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

    Here are my six Bossy favorite reads of September. got a dark fantasy sequel, the first in a science fiction series, the first in a historical fiction mystery King The first mystery in King's 19-book series builds an irresistibly layered professional partnership Soon they're faced with the urgent mystery of a senator's kidnapped daughter, and they work together You can find more Bossy mystery reviews here.

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

    A mystery surrounds a deadly moment, and the book ends with a hopeful, imperfect, heartbreaking way forward story of young love blossoming, then shriveling under the first pressures of the outside world; it's a mystery Please click here for my full review of This American Woman . 04 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Mysteries When a mysterious woman washes up half-dead on the remote island of Shearwater, home of the world's largest There are mysteries at the center of the story, but for me this was a captivating, atmospheric dive into

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/21/25 Edition

    reading: The Summer Guests , Tess Gerritsen's newest Martini Club offering, which centers around a mystery of Carrie Soto Is Back , The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo , Malibu Rising , and Daisy Jones & the Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/31/25 Edition

    The only thing that isn't a lie is her mysterious ability to instinctually, instantaneously heal others Night , and One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow , which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six

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

    Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! For my full review of this book, please see The Wedding People . 02 A Mystery and a Poignant Family Story (Now in Paperback) Happiness Falls by Angie Kim Angie Kim's sophomore novel is a mystery, but Happiness Kim's missing-person novel is a mystery and is structured around the discovery and exploration of what Click here   for my full review of You Are Here . 04 A Modern, Darkly Funny Mystery Listen for the Lie

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of May. The Gods of Howl Mountain, and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six For my full review of this book please see The Calamity Club. 03 London Falling: A Mysterious Death in Radden Keefe took a subject I wasn't initially captivated by and crafted another work of his signature masterful There are mysteries at the center of the story, but for me this was a captivating, atmospheric dive into

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

    that breaks and finds its way back together again; I Have Some Questions for You, a boarding-school mystery Jess Kidd is the author of Things in Jars, a mystery I gave four Bossy stars--and listed in two Greedy Reading Lists, Six Spooky, Gothic Tales and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. Summer is ending, and there's a mysterious, unspoken, dark undercurrent at the Kinsellas'. It's about our societal obsession with tragedies and mysterious murders, and the tendency of bystanders

  • Review of The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

    making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction storytelling master s The Huntress (and five other historical fiction books I loved), check out the Greedy Reading List Six Or check out the books I listed on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Books about Brave Female Spies, Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War II, and Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

  • My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer

    I had a great reading summer, so I had a tough time deciding on the six books I most loved reading during You might also want to check out the books on my spring Greedy Reading List Six of My Favorite Reads Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Gillian McAllister's twisty mystery begins with a mother awaiting her teenage son's return home late Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition

    In LaValle's magical, dark Western, people tend to disappear whenever Adelaide decides to open her mysterious If you like Westerns, you might want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and  Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/28/22 Edition

    lives in two eras and forced to choose; and I'm reading The Box in the Woods, a stand-alone young adult mystery If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories--or you time travel. 03 The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson The Box in the Woods is another young adult mystery Johnson's Truly Devious series offers dark scenes, wicked mystery, blossoming attraction, loyal friendships

  • Review of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

    If you like to read memoirs like I do, you might be interested in the Greedy Reading Lists here: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing 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 Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

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

    Here are six of my March favorites. You  and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved . Gillian McAllister The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time  is back with a smart, twisty mystery Famous Last Words  is another smart, twisty mystery from Gillian McAllister. I loved this smart mystery that relies heavily on character development and mental agility for our narrator

  • Review of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

    Their cultures are sometimes mysteries to each other, and at times conflict greatly with others' traditions For more cold-setting stories, check out my Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings

  • Newer Romantic Novels Perfect for Savoring Summer's Last Gasp

    August feels like a perfect time to dive into recently published romantic stories, and these have been six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great 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 Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Light Fiction Stories Six of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year , and Six More of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year Have you

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/26/24 Edition

    You might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading , Six More Great 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 Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading , and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories . 02 Moonbound by Robin

  • Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

    But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light you might like to check the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore.

