In this first book of Kevin Hearne's new (published last week) Ink & Sigil series, patterns and inks This title was recently listed in the Greedy Reading List Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love #mystery, #fantasyscifi, #series, #LGBTQ, #fourstarbookreview

Young adult is one of my favorite genres to read for fun and to edit. What are your favorite young adult books, or books that made you delight in feeling all the feelings that remains true to the late 1980s setting into which Johnson so skillfully place the reader. 02 A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi In A Very Large Expanse of Sea , it's been a year since the events Goodbye Days is so very very sad and so very very funny.

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This book follows the other books in the series, The Bear and the Nightingale and The Girl in the Tower I highly recommend this series. #russia, #fantasyscifi, #youngadult, #series, #fourstarbookreview

This may be my favorite Ann Patchett novel. and the pivotal events that led up to her cherished stepfather's departure, with revised memories and varied This is lovely, poignant, and unexpected--and it's possibly my favorite Ann Patchett novel ever, certainly

matriarchs are split by a death and then a feud (the impetus of the bitter rift is the making of a family-favorite "Do me a favor. Take this from me." More Love for Allegra Goodman Allegra Goodman is a longtime favorite author for me. Her novel Isola   was one of my favorite reads of 2025.

Six More Bossy Favorite Reads So far in 2024 I've been posting Friday Greedy Reading Lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre; for my all-around favorites of last year, you can check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads. I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite reads, whether you loved them last year or more

Bossy Romantic Favorites The heat of August feels like a perfect time to dive into recently published romantic stories, and these have been six of my favorites this year. Rom-Com Reads of the Year , and Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year Have you loved any The voicing of her Queens-native love interest didn't ring true to me, and while he was very nice, I has been single for a year, since her former fianc é , an up-and-coming musician, hit it big and then very

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 That there would be two lines, heading in very different directions...

by Rachel Hartman; and I'm listening to Harrow the Ninth, the second in Tamsyn Muir's very dark, strange 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 The third book in the series, Nona the Ninth, was published in 2022, with the fourth book, Alecto the Ninth, to follow in fall 2023.

This is the first in Muir's Locked Tomb series, and I'm excited to the second, Harrow the Ninth. #fantasyscifi, #series, #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fourstarbookreview

Sports Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 sports books that I'm most excited to give as gifts Don't forget to check my past Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens 2021 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas 2023 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! team principal Guenther Steiner--who you'll know of if you and yours have been hooked on the Netflix series

This fantastic book is the first in Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series. Five books in the series have been published, and a sixth is scheduled for 2021. I love when I find a new-to-me series with multiple books already available for me to binge read. I can’t wait to read the others in this series. #mysterysuspense, #series, #historicalfiction, #london, #fourstarbookreview

I really liked Roth's Divergent, but the second book in that series fell off for me and I didn't read #fantasyscifi, #timetravel, #series, #dystopian, #fourstarbookreview

point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery, the first in a series In this first book in the One of Us Is Lying series, McManus takes us through each of the suspects' experiences One of Us Is Next is the second book in the series, published last year. young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson, which is part of an in-progress series

Hamptons store Barefoot Contessa--necessitating extended time apart from Jeffrey and, eventually, a very If you enjoy memoirs, you can find Bossy reviews of my favorites here . And check out some of my favorite foodie memoirs here .

irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval gender roles in favor Rachel Hartman is also the author of the Seraphina series. The second book in the Tess of the Road series, In the Serpent's Wake, was published last month.

I recently posted about some of my very favorite young adult books, and I just mentally added In the I hold every memory of him like a match I let burn down to the end, singeing my fingers until it hurts This ticked all of my boxes for a favorite young adult read. Stand-Alone Young Adult Books , The Serpent King , and he has two books scheduled for publication in 2026

one was slow going in the middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series This fifth book in Martha Wells's Murderbot series (this is the first full-length book in the set) starts performing medical techniques by watching it), although The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon remains its favorite Later in the book, the gems that make this series so unexpectedly poignant and funny and delightful shine #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #offbeat, #uniquePOV, #LGBTQ, #threestarbookreview

(I mentioned her Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

Movie, Media, and Music Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 books about television, movies, and music that Don't forget to check my past Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites 2020 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens 2021 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas 2023 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh!

Naomi Novik is one of my very favorite authors, and The Summer War is her recently published novella. I don't read very many novellas, and regarding Novik and her rich world-building, charming supporting Novik has also written the Temeraire series of nine fantastic books about dragons, their riders, their

I read half but didn't finish this second in the Monsters of Verity series. This is the second in Schwab's Monsters of Verity series; the first is This Savage Song, which I gave #fantasyscifi, #youngadult, #series, #didnotfinish

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite posted last month about Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, but I had six more favorites And four historical fiction books were on my overall favorites list for last year: The Last Bookshop You might want to check out all the titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my very favorite I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads?

