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I could have listed so many fantastic young adult titles here, but I picked these varied, wonderful six The main protagonists are often figuring out the world, their place in it, and who they are and want Or are they simply linked by their pain and their honesty--and is that bond enough to bring them peace just loved the redefining of class-driven limitations (as with the attraction between Gwen's lady's maid and Arthur's right-hand-man); the unorthodox and touching loyalty within a reimagined Gwen-Arthur relationship

Elle and her oldest friend Jonas have just crossed a line, betraying their spouses--and may have set experienced there; her yearning for her estranged father in Ghana, whom they all call the Chin Chin Man Gifty is an appealing main protagonist, and Gyasi's story s fascinating so far. 03 The Haunting of Hill

This likely goes without saying, but a significant personal interest in Tombstone and the main players enter into reading this knowing Clavin was providing a meaty look at the topic of the town and the many

I began this project out of the perverse craving for a cult campfire tale that so many of us possess. Montell looks to language as a main source of power and belief in order to explore the ways in which

A mysterious prisoner from the front arrives who could be friend or foe, and our main protagonist Talin

by Elle Cosimano In Elle Cosimano's first book in this series, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, we meet main protagonist Finlay Donovan: an author and a recently single mom, divorced from a cheating man who's

the Witch, published earlier this month, takes place in 1662 Boston, where strong-willed women like main Mary's foul treatment by her husband--and the community's unwillingness to protect her--may have you

The main players have to stick to their lies about their past to preserve their fragile present-day lives

Although you may see some of the big plot events coming, Center makes the journey so enjoyable that I more; it's sweet and funny, it's about writing and books, there are wonderfully faulted love-crossed main After she drunk-blogs scathing comments about the unrealistic body images of the stars of Main Squeeze producer reaches out to her with an unexpected question: Would Bea consider starring in a season of Main

of Utopia Avenue, click here. 02 The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez On the surface, the main The other is a shockingly talented artist who abandoned the creation of new work after an incredibly painful In Leila Sales's young adult book This Song Could Save Your Life, main protagonist Elise doesn't fit

Miller was a twentysomething writer in New York City when she began having odd symptoms, terrible pain Miller explores the isolation of enduring chronic disease, her own personal experiences coping with pain Told Me by Laura Dave Hannah has just celebrated her one-year anniversary of marriage to Owen, she may be making the slightest inroads with her teenaged stepdaughter Bailey--and she may finally be getting Friends and siblings are pitted against each other, and some of our main protagonists are faced with

Reid is a straitlaced young man for whom things are black-and-white, clearly right and wrong. Because our main protagonist is hiding from her mother and the coven, who desire to use Lou to further pronounced than her identity as a thief and as a young woman fighting against the establishment and The Man --until she marries The Man himself.

The vivid setting is as essential to the book as a main character, and references to real-life celebrities

I wanted to love that book more--there was so much love for books, and the main protagonist had a gloriously --but I found myself distracted by what felt like too many silly, slapstick moments or details that didn't

When they encounter loved ones from their memories who are now living alternate lives, in many cases ward since her beloved, offbeat father disappeared during a trip to acquire artifacts for the wealthy man Our main protagonist Tom makes a decision that strands him in our version of the world, which feels like

I was completely taken with the compelling story of the spunky main players; the shockingly blatant,

On the surface, the main players in this book by Abby Jimenez are too outrageously beautiful, obscenely The other is a shockingly talented artist who abandoned the creation of new work after an incredibly painful

The main protagonists are young, but their concerns are weighty.

Wings by Sue Monk Kidd In 1803 Charleston, plantation owners wield cruel and immense control over their many people considered disobedient; the oppressive power exercised over the humans who are considered by many meaning in life; and the fraught, heart-wrenching, tender, likely ill-fated romance between the two main

Six Great Bossy Historical Fiction Reads I loved so many historical fiction books last year. She rises through the ranks of palace concubines and gains almost unfettered access to the king, all The main protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure He teaches English to children and adjusts to the shock of living in a flat with many other people--and

The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly is a young adult mystery, and the main protagonists are high schoolers --mainly charmingly caring, funny, quirky, honest ones who add a lovely levity to the story.

I loved the grumpy, jaded dragon of a main protagonist but had trouble with the purely evil bad guy.

said that this story is so fully inspired by her grandmother's story that she didn't even change the main

Second-Chance Books I've been reminded lately how much I love a good second-chance book in which the main Our main protagonist Tom makes a decision that strands him in our version of the world, which feels like Either to change a world--many, many worlds, each touched by the choices I make in my life, for every Harry August has been born (in a train station in 1919) many times. Some lives are notable, others comfortable, and still others are full of pain.

