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  • Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith

    The mystery's investigative work involves the somewhat tedious examination of online messages, and the destructive callousness and powerful mob mentality that can persist online in real life as well as in the mystery There's an extremely disturbing scene as a climax to the mystery. But the building of the mystery is satisfying, and having spent five prior books with the main characters

  • Review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers

    If you're interested in books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/25 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming mystery set in glamorous Capri by Katy Hays, Saltwater year, the wealthy, powerful Lingate family returns to Capri as thought to quash rumors about Sarah's mysterious

  • Review of What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline

    Scottoline's suspenseful mystery offers surprising depth in exploring grief while the main protagonist In Lisa Scottoline's recent suspenseful mystery What Happened to the Bennetts, Jason Bennett is a suburban Her treatment of this delicate issue within a solid, suspenseful mystery cemented my interest in reading The mystery within What Happened to the Bennetts is twisty without being manipulative, and the denouement Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.

  • Review of The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

    You, One Plus One, The Girl You Left Behind, The Ship of Brides (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/25/24 Edition

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Books about Brave Female Spies. 03 Finding

  • Review of In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer

    I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/9/23 Edition

    of Night, and One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music

    Six more that made my honorable mention list: Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! Women Made Music is pulled from the NPR series Turning the Tables and includes interviews, archive materials

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

    Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd The Final Act of Juliette Lloyd  is a historical fiction art-focused mystery wife writing team of Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos) offers a gorgeously wrought historical fiction mystery The mysterious appearance of what seems to be a Juliette Willoughby original, followed by a tragic death , while an unorthodox, brilliant investigator and her stalwart new assistant work to solve a murder mystery Ana is Sherlock Holmes-esque in that she holds many of the answers to the mysteries that abound--but

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/15/23 Edition

    Divya is also the author of Machinehood, a book I listed on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fantastic

  • Review of Uprooted by Naomi Novik

    I mentioned Uprooted (and Novik's Spinning Silver) in the Greedy Reading List Six Magical Fairy Tales

  • Review of Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono

    about the making of their music and their lives, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

    For more World War II stories, check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about

  • Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read

    I loved, Elizabeth Hardinger's All the Forgivenesses, which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

    Everyone assumes she killed Savvy, and Lucy can't escape the suspicions and resentment surrounding the mysterious she swore she'd never do: return to her hometown and the scene of Savvy's murder to try to solve the mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/21/24 Edition

    Wingwalkers, The Gods of Howl Mountain, Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris

    Despite some implausible details, the Atlanta-set mystery is a fast-paced read. Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, it seemed like satisfaction, but there are some grave casualties in the world of our main protagonist in this Atlanta-set mystery

  • Review of Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

    I mentioned Station Eleven in the Greedy Reading List Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

  • Review of The People We Keep by Allison Larkin

    challenges and realizing their fortitude, you might also like the standout books on the Greedy Reading List Six For more books about songwriting and making music, check out Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/28/21 Edition

    Taylor Jenkins Reid is the author of Daisy Jones & the Six, a book I included in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music. 03 Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens Chevy Stevens's Dark Roads

  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out. an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/8/24 Edition

    Horton's Glorious Revenge, Lizzie Pook's upcoming (January 16) novel of Victorian England and Arctic mystery Then a mysterious stranger arrives--seemingly drawn by her wavering between life and death--and promises

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/11/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Anatomy: A Love Story, a gothic young adult historical fiction mystery on saying goodbye and finding new hope; and Nightwatch on the Hinterlands, the first science fiction mystery Anatomy: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz In Anatomy: A Love Story, Dana Schwartz's young adult gothic mystery Eason's science fiction mystery, a templar, Iari, and a spy, Gaer, band together to solve the mystery

  • Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy

    respectable citizen, and a disgraced police officer are intertwined through connections to a series of mysterious an enigmatic note written in a copy of the novel, a seeming suicide, a disappeared body, and other mysterious unexplained behavior, who seem untrustworthy and whose accounts feel unreliable, and in a grim, twisted, mysterious

