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  • Review of Playground by Richard Powers

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

  • Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction

    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

  • Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now

    SecUnit is obsessed with keeping his people safe (and has a new favorite show)! These are short books with a fantastically unique point of view, and they're perfect escapism. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #uniquePOV 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea ​ I like to listen to fantasy #fantasyscifi, #LGBTQ, #youngadult What are you reading now?

  • Six Four-Star Mysteries to Check Out, ICYMI

    Mystery and Suspense Reads These six four-star mysteries are all so good and so different--they were my favorites I'd love to hear about your favorite mystery reads! radar, French is the author of six Dublin Murder Squad books (In the Woods, The Likeness--this is my favorite Lucas Page is a fantastic character (as are Whitaker, Kehoe, Erin, and Dingo).

  • Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year, and Six Historical Fiction

  • Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

    White's And I Darken, the first book in her Conquerer's Saga series, has a cover 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. I've got enough other favorites in this vein that I could probably make a second list sometime.

  • Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    The book revels in wonderful LGBTQ love and tons of sexiness; fantastic New York-centric details; and I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light

  • Review of You with the Sad Eyes by Christina Applegate

    Like You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of other celebrity memoirs or these lists of favorite

  • Review of One of Us Is Next by Karen M. McManus

    established characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites McManus offers a little of everything in a fantastic mix of teamwork, a health scare, sibling tensions

  • Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved in the Past Year

    Six Great Bossy Nonfiction Reads I promise that this is the last roundup list of 2023 favorites, which You can find some of my many other lists of favorite nonfiction and memoir roundups here: Six of My Favorite What are some of your recent favorite nonfiction or memoir reads?

  • Review of Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue

    That was one of my favorite books when I was young, and within Learned by Heart, the concern with classism Donoghue is also the author of Room, The Pull of the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite

  • Review of The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

    during Pandemic Times, one of the genres I find myself gravitating toward listening to is young adult fantasy I think the pacing and the fantastical worlds lend themselves well to audiobook form. Showing characters sharing classic oldies music tastes with the Antichrist was one of my favorite parts #fantasyscifi, #LGBTQ, #youngadult, #threestarbookreview

  • Review of The Nature of Disappearing by Kimi Cunningham Grant

    I love a book set in the wild (Peter Heller's novels The River and The Guide come to mind as favorites

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

    The Books I'm Reading Now I guess this list is an Escape from Reality attempt, as I have three fantasy I'm listening to Ruby Dixon's sassy fantasy novel, Bull Moon Rising ; I'm reading M. L. Wang's recently published dark academia novel, Blood Over Bright Haven ; and I'm reading Frances White's fantasy The cover is arresting, and the sparkles and art are a nod to the novel's fantasy genre. Wang is also the author of The Sword of Kaigen and the YA fantasy series The Volta Academy Chronicles

  • Shhh! Bossy Gift Ideas: Cookbooks

    Don't forget to check my past Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling ice-cream pie to the Grand Teton's Huckleberry Margaritas, these recipes will transport you back to favorite guest a cold cloth on a hot evening. 06 100 Morning Treats: With Muffins, Rolls, Biscuits, Sweet and Savory Whether you prefer savory or sweet, flaky or hearty, eaten on the run or while cozied in, Kieffer has

  • Review of The Wedding People by Alison Espach

    Espach leans into the concept of chosen family, a favorite of mine, and offers up second chances with

  • Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into

    Do you have any favorite books that involve time travel? In despair about having had a rotten holiday and realizing that future holidays at her favorite place But she is incapable of BS and full of rage, fear, unquenched revenge fantasies, vulnerability, and the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/8/23 Edition

    with time, Wrong Place Wrong Time; I'm reading Antarctica, a collection of short stories by one of my favorite McAllister Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery Wrong Place Wrong Time plays with time (like some of my favorite

  • Review of Sandwich by Catherine Newman

    because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain from spending time in her favorite

  • Review of The Trap (Alias Emma #3) by Ava Glass

    Gadgets, disguises, alternative identities, bugs and surveillance-- The Trap  involves many of my favorite

  • Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Here are six of my very favorite historical fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? Everhart includes one of my favorite setups, in which a woman dresses as a man in order to achieve some

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/13/23 Edition

    Chakraborty I'm listening to the first wonderful installment in Shannon Chakraborty's Amina al-Sirafi fantasy , and smart, with wonderful banter, a gruff and independent, saucy main protagonist in Amina, and a fantastic

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/20/26 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now This week I'm reading the newest novel by a favorite author, Taylor Brown,

  • Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

    I love when stories play with time (see my multiple favorites lists below), and I loved that the relationship Several of my Greedy Reading Lists highlight some of my very favorite books that twist time: Six Riveting

  • Review of The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman

    There aren't gray areas for the reader to explore where he's concerned; revenge fantasies are the logical "I'm in love with my favorite author," she says.

