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- Review of Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
Beyond That, the Sea is a lovely character-driven historical fiction story about complicated relationships I loved witnessing the growth of each of the relationships in this character-driven historical fiction You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II or other World War II-set historical fiction books I've reviewed.
- Review of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta
He lays out a history of familial depression and suicidal thoughts as though the occurrence is inevitable Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year
- Review of Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles
In Table for Two: Fictions , Amor Towles offers six short stories set in New York City and a novella The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/13/23 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to William Kent Krueger's historical fiction novella set on the witchy tale set in 1762 Brittany, The Great Witch of Brittany by Louisa Morgan (author of A Secret History Louisa Morgan is also the author of A Secret History of Witches. You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More When William's painful history resurfaces, it threatens everything.
- Review of A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell #4) by Deanna Raybourn
loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical I was initially disappointed that Veronica and Stoker spend (a fast-forwarded) six months apart at the
- Review of The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook
If you're interested in this book, you might also like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set
- Ten Bossy Spring Favorites
There's a book of short stories; one nonfiction book; a memoir; an atmospheric, mysterious novel; historical fiction; contemporary fiction; a rom-com with a historical fiction element; a story about music and sisters told in two timelines; a mystery that's full of surprises; and a historical fiction mystery. In Chris Bohjalian's newest historical fiction novel, Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of I loved the historical fiction aspect of Margaret's recounting of her history.
- March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. The excellent historical fiction here is conflated with romance-novel-worthy storylines and dialogue check out The Women. 06 Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross Donna Woolfolk Cross offers a fascinating historical Pope Joan is Donna Woolfolk Cross's historical fiction about a figure whose existence the Catholic church Cross includes historical events, but makes up some characters (as with Gerold, Joan's love interest
- Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry
I looooved the premise of The Secret Book of Flora Lea, and a World War II-set historical fiction tale If you're interested in World War II-set historical fiction, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II and these books set during World War II
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/26/23 Edition
You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American West. 02 Daughter of If this book sounds 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 Stories.
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Bossy Favorites of the Month Bookworms, I present to you: my six Bossy favorite reads of August. This list is a varied collection: historical fiction, a couple of rom-coms, a nonfiction journey, contemporary facts, shape the narrative to be softer, and omit painful historical failures. my full review of this title. 05 When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward The tone of this historical When the World Fell Silent is Donna Jones Alward's debut historical fiction novel.
- July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
My favorite reads included several books from some of my very favorite authors: the next in a great historical astronaut story with feminism and LGBTQ love; a Maine-set mystery solved by retired CIA operatives; an epic historical fiction fantasy told in several timelines featuring vampires; and historical fiction with a young woman Veronica and Stoker stay close to home while entering into danger and solving the mysteries in book six In Nicole Galland's historical fiction tale Boy , Alexander "Sander" Cooke is a famed, sought-after "
- Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
like to check out some of my Bossy memoir reviews , or some of my Greedy Reading Lists of favorites: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year
- Review of A Time of Witches by Madeline Martin
In this dual-timeline historical fiction-fantasy-magical realism-witchy story, Martin explores the Suffolk Yet we know from history that what Martin builds in her novel is a version of real-life witch hunts,
- Review of The Women by Kristin Hannah
is conflated with romance-novel elements that keep things moving but frequently pulled me out of the historical I loved Kristin Hannah's book The Nightingale and mentioned it in my Greedy Reading List Six Books about The excellent historical fiction here is conflated with romance-novel-worthy storylines and dialogue than twenty novels, including The Nightingale, which I loved and mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Six
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/25/24 Edition
Wray's sassy multiple-timeline historical fiction novel about sisters who served pivotal roles in World War II, The Excitements; and I'm reading Allison Pataki's most recent historical fiction, about a little-known He begins wondering about unexplained aspects of his own family history, and when the three of them travel It's part historical fiction with wonderful World War II details and part sassy modern-day tale about You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave Female Spies. 03 Finding
- Review of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird
this book is down your alley, you might also be interested in the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Books
- Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith
Poet Maggie Smith's memoir traces the end of her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while For memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Musicians ' Memoirs that Sing Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality
- Review of The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd
The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby is a historical fiction art-focused mystery told in two timelines Lloyd (the husband and wife writing team of Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos) offers a gorgeously wrought historical , runaway heiress and aspiring artist Juliette Willoughby gives up her inheritance (and dark family history This was immensely satisfying historical fiction. You can click here for lists of more historical fiction novels and historical fiction mysteries I've
- Review of The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
You might also be interested in the books on these Greedy Reading Lists: 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 Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading , and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/27/25 Edition
novel This 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 great young-adult rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You here and my review of Liang's young-adult historical
- Review of A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst
Nonfiction I've Loved If you love nonfiction 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 Nonfiction Reads , or these other nonfiction books I've
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: two historical fiction stories, gothic magical 01 October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker Hawker's newest historical fiction gives a wonderfully evocative Olivia Hawker's newest historical fiction is set in Depression-era Kentucky. Novels and Six More Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels. loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/26/26 Edition
reading George Saunders's upcoming novel Vigil , I'm listening to Madeline Martin's Victorian-London-set historical I included Lincoln in the Bardo in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/28/23 Edition
You might also be interested in the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West. 02 Homecoming
