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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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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 .

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

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

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

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

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

#fantasyscifi, #youngadult, #series, #postapocalypticdystopian, #robots, #timetravel 02 Beach Read ​

I loved this smart, funny young adult book--the first in a series--complete with Chinese folklore, a

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

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

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.

Other fake-dating rom-coms include The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren and a Bossy favorite, The Bodyguard premise in which a famous person dates a not-famous person: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan and 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

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

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

because Rocky's menopausal rage threatens to undo any joy she might gain from spending time in her favorite Kimi Cunningham Grant's newest thriller, The Nature of Disappearing, Emlyn is a wilderness guide who very

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 often 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

There are additional books in the Sarah Agnes Prine series: Sarah's Quilt and The Star Garden, neither Carson is also the author of the Fire and Thorns series, four young adult fantasy books plus related Do you have any favorite books set in the American West?

I haven't yet read the second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and when I read City of Windows I didn't even realize it was part of a series, it stands so well on its own.

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book by a favorite author, Katherine Arden, The Warm 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

Keep, which is set for publication next week, is a prequel to Erika Johansen's Queen of the Tearling series (there are three other books in the series, the fantastic Queen of the Tearling as well as The Invasion I'm curious to see if the characters I loved from the rest of the series (I'm looking at you, Mace) are He has written many other books, including The Hush, the second in the Johnny Merrimon series, and the I'm liking this mix: young adult space science fiction story, dystopian fantasy series prequel, and character-driven

you might like to check out some of my Bossy memoir reviews , or some of my Greedy Reading Lists of favorites Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite

I love a peek at a secret world, and each of these books (all but one are fiction) offers that very thing I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old. Elizabeth Wein is also the author of many other novels, including additional novels in the Code Name Verity series I would have been in favor of having the romantic element being tied up without the Eve aspect, or having

Claire Keegan is one of my favorite writers; in these three stories, she builds layered situations--and Keegan is one of my favorite authors, and I'm in for all of her books.

Marcellus the octopus is the very deserving star of the show here, and being able to predict much of He was my absolute favorite element, and I adored every scene that involved him.

from one of my favorite authors, Maggie Shipstead; The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, Nikole Hannah-Jones From the author of Astonish Me, Seating Arrangements, and Great Circle, one of my favorite reads last community members) and a successful city doctor with an impressive family pedigree, expensive taste, and very

This is my favorite Harper mystery so far. But as with every visit home, Kieran is reminded of a careless mistake he made as a teenager that led No one's forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of The Survivors is my favorite Harper book yet.

Here are the six titles that made up my very first Greedy Reading List on this theme. are two other Bossy Bookworm Greedy Reading Lists you might enjoy: Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series Which witchy books are your favorites? 01 The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. There is a lot more sexy yoga here than I could have dreamed of, plenty of romance, so very much wine There are four books in this series from Harkness, and I found the others even more magical than this

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

But The Survivors, which is set on the Tasmanian coast, is my favorite Harper novel so far. 02 The Dream shapes The Dream Builders by telling the stories from ten different characters, interconnected but varied The story is narrated by Soneela Nankani. 03 American Mermaid by Julia Langbein I've been so very excited

This was one of my favorite elements of the book. , inept individuals), she attempts to save her autistic teenaged son Trip, who, through an unlikely series A surreal, extended series of sexual fetish vignettes pop up regarding dead-spirit Sandra and a man from

You can find last year's version of this list here: Six Favorite Bossy Fantasy Reads from the Past Year You can find my recent-ish two lists of favorite science fiction and fantasy reads from the past year What are some of your favorite fantasy reads? But I'm fully invested in this series. Novik has also written a wonderful series of nine books about dragons, the Temeraire series.

ICYMI: My favorite Kate Quinn books center around strong young women proving their mettle during wartime I would have been in favor of having the romantic element be tied up without the Eve aspect, or having

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I'm always thankful for books and reading, so I wanted to reshare Do you have all-time favorites you always recommend to others? What makes them your favorites? Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second book in Donati's Waverly Place series

Amity Gaige's Appalachian Trail-set novel offers several of my favorite elements: a Maine setting, a

This isn't my absolute favorite Mason book, and I didn't connect to the characters as I did in The Winter

More Abby Jimenez love Jimenez is also the author of Just for the Summer   (one of my Favorite Rom-Coms

This is a departure from many of my more playful Greedy Reading Lists: witchy books, young adult favorites Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Her, waiting on the street in Paris while he visits his favorite bookstore but she's too sickly to climb Kate Bowler's book No Cure for Being Human is a five-star, all-time favorite read of mine.

Her voice is a striking, uniquely nasal Southern drawl, and her Netflix special "I'm Every Woman" features You can find Bossy reviews of other memoirs--and Greedy Reading Lists of my favorites by theme-- here

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues What are some of your favorite science fiction reads? I really enjoyed Alex White's Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in the Salvagers series Asuka is very intelligent and capable, but she was chosen for the once-in-history journey as an alternate tell Arthur that she's been dreaming of the decrepit, rambling house for years, and that she has some eerie

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

The debut novel from one of my favorite authors tracks a horse thief and an orphan who bond and find