Marske's quirky, funny, richly imagined magical world, complex character-building, relationship exploration, and storytelling continues...

Lisa See offers a vivid peek at the lives of women in 15th century China, complete with a fascinating female-doctor element that kept me...

My very favorite reads of 2023! I post my favorite reads each month, and I was having such a great reading run, in late spring I posted...

My very favorite Bossy December reads! I hope every Bossy reader who celebrates had a wonderful Christmas this week! I scheduled a little...

I liked Divine Rivals and the gutsy characters facing wartime struggles and challenges, but I was surprised that the book's fantasy...

The first in the Legends & Lattes series is a cozy fantasy story about new beginnings, the transformative power of coffee, and...

In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional growth, potentially...

ICYMI: In Naomi Alderman's novel The Power, teenage girls develop unimaginable powers, including the ability to inflict harm. This resets...

The Madstone begins as an against-the-odds attempt to evade evil and develops into a beautiful heartbreaker of a story about duty,...

Spears's slim memoir offers vulnerability, the shocking details of her now-infamous 13-year conservatorship, self-reflection, and her...

My very favorite Bossy November reads! Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a wonderful story about a grumpy...

Mason's novel isn't simply a historical fiction story linked through timelines. The book builds to be an often-sinister, Gothic-feeling...

This darkly funny story made me cringe while staying riveted by the main protagonist's deeply faulted reasoning, criminal actions, and...

Sara Donati's historical fiction includes nods to Outlander and The Last of the Mohicans, considers the trials and adventures of a...

ICYMI: Morton masterfully weaves together timelines, threads of family history, and long-held secrets now revealed, while her main...

Winkler is candid, charming, self-deprecating, and delighted by life and his experiences. I loved listening to him read the audiobook of...

June struggles with the complicated implications of her family's curse of hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the...

Starling House is another wonderful, dark, twisty story from Alix E. Harrow, with imperfect characters, a noble, messy quest, layers of...

This is another whodunit winner from Wendy Walker: a character-driven mystery with a neurodivergent main protagonist, small-town...

More book club love! My book club has been meeting for 17 years; we're all from a moms' group we joined when our kids were tiny and I'm...