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holds and due dates have dictated another interesting mix of books for my current reading life with a fantasy I feel like mysteries, light fiction, memoirs, and fantasy are working well for me--plus historical fiction

over, paid for, published, successful, and various rights are sold all feels like a happy dream-state fantasy

favorite reads of December--a nonfiction wonder, a bonkers fever dream, a heartwarming tale, an intriguing mystery boxes, a funny and poignant story about living fully into oneself, and a solid installment in a great mystery Voss  is a bighearted novel with an irresistible main protagonist and surrounding players, and the mystery I can't wait to read her next mystery. Now she awaits her mysterious boss Mr.

01 Libby Lost and Found by Stephanie Booth Libby Weeks is the author of the wildly popular fantasy series

They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling For the Tween Mystery Fan 04 The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell Along with The chance, I'll be giving a certain someone this 2025 title, described as " a whimsical, adventure-filled mystery But the place is filled with young ladies solving mysteries, protecting the city, and fighting bad guys

The Books I'm Reading Now Library audiobook alert: I'm listening to the twisty mystery First Lie Wins Now she awaits her mysterious boss Mr. Ibrahim are septuagenarians feeling let down after the thrills, danger, and success of their first solved mystery

You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. Eason In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding

Just look at this gorgeously mesmerizing cover for Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin

respectable citizen, and a disgraced police officer are intertwined through connections to a series of mysterious an enigmatic note written in a copy of the novel, a seeming suicide, a disappeared body, and other mysterious unexplained behavior, who seem untrustworthy and whose accounts feel unreliable, and in a grim, twisted, mysterious

preacher Beth Moore's memoir, All My Knotted-Up Life ; I'm listening to Melissa Caruso's time-travel fantasy

That book introduced the fantastic best-friend character of Felicity "Fizzy" Chen. It can be, and there’s nothing wrong with that, but in the end, romance isn’t about the fantasy of being

The Books I'm Reading Now This week I'm listening to a mystery about writers tasked with competing to are invited to the private Scottish island and castle where the reclusive Arthur Fletch, bestselling mystery But when they arrive, they find that Fletch, who had been working on a new mystery, is dead.

Scottoline's suspenseful mystery offers surprising depth in exploring grief while the main protagonist In Lisa Scottoline's recent suspenseful mystery What Happened to the Bennetts, Jason Bennett is a suburban Her treatment of this delicate issue within a solid, suspenseful mystery cemented my interest in reading The mystery within What Happened to the Bennetts is twisty without being manipulative, and the denouement Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.

This bighearted novel holds a mystery, but its main focus is  neurodivergent main protagonist Denny and A mystery buiilt upon a neurodivergent main protagonist's challenges with the surrounding world and thriving Voss is a bighearted novel with an irresistible main protagonist and surrounding players, and the mystery

Henry Thornton is a railroad magnate and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary Five years later, the crown reappears--spurring more mystery and questions than answers. Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye, The Huntress, The Rose Code, and The

More Revenge Fantasies...and Revenge Enacted Mwaa haa ha! Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo When tough, stubborn Alex Stern is offered a new start after surviving a mysterious spoiled socialite—and one of the cons aims to right some wrongs in two of the characters' shared (but mysterious the main players at one point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery

Lucy is wild, mischievous, mysterious--and she has an extra room in her rambunctious house next to a

the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic fiction retelling of the story of King Edward, Lady Jane Grey, and Mary Queen of Scots--with an oddball fantasy This is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.

series; a quirky, campy mystery and revenge fantasy; and a young adult thriller with outlandish circumstances There are mysterious forces and machinations, many of which remain unclear to the reader until late in a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical mystery After a series of almost slapstick misunderstandings, Finlay is left a mysterious note implying that Cosimano's mystery has a wonderfully quirky setup and campy tone.

rom-com I Hope This Doesn't Find You   here and my review of Liang's young-adult historical fiction fantasy

of romantic, funny, steamy light fiction; the next wonderful installments in two historical fiction mystery Asuka must find the real culprit before accusations surrounding the mystery destroy her. Yume Kitasei offers plot and mystery, but this is primarily a wonderfully character-driven story--with A Study in Scarlet Women is the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery The mystery was interesting, with salacious elements, and everyone was a potential suspect.

And I'm listening to The Blood of the Old Kings , the first in Sung-Il Kim's fantasy series in which

Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

Makkai's boarding school-set mystery offers depth as it exposes age-old power mismatches; offers young It's about our societal obsession with tragedies and mysterious murders, and the tendency of bystanders

stories about sharp, disparate septuagenarians who meet to resolve cold cases--then aim to solve the mysteries In this first installment in Osman's mystery series, the story begins in medias res , as the reader witnesses And you can find Bossy reviews of many other mysteries here .