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/24/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Glassmaker, the newest historical fiction from Tracy Chevalier 01 The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier I'm so excited about this new historical fiction from Tracy Chevalier Tracking the family for six centuries, from Renaissance Italy to the present day, Chevalier's story skips I mentioned Julia Phillips's fascinating novel Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/15/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to William Kent Krueger's mid-century-set historical fiction 01 The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger I love William Kent Krueger's historical fiction stories Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six another great Henry story; you can check out my review here, and you might like to check out its spot on Six
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/16/24 Edition
Atkinson is also the author of Shrines of Gaiety , Case Histories, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Life the author of Ninth House , Hell Bent , the King of Scars series ( Rule of Wolves is book two), the Six of Crows series, the Shadow and Bone series ( which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/13/23 Edition
You might also like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West. 02 Killers
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/18/24 Edition
strange place, by a river, horribly bruised and in pain--with no memory of his own name, his job, or his history Blake Crouch's Upgrade here , my review of his novel Recursion (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six The slim book traces a single day in the lives of six astronauts orbiting the earth at seventeen thousand
- September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: time travel, historical fiction, a mother's Treacherous Curse. 03 Chenneville by Paulette Jiles Jiles's newest stark, beautiful, heartbreaking historical I got full-body chills when I saw that Paulette Jiles had a new historical fiction novel coming out. You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Satisfying Novels about Revenge and Six here for my full review of Time's Mouth. 05 Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical
- Review of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller
you like books set in the unforgiving cold, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are the six books I most loved reading in the heat of August. There's a little bit of romantic, funny, steamy light fiction; the next wonderful installments in two historical Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Asuka is very intelligent and capable, but she was chosen for the once-in-history journey as an alternate 06 A Perilous Undertaking (Veronica Speedwell #2) by Deanna Raybourn This second book in Raybourn's historical
- Review of The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Asuka is intelligent and capable, but she was chosen for the once-in-history journey as an alternate, I recently posted a Greedy Reading List of Six Fascinating Stories Set in Space. You might also like Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans, and Alien Life and AI, Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels, and Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last
- Review of Grey Dog by Elliott Gish
Grey Dog begins as an immersive historical fiction story of a young teacher with a shocking past in It is such a narrow, stunted, blighted way to be that I wonder any woman throughout history has been This is a feminist historical fiction story in which women--long kept quiet and still, supervised to I loved the setting and detail of the historical fiction story, but I became fully hooked as the tale You might also like my Bossy reviews of other historical fiction books set in the 1900s .
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/20/26 Edition
The Gods of Howl Mountain , and Fallen Land , a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War . 02 Upward Bound by Woody Brown In his debut novel
- Review of Pope Joan: A Novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Donna Woolfolk Cross offers a fascinating historical fiction tale of a pioneering, headstrong, brilliant Pope Joan is Donna Woolfolk Cross's historical fiction about a figure whose existence the Catholic church Cross includes historical events, but makes up some characters (as with Gerold, Joan's love interest I was fascinated by Cross's Author's Note detailing the extensive research and rich history surrounding Other historical fiction books with faith elements that I've loved include Revelations and Illuminations
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
You might also like the books on my past Greedy Reading Lists Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads and Six If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs for Love . 02 White Houses by Amy Bloom White Houses is gorgeously written, exhaustingly researched historical If you enjoy short story collections, you might like to check out Six Short Story Collections to Wow You and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved .
- Review of Nine Liars (Truly Devious #5) by Maureen Johnson
long-distance boyfriend) David in London, they cook up detailed research plans and immersion in the history More from Maureen Johnson Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition
I'm reading The Diamond Eye, Kate Quinn's newest historical fiction, based on a real-life Russian bookworm 01 The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is Kate Quinn's most recent historical fiction, a World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore. 03 Bomb
- Review of The City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty
inrigue, mythology, magic, and battles--but I'm not sure I fully grasped the intricacies of the political histories I listed Amina in the Greedy Reading List Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I
- Review of Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi
Like many of us who question historical accounts that feel whitewashed or wiped of women due to sexism By the end of the book we learn more about these "abilities" and their role in the greater history of
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/12/23 Edition
about young friends and musicians in 1700s Vienna; I'm reading Beyond That, the Sea, Julia Spence-Ash's historical If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories, and Six
- Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
If you like to read memoirs like I do, you might be interested in the Greedy Reading Lists here: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition
If you like Westerns, you might want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/31/25 Edition
Chakraborty's Daevabad fantasy trilogy, The City of Brass ; and I'm reading Olivia Hawker's upcoming historical Night , and One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow , which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West .
- Review of When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward
The tone of this historical fiction novel was at first too earnest for my taste, but ultimately I was More Books to Check Out When the World Fell Silent is Donna Jones Alward's debut historical fiction novel For other Bossy historical fiction favorites, please check out the reviews and Greedy Reading Lists linked
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/5/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , an art-focused historical by Ellery Lloyd In The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby , Ellery Lloyd offers a gorgeously wrought historical Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett In Robert Jackson Bennett's novel, The Tainted Cup , he blends a rich, historical You might also like the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Lighter Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/30/25 Edition
reclusive romance author for an extended book tour; I'm listening to Boy , Nicole Galland's gender-swapping historical Day in December , and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd , a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories . 02 Boy by Nicole Galland In Nicole Galland's historical
- Newer Romantic Novels Perfect for Savoring Summer's Last Gasp
August feels like a perfect time to dive into recently published romantic stories, and these have been 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 Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Light Fiction Stories Six of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year , and Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year Have you














































