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

    I hereby present to you historical fiction, literary fiction, romance, fantasy, and science fiction. fiction art-focused mystery told in two timelines. fiction mystery in two timelines. This was immensely satisfying historical fiction. In Robert Jackson Bennett's novel, The Tainted Cup , he blends a rich, historical fiction-feeling story

  • Review of North Woods by Daniel Mason

    Mason's novel isn't simply a historical fiction story linked through timelines. But North Woods isn't a charming historical fiction novel.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/10/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Goddess of Warsaw, Lisa Barr's dual-timeline historical fiction 01 The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr In Lisa Barr's newest historical fiction, The Goddess of Warsaw

  • Review of Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) by Jacqueline Winspear

    truth in the aftermath of World War I in this irresistible first installment of Winspear's 18-book historical fiction series. Check out this Greedy Reading List for Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

  • Review of Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson

    Nellie Coker is fresh out of jail and ready to jump back into the action, masterminding moves to increase Atkinson is also the author of Case Histories, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, Life After Life, Human If you like historical fiction mysteries, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You.

  • Review of A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella L. Bird

    is down your alley, you might also be interested in the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American

  • Review of The Women by Kristin Hannah

    is conflated with romance-novel elements that keep things moving but frequently pulled me out of the historical fiction story I loved. The excellent historical fiction here is conflated with romance-novel-worthy storylines and dialogue

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/9/24 Edition

    Makepeace spy mystery, The Trap ; I'm listening to Miss Morgan's Book Brigade , Janet Skeslien Charles's historical fiction in two timelines, focused on a World War I-era NYPL librarian who makes waves in France; and Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles I love a book about scrappy librarians , and Janet Skeslien Charles's historical fiction novel Miss Morgan's Book Brigade takes that setup farther into favorable Bossy territory, by seen in France: children's libraries, where kids in war-torn communities can dream, lose themselves in fictional

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/28/23 Edition

    reading Kate Morton's dual-timeline mystery, Homecoming; and I'm reading Ashley Poston's newest light fiction You might also be interested in the novels on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Books Set in the American West. 02 Homecoming Ashley Poston's newest romantic fiction is centered around Clementine, a harried book publicist who falls

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/10/22 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Fire and the Ore, the newest historical fiction novel (to be Hawker is also the author of The Ragged Edge of Night, which I mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books wrote One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West. 02 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy I wasn't familiar Her mother's volatile emotions; upsetting and controlling manner; pushy actions; mental, emotional, and

  • Review of What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway

    The historical fiction story about the building of the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, North Carolina, had I love a North-Carolina-set story, and Joy Callaway's historical fiction What the Mountains Remember

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/23/24 Edition

    camper daughter of the owners has disappeared, God of the Woods ; and I'm listening to Joy Callaway's historical fiction set in the time of the building of North Carolina's Grove Park Inn in Asheville, What the Mountains 03 What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway I love a North-Carolina-set story, and Joy Callaway's historical fiction What the Mountains Remember has me hooked: the novel traces the building of the famous Grove

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/5/24 Edition

    reclaim versions of their lives using competitive magical tasks, The Book of Love; and I'm listening to a historical fiction story in two timelines, one on The Titanic and one centering around a female spy in World War Walsh Unsinkable is historical fiction set in two timelines by Jenni L. Walsh.

  • Review of Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan

    In Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different In Erin Kate Ryan's recently published historical fiction mystery Quantum Girl Theory, Mary Garrett focuses Ryan explores various alternate histories and life tracks for Paula Jean while "Mary" digs more deeply The title and cover made me think "science fiction," but Quantum Girl Theory is rooted in historical fiction and offers a solid, twisty mystery as it moves through various fascinating potential realities

  • Review of The Trackers by Charles Frazier

    In The Trackers, Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction featuring a Great Depression-era I love a Great Depression-set story, and in Frazier's literary fiction The Trackers, he immerses us in If you're interested in Great Depression-era historical fiction like I am, you might also like the books

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/21/23 Edition

    A book that keeps coming to mind as I read this one is This Tender Land, historical fiction by William and the "restructuring" that cut off American Indians from their culture, their families, and their history character based upon Nathaniel Hawthorne--although it treats him very differently as a character--is the historical fiction novel Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/15/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to William Kent Krueger's mid-century-set historical fiction Barnes's eerie science fiction novel Ghost Station; and I'm listening to Emily Henry's newest delightful 01 The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger I love William Kent Krueger's historical fiction stories one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six Lighter Fiction you can check out my review here, and you might like to check out its spot on Six More Great Light Fiction

