortune Thirty-two-year-old Fern Brookbanks has pinned most of her romantic A chance encounter blossomed into a glorious connection and a pact to meet up one year later...but while And just guess who shows up, nine years late? Meet Me At the Lake is narrated by A.J. These Impossible Things is one of my book club's reads this year. 03 Meru (The Alloy Era #1) by S.B. Divya For five hundred years, humans have been restricted to living on Earth, while posthuman descendants

captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious Their common disjointedness brings them together, and the mashup of personalities and histories was fantastic

This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. are the stars of the popular paranormal television show Intangible, and for multiple seasons they've yearned realistic rather than manufactured--miscommunication and habitual defensiveness, the foolishness of youth, fear I smiled a lot, I teared up, and I loved this perfect summer read!

Five years later, the crown reappears--spurring more mystery and questions than answers. Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye, The Huntress, The Rose Code, and The

Thirty-two-year-old Fern Brookbanks has pinned most of her romantic dreams on Will Baxter--despite the A chance encounter blossomed into a glorious connection and a pact to meet up one year later at her family Now she's coping with a tragedy--and guess who shows up to meet Fern, nine years late? Then Florence's beloved father dies, and she returns to her hometown for the first time in many years So this year, when their friends surprise Harriet upon her arrival with the fact that Win was able to

In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather

Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis is engaged in top-secret work alongside other bright minds, trying to crack evades her grandmother's attempts to bring her from England to the United States to avoid the Nazis' nearing died long ago, and Lizzie just couldn't stand to leave the last country where they saw their mother a year I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts!

Sherry Thomas also writes young adult fantasy books as well as historical romances.

(It wasn't what I had feared.) The unlikely Jaryk-Lucy connection captured my heart, the Misha-Jaryk friendship was fantastic, and Chakrabarti's writing--about New York's bustle, small-town Indian life, the power of music and art, and a yearning for love and acceptance while fearing rejection and not feeling worthy--is luminous. This was my book club's first read of the year. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book?

Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction and fantasy

British parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make an impossible choice: to send their eleven-year-old time while her wife Odette soars high above on the trapeze of their magical circus, the Circus of the Fantasticals with a ringmaster ruling his crew with dark powers--and someone who's after what the Circus of the Fantasticals

The tone of Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth was unlike any fantasy novel I’ve read—Gideon’s speech is

Cosimano is also the author of the young adult mystery series Nearly Gone, the young adult fantasy series

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery Last Binding trilogy that began line between fact and fiction allows the true heart of the book, a daughter's wonder, grief, joy, and yearning Sixteen-year-old aspiring writer Frankie is just trying to get through a late 1990s summer in Coalfield

This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. are the stars of the popular paranormal television show Intangible , and for multiple seasons they've yearned I smiled a lot, I teared up, and I loved this romantic read! That book introduced the fantastic best-friend character of Felicity "Fizzy" Chen. The happy ending made me tear up and also made me want to cheer. I loved this.

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. of You by Anne Egseth Luna has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old simultaneously wanted to scoop up Luna and take care of her and to follow the lead of this wise-beyond-her-years She has a unique and lovely voice and is an irresistibly odd bird of a twelve-year-old girl.