Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I've been thinking through my favorite books of the year for an What made them your favorites? 01 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell This book! The Autoboyography dialogue is fantastic and witty but feels effortless and like it comes from actual This is fantastic contemporary young adult fiction. I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid.

What are your favorite witchy stories? Witch by Chris Bohjalian Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched, witchy, historical thriller with fantastic Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy novel The Nature of Witches, witches control the weather

Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy worlds, but her characters' conflicts, hopes, The fantastic main players are back: Kell, the ward of the Red London's royal family who once thought magic; Holland, White London royalty Lila loves to hate; Rhys, Kell's prince and brother; and one of my favorites Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy world (with some historical fiction elements The series is adult fantasy but would be appropriate for a young adult reader--if not averse to Lila's

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I loved how much warmth Thorne injected into this story; bighearted sci-fi is my absolute favorite type

01 Buried Deep and Other Stories by Naomi Novik Naomi Novik is the author of fantasy novels featuring battles within the books' alternate history, and the human protagonists are wonderfully faulted and fantastic

I was hooked by Liang's fake-dating, famous-everyday relationship duo setup, fantastically funny dialogue Other fake-dating rom-coms include The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren and a Bossy favorite, The Bodyguard

The Shippers offers up one of my favorite premises, in which old friends realize that their love is more

I've got enough other favorites in this vein to make a second list sometime. White's And I Darken, the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has cover art that to me evokes fantasy This blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and paranormal continues with LaFevers's Dark Triumph, Mortal relationship growth. 04 The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black The Folk of the Air is a young adult fantasy favorites), Thick As Thieves, and Return of the Thief are the other books in the series.

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 My Bossy Favorite

What are your favorite witchy stories? Hour of the Witch is a thoroughly researched historical fiction thriller with fantastic details of the dark humor and unexpected details, and the exchanges between El and Orion (and El and everyone) were fantastic Grown-Ups Will Love. 06 The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin In the world of Griffin's young adult fantasy

living off the land, reimagined family dynamics, characters who show depth and growth (including my favorite

I'm listening to Funny Story as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan) courtesy of Libro.fm Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

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Donoghue So far, Learned by Heart is giving me major Little Princess vibes...that was one of my absolute favorite Donoghue is also the author of Room, The Pull of the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite established characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites

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The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book by a favorite author, Katherine Arden, The Warm 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 My Bossy Favorite

genre, and this Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light fiction/rom-com, mystery, fantasy The book revels in wonderful LGBTQ love and tons of sexiness; fantastic New York-centric details; and This was one of my favorite reads of the year last year.

Science and Nature Book Gift Ideas I spend most of my reading time on fiction titles, but my favorite And don't forget to check my past Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites My favorite bookstore is my local independent bookstore here in Charlotte, Park Road Books. They have a fantastic selection of titles, offer spot-on recommendations, and can order almost anything Bossy Book Gift Lists in the past, you know that bird books (including others by this author) are a favorite

This is my favorite read of the spring so far.

Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and Keegan is one of my favorite authors, and I'm in for all of her books.

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Elaborate mythology swirls around the mysterious author of the blockbuster fantasy series The Falling Goldhero, and fans dream up fantastical stories about the writer and his life.

banter and sexual tension and match-up of will and intellect between Stoker and Veronica that are my favorite It wasn't my favorite of the series mysteries thus far, but I enjoyed the dark, gothic feel of twisting

The Moonstruck references were fantastic. Do you have any Bossy thoughts about this book? I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light

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 My Bossy Favorite

But Harrow the Ninth also offers fantastically bratty episodes on the parts of various characters; frenzies Gideon the Ninth was also mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Six More Postapocalyptic and Dystopian Favorites

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads If you want more favorite-mystery lists, check out round 1 of last year's Bossy favorites. You can also check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year What are some of your favorite mystery reads?

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In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional This was quite possibly my favorite Cormoran Strike novel so far.

Amity Gaige's Appalachian Trail-set novel offers several of my favorite elements: a Maine setting, a

The Summer Favorites These titles aren't light "summer reads," but they were my favorite reads from a extended family--including a stolid patriarch and matriarch, a free-spirited daughter, a spunky and fantastic Cosby This is a fantastic blend of realistic complications, mistakes, adjustments, and spunk.

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This is a departure from many of my more playful Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young adult favorites Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Her, waiting on the street in Paris while he visits his favorite bookstore but she's too sickly to climb Kate Bowler's book No Cure for Being Human is a five-star, all-time favorite read of mine.

This isn't my absolute favorite Mason book, and I didn't connect to the characters as I did in The Winter

More Literary Fiction Favorites Richard Powers is also the author of The Overstory , Bewilderment , and

The debut novel from one of my favorite authors tracks a horse thief and an orphan who bond and find

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm currently reading three fantasy titles: one young adult novel to be published irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she broke from rigid medieval gender roles in favor Gideon the Ninth was also mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Six More Postapocalyptic and Dystopian Favorites

2024) Don't forget to check my past Bossy gift idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling shocking lengths the drug lord and his biggest rival were willing to go to in order to control their favorite

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The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Tochi Onyebuchi's dark, broody fantasy mystery, Harmattan 01 Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi In Tochi Onyebuchi's newest fantasy mystery novel, main protagonist Harmattan Season is a dark, broody, mysterious fantasy story that takes place in post-colonial West

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Some Light Fiction Favorites At the start of the pandemic, I was particularly drawn to lighter fiction These are some of my light fiction favorites, and they're also perfect for summer reading. I'm due to create another Greedy Reading List of my more recently read light fiction favorites, but meanwhile reviews of Lauren's The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, Love and Other Words, The Soulmate Equation (a favorite ), and Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem). 05 Beach Read by Emily Henry Is

Reading Now I'm reading Paper & Blood, Kevin Hearne's second and final book in his quirky Ink & Sigil fantasy Paper & Blood is a quirky, lighthearted fantasy with entertaining pop culture references, copious Scottish which made it onto my Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year and My Twelve Favorite

One of my favorite elements is how Finlay, a mom of two very young children, is absolutely irresistible Cosimano is also the author of the young adult mystery series Nearly Gone, the young adult fantasy series

In her novel for young readers--from my favorite publishing company for young people, Peachtree Publishing Elliott offers a fantastic, boy-crazy, British story about missteps, facing change, accepting the past

#mystery, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview 02 My Lady Jane: The Lady Janies Series ​ I'd had 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. #historicalfiction, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview 03 Soulless: The Parasol Protectorate #historicalfiction, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview Any new-to-you or longtime favorite oddball