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The best-friendships are fantastic. I think Emma's best friend Maddy probably needs her own book (a la Christina Lauren's fantastic True

indies that keep us swimming in thoughtful book recommendations and excellent customer service all year They have a fantastic selection of titles, staff members offer spot-on recommendations (and sparkling most future Hall of Famers competing in any season, with four superstars at the center of this golden year of Why We Love Baseball, The Baseball 100, Paterno, and The Secret of Golf. 03 Surviving to Drive: A Year

tackling another; striving to hold on to culture while navigating unfamiliar pitfalls; and facing the fears Pachinko is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese by criminals' financially ruinous scams against undocumented workers; the family members experience years of constant fears of deportation; and then they must face the shocking potential reality of deportation immigrants and a reality that is more brutal and uncertain than the children and their parents may have feared

I was particularly intrigued by the fits and starts of Morgan's younger years, her struggles to find I love to hear people's stories, and I found all of this endearing. This is a relatively short memoir, and if you're already a fan of Leanne Morgan's, you'll likely enjoy hearing

Girls, Gilbert writes about a young woman's coming of age in 1940s New York City and traces the later years It's not entirely clear why the recipient of the letter would want to hear the full details of Vivian's (Actually, I listened to this as an audiobook, and the narrator Blair Brown was fantastic.)

01 Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1) by Gail Carriger Fourteen-year-old Sophronia Temminnick And Princess Gisela of the Alpenwald, a dear friend of Alice's, goes missing just after Veronica shares One complication: when Sydney worked the crime beat as a journalist years ago, she explored a young girl's

Laura Amy Schlitz's book The Hired Girl is fantastic young adult historical fiction written in diary It's 1911, and fourteen-year-old Joan's life is far from the romantic, sweeping novels she loses herself When she runs away to the big city of Baltimore, she presents herself as an eighteen-year-old named Janet

Chelsey Calhoun is shocked by the reappearance of Ellie Black, a young girl who's been missing for two years Chelsey is especially invested in the case because her own sister Lydia went missing years earlier--before I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

If I figured anything out in these last six years, it is this: human beings are unknowable. I could become the thing I'd always feared, and then I might never be afraid of anything again. In some worlds, Cara recognizes common characteristics in those she loves or fears; she sometimes barely If you like books with a postapocalyptic feel, check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

01 Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine The Civil War is looming, and Junie is a sixteen-year-old who has spent Nineteen-year-old Jakob Novis is engaged in top-secret work alongside other bright minds, trying to crack evades her grandmother's attempts to send her from England to the United States to avoid the Nazis' nearing died long ago, and Lizzie just couldn't stand to leave the last country where they saw their mother a year

She has struggled to stay safe in foster homes and has existed with significant uncertainty for many years This added to my feeling that the extreme emotional turmoil Louisa experiences as she hears the years-old

What does it matter, who wears the crown, if they will not change any of this for us?" 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 Reads of Summer  the year I read it

My book club will be discussing this heartwarming novel next year. I'd love to hear what you think of this book!

Thing, click here. 03 A Song for the Road by Kathleen Basi Miriam lost her husband and teenage twins a year Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave In The Last Thing He Told Me, Hannah has just celebrated her one-year information; and the only lawyer Hannah knows to turn to for help is her ex-fiancé, who she left at the altar years McManus Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through This year, gossip problems and power plays are back, in the form of forced Truth or Dare.

tongue, and she feels like the poor treatment her husband shows her may be deserved, as after eight years assassinated in public show of retaliation for their crimes, Emi's mother Kristina goes missing, and Emi fears This near-future timeline alternates with a past-timeline account of the brutal experiences of Larch

01 The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley In a world of the near future, a young woman is one of many Willingham Margot is a freshman in college still reeling from the loss of her best friend, who died a year She's spent her first year at school holing up and studying, maintaining a quiet life. By the time their sophomore year is half over, one of the fraternity boys from next door is dead, Lucy All the Dangerous Things and A Flicker in the Dark. 03 Sleeping Giants by Rene Denfeld Almost thirty years

Kate Quinn is also the author of the fantastic titles The Rose Code , The Diamond Eye , and The Alice His wife Elisabeth fears his involvement in the resistance that plans to assassinate Hitler. into the gruff but hopeful mindset of a young woman forced to grow up too quickly--a woman who for years

