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Light Pirate, pregnant Frida and her husband and stepsons prepare for another catastrophic hurricane bearing For other postapocalyptic stories I've loved, check out Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels.

Cosimano is also the author of the young adult mystery series Nearly Gone, the young adult fantasy series

man who has vanished happens to be Stoker's former expedition partner, who he punched on the street a year irritating to the rest of my book club years ago, but I couldn't help my love. Jiles's Chenneville, titular character John Chenneville is a former Union soldier who has spent the year secretive nature of her desire and single close relationship--which ends in heartbreak, followed by years of prolonged angst, yearning, and continual disappointment.

He's a fantastic character I loved. This great book by C.A. I thought this was wonderful. 02 The Grace Year by Kim Liggett It feels like freedom, but we know it's The Grace Year is the type of book I could’ve stayed up all night reading. also want to read Carey's The Boy on the Bridge, which is a standalone book in the same series, is fantastic

large and small that push them to determine what they're made of as they consider friendship, betrayal, fear In her second fantastic short-story collection, Curtis Sittenfeld explores middle age, fame, friendship

backdrop for Kat and Heath's tumultuous mutual obsession was a series of destructive forces trying to tear Ten years later, we join the voyeuristic public and the insider news bursts in exploring what really happened years earlier. , sweat, and tears, and the appealingly messy second-chance attempts at being true to themselves and

Crows, Margaret Renkl's meditation on the nature witnessed in her backyard through the course of a year ; and I'm reading Baby X, Kira Peikoff's near-future-set story of the power of holding and using others Lisa Jewell is also the author of The Family Upstairs. 02 The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl's beautiful, striking observations range from a New Year's Day sighting of a crow and her exploration of crows' senses of community and cleverness, which she hopes set a tone for the year to come; to a

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling Joshua Foer I've included multiple gorgeous Atlas Obscura titles on my Bossy Gift Lists in the past few years From dung beetles to a 44,000-year-old shrub; from the incredibly strong, tiny peacock mantis shrimp

I'd love to hear your thoughts! Phillips Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. With the passing of the years, however, those memories become distant and malleable, and we shape them Ivey's fantastical elements are inspired by Native American folklore and stories, and they work well

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? That book introduced the fantastic best-friend character of Felicity "Fizzy" Chen. The happy ending made me tear up and also made me want to cheer. Curious Beginning and seven more Veronica Speedwell books (plus one scheduled for publication next year

In the fall of our female narrator's senior year in college, she becomes friends with Sam and Yash, two the past, present, and future are equally real) and presentism (only the present moment exists) has bearing There is a jump forward in time that made me immediately feel less connected to the characters and the years that the name was the same as a character in another King novel, Writers & Lovers , published five years

She notes that there is a 37% chance of a massive earthquake in the Pacific Northwest in the next 50 years He also wrote Hour of the Witch  and Skeletons at the Feast  (a WWII-set book that I read about 15 years positive company for Garrett, who tends to be morose--particularly after the tragic death of their dear friend years earlier.

Light We Cannot See; The Women in the Castle, which includes a complicated sort of bravery; and the fantastic Abriel offers a vivid account of the fear and dread—intermixed with sparks of hope—that sustained Vera Set during the bleak years of 1939-1942 in London and on the strategic island of Malta, Everyone Brave Anna is haunted by her wartime experiences and compromises, and she is fearful of Trudy's potential reaction

“Forty years ago, Constance Halliday set us on this road and created her squad of Sphinxes. It's kill or be killed, and the seasoned women have to use their years of niche expertise, optimistic The fantastic blend of feminist sass and clever problem-solving is as evident in this book as it is in

She's got a sunny disposition, wears bright, cheery colors, and is hoping for her first big writing break checkered past as well as memories of her own true love and famous relationship with Cosmo, who died years More Emily Henry love Henry's Beach Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it also Emily Henry is also the author of Funny Story (one of my Favorite Reads of the Year ), Happy Place

Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through the This year, gossip problems and power plays are back, in the form of forced Truth or Dare. McManus offers a little of everything in a fantastic mix of teamwork, a health scare, sibling tensions

That book introduced the fantastic best-friend character of Felicity "Fizzy" Chen, and The True Love He left to join the Army and worked for years in intelligence in far-flung places.

established of Alzheimer's disease, he considers the cases of those he has known who suffered for many years Lenni and Margot was one of my top twelve reads of the year the year I read it. Seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson lives in the terminal ward at the Glasgow Princess Royal Hospital Collectively they've been around 100 years, but this just doesn't feel like enough, and they each want Click here for my full review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot.

Now Helen is in her early 30s, and Helen hasn't seen Grant Shepard in thirteen years--not since they (Side note: hearing "sweetheart" as his dirty-talk nickname for her felt jarring to me every time.) Michelle's inner workings will not be revealed to Helen or to the reader, and they remain a mystery years check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six More of my Favorite Romantic Fiction Reads from the Past Year More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year

More Revenge Fantasies...and Revenge Enacted Mwaa haa ha! If so, I'd love to hear what you thought. Do you have any favorite books that involve revenge? The gossip site run by the deceased student made him detested and feared.