The other plotline concerns Lurie, a man who has adventures and challenges with his surprising, loyal gives a fittingly old-fashioned quality to the writing that feels as though it suits the time, the main imprisonment; experiences cruel and potentially fatal betrayal by one of their own; faces the wild and its many

Normal People could carry many trigger warnings. Rooney delves into issues of mental illness by laying out the main protagonists' loneliness, depression

I loved the Ottoman Empire setting, the strong female main protagonist, and the complications and sometimes She finds that she may be the only hope to save her war-torn country. King, surprising revelations, shifting alliances, opaque political machinations, and enmity between main which offers wonderfully flawed characters, plot twists and revelations, great banter, and endings you may

The dialogue is incredible, and the faulted main players are irresistible. beautiful In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss , Away , Lucky Us , Come to Me: Stories , and A Blind Man walking down the street--then she sees that he is armed, and to her horror, she sees him kill another man She can't explain what's happened, but she quickly realizes that now she may be able to stop the murder

Future Witches, Harrow writes about three sisters raised by a powerful mother who refused to leave the man Each of the three main protagonists here is a young woman in the midst of her own high-stakes crisis, Your blood may boil when you read the incessant underestimating of women and condescending tone of the Hill had told the papers, "if this is what happens when women gain some measure of power, we have grave

It may make me feel all the feelings, and/or may be intriguing and make me think, and it's usually engaging Family, pain, love, music, influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most good, and they make mistakes and pay for them and live within their awful messed-up moments and their painful Were the Kennedys by Monica Wood In 1963 the Woods were a typical Catholic immigrant family in Mexico, Maine Wood gorgeously evokes the many characters and unfathomable events that changed her family's existence

The author winds old Scottish folk songs throughout the book, using it as a fluid way of binding the main

frequently been very drunk, often sleeping rough, and has repeatedly been shaken down for money he may or may not owe to unsavory characters--he drinks so much that in his sober hours he isn't ever quite about faith and meaning in life; and the heart-wrenching, tender, ill-fated romance between the two main one of Robinson's other three novels in the Gilead series (these include Gilead, Lila, and Home), you may

Favorite Bossy Historical Fiction Reads of the Year I loved reading so many historical fiction books I'm fascinated by stories in which a woman poses as a man in order to achieve freedoms otherwise not Belle is fearful--particularly for her mother's sake--that her father's true origins may be uncovered All of this, along with her pain at the loss of her beloved father, keeps her closed off emotionally. Main protagonist Frankie signs up to leave her idyllic, privileged Southern California life--and the

chock-full book, our narrator is trying to piece together the events surrounding the shooting of a man Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism. 06 Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Main Gifty is an appealing main protagonist, and the journey Gyasi took us on was fascinating.

Gold glitter rains down on the congregation during the low-tech church services (no one looks up to see the leader's daughter doing this until the main protagonist peers up, late in the book); the bible is

At one point, one of our main characters notes that academic commentaries through the ages have struggled

The only problem is, Olive's nemesis, the groom's brother and best man Ethan, who despises her, also Olive was sarcastic to Ethan too, but she's our main protagonist, so we can see that she's afraid of

The great young adult fantasy elements are all in place here: magic, healing, a defiant main protagonist

Star Is Bored Author Byron Lane was Carrie Fisher's personal assistant in real life, and in his novel, main

The main protagonist and conflicted priest were irresistible characters. an impossible, magical turn of events, a moment of simple winter joy leads to renewed hope that they may Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would

Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, as an audiobook, which was narrated by the fantastic Lameece Issaq and Amin , and I was hooked on the lightning-fast banter; the gruff and independent, saucy, and irresistible main she can walk through a magical red door, she finds unexpected circumstances--and realizes that she may Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what may

the past feel light years away, because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain To save their treasured family time together, Rocky may have to share secrets she never intended to reveal friendship between two young outcasts in small-town Monta Clare, Missouri: Patch, a pirate-playing young man disparate-seeming story that soon emerges, beginning with the premise of a serial killer whose actions haunt our main In Memoriam is beautiful, frequently painful, and offers a layered, complicated version of happy ever

My very favorite Bossy May reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. He teaches English to children and adjusts to the shock of living in a flat with many other people--and The main protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure

wrap-up and a series of denouements and moments of redemption—yet Jewell also leaves you wondering if a main

Erin French Erin French is the owner and chef of The Lost Kitchen, a 40-seat restaurant in Freedom, Maine

details of a life of moneyed ease and an abandonment on an unforgiving, uninhabited island after our main works alongside her family, caring for the plantation owners' daughter Violet, who is her own age, and gaining She also explores the complicated Violet-Junie dynamic, in which Junie is Violet's only company for many

This book had many moving parts, evolving points of view and senses of self, shifts between days and Raybourn may allow Veronica to benefit from the author's own modern sensibilities in A Curious Beginning , but Veronica is a strong and unorthodox main protagonist, and for me this aspect of her character works lovely. 05 Jackaby ​ Jackaby is the first in a young adult supernatural mystery series, with memorable main realizing that I'd figured out the basic facts behind the mystery (although I hadn't figured out the many

The banter is fantastic, and I laughed many times while reading this one. nontraditional, loving, zany family flips traditional views of unplanned, young pregnancy through the view of a main One of these customers is a kind older man she's become dear friends with. happening to Cassie and Izzy when Cassie takes possession of the book, and soon a rumpled Scottish man reported as having died, but strange and unnerving clues indicate to Laura that something more mysterious may

The fantastic main players are back: Kell, the ward of the Red London's royal family who once thought

This character is later key to bravely resolving the main and significant conflicts of the story when a story about feeling stuck, and friendship, and listening to your instincts, with vampires serving mainly