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  • Review of A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

    I read this engrossing family story in a day and can't wait to read future fiction by Claire Lynch.

  • December Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    plays with time, a book that plays with memory, a musician's memoir, Roaring Twenties-set historical fiction , postapocalyptic fiction, and the newest in a young adult mystery series. This gorgeously written postapocalyptic climate-fiction story offers up a future in which civilization review of The Box in the Woods. 04 Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction I love fiction about memory and how it shapes us, and I thought Harkin's Tell Me an Ending was wonderful

  • Review of The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

    illustrating the interconnectedness of grief, love, community, and nature in this heartwarming literary fiction The ending section is lovely, with heartwarming promise, hope, resolution, and a fig-tree-related revelation

  • Review of Tilt by Emma Pattee

    More about Emma Pattee Emma Pattee is a climate journalist as well as a fiction writer.

  • Review of The Knight and the Moth (Stonewater Kingdom #1) by Rachel Gillig

    For more fantasy/science fiction stories I've loved, please check out these titles .

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's I looove a historical fiction mystery. If you do too, you might want to check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction The Invisible Woman is historical fiction about the real-life World War II-era spy Virginia Hall. The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

  • Review of The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett

    Hartnett is also the author of the wonderful novel Unlikely Animals , which was one of my  Bossy Favorite Fiction

  • Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    full review of Small Things Like These. 03 The Night Ship by Jess Kidd Kidd's dual-timeline historical fiction The Night Ship is historical fiction with a magical realism undercurrent that's told in two timelines four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction In The Trackers, Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction featuring a Great Depression-era If you're interested in Great Depression-era historical fiction like I am, you might also like the books

  • January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    and lots of sweetness; The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first in Becky Chambers's science fiction cruel end of World War II; and Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, Meg Long's debut young adult science fiction Maid. 02 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1) by Becky Chambers Chambers's science fiction In The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers Chambers's story is science fiction that's full of heart, heartbreak, and hope.

  • Review of Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik

    Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds,

  • Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

    Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, my book club's most recent read, it's In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's

  • Six of My Favorite Nonfiction Reads from the Past Year

    favorite reads from lots of genres that I've loved reading in the past year: Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six of My With sections read by stars of The Good Place, Schur's How to Be Perfect is funny, interesting--and a

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/7/25 Edition

    If you like to read fiction about music, you might also like the titles I included in the Greedy Reading

  • April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Maggie Smith's beautiful memoir about divorce and life; Go As a River, Shelley Read's debut historical fiction set in mid-century rural Colorado; Illuminations, Mary Sharratt's historical fiction about a walled-in River. 05 Illuminations by Mary Sharratt Sharratt's carefully researched, richly detailed historical fiction Mary Sharratt offers an exhaustively researched, fascinating historical fiction account of the life of Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother

  • Review of The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

    In Robert Jackson Bennett's novel, The Tainted Cup , he blends a rich, historical fiction-feeling story

  • 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 Toby is chillingly without remorse and evolves into an almost purely vengeful person, manipulating his actions

  • April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Shark Heart was surprisingly poignant speculative fiction. of The Book of Doors. 05 Queens of London by Heather Webb Queens of London is fascinating historical fiction Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious, haunting historical fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/24 Edition

    and garnering sympathy from Sadie, whose shadowy bosses in government and business are directing her actions of Nottingham, things get complicated for both Mariel and Clem in this sassy, fun, queer historical fiction

  • Review of Nothing to See Here by Kevin Wilson

    loyalty, and I rejoiced when his characters crafted their chosen relationships into a satisfying pod that functioned This book was listed in the Greedy Reading List Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/12/26 Edition

    Ashley Elston's mystery First Lie Wins (it was on my December favorites list ; it was one of my Bossy Fiction

  • Review of The Summer War by Naomi Novik

    My Extensive Love for Naomi Novik's Fiction Naomi Novik is the author of richly wrought fantasy novels

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/18/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Wingwalkers, an upcoming historical fiction novel (to be published aviator and his daring wife; I’m reading Steelstriker, the second and final book in Marie Lu's science fiction-fantasy In Taylor Brown's upcoming historical fiction novel Wingwalkers (to be published tomorrow), a former wonderful), and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/29/25 Edition

    the latest Cormoran Strike mystery, The Hallmarked Man ; and I'm reading Ian McEwan's newest literary fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/21/22 Edition

    in a boarding school for deaf students; and I'm reading Tell Me an Ending, Jo Harkin's speculative fiction golden-child student and star athlete--positioned for attention in a mosque--for the police to take action language and the crucial role of community. 03 Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin Jo Harkin's speculative fiction

  • Review of Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock

    I love a historical fiction story set in Appalachia , and I also love to read books about books .

  • Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads

    This was nonfiction that was so compelling it read like fiction (and served as the inspiration for this Macintyre's nonfiction book was wonderful; it really read to me like fiction. carefully researched and documented, with twists and turns that feel so outlandish as to seem like fiction and I admittedly may have been a little mentally off, but I initially thought this not only read like fiction but was fiction.

  • Review of The Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown

    to-read list), Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War, and the upcoming (to be published next week) historical fiction novel Wingwalkers

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/5/25 Edition

    The secretive, haunted author has attempted to work through the pain and complications of her past by fictionalizing

  • Review of Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter

    Lostetter's standalone science fiction is a story about robots, a ragtag space crew, friends like family Activation Degradation, standalone science fiction from Marina L. Lostetter's book started off with a lot of logistics that slowed things for me, but as of page 66 the action

  • Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

    In Kate Quinn's newest historical fiction, she shares the story of a real World War II figure, a Russian Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is Kate Quinn's most recent historical fiction wonder. Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

  • Review of Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

    Jimenez offers humor, spicy moments, and romance while incorporating weighty issues into her light fiction If you like lighter fiction, you might also like the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction

  • October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    This month my favorite reads were a missing-person camp story in two timelines; literary fiction set in Belfast during The Troubles; literary fiction about two brothers coping with the death of their father by Naomi Novik Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional

  • March Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's historical fiction mystery, based on real-life double agents the exploration of duty and identity--and dragons; The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, Dawnie Walton's fictionalized fiction work about missing girls and the exploration of the futures that might have been. Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American

  • 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 fiction I got full-body chills when I saw that Paulette Jiles had a new historical fiction novel coming out. moments with those lost to us) or evil (creating a whirlwind of negative feeling that shapes others' actions full review of Time's Mouth. 05 Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue Donoghue's captivating historical fiction

  • Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

    Here are six of my favorite fiction works that have to do with rock and roll, writing songs, performing (The fictional band focus reminded me, in a good way, of Daisy Jones & the Six, mentioned below.) Utopia Avenue contains endless imagined cameos, fictional adventures, and gems of wisdom from real-life Nick Hornby is also the author of High Fidelity-- another fictional book about music that I could have In Daisy Jones & the Six, Reid offers a fictionalized account (written as fictional interviews) of the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/22/23 Edition

    listening to Lucinda Williams's memoir, Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You; I'm reading a light-fiction Reading List Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing. 02 This Time It's Real by Ann Liang In Ann Liang's light fiction

  • Review of Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

    My favorite science fiction novels examine the Big Issues: What makes us people?

  • Review of You Are Here by David Nicholls

    I loved this literary fiction--the increasing vulnerability and search for connection after heartache

  • Review of Long Live Evil (Time of Iron #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan

    But she's begun to realize that her fictional family and chosen family in her new life have become precious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/21/25 Edition

    Hartnett is also the author of the wonderful novel Unlikely Animals , which was one of my Bossy Favorite Fiction

  • Review of The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

    Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious, haunting historical fiction

  • Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

    The author's historical fiction romance-writing is evident here, in contrast to the tone of The Last story is summarized rather than shown, and I felt that I could see evidence of Martin's historical fiction

  • Review of Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

    In order to see the story through, I kept reminding myself that I was bearing witness to a fictional

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/21/25 Edition

    Schwab's historical fiction-fantasy story about vampires linked together through centuries.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/28/22 Edition

    Smith's light fiction about an emotionally distant father and daughter trying to find connection on a 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow In Williams's historical fiction mystery, four years later, Iris's twin sister Ruth finally receives light fiction novel The Unsinkable Greta James, Greta is an up-and-coming indie rock star whose father

  • 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 Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is Kate Quinn's most recent historical fiction recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light Fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/7/25 Edition

    In the sixth book of the wonderful Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction

  • Review of This Is Happiness by Niall Williams

    This is gorgeous Niall Williams literary fiction, centering around an Irish country village, a young

  • Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long

    The sequel to Long's young adult fantasy/science fiction debut Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves takes Meg Long's first novel was Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves, a science fiction novel about Sena, a tough Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves offered high-stakes action, intrigue, shifting alliances, a powerful

  • Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt

    Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of In Revelations, Sharratt offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched Sharratt has authored at least seven other historical fiction novels--including Illuminations, about

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