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- 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
- 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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, 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 Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
Shattuck offers faulted protagonists and a fascinating, complicated set of factors in her World War II historical Her historical fiction story hooked me. For more World War II stories, check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about
- 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 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, 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
- 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
- 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 .
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/4/23 Edition
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
- 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, 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, 8/26/24 Edition
You might also be interested in the books on my 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 . 02 Moonbound by Robin
- 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 .
- 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
- 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
- Review of The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard
You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into, and Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore.
- Review of A Far Better Thing by H. G. Parry
In this historical fiction-fantasy, characters from Dickens's tale are plunged into a dark, powerful The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep , The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door , Heartless , and The Shadow Histories
- Review of I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
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
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Here are my six favorite reads of the past month. There's suspense, memoir, science fiction, and historical fiction here. The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer War II story about strong women making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about
- Review of Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid
To look up at the nighttime sky is to become a part of a long line of people throughout human history of Carrie Soto Is Back , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo , Malibu Rising , and Daisy Jones & the Six
- Review of The Summer Guests (Martini Club #2) by Tess Gerritsen
residents, their murky pasts (which are uncomfortably, distantly related to the aging former agents' own histories If you're interested in stories set in Maine, you might like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six
- Review of Only Pretty Damned by Niall Howard
I listened to Niall Howell's debut, Only Pretty Damned, noir historical fiction set behind the scenes You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Spooky, Gothic Tales.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/3/21 Edition
nonfiction book about a famous female Russian spy during the Cold War; and I'm reading The Invisible Woman, historical Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year last year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books If you like reading about female spies, you might like the Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave but also poignant, and I loved it. 03 The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck The Invisible Woman is a historical
- My Favorite Science Fiction Reads of the Year
You might also like the Greedy Reading lists of past years' Bossy favorites: Six Four Star (And Up) Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year Six More Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads I Loved in the Past Year Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Science Fiction Reads I Loved in the Past Year Six Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into Six More Science Fiction Favorites If you like this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/21/25 Edition
a dare, she hopped onto an open mic stage, spouted off comedic takes on her life, and the rest was history of the Year when I read it, as well as the novel Rabbit Cake . 03 Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History also the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six
- Review of Orbital by Samantha Harvey
The luminous novel Orbital tracks six astronauts in the International Space Station for one day as they Samantha Harvey's astronaut-focused novel Orbital traces a single day in the lives of six astronauts In Orbital , Harvey takes the ultimate locked-room setting of six people in a small space, orbiting 250 designated bathroom, while the other astronauts are only "allowed" to use the second bathroom--a rule the six The six space-station astronauts are circling the earth without traveling anywhere, they reflect, while
- Review of Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes and Robin Gaby Fisher
circumstances, the aftermaths, and the various movements of potential suspects over months and years--as historically If you like nonfiction books, you might also like the books I list on my Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads--and stay tuned for my upcoming list of Six Nonfiction Bossy Favorites from the Past
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
, science fiction, and historical fiction titles. In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War. my full review, check out The Love of My Life. 06 Revelations by Mary Sharratt Sharratt offers vivid historical In Revelations, Sharratt offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched
- Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
If you also like stories like this, you might enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
Bossy reviews of lighter fiction or rom-com books I've loved, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six More of my Favorite Romantic Fiction Reads from the Past Year Six More Great Light Fiction Stories Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My
- December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Anyway, here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a heartbreaking, lovely, epistolary 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 You might also want to check out the short story collections listed in my Greedy Reading Lists Six Short Story Collections to Wow You and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved.
- Review of Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth DeLozier
DeLozier's debut novel is richly detailed historical fiction set in fourteenth-century Avignon. In Elizabeth DeLozier's historical fiction Eleanore of Avignon , it's 1347, and the titular character At various turns, DeLozier showcases historically accurate, dangerous demonstrations of men's fears of
- Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
For more cold-setting stories, check out my Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings
- Review of Skylark by Paula McLain
relatively slow start as the scenes are set, but then I quickly became hooked on McLain's dual-timeline historical Paula McLain's Skylark is historical fiction set in Paris and told through dual timelines. For more historical fiction I've loved, please check out the Bossy lists and reviews at this link .
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/21/24 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Taylor Brown's newest historical novel, Rednecks, which centers In Rednecks, Brown presents a historical novel centering around the events of the 1920 and 1921 West Wingwalkers, The Gods of Howl Mountain, Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War, and other novels.















































