The creator of the series Girls explores the details of her years of physical and emotional turmoil, Her pain and the mysterious sources of her frequent agony affected every aspect of her life, and Dunham In her new memoir, the creator of the series Girls explores the years in which she went from an unkown Like You might also want to check out these Bossy reviews of other celebrity memoirs or these lists of favorite

shelter and tired of overstaying her welcome and never having security, she was returning home and on the verge At the very beginning the pacing felt a little uneven to me, but then Garg hit her stride, and I was memoirs you might like, please check out these Bossy reviews as well as Greedy Reading Lists of my favorites

(Side note: hearing "sweetheart" as his dirty-talk nickname for her felt jarring to me every time.) each other--who are, after all, near strangers linked by a devastating past event--and entered into very heated, varied sexual encounters. of lighter fiction or rom-com books I've loved, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six More of my Favorite Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My Favorite

Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds, When I read a collection of short stories, I inevitably develop favorites, and while reading Buried Deep "After Hours" allowed me to delve back into Novik's Scholomance series, which I adored. Novik has also written a series of nine fantastic books about dragons, the Temeraire series. I've read seven of the nine installments, and I'm dreading reaching the end of the series.

She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. This is one of my all-time favorite books. But bringing back their surprising findings might very well mean the wholesale rounding up and destruction #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview What are your favorite post-apocalyptic A New Wilderness, published in August 2020, looks like a great dystopian novel too.

If you're interested in or enjoyed this book, you might want to check out a favorite book of mine, Madeline Trying to do the right thing seems not to work out very well for Denny.

French is the author of six books in the Dublin Murder Squad series: In the Woods, The Likeness (my absolute favorite of hers), Faithful Place, The Trespasser, Broken Harbor, and The Secret Place, plus the stand-alone In this first book in the One of Us Is Lying series, McManus takes us through each of the suspects in

The pacing of the the first 100 pages felt slow, but after that I was totally hooked on this very compelling You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year, and Six Historical Fiction

I loved this first installment of Young's two-book series, which features pirates, a brave young heroine Fable, the first in a planned two-book series, offers pirates, a little forbidden romance, a handful

I loved every bit of this. Oh, Olive!

I think I have enough other favorite reads in these categories to make two more Greedy Reading Lists. They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. This is one of my all-time favorite books. But bringing back their surprising findings might very well mean the wholesale rounding up and destruction

Early in the story, Learned by Heart very much reminded me of A Little Princess. That was one of my favorite books when I was young, and within Learned by Heart, the concern with classism Donoghue is also the author of Room, The Pull of the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite

The first in Thorne's series delivers charming, heartwarming adventure and a cast of characters I can't I loved how much warmth Thorne injected into this story; bighearted sci-fi is my absolute favorite type The next title in this series, Moss Effect, is scheduled for publication next spring.

fantasy gems, great rom-com reads, offbeat books, funny titles, or something in between, I've got Bossy favorites

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading favorite author Maggie O'Farrell's newest novel (out tomorrow), 01 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Maggie O'Farrell is a favorite author of mine, and in her newest novel, she

I love when stories play with time (see my multiple favorites lists below), and I loved that the relationship Several of my Greedy Reading Lists highlight some of my very favorite books that twist time: Six Riveting

Katie and Tyler were childhood neighbors and friends, on the verge of young love, then devastated, bound Meanwhile, Lauren Okie playfully works every imaginable trope into both the story Katie and Tyler are You might also want to check out my favorite romance reads from the past year--as well as many other

Center doesn't rely on a miscommunication trope (my very least favorite), and I could see where both

books, you might like the titles on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads , Six Favorite Nonfiction and Memoir Reads of the Year , Six Nonfiction and Memoir Reads I Loved , Six of My Favorite

More Light Fiction Favorites When I posted a few weeks ago about favorite light fiction reads and asked And you can find other Bossy light fiction reviews here. 01 Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey I delighted Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise For my full review, please see Very Sincerely Yours. 02 The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon Rachel Lynn ), and Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem).