  • Review of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

    More Books You Might Like If you're interested in long books, check out this short list of Bossy favorites

  • Review of The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites, and Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved.

  • Review of Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of our Deadliest Infection by John Green

    the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed  (which was one of my six favorite

  • Review of Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi

    My knowledge of Egypt is limited, but my interest was sparked by one of my favorite childhood reads,

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/23/26 Edition

    My knowledge of Egypt is limited but my interest was sparked by one of my favorite childhood reads, The

  • Review of Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel by Martha Wells

    This one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this performing medical techniques by watching it), although The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon remains its favorite connections and surprisingly (to Murderbot, if no one else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically These are short books with a fantastically unique point of view, and they're perfect escapism. #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #offbeat, #uniquePOV, #LGBTQ, #threestarbookreview

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/20/21 Edition

    Maas's popular young adult fantasy about the collision of faeries and humans, the first in a series; Maas I resisted reading this young adult fantasy for a long while. So far, The Survivors is shaping up to be my favorite Harper book yet.

  • Review of Eleanore of Avignon by Elizabeth DeLozier

    One of my favorites, Saskia Maarleveld , is the narrator.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/16/26 Edition

    Her novel Isola was one of my favorite reads of 2025. 02 The Once and Future Queen (Lives of Guinevere

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/16/20 Edition

    #fantasyscifi, #hench What are you reading now? Historical fiction, light fiction, and fantasy/science fiction is the wacky concurrent combo working

  • Review of This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg

    memoirs you might like, please check out these Bossy reviews as well as Greedy Reading Lists of my favorites

  • Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore

    This Greedy Reading List offers a little of everything: light fiction/rom-com, mystery, fantasy, contemporary 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/19/26 Edition

    Catherine Newman is also the author of Sandwich (one of My Very Favorite Bossy 2024 Reads ), We All

  • Six More Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    Six More Four-Star Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Two other historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy

  • Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year

    Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Two historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and Chenneville I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy

  • Six More Great Light Fiction Stories

    More Light Fiction Favorites When I posted a few weeks ago about favorite light fiction reads and asked for other's favorites, bookish friends recommended: more of Katherine Center's books (I posted about You might also like some of the titles on my first Greedy Reading List of light fiction favorites. best-friendship between Jess and Fizzy (Felicity) is one of the funniest aspects and was one of my favorite ), and Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem).

  • Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You

    Some of the books listed here also have supernatural elements, as in a recent favorite read I reviewed , please see Things in Jars. 03 A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell #1) by Deanna Raybourn This fantastic dangerous set of circumstances, complete with intrigue, a traveling show (why is this always such a favorite

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/1/25 Edition

    If you're interested in or enjoyed this book, you might want to check out a favorite book of mine, Madeline

  • Review of Trip by Amie Barrodale

    This was one of my favorite elements of the book.

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List

    to check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. I listened to Funny Story  as an audiobook (narrated by the fantastic Julia Whelan).

  • Review of What In the World?! A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings by Leanne Morgan

    You can find Bossy reviews of other memoirs--and Greedy Reading Lists of my favorites by theme-- here

  • Review of Soulless by Gail Carriger

    Professor Lyall is one of my favorite characters, as is Lord Akeldama, a fantastic, over-the-top, preternaturally #historicalfiction, #fantasyscifi, #LGBTQ, #series, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of The Names by Florence Knapp

    daughter Maia, Bear; in a second, she makes a less aggressive but unsanctioned name choice that's her favorite

  • Review of All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall

    The found-family element is a favorite of mine, and the makeshift nature of Caffall's imagined future

  • Review of My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan

    My Oxford Year is my favorite kind of romance; Whelan uses a light-fiction structure to take on seriously

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