Reading Now I'm listening to The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher's memoir focused on the early Star Wars years 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 I love listening to her fantastically raspy voice as she reads her memoir in audiobook form, and I'd

It features the fantastic characters from book one, and the plot picks up with a new version of the fight technology in general. 02 A Song for the Road by Kathleen Basi Miriam lost her husband and teenage twins a year I admit I Bossily feared that painfully sentimental tones might creep in, but in cases like this I love

the story, Sager does a good job of providing her with a stubborn grip on what she sees as truth over fantasy protective, sometimes put-upon wife, mother , and teacher (although we never see her head to work or hear

In the nine essays and short stories that make up Festival Days, the fantastic Jo Ann Beard explores It meanders as Beard is unmoored after heartbreak and betrayal, and her dear friend is dying. distract and inspire or comfort—and the disrupted rhythm and skipping around seems to reflect her many fears

heroines and missing-person plots, you might also like Before She Disappeared, which I thought was a fantastic Phillips Julia Phillips's interconnected stories follow in chapters that take place each month for a year I also listed Disappearing Earth in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year. With the passing of the years, however, those memories become distant and malleable, and we shape them Ivey's fantastical elements are inspired by Native American folklore and stories, and they work well

Cue the ball gowns, thousands of years of customs and traditions to try to learn, introductions to tricky is listed as Tokyo Ever After #1, with the second book in the series, Tokyo Dreaming, expected next year For other great young adult books, you might try the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic

Yeah, they talked. but I wanted it too badly and the child was like a cat, solidly rejecting my overzealous interest for years Games series) offers a unique setting while doing something fascinating: turning the most detested and feared

These great books are listed in the order I read them last year and not in order of preference, because with Black-and-White Covers, which is apparently the look of most of the nonfiction I read during the year but the list of books is the same) under the title "Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year This book was published in 2014, but I finally read it this year and am so very glad. I had requested this book from the library last year and when it was available weeks or months later,

It's that time of year: it seems everyone has an opinion about the year's best books and their personal Haylah is an excellent friend, she's patient with her incredibly frustrating four-year-old brother, and Elliott offers a fantastic, boy-crazy, British story about missteps, facing change, accepting the past It's June 1954, and eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson has just served fifteen months on a juvenile work Emmett's planning to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head west to start a new life.

demonstrates the hubris of the uber-wealthy upper classes in the environmentally devastated world of the near more dystopian stories, check out Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Fantastic

The weekend we got engaged in New York City, we sat near Paul and Joanne at Sam Shepherd's play True Anyhoo, Paul was wearing the ugliest sweater with abstract stripes across it, and Barbara Walters came to work into this review the not-quite-anecdote of sitting two rows behind Paul Newman over twenty years promise of a future friendship between us that was born from our proximity in that theatre lo those many years Paul allowed his best friend to interview him over a period of years--the recordings that, along with

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! is shipwrecked off the coast of Australia, and Gil, an eccentric Australian boy living three hundred years I was brought to tears at the end. is a professor and podcaster, and she has left firmly in the past the events of her boarding school years When he meets driven, plan-focused Julia in his freshman year of college, she pulls him into her high-spirited

I think you should know that going in, because it’s not the only fantastic thing, but it is one of the fantastic things in Elan Mastai's All Our Wrong Todays. Click here for my full review of Life After Life. 05 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle Dannie is on the path to achieving her five-year goals in spectacularly efficient fashion. Serle's In Five Years totally hit the spot for me, and it also wasn’t exactly what I expected.

positive company for Garrett, who tends to be morose--particularly after the tragic death of their dear friend years earlier. Finally, the story focuses on the fits and starts of a version of complicated forgiveness after years

My book club has been meeting for 17 years; we're all from a moms' group we joined when our kids were These are my favorite book club reads from the past year. book club reads from the past, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Book Club Books I Loved Last Year Have you had any favorite book club reads this year? to marry the cult's leader when she was thirteen and worked as secretary for "The Family" for many years

the same end in this life, after all, and those brave enough to commit their feelings, experiences, fears Musicians' Memoirs that Sing Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite Memoir Reads Last Year Her recollections include a childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, an encounter with a The construct of tracing near-death experiences to tell the story of her life didn’t feel forced at all