The strongest bonds between characters aren't those within the nuclear family, and this was one of my favorite is a supportive and relaxed dad, in contrast to Sibyl, the mother of the Samuelson clan, who isn't very Viewing the family's story through different members' points of view allowed for rich context through varied We zigzag to spend page time with intriguing side characters (Yvette, with whom Phil has a very brief

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. For a committed science lover, this title could very well do the trick. 04 Brave the Wild River: The Bossy Book Gift Lists in the past, you know that bird books (including others by this author) are a favorite

I loved Pippa and Ravi, and I'll definitely read the three other books planned for the series. I'll definitely read the sequel, Good Girl, Bad Girl (and the two additional books planned for the series

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! posted about Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and here are six more of my favorite I've posted roundups of favorites each Friday in 2023--check them out! And you can click here for My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads. I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads?

I'm eagerly awaiting the third book in the series. This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name.

(It actually came out in August 2025.) also want to check out these books featuring friends like family and these historical fiction Bossy favorites

Beneath the Keep, to be published 2/2/21, is a prequel to Erika Johansen's Queen of the Tearling series (three other books are in the series, The Queen of the Tearling, The Invasion of the Tearling, and The Some of the characters I loved from the rest of the series (I'm looking at you, Mace, and also the Fetch --side note, that nickname always reminds me of the very off-topic movie Mean Girls) are star players Maura; Brenna and Arlen; Aislynn and Liam); these bonds are similarly key in the final book of the series

lightfiction, #heartwarming 02 Network Effect: A Murderbot Novel ​ Boy oh boy, this fifth book in the series is so very good so far. SecUnit is obsessed with keeping his people safe (and has a new favorite show)! #robots, #fantasyscifi, #series, #uniquePOV 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea ​ I like to listen to fantasy

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? I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys

I love a Favorites list, and now that I've got a spreadsheet (ahem!) of my favorite reads of the past year by genre, the hits are going to keep coming! This list highlights six more of my very favorite mystery reads of last year (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) What are some of your favorite mystery titles or mystery genres?

I loved Ashley Elston's mystery First Lie Wins  (it was on my December favorites list ; it was one of More Mystery Love I recently published Greedy Reading Lists of favorite mystery reads: Six Four-Star And you can find my favorite mystery reads from the year before here .

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a favorite author's most recent historical fiction, The Briar Club considerable talent for bringing history to life by tackling the McCarthy era--in what feels like a very In the first installment in Osman's mystery series, four septuagenarians meet each week to discuss unsolved Deanna Raybourn's Killers of a Certain Age is another series about older protagonists who use their wits

Six Great Bossy Nonfiction Reads I promise that this is the last roundup list of 2023 favorites, which seems appropriate now that we have entered the month of May, 2024, ahem. 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? Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.

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 2020 Books), and other books. McManus I'm listening to this third installment in Karen McManus's One of Us Is Lying series. established characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites

Schwab's Shades of Magic series. magic; Holland, White London royalty Lila loves to hate; Rhys, Kell's prince and brother; and one of my favorites The series is adult fantasy but would be appropriate for a young adult reader--if not averse to Lila's The first two books in the Shades of Magic series are A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows The first book in that series is Vicious and the most recent is Vengeful, with a third not yet published

The first in Holland's ocean-focused young adult fantasy series leaves much of the story for later books So many elements of this premise are favorites for me--a strong young female main protagonist, ship life men around her, but she is preparing to face difficult challenges (likely within later books in the series A very minor but distracting note: the smell of petrichor is mentioned thirteen times in the story. More Fantasy Books Sara Holland is also the author of the Everless and Havenfall series.

Amy Bloom is the author of one of my favorite historical fiction novels (see below), but she is no stranger to writing in varied genres. Dell's boss, who disappears after a seemingly significant introduction, until she reappears at the very

Because Jessica's body is usurped so quickly in the story, we don't get a chance until the very end to And I love Ann Liang's writing and her books--I'll read every one. 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

Horror isn't my favorite genre, but a medieval-set quest and a battle between good and evil is an irresistible While the gore and terrifying elements aren't my personal favorite aspects of a story, I was intrigued

Kimi Cunningham Grant's newest thriller, The Nature of Disappearing, Emlyn is a wilderness guide who very I love a book set in the wild (Peter Heller's novels The River and The Guide come to mind as favorites

Lila has planned her million-dollar wedding down to the last detail, and Phoebe's depression and her very Espach leans into the concept of chosen family, a favorite of mine, and offers up second chances with

Some of the books listed here also have supernatural elements, as in a recent favorite read I reviewed But every day Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. An Unexpected Peril, An Impossible Impostor, and the upcoming eighth title (to be published in early 2023 dangerous set of circumstances, complete with intrigue, a traveling show (why is this always such a favorite 04 The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton “There are very few certainties in this world, Mr.

For some of my favorite rom-com reads that are likely to be available through your library--and for endless other lists of past favorites, please check out this link.

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These Bossy favorites from a summer past stand the test of time. And soon I'll post another set of Bossy romantic favorites, this time titles that were published this also like the books on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My Favorite Light Fictions Reads of the Past Year Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year Six Rom-Com Reads of the Year , and Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year Have you loved any

I knew immediately that I would definitely read the next in the series.