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and I was having such a great reading run, in late spring I posted Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year But I had such a great reading run for the rest of the year, none of the books from that list made it What were some of your favorite reads of the year? Let's do some Bossy book talking! relationships that shaped her during her college years. irritating to the rest of my book club years ago, but I couldn't help my love.

Last year, in McManus's great young adult mystery One of Us Is Lying, the Bayview Four cut through the This year, gossip problems and power plays are back, in the form of forced Truth or Dare. McManus offers a little of everything in a fantastic mix of teamwork, a health scare, sibling tensions

If you've read any of the books mentioned here, I'd love to hear what you think! Meanwhile Harper explores loyalty, procedural details related to the past and near past, beginnings and terms with it, while Abby is an island local whose husband has hidden something significant, and she fears the adults in Eli's life (and the terrible consequences he suffers because of them), he emerges as a fantastic I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year.

ring; and I'm listening to a suspenseful mystery about a missing young woman who reappears after two years But a powerful woman is resented and feared, and threatening accusations begin to fly regarding how Alice 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,

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In the seven years since, Belle's mother has reinvented herself as a society woman and has remarried, Belle is fearful--particularly for her mother's sake--that her father's true origins may be uncovered I'd love to hear your thoughts about this book!

Children exposed to lead in utero or during their first years of life might display a dizzying array where Gary Ridgway (the Green River Killer) lived, and where Charles Manson was imprisoned for five years takes time for significant asides, giving the book somewhat of a jumpy feel--not inappropriate to the fear-inducing She repeatedly checks in on years of multiple violent vehicular deaths due to a negligently designed that she had killed him when she had the chance, before he inflicted more cruelties and abuse in later years

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? tongue, and she feels like the poor treatment her husband shows her may be deserved, as after eight years When an important telegram arrives, they fear the worst. housekeeping, but she doesn't tell Arthur that she's been dreaming of the decrepit, rambling house for years

I resisted reading this young adult fantasy for a long while.

Historical fiction, light fiction, and fantasy/science fiction is the wacky concurrent combo working

I really liked this story and I still think about this book, years after reading it. still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years The Dragon keeps them safe from the Wood, but at a high price: each year he demands one young woman from She is taken for ten years to serve him. For the purposes of this list, I focused on books with fantastical elements; clear good-and-evil conflicts

(Last year's cookbook gift picks can be found here.) 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 Ly The National Parks Cookbook was actually published in late fall 2022 but wasn't on my radar last year , and I couldn't resist including it for the first time in this year's list--if only for my friend Sally

something of a recluse in her quiet seaside Maine town ever since her husband's death in a car crash a year But having a listening ear in Dean, who is completely separate from Evvie's "before" life, means she I loved this fantastic memoir! Wood's memoir is heartwarming and funny and tragic and vivid. the cold and by the mentions of the Kennebec River flowing through the town of Hallowell (which is near All  of the upheaval seems connected to an operation from years earlier, "Malta"--and Maggie's perceived

But I'm still excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in

Nor did I love the house's voice, or the house as a whimsical, yearning character (with somewhat unclear More from Kate Quinn Kate Quinn is the author of the fantastic titles The Diamond Eye , The Huntress

Historical Fiction Favorites These were just a few of my favorite historical fiction reads during the first year But I could make ten lists of my historical fiction loves from over the years (and I just might)! societal expectations for women, great adventure, strong female loyalty and friendship, love, and lots of fantastic in 1924 South Carolina were wonderful, and I still think about this book although I read it almost a year ago (technically, at the end of last year).

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

faulted, interconnected characters making their way through joys and tragedies over the course of a year complex, faulted characters as they make their way in northern Maine over the course of a difficult year I'd love to hear your thoughts about this book!

my summer post on the topic, here are my favorite reads from the first half of the year! My year-end list of 2021 favorites is coming soon! 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

What a fantastic Bossy reading month! If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while After twists and turns, momentous changes, and several years, Elizabeth is a single mother who becomes

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

Damoff's novel about family generations, patterns, and the fascinating, messy nature of life, The Bright Years 01 The Bright Years by Sarah Damoff Sarah Damoff's novel begins with a young couple, both reeling from The Bright Years follows multiple generations through messy phases of life--ups and downs, and the many days, months, and years that built upon both great joy and intense sadness. I received a prepublication edition of The Bright Years , which was published last spring, courtesy of

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

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

This slim book consists of the charming twenty-year correspondence between a hotheaded, opinionated New wartime struggles of British citizens such as the booksellers and their loved ones, and in comparison we hear

If you've read any of these, I'd love to hear what you think! established of Alzheimer's disease, he considers the cases of those he has known who suffered for many years Jaouad spent four years constantly fearing for her life; undergoing various procedures; living with intense She emerged from spending years with her head down, fighting to survive, to realize that she needed to Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

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

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

In One Last Stop, twenty-three-year-old August keeps to herself--she's kind of cynical, she doesn't have The book revels in wonderful LGBTQ love and tons of sexiness; fantastic New York-centric details; and

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

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!

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

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

I still think about this book from time to time, and I read it years ago. Linnea Hartsuyker is the first in a completed trilogy of the same name that links historical fiction and fantasy

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

I was most intrigued hearing about Roy's relationships, her evolution as an artist, and her development This activism somewhat mirrors her mother's years-long, public fight for women's rights in India against

Jackson's sequel to the young adult mystery The Good Girl's Guide to Murder, which again features the fantastic Cue the ball gowns, thousands of years of customs and traditions to learn, tricky rivalries and jealousies answers but many fascinating gray areas to consider. 03 Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson Yay, the fantastic His twenty-four-year-old brother Jamie is missing, the police aren't responding with any urgency, and

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

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

Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown Austin Channing Brown's book is slim (185 pages), but I'm wearing She is wise, thoughtful, frustrated, and fascinating. 03 The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

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

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

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

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

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