--and that Lucy would unquestioningly adhere to it for years. are lovingly dedicated to each other, but their sobbing, dramatic dependence on each other, and long, tear-filled

My very favorite reads so far this year! Great Circle is my favorite book of the year so far! Duchess is a thirteen-year-old girl trying to keep her family together. Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read it's a temporary break or permanent--yet she is able to sit within the feeling that Connell and their years

“You need a plan,” she hears—or seems to hear—her old nurse, Sofia, say, from a place near her elbow. Wearing an enormous gold dress meant for her now-deceased sister, Lucrezia marries a stranger, immediately facing a swirl of emotions, fears, and pressures.

Carr's The Alienist , a suspenseful novel about the evolution of forensic science that I adored reading years I'd love to hear your Bossy thoughts about this book!

terrorized boys for over a century, shares a tale of racial injustice, abuse and horrors, terrible fear The Nickel Academy is based on a real-life reform school that, horrifyingly, abused boys for 111 years

01 Head Over Heels by Hannah Orenstein Nineteen-year-old Avery Abrams was set to be the next big gymnastics For the next few years she dabbled in college, she partied, she drifted, she dated a professional football The premise of Dear Emmie Blue made me wonder if the story would feel too far-fetched. For my full review, please see Dear Emmie Blue. She decides that she's in--for a fantastic wardrobe, incredibly awkward moments, scripted romance, and

Daisy Jones & the Six  explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop

McCracken is a fantastic writer who highlights odd, strangely beautiful elements in small moments. Ways Is the Only Way I Want It by Maile Meloy His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years here is, as always, exquisite, and within these 14 stories, he turns his attention to characters who yearn

Bossy Favorites of 2025 So Far I love looking back on my reads of the year to date and taking stock of These are six of my most-loved titles from the first half of this year. As Marguerite enters into her early teens, she begins to fear that her cousin views her as a creepy match During the annual, chaotic community fair preceding this holidays, which this year is a rainy business In one timeline, an abused wife makes a stand for a whimsical name suggested by her daughter Maia, Bear

If you've read any of these books, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? finding the strength to go on despite few options; and the surprise of new determination and hope after years This made it bearable to read Sharratt's account of Hildegard's claustrophobic, dark years behind a dank There's relatively little page time spent on the later years of Hildegard's life at the abbey.

My very favorite reads this year! , and now that 2021 is almost over, it's time to share the best books I've read during the calendar year In no particular order, here are my absolute favorite reads of the year. Duchess is a thirteen-year-old girl trying to keep her family together. Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read

tackling another; striving to hold on to culture while navigating unfamiliar pitfalls; and facing the fears Pachinko is a sweeping generational story of hardship, sacrifice, and fifty years of Korean-Japanese by criminals' financially ruinous scams against undocumented workers; the family members experience years of constant fears of deportation; and then they must face the shocking potential reality of deportation immigrants and a reality that is more brutal and uncertain than the children and their parents may have feared

Rule of Wolves is the second and final book in Bardugo's young adult fantasy King of Scars duology.

Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into and Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year who is half-Korean, half-Japanese, and who lived under oppressive totalitarian rule for thirty-six years I first saw Busy Philipps acting on my beloved Dawson's Creek many years ago, and since then, I've remained a Little, Philipps conversationally takes us through her youth in Scottsdale, Arizona, her awkward years Paul delves fully into her meandering post-college years--during which Bob provides more structure in

the same end in this life, after all, and those brave enough to commit their feelings, experiences, fears Greedy Reading Lists: Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into and Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year (last year). Her recollections include a childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, an encounter with a The construct of tracing near-death experiences to tell the story of her life didn’t feel forced at all

More Witchy Book Love It's the perfect time of year to read a spooky book full of magic and feisty witches In book two, El continues to be a fantastically grumpy, powerful, whip-smart, socially awkward, straightforward The tone frequently felt geared toward young readers to me, and I had no trouble predicting the twist

But her general relief turns to fear when she learns that her husband, serving out of harm's way on a these set the stage of time and place and establish some of the outside influences on our characters as years pacing (appropriately, but sometimes painfully) flags for a time as our protagonists spend months and years