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evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty, family, and love in Civil War-era

choices large and small cause enormous repercussions for an individual--and sometimes for the entire world on the character of Ursula, her relationships with members of her family, and details of life during World Wars I and II. This would be a captivating book even without the redoing-life element.

She writes songs about "sex, love, and the state of the world," and in one instance describes musical The enthusiasm of my obsession with her book News of the World was (borderline? full-on?) titular character John Chenneville is a former Union soldier who has spent the year since the end of the war Jiles writes gorgeously about the unforgiving landscape, post-Civil-War wasteland, and the sprigs of Paulette Jiles also wrote News of the World, Simon the Fiddler, and The Color of Lightning.

Would there have been the same wars, massacres, persecutions, and crusades?

straddling cultures and in which family members to find their way back to each other by traveling around the world NetGalley. 02 The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war and all of this against a background of Beirut, a city shaped by and "smoldering with the legacy of war

Parry's reimagining of A Tale of Two Cities as a dark, faery-controlled world with the French Revolution historical fiction-fantasy, characters from Dickens's tale are plunged into a dark, powerful magical world of shifting power structures, and clever enough to reimagine the faery-controlled underbelly of his world , he becomes determined to usher in a new age, where Excalibur is reclaimed, Camelot is secure from would-be

The title of Harding's book comes from Shakespeare's Richard II: This earth of majesty, this seat of evokes the harsh landscape and the characters' connection to the weather, the terrain, and the natural world

Centuries-old resentments and conflicts threaten to bubble up into war--and Nahri and Dara's arrival

hooked, witnessing Hartnett's delightfully faulted, oddball characters making their way in a messy world In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War stun medieval British society with her vow of celibacy and ambitious pilgrimage halfway around the world

a favorite author, Eowyn Ivey; I'm listening to Southern comic Leanne Morgan's memoir, What in the World she traded her safety and Emmaleen's for the false promise of an idyllic life immersed in the natural world Eowyn Ivey is also the author of To the Bright Edge of the World , which I listed in the Greedy Reading What in the World?! I'm listening to What in the World?! as an audiobook.

Violet Sorrengail has been training as a dragon rider for 18 months at Basgiath War College, but a real-life

Lockwood is a poet, and Priestdaddy illustrated her truly quirky and off-kilter poet's view of the world outrageous, frequently rude and exceedingly upsetting, clever, and annoying, and it's followed by a Part II Part II of No One Is Talking About This is meaningful and poignant and heartbreaking, and it brought heart-wrenching passages from this section of the book to quote, and Lockwood's poetic view of the world despite how disturbing I found it--and 5 stars for the heart-wrenching, pure beauty of much of Part II

Kuang is also the author of Yellowface , The Poppy War , Babel , The Burning God , and The Dragon Republic

In Marie Lu's young adult dystopian series starter Legend, the Republic and Colonies war with each other Legend touches on but doesn't fully explore potentially intriguing aspects of Lu's world--the history

Natalie Haynes's mythological retellings put women at the center of many scenes surrounding the Trojan War listened to Haynes read her highly entertaining woman-centric version of events surrounding the Trojan War

I felt like the story started off slowly, but once the world was built and the background established The first part of the book felt clunky to me, bogged down by explanations of how Aaron's imagined world the Bex-Adrian friendship, client-bodyguard relationship, and growing attraction--made me wonder what would Now that the world of the books has been built, I expect the second installment to move along at a nice

In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After , Wamariya recalls her experiences Wamariya shares her views of the world, her often jarring experiences in the US—with her sister and family

The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world. captivated by the first part of the book, in which Jane and her father are entrenched in their own world Jane's sheltered background--and her doubts about what is true about the world and what was made up or Jane's belief that her mother, to date a stranger, would magically resolve her many urgent challenges fascinating, and I felt drawn into the part of the novel set in the woods with a father, a daughter, and the world

In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War one evening, tabbed many, many passages, immediately bought my own copy, re-tabbed everything, and would control and her reckoning with the way in which she considers her body after cancer treatment ("Who would