Tess Gerritsen is the author of the 13-book Rizzoli and Isles mystery series as well as many other books

her complicated family and in the world, Vera, or Faith ; I'm reading Steve Cavanagh's twisty revenge mystery Publishing Group and NetGalley. 02 Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh In Steve Cavanagh's twisty mystery This is the first mystery I've read by Steve Cavanagh.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction Only a few Antari have been born in a generation, and they have long been the only ones with the power If you've read the Shades of Magic books, you'll already be acquainted with the fantastic characters Now Kosika, a young, impressionable, fervor-driven young Antari, is taking up the mantle of the deceased In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide decides to open her mysterious

Henry's upcoming romance story-within-a-story, Great Big Beautiful Life ; I'm listening to the first mystery in a series, The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens; and I'm reading Charlotte McConaghy's haunting and mysterious Story , Happy Place , and Book Lovers . 02 The Life We Bury ( Joe Talbert #1) by Allen Eskens In this mystery When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest

Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Black Woods, Blue Sky , literary fiction about a single mother and mysterious ; and I'm reading Death at Morning House , a stand-alone young-adult mystery by the author of the Truly But Arthur is mysterious, and he's not who Birdie thought he was. Can Marlowe solve the mystery of what happened there before she is targeted as the next victim?

AI, starships, and revenge, Ancillary Justice ; and I'm listening to Maureen Johnson's young adult mystery But everything is upended when a decades-old mystery seems to be the cause of a new friend's aunt's disappearance Maureen Johnson is the author of the six-book Truly Devious young adult mystery series: Truly Devious

#mysterysuspense, #deadlywaters 02 Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook ​ It's 1945. Behind a door without a key that is sometimes locked and sometimes mysteriously not, a silent companion Mysterious noises, inexplicable goings-on, haunting stories of the past, and the superstitious hatred #historicalfiction, #mysterysuspense, #gothic, #dualstoryline, #silentcompanions What are you reading

to have going on at once: a fictional, varied look at modern feminism and race in Britain; a revenge fantasy with magical realism interwoven throughout; and a new-to-me mystery author's current character-driven

White's twisty mystery is set against the backdrop of an unforgiving winter on an Australian island,

Light were the Greenland setting, the alternate world, the bitter cold, and the sentimentalism and mystery settings are exquisitely wrought, with stark, rugged, lush landscapes serving as the backdrop for a mystery It isn't a police procedural; this is a starkly beautiful book that happens to have a mystery at its I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. When we are young, we consume the world in great gulps, and it consumes us, and everything is mysterious

Greatest Hits ; I'm listening to Miranda July's All Fours ; and I'm reading Christina Lynch's bighearted mystery Then their run abruptly ended, and for the public, the reasons for their breakup were a mystery. So far this is a cute--at times a little too cute for my taste--mystery that seems sure to be headed

I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery in two timelines, the privilege and working I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually Many mysterious elements are cleared up at the end of the book in satisfying swirls of truth; all the

I listened to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J. K.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Creation Lake , Rachel Kushner's noir, dark humor mystery; I'm When she meets Bruno, a mysterious figure who trains the young activists, she believes she's manipulating Kushner brings dark humor and noir mystery to the story of Creation Lake .

In the fifth installment of the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J.K. A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious It was nicely paced, and I liked having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's

In her second fantastic short-story collection, Curtis Sittenfeld explores middle age, fame, friendship review please check out The Favorites . 06 Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time  is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully heavy on character Famous Last Words  is another smart, twisty mystery from Gillian McAllister. I loved this smart mystery that relies heavily on character development and mental agility for our narrator

protagonist may or may not have murdered her best friend and is tracked down by a podcast investigating the mystery Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle Every time Daphne Bell meets a potential love interest, she receives a mysterious Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious do the one thing she swore she'd never do: return to the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery overlap, and their challenges intersect when a young boy is taken from the community, culminating in a mysterious

through India, New York, family and romantic relationships, and career false starts, with missteps, mysterious The situations around relationships and life choices are often messy, complex, mystifying, and frustrating Current-day conflicts link to generational trauma, storytelling, and mysterious power.

Faulkner's debut mystery is twisty and turny, with various potential bad seeds and complications--and When she alludes to mysterious connections between the women--and a long-ago crime--her persistent presence situations at the heart of the book to be revealed slowly--aren't too convenient, and they add layers to the mystery

In 1664, Alouette is the daughter of a master dyer at the famous Gobelin Tapestry Works. The tone and the cozy-magical-mystery focus is so far reminding me of A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping And Rocky is facing a mysterious, possibly grave, illness that doctors find difficult to diagnose.

This Woven Kingdom is the first in Tahereh Mafi's fantasy trilogy of the same name.

Reading Lists Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West, Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Davies includes fantastic details of amateur Western exploration that I adored. 04 One for the Blackbird Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, which is made up of four young adult fantasy

Exiles was the right mystery at the right time for me. For my full review, check out Exiles. 02 The Wife and the Widow by Christian White White's twisty mystery This was like a Secret Garden for grown-ups, with intertwined, mysterious stories from 1900, 1975, and For my full review, check out Only Killers and Thieves. 06 The Lost Man by Jane Harper Harper's mysteries I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

newest book by Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy, to be published April 4; I'm reading a young adult fantasy

Katherine Arden finishes out the trilogy in typical mesmerizing fashion, with her usual masterful balance multimillion-copy bestselling book (or the Tony award-winning Broadway musical based upon it, or the fantastic made it even more rich. 04 Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin The first book in Mahurin's young adult fantasy