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/31/22 Edition

    I'm reading The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O'Farrell's newest historical fiction, about a young duchess in Renaissance Italy; I'm listening to Nora Goes Off Script, Annabel Monaghan's light fiction about fiction about a strong young woman and her mining community in 1900s Colorado. to exist in this new world. 02 Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan In Annabel Monaghan's light fiction Fiction Stories Set in the American West.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/13/23 Edition

    You might also like the titles on my Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West. 02 Killers

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

    here for my full review of The Excitements. 04 Good Material by Dolly Alderton Alderton's literary fiction fiction story I loved. The excellent historical fiction here is conflated with romance-novel-worthy storylines and dialogue fiction tale of a pioneering, headstrong, brilliant figure whose existence has been debated for centuries Pope Joan is Donna Woolfolk Cross's historical fiction about a figure whose existence the Catholic church

  • Review of Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall

    Marshall's debut historical fiction centers around women's searches for body autonomy in three timelines In this historical fiction, Marshall explores the goings-on at 1960s unwed mothers' homes in Canada--

  • Review of Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams

    Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, my book club's most recent read, it's In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's

  • Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn

    In Kate Quinn's newest historical fiction, she shares the story of a real World War II figure, a Russian Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is Kate Quinn's most recent historical fiction wonder. This time she tells the World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female In 1937, history student Ludmila Pavlichenko is a young lady balancing school, the care of her young Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress,

  • Review of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

    In this historical fiction novel by Kate Quinn, the stories of two women—an imagined World War I spy

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/24/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Glassmaker, the newest historical fiction from Tracy Chevalier (Girl with a Pearl Earring); I'm reading Bear, the newest literary fiction from Julia Phillips (Disappearing 01 The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier I'm so excited about this new historical fiction from Tracy Chevalier

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/24/23 Edition

    listening to A Perilous Undertaking, the second in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries. retired FBI agent is brutally tortured and killed nearby, Porter will need to delve into the area's history I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's sassy Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries.

  • Review of The Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown

    on my to-read list), Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War, and the upcoming (to be published next week) historical fiction

  • Review of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

    I looooved the premise of The Secret Book of Flora Lea, and a World War II-set historical fiction tale If you're interested in World War II-set historical fiction, you might like the books on my Greedy Reading

  • Review of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans

    In The Office of Historical Corrections, Evans offers short stories centering around themes of race, relationships, identity, the fallibility of those shaping historical "fact," grief, and loss. In "Boys Go to Jupiter," a young woman wears a gifted confederate flag bikini, is careless about her actions In the longest story in the book, at approximately 100 pages, "The Office of Historical Corrections, " a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/10/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier's newest historical fiction 01 The Trackers by Charles Frazier In The Trackers, Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction featuring a Great Depression-era painter, Val Welch, traveling west to a small rural town in

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/11/23 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm listening to Edan Lepucki's science-fiction time-travel novel, Time's Mouth ; I'm reading Paulette Jiles's newest historical fiction novel, Chenneville; and I'm reading Al Hess's Loss, and Vengeance by Paulette Jiles I got full-body chills when I saw that Paulette Jiles had a new historical fiction novel coming out.

  • Six More Books about Brave Female Spies

    In Williams's historical fiction mystery, which skips back and forth in time, four years later, Iris's I looove a historical fiction mystery. If you do too, you might want to check out the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction The Invisible Woman is historical fiction about the real-life World War II-era spy Virginia Hall. The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/15/24 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the seventh installment in Martha Wells's fantastic science fiction If you like Westerns, you might want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West and  Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American

  • Review of The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker

    Hawker offers irresistible details of daily life and historical elements that add vivid layers to this The author's note explains the historical events at play and illuminates the ways in which Hawker's historical fiction explores aspects of real-life religious beliefs, plural marriage, governmental involvement, Hawker is also the author of The Ragged Edge of Night, which I mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books Fiction Stories Set in the American West.