O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , in which the heir to a galaxy-wide mining fortune And would that be the worst thing in the world, after all? I'm reading Catalina courtesy of Random House Publishing Group: One World and NetGalley. Cornejo Villavicencio is also the author of The Undocumented Americans . 03 The Blighted Stars (Devoured Worlds O'Keefe's Devoured Worlds series, The Blighted Stars , studious Tarquin Mercator is the unlikely heir

Donoghue immersed me so fully in this world that everything else fell away for me. The country is reeling at the end of World War I. constant push and pull of life and death--a microcosm of what is occurring on the battlefields and in the world sometimes desperately creative attempts to preserve lives; and the occasional triumphs that the rest of the world

It's 1926 in London, and recovery from the Great War inspires many in the city to dive into the wild

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. There's a ton to unpack here, including the exploration of the good and evil warring within each of us The world, the girl knew, was worse than savage, the world was unmoved. of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries of the natural world Because the restrictive Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous

Anthropocene is the current geological age, and Green delightfully subjects a wide range of aspects of our world including the QWERTY keyboard, Canada geese, Super Mario Kart, the Bonneville Salt Flats, whispering, the World's takeaways from morality and ethics writings and lessons to craft this guide to how to behave in the world , kind, well-meaning people out there spending time reflecting on how best to be a human in today's world Victorious in war, unchallenged by foreign foes in North America for the first time in its history, the

There is talk of war's return, and three warriors will shape the future of the land of Vigrid: a noblewoman

We also read A Play for the End of the World, How to Be Perfect, These Impossible Things, Reminders of Lucrezia's shrinking world made me feel claustrophobic on her behalf and paranoid about everyone's potential solitude together, wondering about and worrying about their daughters, each other, themselves, and the world It's 1926 in London, and recovery from the Great War inspires many in the city to dive into the wild Remarkably Bright Creatures has a lot of heart, and I felt cozy in my confidence that all present situations would

Aye, that's what yer maw said"), for adventure and more of their somewhat grumpy attempts to save the world The story lagged a little for me with the accounts of past battles and war stories; extensive details

Humans around the world are bound by the necessity and pleasure of eating, and there is no faster way I mentioned another title (The World's Most Adventurous Kid) from the Atlas Obscura series last year unfamiliar or mysterious environments, and her newest book, Fuzz, promises to do this again for the world the Void; Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex; and Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War . 04 Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Alderman offers a dive into a future world that's crumbling due to greed, disregard for the environment twisty, compelling, futuristic, technology-driven attempt at survival--and at maybe just changing the world Meanwhile in Singapore, survivalist Lai Zhen has temporarily evaded a would-be assassin. When Martha and Zhen connect, the collision might just change everything...for everyone in the world. The behavior of three key tech billionaires might seem like the symptom of all the biggest world problems

Click here for my full review of Flying Solo. 02 Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez Jimenez offers humor romance while incorporating weighty issues into her light fiction opposites-attract story Part of Your World access to health care, domestic abuse, and emotional abuse, as well as a personal reckoning in which the warring Told in alternating points of view from Daniel and Alexis, Part of Your World is romantic, often funny For my full review, check out Part of Your World. 03 One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston McQuiston's love

The world, the girl knew, was worse than savage, the world was unmoved. of her former household, her former charge--and her growing wonder at the mysteries of the natural world Because the restrictive Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous There are two kinds of people in this world: those who live with shame, and those who die from it. There's a ton to unpack here, including the exploration of the good and evil warring within each of us

and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre ​ The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War is a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery double agent for Britain’s MI6, to be appointed Resident in the KGB—and to ultimately help end the Cold War He does an excellent job of immersing the reader in Cold War-era mindsets, priorities, and sometimes

Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war, duty, brainwashing, escaping limitations, and reinventing

These days there's no more witching and no more will for spells and change in the world. When the long-lost sisters do unexpectedly cross each other's paths again at last, the world's seams The weight of the world is on Vasya's shoulders in this book as she attempts to survive while saving Maguire shatters the reader's preconceived notions while crafting a richly imagined world--one which of, banishes her to a deserted island, Circe perfects her witchy powers, tames beasts, considers the world

