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  • Review of I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang

    novel This 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

  • July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two memoirs, two historical fiction titles, a science here for my full review of Between Two Kingdoms. 03 The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn The Diamond Eye is historical Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress, review of The Diamond Eye. 04 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Richardson's historical But this is a solid historical fiction story that I loved.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/25 Edition

    If you enjoy short story collections, you might like to check out Six Short Story Collections to Wow You and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved .

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

    Bossy Gift Ideas: The Novels Here are six great novels that I'm excited to give as gifts this holiday Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! For my full review of this book, please see Listen for the Lie . 04 Smart Historical Fiction with a Time-Travel They're from other times in history. protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure from history

  • Review of This House Is Not a Home by Katlia

    A book that kept coming to mind as I read this one is This Tender Land, historical fiction by William the "restructuring" that cut off many American Indians from their culture, their families, and their history

  • Review of Happy Place by Emily Henry

    Six longtime friends gather for one last Maine vacation--but each of them has been keeping secrets that Now they've been engaged for six years, they're desperately in love, and they've been dating long-distance Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six another great Henry story; you can check out my review here, and you might like to check out its spot on Six

  • Review of Funny Story by Emily Henry

    Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six another great Henry story; you can check out my review here, and you might like to check out its spot on Six

  • Review of The Child Finder (Naomi Cottle #1) by Rene Denfeld

    I mentioned The Child Finder in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer

  • Review of The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr

    Lisa Barr's World War II-set historical fiction follows a Jewish resistance fighter and spy through the In Lisa Barr's newest historical fiction, The Goddess of Warsaw , the author tells a story in two timelines

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/25 Edition

    Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six story; you can check out my review here , and you might like to check it out on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/31/22 Edition

    I'm reading The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell's newest historical fiction, about a young duchess a bona fide movie star; and I'm reading Kate Manning's Gilded Mountain (to be published tomorrow), historical If you like stories like this, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book from Chris Bohjalian (author of Midwives), a historical Hour of the Witch is a historical thriller about the first divorce in North America and the witch trial If you like stories about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully

  • Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas

    Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series (A Curious Beginning, A Perilous Undertaking, A Treacherous Curse, and six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/21 Edition

    Now I'm reading a romantic book about aspiring musicians with intertwined pasts; the rich fictional history If you like stories about music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories real-life, essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History they discover strange, unique powers as they rely on each other and attempt to unravel their shared history

  • Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

    You might also want to check out the short story collections listed in my Greedy Reading Lists Six Short Story Collections to Wow You and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved.

  • November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    show personality; a dark academia story that centers around feminism and building new perspectives; historical The janitor is a cultural outsider with a complicated history, and what he lacks in training he makes full review of Light to the Hills . 05 Orbital by Samantha Harvey The luminous novel Orbital tracks six Samantha Harvey's astronaut-focused novel Orbital  traces a single day in the lives of six astronauts

  • Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

    Several of my Greedy Reading Lists highlight some of my very favorite books that twist time: Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

  • Review of The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander

    I mentioned The Light of the World in my Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore. You might also be interested in the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

  • Review of Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

    Every Summer After is a love story told over the course of six summers and a weekend. For more books I've loved, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories and Six

  • Review of Love, Lists and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading and Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading.

  • Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    My Greedy Reading Lists are usually made up of six books, but I've had a wonderful start to 2024 reading dragons, dragon-related science, emotional and physical ties to dragons, and the cultural importance, historical Because the restrictive Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality. If you like this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great

  • Review of Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

    Tomorrow I’ll post Six Fascinating Books about the Immigrant Experience. For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about

  • Review of The Traitor (Alias Emma #2) by Ava Glass

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Books about Brave Female Spies and Six More

  • The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year

    These are my six five-star Bossy reads so far in 2022. 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War.

  • Review of Boy by Nicole Galland

    In Nicole Galland's historical fiction tale Boy , Alexander "Sander" Cooke is a famed, sought-after "

  • Review of You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn

    For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/11/22 Edition

    You can find my review of Blake Crouch's Recursion (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Riveting NetGalley. 03 When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill In Kelly Barnhill's When Women Were Dragons, a historic event has occurred but is being denied by the government and historians alike: a Mass Dragoning, in Through various preserved historic accounts and young Alexandra Green's observations, the reader begins

  • Review of Land of Milk and Honey by C. Pam Zhang

    For more dystopian stories, check out Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More

  • Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth

    books with this type of tone and spirit, you might also like those listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West. And stay tuned for this Friday's upcoming list of Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads

    In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War. check out Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/25/23 Edition

    included the wonderful Ron Rash short story collection Nothing Gold Can Stay in my Greedy Reading List Six loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical

  • Review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers

    Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency... If you're interested in books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

    If you're interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality.

  • Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre

    History was pivoting around her. Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year last year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books If you like reading about female spies, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Books

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: contemporary fiction, young adult, nonfiction, fantasy For my full review, check out A Marvellous Light. 02 Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler I listened to Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe's exhaustive history of the Sackler family as traced His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes, or these Bossy reviews of books that play with time.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/26/24 Edition

    If you're interested in books about mortality, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality.

  • June Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

    Hoffman's light-fiction novel about music, dark secrets, zany hijinks, and redemption; Beyond That the Sea, historical Ending. 02 Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash Beyond That, the Sea is a lovely character-driven historical I loved witnessing the growth of each of the relationships in this character-driven historical fiction If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List, Six The Celebrants centers around college friends who made a pact after Alec, one of the original six, died

  • Review of Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever

    Bossy Foodie Memoir Favorites You might also be interested in the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway

    The historical fiction story about the building of the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, had I love a North-Carolina-set story, and Joy Callaway's historical fiction What the Mountains Remember

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/1/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the upcoming The Secret Life of Flora Lea, historical fiction with this book is of interest to you, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/3/22 Edition

    one of McCracken's short story collections, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, in the Greedy Reading List Six If you're interested in books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six If you're interested in books about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You.

  • Review of The Jackal's Mistress by Chris Bohjalian

    In Chris Bohjalian's newest historical fiction novel, Libby Steadman lives in Virginia on the edge of

  • Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik

    and the intricacies of nations' relationships and airborne dragon battles within the books' alternate history I mentioned Uprooted (and Novik's Spinning Silver) in the Greedy Reading List Six Magical Fairy Tales

  • More 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! Anchored in scientific research, Phenomena explores a wide range of scientific, historical, and cultural fireflies, from the mysteries of the Big Bang to the anatomy of snowflakes, from permafrost to the history

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/3/23 Edition

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Review of Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo

    I mentioned Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Leigh Bardugo's interconnected Grishaverse is made up of her Shadow and Bone trilogy, the Six of Crows

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/22/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading a favorite author's most recent historical fiction, The Briar Club by Kate Quinn; I'm listening to my first Zadie Smith novel, the Victorian-England-set historical fiction Briar Club by Kate Quinn In The Briar Club , Kate Quinn turns her considerable talent for bringing history Quinn's historical fiction offers the stories of multiple women in a females-only Washington, D.C. boardinghouse In her first historical fiction novel, Smith offers a Victorian England tableau featuring a wonderfully

  • Review of First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

    She is also the author of six young adult books, including The Lying Woods , This Is Our Story , The

  • Review of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter  is a horror/historical fiction story with key supernatural elements.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amor Towles's almost-600-page historical fiction story Lincoln Robert Galbraith's 944-page fifth installment in the Cormoran Strike series, Troubled Blood, and reading Six and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's twists and turns. 03 Six

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