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.

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?

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 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.

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

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

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading favorite author Maggie O'Farrell's newest novel (out tomorrow), 01 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Maggie O'Farrell is a favorite author of mine, and in her newest novel, she

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

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

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?

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

That is, until she stumbles across Brody's email laying out how he's prepared to sack her in favor of own life while caring for her dying mother until she passed away; and a second-chance love (one of my favorite The retirement-community setting and Vera's eventual role in it were two of my favorite elements.

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,

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

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

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.

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

More Historical Fiction Favorites This is Jennifer N. Brown's first novel. For more historical fiction Bossy favorites, please check out the Greedy Reading Lists and titles here

attract, Dolly All the Time; and I'm listening to the second in Shannon Chakraborty's seafaring adventure-fantasy novel featuring the fantastically spirited Amina al-Sirafi, The Tapestry of Fate.

One of my favorite elements is SecUnit's constant analysis of escape routes, outlandish or ambitious

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).

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

If you enjoy memoirs, you can find Bossy reviews of my favorites here . And check out some of my favorite foodie memoirs here .

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?

they tell the truth about others' wrongdoings, and a heartwarming chosen-family element (one of my favorite You can check out some of my Bossy favorites at the links here.

Annie Hartnett is also the author of the wonderful novel Unlikely Animals , which was one of my Bossy Favorite the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six favorite

I look forward to hearing about your favorite summer reads once I'm back to the blog! xoxo, Amy

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite posted last month about Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, but I had six more favorites And four historical fiction books were on my overall favorites list for last year: The Last Bookshop You might want to check out all the titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my very favorite I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads?

More Emily Henry love Henry's Beach Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it also Emily Henry is also the author of Funny Story (one of my Favorite Reads of the Year ), Happy Place

More about Melissa Caruso books--and more favorite Bossy reads that play with time: This is the first For Bossy reviews of many other books that play with time--this is one of my favorite elements--you can

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 Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell Along with The Egypt Game and The Westing Game , two classic favorites

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

More from Catherine Newman Catherine Newman is also the author of Sandwich  (one of My Very Favorite

series, we learn more about Stoker's past, secrets, heartbreak, and motivations; are treated to more fantastic My favorite element of the Veronica Speedwell series is the character development, and A Treacherous

Six More Bossy Favorite Reads I've been posting lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre ; for my all-around favorites, 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 author of the short story collection Antarctica and the novel Foster, which was one of my all-around favorite This was absolutely my favorite part of the book.

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

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I've been thinking through my favorite books of the year for an What made them your favorites? 01 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell This book! 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.

Forty Love is a rom-com with depth, my favorite type.

What are your favorite witchy stories? Witch by Chris Bohjalian Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather

You might also want to check out my favorite romance reads from the past year--as well as many other

01 Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik Naomi Novik is the author of fantasy novels featuring battles within the books' alternate history, and the human protagonists are wonderfully faulted and fantastic

also want to check out these books featuring friends like family and these historical fiction Bossy favorites

I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically funny dialogue Other fake-dating rom-coms include The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren and a Bossy favorite, The Bodyguard

I've got enough other favorites in this vein to make a second list sometime. White's And I Darken, the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has cover art that to me evokes fantasy This blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and paranormal continues with LaFevers's Dark Triumph, Mortal relationship growth. 04 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy favorites), Thick As Thieves, and Return of the Thief are the other books in the series.

The Shippers offers up one of my favorite premises, in which old friends realize that their love is more