In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young married couple on the verge 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

of the Sea ; I'm listening to Jen Hatmaker's memoir Awake ; and I'm listening to my newly discovered favorite family, her religion, and her community, found her world turned upside down when she discovered in 2020

haunted by his secret; and I'm reading The Forgotten Kingdom, the second in Signe Pike's fantastic series I received a prepublication copy of this book, to be published May 11, 2021, courtesy of NetGalley and I loved Pike's first novel in this series, The Lost Queen, and so far this book is reminding me of The

You might very well not come away loving JT the way you might have going into this one, fair warning. Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite

This wasn't my favorite element. More from Carley Fortune Fortune is also the author of Meet Me at the Lake, Every Summer After, One Golden

More Historical Fiction Favorites This is Jennifer N. Brown's first novel. For more historical fiction Bossy favorites, please check out the Greedy Reading Lists and titles here

Zevin's recent novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, I was reminded that ages ago I loved her (very His wife has died, his sales are down, his favorite collection of poems has been stolen, and he's drawing author of The Hole We're In, Margarettown, Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, the Anya Balanchine series

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I'm always thankful for books and reading, so I wanted to reshare Do you have all-time favorite reads that you steadily recommend to others? Marianne Cronin has a new book coming out in December 2024, Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love . 02 White rooms of the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned more like a not-very-fancy

What are some of your favorite long novels?   This was one of my favorite books of the year when I read it. 02 The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell This oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second book in Donati's Waverly Place series The Rose Code  is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this.

champions who dramatically split--until a documentary tell-all comes back to tell their story, The Favorites received a prepublication edition of Broken Country courtesy of Simon & Schuster and NetGalley. 03 The Favorites

excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in the Skyhunter series Lu has written the Legends, Young Elites, and Warcross series. 02 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy

they tell the truth about others' wrongdoings, and a heartwarming chosen-family element (one of my favorite You can check out some of my Bossy favorites at the links here.

The Books I'm Reading Now This week I'm reading the newest novel by a favorite author, Taylor Brown, non-speaking and autistic, shares a portrait of an adult daycare center in California through glimpses of its varied She went on to star in movies like Anchorman and in television series like Dead to Me .

Annie Hartnett is also the author of the wonderful novel Unlikely Animals , which was one of my Bossy Favorite the author of the nonfiction collection of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed (which was one of my six favorite

I look forward to hearing about your favorite summer reads once I'm back to the blog! xoxo, Amy

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

of an Alibi by Ashley Elston I loved Ashley Elston's mystery First Lie Wins (it was on my December favorites Jennifer Givhan's mystery-thriller-horror novel Salt Bones made it onto multiple best-of lists for 2025

I loved watching every building block slot into place as we wound our way back through time toward the Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories highlight some of my very favorite books that twist time!

daughter Maia, Bear; in a second, she makes a less aggressive but unsanctioned name choice that's her favorite characters' fates on Cora's shoulders so that all of the key characters' futures are dependent on the varied those days boiled down into one intense burst of color, or to have the pin removed from the thorax every None of the paths are too easy or perfect, but each offers varied satisfaction and challenge in the form

story that flips a traditional setup, and I have high hopes that Long Live Evil is going to be my new favorite now she's dying, and in a panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of her favorite fantasy series.

Some Lighter Fiction Favorites What I love about a romantic, rom-com, lighter fiction read is that real I'm due to create another Greedy Reading List of my more recently read light fiction favorites, but meanwhile When she hits a version of rock bottom and moves home, Avery's former teammate and crush Ryan (who did reviews of Lauren's The Unhoneymooners , In a Holidaze , Love and Other Words , The Soulmate Equation (a favorite ), and Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem). 05 Beach Read by Emily Henry

ICYMI: This five-star read--part memoir/part essay--is one of my favorite books of Ann Patchett's, and When we do things differently, and very often we do, I remind myself that it is rarely a matter of right My book club wasn't unanimous on a five-star rating, but this is one of my favorite Patchett books.

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 of this book, please see A Curious Beginning. 04 The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton “There are very

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

The Summer Favorites These titles aren't classic, light "summer reads," but they were my favorite reads what loyalty means, and to face how dark the path ahead might become when the bad guys are truly evil, very

I think I have enough other favorite reads in these categories to make two more Greedy Reading Lists. They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. This is one of my all-time favorite books. But bringing back their surprising findings might very well mean the wholesale rounding up and destruction

Forty Love is a rom-com with depth, my favorite type.

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 tempted to defy her mother by not following her bossy demands, but when Stella arrives in Paris, a series

For every island is a canoe, and all the earth is an island, living by the grace of the immense and slowly More Literary Fiction Favorites Richard Powers is also the author of The Overstory , Bewilderment , and

Mystery and Suspense Reads These six four-star mysteries are all so good and so different--they were my favorites I'd love to hear about your favorite mystery reads! radar, French is the author of six Dublin Murder Squad books (In the Woods, The Likeness--this is my favorite was a series until after the fact, it stands so well on its own. Panowich also wrote Like Lions and Hard Cash Valley, the next two books in this series.