Come Home; A Thousand Ships, Natalie Haynes's woman-centric account of events surrounding the Trojan War listening to Haynes read her highly entertaining woman-centric version of events surrounding the Trojan War

Conflicts between Korea and Japan and war and occupation swirl around them and those within their orbits

centuries, from Renaissance Italy to the present day, Chevalier's story skips through deadly plague, war

Because the restrictive Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous Schwab Schwab returns to the world of the four Londons in the first of a wonderfully paced new series The Fragile Threads of Power  is set in the world of Schwab's Shades of Magic, with a return to the four magic but separated by doors, which were created in a desperate attempt to protect the magic of each world One may upend everything across four worlds--and one may possibly be able to save them all.

The standouts for me in First Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, which was one of the last great expeditions in the Age of Exploration. 06 To the Bright Edge of the World When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious To the Bright Edge of the World is a story of discovery, adventure, tedious slogging, danger, and self-revelation stories, and they work well here, causing the characters to broaden their views of the great unknown world

all of those elements and more, unraveling the workings of a family in the South during the Vietnam War , including brothers at odds; as well as complex issues regarding corruption, prison, war, money, power

Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds, delve into never-before-revealed adventures, and offer a glimpse into the author's newest world-building Naomi Novik's newest work, Buried Deep ,  is a collection of thirteen stories that span the worlds of And "The Long Way Round" is a tantalizing peek into Novik's next world, with a savvy, gruff female captain The dragons talk and are haughty and greedy and intensely loyal to their riders, Novik explores world

The Daily Show 's Michael Kosta recounts his youth as a pro tennis player (#864 in the world), an assistant attempts to improve ATP ranking, sleeping on floors, and struggling to focus as a young man traveling the world University of Michigan--while spending evenings working out a stand-up routine--Kosta abandoned the world The commitment necessary for success in the world of comedy somewhat mirrors the work ethic necessary

The Water Dancer traces the life of Hiram Walker, a "Tasked" man (the word "slavery" is rarely used in The author also wrote the memoir Between the World and Me. 02 The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz This book inspiration for the character of Merlin); and the complicating factors of bloodthirsty vengeance and war

Tell me what you would tell a white woman, her face said. In Evans's story "Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain," Rena, a war correspondent, attends the wedding The danger is in chemicals and airports and refugee camps and war zones and regions known for sex tourism careless about her actions, doubles down in order to have something to stand for, and questions who she would It was a pitiful tally, because I had decided most of them would forgive anyone who harmed me, would

India generally keeps her strong opinions about the world to herself (or shares them with her two kids This is your wide, strange, remarkable family in the world, she said. They were able to infer a great deal about the world and how it works--far more than I would have anticipated While I did find myself cringing and wishing she followed through on the birth control that would ensure

01 Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson It's 1926 in London, and recovery from the Great War inspires the

If the land of milk and honey produced no further milk, this meal proclaimed, then we would sup of the ways, and she struggles with her role in perpetuating elitism while envisioning rebuilding a more just world repeatedly demonstrates the hubris of the uber-wealthy upper classes in the environmentally devastated world Money talks--and money is the only thing that buys food in a smog-ruined world.

Ruth Reichl was editor in chief of Gourmet and a world-renowned food critic for The New York Times, and essential to Reichl's ability to properly assess the level of service and the food quality everyday patrons would She reveals absurdities and excesses in the restaurant world while clearly remaining the head of the Bourdain does have sordid tales to tell, but he seems less puffed up over his kitchen war stories after endless evenings happily watching multiple television series featuring Anthony Bourdain traveling the world

Victorious in war, unchallenged by foreign foes in North America for the first time in its history, the The book was, as one would expect, gut-wrenching to read as the destruction unfolded on these pages. Between 1868 and 1881 they would kill thirty-one million buffalo, stripping the plains almost entirely

loyalty, and remains open to discovering new sides of herself and of those she has allowed into her inner world Gillig builds a layered fantasy world on elements of stone and water, and the moth symbolism changes The Knight and the Moth is built on a spare yet satisfying fantasy world with a limited number of characters longstanding nobles feels like an editorial on haves and have-nots that is relevant for the current real world