  • Review of They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies that Raised Us by Prachi Gupta

    read memoirs, you might be interested in the titles on my various memoir-focused Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Musicians' Memoirs that Sing 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 Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

  • Review of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

    In this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel as well as mysteries surrounding developed, but they're important to the structure and the odd interconnectedness at the heart of the mysterious identical personal experience; and detective Gaspary from the future's Night City investigates their mysterious You might like the books I list on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes or these Bossy reviews of books that play with time.

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2024 Reads

    Every month I post my favorite reads , and in the spring I posted Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality  and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality . In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious Are Here . 10 The God of the Woods by Liz Moore I loved this summer-camp setting, the slow build of mystery I was intrigued by the mysteries and their layers, which are continually revealed, and while I usually

  • Review of The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston

    In town, she'll always be known as The Girl Who Solved a Murder Mystery by Talking to Ghosts, with all If you like light fiction, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/20/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Jane Harper's newest Australian-set Aaron Falk mystery, Exiles; adapt her surprise feminist bestseller into a movie--without losing her integrity or being derailed by mysterious But the year-old mysterious disappearance of Kim Gillespie, a young woman from the area, hooks Falk and far. 02 The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six Then mysterious threats begin appearing within the script, aimed at the writers who are picking apart

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

    Spoiler alert: that title will also appear in my Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far, a list of six Meanwhile, here are my six favorite reads of June. Her pain and the mysterious sources of her frequent agony affected every aspect of her life, and Dunham Through years of various mysterious, excruciating, debilitating ailments, conditions, and limitations

  • Review of The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into, and Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore.

  • 2025 Bossy Fiction Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! A Twisty, Fast-Paced, Con-Artist Mystery 01 First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston Elston's first adult novel Elston has an upcoming mystery, Anatomy of an Alibi , scheduled for publication January 13. For my full review--I rated this mystery 4 stars--please check out this link . Other mysteries you might want to gift: Richard Osman's charming Thursday Murder Club series , Steve

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month. Eason In Eason's science fiction mystery, an unlikely pair who get on each other's nerves work together Eason's science fiction mystery Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, have And I was wholly charmed by the rievs (former battle robots) who mysteriously show sentience and surprising Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about

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

    ) by Freya Marske The first book in Marske's duology is full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery Robin and Edwin's love is romantic and sweet and heartbreaking and sexy; the mystery at the heart of camp; and winds it all through our middle-aged heroines' satisfying solving of a disturbing set of mysteries Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery of But August's adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might

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

    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 This is a character-driven mystery with a twist. This is a character-driven mystery with an interesting twist. That is, until the mysterious Maddalena arrives.

  • Review of Orbital by Samantha Harvey

    The luminous novel Orbital tracks six astronauts in the International Space Station for one day as they Samantha Harvey's astronaut-focused novel Orbital traces a single day in the lives of six astronauts In Orbital , Harvey takes the ultimate locked-room setting of six people in a small space, orbiting 250 designated bathroom, while the other astronauts are only "allowed" to use the second bathroom--a rule the six The six space-station astronauts are circling the earth without traveling anywhere, they reflect, while

  • 2025 Bossy Book Ideas for Your Holiday Gift List

    Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! For the Tween Mystery Fan 04 The Midwatch Institute for Wayward Girls by Judith Rossell Along with The chance, I'll be giving a certain someone this 2025 title, described as " a whimsical, adventure-filled mystery But the place is filled with young ladies solving mysteries, protecting the city, and fighting bad guys

  • Review of Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

    In Thistlefoot, estranged siblings Bellatine, a woodworker with mysterious powers, and Isaac, a con artist and street performer with his own magic, are reunited to claim a mysterious, bizarre inheritance: a and Isaac find their way back to each other, bonded by trying to untangle the dangerous, sentimental, mysterious If you like magical realism and folklore, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/5/22 Edition

