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

    Ninth House, fiction for adults, is the first in Bardugo's Alex Stern series.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/30/23 Edition

    candid memoir, Being Henry; and I'm reading Secondhand Daylight, Eugen Bacon and Andrew Hook's science fiction

  • Review of Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh

    Unsinkable is historical fiction by Jenni L. Walsh that's set in two timelines.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/7/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Sequoia Nagamatsu's recently published science fiction How High virus begins pass like a whirlwind through societies and nations around the globe, Nagamatsu's science fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/10/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Guncle, Steven Rowley's sassy, heartwarming fiction about an mental illness and coping with depression; and The Space Between Worlds, Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction 01 The Guncle by Steven Rowley In Steven Rowley's fun, funny, and heartwarming fiction The Guncle, aging

  • Review of The Girl with Stars in Her Eyes by Xio Axelrod

    Axelrod offers a light fiction romance that's heavy on engaging passages about making music, band life Axelrod offers a light fiction romance that's heavy on engaging passages about making music, band life If you like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking

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

    In this historical fiction-fantasy, characters from Dickens's tale are plunged into a dark, powerful emerges as unlikely from the boozy, smart but lazy, bitter character, remains in place within this fan-fiction

  • 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

  • Review of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

    The Final Revival of Opal & Nev is a fictional account of an interracial music duo's rise to success If you like fiction about music, you might want to check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Weyward by Emilia Hart

    The female characters are often strong, and there's often lush historical fiction detail.

  • Review of Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

    This literary fiction from Ash Davidson is wonderfully wrought, with lots of tense undercurrents, heartbreaking This literary fiction from Ash Davidson is wonderfully wrought, with lots of tense undercurrents, a growing

  • Review of A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell #3) by Deanna Raybourn

    Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/7/24 Edition

    read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction

  • Review of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike #7) by Robert Galbraith

    up emotional barriers to a deeper connection, and the agency is focused on trying to take down the fictional

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition

    Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/11/21 Edition

    book in his quirky Ink & Sigil fantasy duology; The Invention of Wings, Sue Monk Kidd's historical fiction Sue Monk Kidd spins this historical fiction story, inspired by the real-life Sarah Grimke, and includes Monk Kidd also wrote The Book of Longings, which made it onto my Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction

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

    loved reading this past month: a beautiful, poignant nonfiction book about living and dying; a science fiction story about an inherited villain's career, heavily featuring savvy and communicative cats; a historical fiction featuring female doctors, set in 15th century China; a gothic, magical-realism Western; a historical fiction

  • The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year

    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 wonderful), and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/11/23 Edition

    with emotional barriers to a deeper connection, and the agency is focused on trying to take down the fictional

  • Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year

    I recently posted about Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year, Six Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year, Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year, Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year. Elizabeth McCracken's The Hero of This Book (altbough McCracken asserts that this is not a memoir, but fiction Her mother's volatile emotions; upsetting and controlling actions; pushy manner; mental, emotional, and

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

    Lostetter's standalone science fiction about AI, a space crew, friendship, and bravery. Lostetter Activation Degradation, standalone science fiction from Marina L. Lostetter's book started off with a lot of logistics that slowed things for me, but as of page 66 the action

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

    The list skews toward light fiction, but I've got a mystery, a great novel by Allison Larkin, and a wonderfully witchy historical fiction read on here as well. Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction review of this book, please see Life After Life. 05 Instructions for Dancing by Nicola Yoon This light fiction For more summer reads, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism

  • Review of Beach Read by Emily Henry

    Beach Read is a gem for your light fiction-escapism-pandemic-era reading list. Is it fair for a person (me) with particular requirements for light fiction (ideally: not too outlandish connections that warm my heart, and a little romantic something-something) to continue reading light fiction They're perfectly imperfect, not over-the-top light-fiction perfect with fake flaws, nor are they wholly The sections of this light fiction book that are about writing light fiction felt very true and real.