  • Review of We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein

    Stories of various characters are interwoven through the historical fiction novel and add depth to the Grodstein is also the author of Our Short History, The Explanation for Everything, and A Friend of the

  • Review of Revelations by Mary Sharratt

    Sharratt offers vivid historical fiction details of the everyday life of Margery of Kempe, a mother of In Revelations, Sharratt offers an immersive historical fiction novel that includes thoroughly researched Sharratt has authored at least seven other historical fiction novels--including Illuminations, about

  • Review of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

    Smith's historical fiction story in two timelines equally powerfully evokes the bleak Dutch winters of

  • Review of Rednecks by Taylor Brown

    In this mix of fictional and fascinating historical elements, Brown crafts a character-driven story of In Rednecks, Taylor Brown presents a historical novel centering around the real-life events of the 1920 Rednecks offers a mix of fictional and real characters in this riveting tale of rebellion and oppressive The true events that inspired the book are shocking and often read like fiction--the cutthroat, sometimes Fiction Stories about the Civil War, plus other novels.

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

    Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith's beautiful memoir about divorce and life; Go As a River, Shelley Read's debut historical fiction set in mid-century rural Colorado; Illuminations, Mary Sharratt's historical fiction about a fiction is based on the life of the medieval mystic who long served as an unwilling anchorite, walled Mary Sharratt offers an exhaustively researched, fascinating historical fiction account of the life of Mary Sharratt also wrote Revelations, historical fiction about the life of Margery of Kempe, a mother

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: two historical fiction stories, gothic magical realism, science fiction, a character-driven mystery, and yet another of Deanna Raybourn's Veronica 01 October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker Hawker's newest historical fiction gives a wonderfully evocative Olivia Hawker's newest historical fiction is set in Depression-era Kentucky. fiction mysteries, as well as the sequels A Perilous Undertaking, A Treacherous Curse, and A Dangerous

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

    funny, silly memoir Yearbook; and I'm listening to the always-excellent Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code, historical fiction about the women who broke codes at Bletchley Park during World War II. For more about Kate Quinn’s The Huntress (and five other historical fiction books I loved), check out the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved in the Past Year.

  • Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    fiction, based on actual events, shines in its vivid settings, richly imagined characters, sea voyage The Night Ship is historical fiction with a magical realism undercurrent that's told in two timelines Fiction Mysteries Sure to Intrigue You. In The Trackers, Cold Mountain author Charles Frazier offers historical fiction featuring a Great Depression-era If you're interested in Great Depression-era historical fiction like I am, you might also like the books

  • Review of In Memoriam by Alice Winn

    Alice Winn's gorgeous, brutal, captivating historical fiction In Memoriam  is set during World War I.

  • Review of The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

    Shattuck offers faulted protagonists and a fascinating, complicated set of factors in her World War II historical fiction. Her historical fiction story hooked me. If a person pleads ignorance or credits terrible actions to the power of fear, can such acts ever be

  • Review of The Librarian Spy by Madeline Martin

    The author's historical fiction romance-writing is evident here, in contrast to the tone of The Last Some of the story is summarized rather than shown, and I felt that I could see evidence of Martin's historical fiction romance style in certain dramatically written moments.

  • Review of Maria: A Novel of Maria von Trapp by Michelle Moran

    I was hooked on the behind-the-scenes feeling of Moran's historical-fiction conversations between Maria

  • Review of Only Pretty Damned by Niall Howard

    I listened to Niall Howell's debut, Only Pretty Damned, noir historical fiction set behind the scenes Toby is chillingly without remorse and evolves into an almost purely vengeful person, manipulating his actions

  • Review of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

    The Invention of Wings is historical fiction that tracks the characters of (the real-life) Sarah Grimke Sue Monk Kidd spins this historical fiction story, inspired by the real-life Sarah Grimke, and includes It's uncomfortable, disturbing, and infuriating to read historical fiction about the actual horrors that Bees, The Mermaid Chair, and The Book of Longings, which made it onto two Greedy Reading Lists: Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year and My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books.

  • Review of The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan

    life-and-death period in the life of an ethnically German family at the end of World War II in this historical fiction inspired by a true story. Sullivan built this historical fiction around the true story of an ethnically German family running from Mark Sullivan also wrote Beneath a Scarlet Sky, another historical fiction book based upon a real person

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/26/23 Edition

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American West and Six More Great Historical Fiction Novels Set in the American West. 02 Daughter of interested in the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories.

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