Bringley, a former New Yorker  staffer, after facing the tragic death of his beloved brother, spent ten years For years, Bringley prevented careless, clueless, or overly passionate museumgoers from stumbling into I'd love to hear what you think of this book! Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling before IMDB, before the internet, if you wanted to find out if a movie was worth watching, you waited to hear I'd go to these music centers and I'd hear these guys, they were just throwing down--singing and the

I haven't read a Murderbot book in two and a half years, but the slow build here made it difficult for and trying to come to terms with its near-death experience, yet the page time spent on insecurity, fear

She's got a sunny disposition, wears bright, cheery colors, and is hoping for her big writing break. Henry's Beach Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading When he meets the elderly Carl Iverson at a nearby nursing home, he's eager to hear Carl's life story

Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year I'd love to hear: What are some of your favorite memoir reads? Pan decided to deliberately put herself into extremely uncomfortable social situations for a year, and She regrets her one-year plan almost instantly but feels compelled to continue her terrifying exercises

Historical fiction, light fiction, and fantasy/science fiction is the wacky concurrent combo working

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If you've read any of the books mentioned here, I'd love to hear what you think! Meanwhile Harper explores loyalty, procedural details related to the past and near past, beginnings and terms with it, while Abby is an island local whose husband has hidden something significant, and she fears the adults in Eli's life (and the terrible consequences he suffers because of them), he emerges as a fantastic I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

and I was having such a great reading run, in late spring I posted Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year But I had such a great reading run for the rest of the year, none of the books from that list made it What were some of your favorite reads of the year? Let's do some Bossy book talking! relationships that shaped her during her college years. irritating to the rest of my book club years ago, but I couldn't help my love.

of the wonderful novel Unlikely Animals , which was one of my  Bossy Favorite Fiction Reads of the Year Henry's Beach Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it also made it onto the Greedy Emily Henry is also the author of Funny Story  (one of my Favorite Reads of the Year ),   Happy Place Book two picks up when our main characters, having laid low  and lived their own lives for a year, are An Eastern European gangster has obtained the names of agents who have stood in his way over the years

I resisted reading this young adult fantasy for a long while.

But I'm still excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in

I really liked this story and I still think about this book, years after reading it. still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from She is taken for ten years to serve him. For the purposes of this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil conflicts

Haylah is an excellent friend, she's patient with her incredibly frustrating four-year-old brother, and Elliott offers a fantastic, boy-crazy, British story about missteps, facing change, accepting the past

ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery about a missing young woman who reappears after two years But a powerful woman is resented and feared, and threatening accusations begin to fly regarding how Alice Chelsey Calhoun is shocked by the reappearance of Ellie Black, a young girl who's been missing for two years Chelsey is especially invested in the case, because her own sister Lydia went missing years earlier,

Nor did I love the house's voice, or the house as a whimsical, yearning character (with somewhat unclear More from Kate Quinn Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress

my summer post on the topic, here are my favorite reads from the first half of the year! My year-end list of 2021 favorites is coming soon! My very favorite reads so far this year! Great Circle is my favorite book of the year so far! Duchess is a thirteen-year-old girl trying to keep her family together. Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read

In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried, Belle is fearful--particularly for her mother's sake--that her father's true origins may be uncovered I'd love to hear your thoughts about this book!

(Last year's cookbook gift picks can be found here.) indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling Ly The National Parks Cookbook was actually published in late fall 2022 but wasn't on my radar last year , and I couldn't resist including it for the first time in this year's list--if only for my friend Sally

Historical Fiction Favorites These were just a few of my favorite historical fiction reads during the first year But I could make ten lists of my historical fiction loves from over the years (and I just might)! societal expectations for women, great adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fantastic in 1924 South Carolina were wonderful, and I still think about this book although I read it almost a year ago (technically, at the end of last year).

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? tongue, and she feels like the poor treatment her husband shows her may be deserved, as after eight years When an important telegram arrives, they fear the worst. housekeeping, but she doesn't tell Arthur that she's been dreaming of the decrepit, rambling house for years

Children exposed to lead in utero or during their first years of life might display a dizzying array where Gary Ridgway (the Green River Killer) lived, and where Charles Manson was imprisoned for five years takes time for significant asides, giving the book somewhat of a jumpy feel--not inappropriate to the fear-inducing She repeatedly checks in on years of multiple violent vehicular deaths due to a negligently designed that she had killed him when she had the chance, before he inflicted more cruelties and abuse in later years

What a fantastic Bossy reading month! If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes

something of a recluse in her quiet seaside Maine town ever since her husband's death in a car crash a year But having a listening ear in Dean, who is completely separate from Evvie's "before" life, means she I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. the cold and by the mentions of the Kennebec River flowing through the town of Hallowell (which is near All  of the upheaval seems connected to an operation from years earlier, "Malta"--and Maggie's perceived

In One Last Stop, twenty-three-year-old August keeps to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have The book revels in wonderful LGBTQ love and tons of sexiness; fantastic New York-centric details; and

I still think about this book from time to time, and I read it years ago. Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction and fantasy

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! established of Alzheimer's disease, he considers the cases of those he has known who suffered for many years Jaouad spent four years constantly fearing for her life; undergoing various procedures; living with intense She emerged from spending years with her head down, fighting to survive, to realize that she needed to Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Austin Channing Brown's book is slim (185 pages), but I'm wearing She is wise, thoughtful, frustrated, and fascinating. 03 The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

faulted, interconnected characters making their way through joys and tragedies over the course of a year complex, faulted characters as they make their way in northern Maine over the course of a difficult year I'd love to hear your thoughts about this book!

Jackson's sequel to the young adult mystery The Good Girl's Guide to Murder, which again features the fantastic Cue the ball gowns, thousands of years of customs and traditions to learn, tricky rivalries and jealousies answers but many fascinating gray areas to consider. 03 Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson Yay, the fantastic His twenty-four-year-old brother Jamie is missing, the police aren't responding with any urgency, and