    Fortune's debut, Every Summer After, a story about mistakes, lost love, and new beginnings, told over six summers and a weekend; and I'm listening to And Then She Disappeared, a mystery about a decades-past If you like short stories, you might also want to check out the stories on the Greedy Reading List Six Every Summer After is a love story told over the course of six summers and a weekend. 03 And Then She

  • Bossy Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction

    Below you can find short snippets about the six 2024 sports-focused releases that sound so promising, I'm excited to give them as gifts this holiday season--plus six bonus books, listed below, that also Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know about Women by Maggie Mertens (2024) 1923: The Mystery Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays   Shhh!

  • Review of Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

    boast forces Miryem into a position of meeting the tsar's impossible challenge, she finds that the mysterious I mentioned Spinning Silver in the Greedy Reading List Six Magical Fairy Tales Grown-Ups Will Love.

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

    Anyway, here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a heartbreaking, lovely, epistolary stories by a favorite author; a vulnerable celebrity memoir; the latest loooong installment in a favorite mystery If you're interested in this book, you might also like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set Story Collections to Wow You and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved.

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

    Bossy Favorites of the Month Here are my six Bossy favorite reads of July. I was already in love with five of these six authors' other books before I read these newest works, and And for more mysteries, please check out these Bossy titles.

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

    melded into another: young friendship, serial killer, outlaw search, small-town intrigue, and longtime mysteries But a young, half-feral female student and a shockingly unorthodox widow both seem to hold mysterious In Table for Two: Fictions , Amor Towles offers six short stories set in New York City and a novella The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance act as a Hollywood movie star, linking the story's two timelines and revealing long-held secrets and mysteries

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition

    But her adorably quirky roommates and a mystery woman she keeps running into on the Q train might just I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light you might like to search the site for other books in this vein, or check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore. 03 Bomb

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/17/24 Edition

    thriller, which is set in the wilderness and concerns old lovers thrown together in hopes of finding a mysteriously Her sister steps in to help with their dad, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring,

  • Review of Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese

    lifesaving Black neighbors--who share resources, offer advice, and otherwise keep to themselves--and their mysterious 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.

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

    Robert Galbraith's 944-page fifth installment in the Cormoran Strike series, Troubled Blood, and reading Six Moscow and Rules of Civility. 02 Troubled Blood by Robert Galbratih In the fifth installment of the mystery A woman recognizes him and impulsively spills the story of her mother Margot Bamborough's mysterious So far it feels nicely paced, and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's twists and turns. 03 Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim In this young adult novel, the first in a duology

  • Review of Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea

    you're intrigued by time-travel stories, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories, Six More Time-Travel Stories to Dive Into, and Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore.

  • Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir by Maggie Smith

    For memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Musicians ' Memoirs that Sing Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore 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 Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. see Rednecks . 02 Bride by Ali Hazelwood Ali Hazelwood brings her wonderful banter and an intriguing mystery As a child, Misery was given up by her family and community as collateral to keep the peace. Her sister steps in to help with their dad at home, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring can't let go of the fear that he might have targeted her specifically, and feels as though solving the mystery

  • My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books

    Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads Six More For my full review, see Utopia Avenue. 04 Long Bright River by Liz Moore Long Bright River is a mystery disappears and a string of murders rock the community, everyone is suspect and Mickey's desire to solve the mystery

  • Review of Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

    For more more more memoirs that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore 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 Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

  • Review of Show Don't Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld

    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 .

  • Review of Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles #1) by Suzanne Collins

    talking) creepy-crawlies in this middle-grade novel, you'll find a noble quest, unlikely heroes, a mysterious You might like the books I included on the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

  • Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

    tragedy of Flora's disappearance), anyone who might have been connected to Flora's disappearance, and the mysterious interested in World War II-set historical fiction, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Table for Two: Fictions by Amor Towles

    In Table for Two: Fictions , Amor Towles offers six short stories set in New York City and a novella The six New York-set stories all take place around the year 2000, and they consider the impacts of chance

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