In this mix of fictional and fascinating historical elements, Brown crafts a character-driven story of the shocking, widespread, deadly...

Flawed main characters Jack and Elizabeth try to find their way back to an emotional connection in this literary fiction work. Wellness...

Just for the Summer is another Jimenez story with wonderful banter and a romantic connection that's anchored in and shaped by incredibly...

Crosley's memoir traces a treasured friendship and the gutting loss of that dear friend. She's vulnerable enough to allow the reader in...

Sarah Grunder Ruiz serves up an irresistible rom-com with great banter and with interesting and difficult, complex issues of loss, grief,...

Lynn Painter delivers funny, charming banter and an opposites-attract tension in this heartwarming rom-com about divorce, trust, blended...

Quinn and Chang share an adventure- and danger-laden story of women artists, women of color, and women of various social classes in San...

ICYMI: A death-row inmate's desperate need for escapism leads to an elaborate world of magical thinking and fantastical scenes in this...

I was taken with the main characters of the past storyline here: a young boy at a children's home and his unlikely best friend. When his...

My very favorite Bossy reads so far this year! My Greedy Reading Lists are usually made up of six books, but I've had a wonderful start...

This gorgeously written set of fifty-two love letters to nature encourage reflection and urge the reader to pause to honor even the less...

Baby X explores the complex issues around an imagined future with genetically chosen embryos; Peikoff also digs into origin stories and...

Lisa Jewell's haunting psychological thriller centers around birthday twins, an unreliable narrator, disparate lifestyles, and dark...

Grodstein tells a poignant, powerful story of the Warsaw Ghetto--of making a life within its prison walls and of finding resistance and...

​Frankel's story of a nontraditional, loving, zany family flips traditional views of unplanned, young pregnancy through the view of a...

Six Great Bossy Fantasy Reads I knew I was reading some gooood science fiction and fantasy, but didn't realize I'd read and loved enough...

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads If you want more favorite-mystery lists, check out round 1 of last year's Bossy favorites. And...

Emily Habeck's debut novel offers an unusual premise in which one member of a newlywed couple begins transforming into a great white...

Katherine Arden, author of the captivating Winternight trilogy, here shares a mysterious, haunting historical fiction story with a...

My very favorite Bossy March reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. If you've read any of these titles, I'd...