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/5/23 Edition

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List, Six

  • Review of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

    One Day in December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

    If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason

    ICYMI: Daniel Mason's atmospheric, mysterious, languorous story is of a shy piano tuner's trip to Burma

  • Review of The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

    You might also be interested in the books on one of my earliest Greedy Reading Lists on the site, Six

  • Review of We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

    Inside, the mysterious Nakagyō Kokoro Clinic for the Soul prescribes medicine to those looking for support

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/1/23 Edition

    this book is of interest to you, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

    Patrick Radden Keefe is a master of compelling, important nonfiction. His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the

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

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List, Six The Celebrants centers around college friends who made a pact after Alec, one of the original six, died intrigued by books about facing mortality, you might be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Circe by Madeline Miller

    I mentioned Circe in the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You, and I recently

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

    of essays about joy and wonder; The Survivors, Jane Harper's newest Australia-set, character-driven mystery Her mysteries are set in Australia, and she makes me care about her characters while keeping me guessing When a fresh tragedy occurs, it brings the pain and terrible mystery of years past swirling back to wreak also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading List Six incredible genetic cloning advancements--but people have noticed that her husband has recently been mysteriously

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/17/23 Edition

    Now they've been engaged for six years, they're so in love, and they've been dating long-distance while

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/14/22 Edition

    Now I'm reading Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead, the second in Elle Cosimano's playful Finlay Donovan mystery series; I'm reading Quantum Girl Theory, a recent gothic mystery about a finder of missing girls from Various misunderstandings during a publishing meeting about Finlay's upcoming mystery novel result in her receipt of a mysterious note implying that Finlay is involved in something sinister--and offering Finlay Donovan Is Killing It. 02 Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan In Erin Kate Ryan's recent gothic mystery

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two new novels from favorite authors who each include If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs

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

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Lisa Gardner's newest Frankie Elkin missing-person mystery, Still Our Yesterdays; and I'm listening to Kirsten Bakis's gothic novel set on a cold, remote island with mysterious

  • Shhh! Holiday Cookbook Gift Ideas

    Here are the six cookbooks that I'm most interested in giving as gifts these holidays. Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh!

  • Review of One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin #2) by Lisa Gardner

    The heart of the mystery the emotionally tortured Frankie uncovers in the wilds of Wyoming in One Step Lisa Gardner's recent mystery One Step Too Far is the second in her Frankie Elkin series (the first was I love a character-driven mystery but haven't read any of Lisa Gardner's other series. author of Before She Disappeared, the first in the Frankie Elkin series, as well as multiple other mystery

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

    But Amanda brings them reading materials, apples for treasured pies, and some joyful company, and a deep full review of Light to the Hills . 05 Orbital by Samantha Harvey The luminous novel Orbital tracks six Samantha Harvey's astronaut-focused novel Orbital  traces a single day in the lives of six astronauts

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/2/23 Edition

    One Day in December and The Two Lives of Lydia Byrd, a book that appeared on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

    If you're interested in books that explore mortality, you might want to check out Six Powerful Memoirs

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 5/29/23 Edition

    His newest novel centers around college friends who made a pact after one of the six died before graduation

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/21 Edition

    powerful than any of her classmates realize--fears she might accidentally take him out before she can master also wrote the fantastic Spinning Silver and Uprooted, both of which appear on the Greedy Reading List Six the final book in Black's Folk of the Air trilogy (I mentioned the series in the Greedy Reading List Six

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

    When Nessa, Jo, and Harriet work together and use their newfound abilities to try to solve the mystery summarize so far, but in this science fiction novel, Mandel plays with time and time travel, as well as mysteries almost identical personal experience, and a detective from the future's Night City, who investigates the mysterious Then he receives a mysterious note: "Still looking for your friend? I know where she is."

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

    of Black's The Queen of Nothing; I mentioned the Folk of the Air trilogy in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/29/24 Edition

    Henry Thornton is a railroad magnate and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary Five years later, the crown reappears--spurring more mystery and questions than answers.

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