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

    illustrating the interconnectedness of grief, love, community, and nature in this heartwarming literary fiction The ending section is lovely, with heartwarming promise, hope, resolution, and a fig-tree-related revelation Stories of various characters are interwoven through the historical fiction novel and add depth to the

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

    If you like to read fiction about music, you might also like the titles I included in the Greedy Reading This is a great example of a light-fiction-feeling romance that deals with weighty, meaningful themes

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/31/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Sally Hanan's My Heart Went Walking, upcoming fiction with plenty of family drama set in 1980s Ireland; the science fiction story Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir, the

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/12/24 Edition

    Choo is also the author of The Night Tiger, a title I listed in my Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction

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

    Gupta explores her Indian American culture, her parents' expectations, society's pressures, and the fiction

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

    career, and his future at an East London commune; Revelations, Mary Sarratt's immersive historical fiction In Revelations, Sharratt offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched

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

    characters--as well as a romantic story that tackled weighty issues (my favorite kind), and a historical fiction Dunlap's debut novel is dark, twisty, gothic, and it's set in 19th-century Scotland as fictionalized

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/2/22 Edition

    This one is difficult to summarize so far, but in this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time who has an odd experience in the forest with inexplicable futuristic visions and sounds, a science fiction

  • Review of The Story Thieves (Story Thieves #1) by James Riley

    own origins, practical Bethany has the power to jump in and out of books, immersing herself in the fictional characters to root for--and satisfying and intriguing intersections between Bethany and Owen and the fictional

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/16/23 Edition

    debut novel, a space opera, Some Desperate Glory; and I'm listening to Evil Eye, Etaf Rum's newest fiction

  • Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Nagamatsu's science fiction centers around a resurgence of an ancient Arctic plague. the virus passes like a whirlwind through societies and nations around the globe, Nagamatsu's science fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/13/22 Edition

    Now I'm reading Woman of Light, Kali Fajardo-Anstine's upcoming fantastical, indigenous historical fiction ; The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid's dual-timeline historical fiction about the

  • Review of The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz

    ICYMI: This young adult historical fiction story was a five-star read for me. I adored it. Laura Amy Schlitz's book The Hired Girl is fantastic young adult historical fiction written in diary

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/8/24 Edition

    Emily Habeck's odd and sweet novel Shark Heart: A Love Story; I'm reading Heather Webb's historical fiction

  • Review of Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu

    You may see much of this young adult story coming, but Warcross is an action-packed quest to right wrongs You may be able to see much of this one coming, but the action-packed fight for justice coupled with really enjoyed; the sequel is Steelstriker, which I haven't yet read) and her stand-alone historical fiction story with elements of science fiction, The Kingdom of Back.

  • Review of Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein

    engrossing gymnastics details that made the setting come to life, Head Over Heels was the engrossing, light fiction details that made the setting come to life, Head Over Heels was, as I'd hoped, the engrossing, light fiction I mentioned this book (along with the epic science fiction/fantasy To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and a young adult historical fiction story set during the Gold Rush, How Much of These Hills Is Gold) in the Greedy

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads

    In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction 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 about strong women making a difference, but I admit that I was curious about how even a historical fiction

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

    Appalachian-set novel Betty with my book club, Xiran Jay Zhao's young adult blend of Chinese history and science fiction first read of 2022. 02 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao Xiran Jay Zhao blends Chinese folklore with science fiction robots and aliens in this feminist young adult action story that's fascinating me so far.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/3/20 Edition

    I actually love a nice long science fiction tale to dive into, and this is the first adult title from There's more to Head over Heels, but I think this is going to be the engrossing, light fiction book I dictated another interesting mix of books for my current reading life with a fantasy title, a lighter fiction I feel like mysteries, light fiction, memoirs, and fantasy are working well for me--plus historical fiction

  • Review of A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

    This is introspective literary fiction in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes the romantic A Passage North is introspective literary fiction in which Krishan examines his young life, analyzes

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/11/24 Edition

    Morris's historical fiction novel, set in 11th century Scotland with events surrounding the imagined

  • Review of The Project by Courtney Summers

    Summers's young adult fiction begins with a fascinating premise--sisters are torn apart by tragedy and This book reminded me somewhat of Chelsea Bieker's God Shot, another fictional book about a cult--and

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/24/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Last Green Valley, World War II-set historical fiction by Mark Sullivan built this historical fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/1/21 Edition

    I'm listening to Stanley Tucci's memoir Taste: My Life Through Food; I'm reading Alex White's science fiction and The Tucci Table. 02 A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe by Alex White In Alex White's science fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/3/21 Edition

    about a famous female Russian spy during the Cold War; and I'm reading The Invisible Woman, historical fiction year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books that Read Like Fiction If you love Carrie Fisher, you might also like A Star is Bored, a fictionalized celebrity-focused book poignant, and I loved it. 03 The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck The Invisible Woman is a historical fiction

  • My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books

    might also like some of the books on the other Greedy Reading Lists I posted in 2020: Six Historical 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 title was listed in Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year. This title was listed in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year.

  • Review of Wingwalkers by Taylor Brown

    In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I wonderful), and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction

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