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familial power structures are wonderful, and the way O'Farrell imagines Agnes as wife of John (the fictionalized

of the month: Hank Green's second book in his quirky, lovely, character-driven, big-hearted science fiction of essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History

I'm alternating between a fictionalized celebrity story with heart; a young adult mystery with a nerdy

I wondered if this would be a sort of young adult fiction version of the Serial podcast, and it IS, in

This section was my favorite part of the book. Stevens's fictional Cold Creek Highway setting is based on the real-life "Highway of Tears" in British

Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction through which bubbles of hope emerge.

A faction of my book club attends (virtually, the past couple of years) our local Library Foundation's

Harrow, with imperfect characters, a noble, messy quest, layers of history, and a captivating end.

I spend most of the year focusing on fiction titles, with a healthy dose of memoirs and some nonfiction

adored the vivid details Randall offered about everyday life during different eras, but the fifty-two sections Through the somewhat fictionalized voice of Ziggy, a real-life key player in the storied Detroit neighborhood of Black Bottom, Randall offers short sections about fifty-two mostly real-life characters who influenced The book is structured as many sections of Ziggy's storytelling, so some of the meandering felt appropriate relatively short chapters, which necessitates hustling along from story to story, but even within each section

I'm not sure how much she departed from facts into fiction, and I'd be curious to know more about that

The first section of Lockwood's story about an internet darling is absurd, frivolous, vulgar, irritating , and frequently disturbing; the second section shocked me with its meaningful and poignant examinations No One Is Talking about This is fiction from Patricia Lockwood, the author of the memoir Priestdaddy. This section of the book is presented in very short snippets that are often comments, jokes, questions poetic view of the world is gloriously showcased in this section.

is desperate to find her missing son--even if it means facing the painful truth of her own traumatic history

strange place, by a river, horribly bruised and in pain--with no memory of his own name, his job, or his history

conflicts and political upheaval won't touch them out in the wild, and they figure that the charged friction

I learned about Deaf history, culture, and the politics that have disrupted and damaged those in the

Carefully researched and documented, with twists and turns that feel so outlandish as to seem like fiction

Sometimes in order to delve into a light fiction book I find that I have to suspend my disbelief about

and a web of lies that may get them both killed; and Jennifer McMahon's dive into a family's haunting history But disaster strikes, and Jax finds herself trying to unravel the twisted, complicated history of her family and its land--a history Lexie was researching and had become haunted by.

small-town Irish community's everyday and extraordinary events in this poignant, gorgeous literary fiction

charge toward change, but typically teenage: to escape into role-playing video games and write fan fiction

middle, but Wells provides a fantastically unique point of view, and this series is perfect science-fiction else) strengthened loyalties, there is more of Wells's fantastically understated robot banter, there's action

Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency...

teammates, and the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, a televised program at the heart of CAPE, or Criminal Action Adjei-Brenyah offers glimpses of characters' histories and their lives before the tragedies that led

Egyptian artifacts, revelations about Alexia's mysterious father (and about her husband's centuries of history

baby Jessica" and the well), the third and final book in a captivating fantasy trilogy, and a lighter fiction

When William's painful history resurfaces, it shakes the entire family with its repercussions.

and the intricacies of nations' relationships and airborne dragon battles within the books' alternate history

sports shape our culture's thinking, dreams, notions of success, and more. 02 Why We Love Football: A History iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history

audiobook but when it came up, I didn’t remember at first what the book was about; the beginning reads like fiction

fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate selves in this science fiction

by William Faulkner‘s story The Old Man and is set at the beginning of the worst flood in American history

The trick occurs early (also, one major aspect of the true situation directly echoes a fictional setup

If you like fiction about bands and music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rocking

As Emily digs into the villa's complicated and dark history and delves into the past, the growing tensions

Blake Crouch writes character-driven science fiction that I love (Dark Matter is another of his that I adore a character-driven science-fiction tale. Also, time travel! This totally hit the spot.

those who have struggled to America, imagining their salvation; and explores the binds of family and history

Despite their history, her breathless reactions to Wes didn't feel built upon factors I could believe

The janitor is a cultural outsider with a complicated history, and what he lacks in training he makes

Sometimes I find that I have to suspend my disbelief about human behavior in order to delve into a light fiction

But disaster strikes, and Jax finds herself trying to unravel the twisted, complicated history of her family and its land--a history Lexie had been researching and had become obsessed by.

“We are, on this earth, so incredibly small, in the history of time, in the crowd of the world, we are

faulted, privileged few are terrifying in their elaborate, exclusive plans, which exclude all but a fraction

wishing for more exploration into the human condition as contrasted with the carefully scripted robot functioning

essential to the productive understanding of the past and current racial situation, including a basic history person of color (and, more importantly, listening without defensiveness), how "the antidote to guilt is action reading this or other books on race and anti-racism that you recommend for a better understanding of history So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo is wonderfully actionable, and Raising White Kids: Bringing

Poet Maggie Smith's memoir traces the end of her marriage, weaving in the history and the future while The book is made up of many short sections, and much of Smith's exploration is focused on the way in

moment with some implausible early details in Holidaze, which I sometimes struggle with in lighter fiction

But issues of race and their inextricable involvement in our nation's history are really the bedrock

involving unapologetic body positivity, and I hope Bea doesn't fall into the somewhat common light fiction

In Rachel Hawkins's new mystery The Wife Upstairs, each of the main players and their histories aren't But each of these characters turned out to be hiding elements of their histories that put into context