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Six Favorite Fantasy Reads I love spending Fridays raving about books I've loved! I've also recently posted about favorite reads from various genres that I've loved reading in the past year: Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from the Past Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my absolute most favorite What are some of your favorite fantasy reads, from the past year or from this one so far?

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first science fiction title in Becky Chambers's Wayfarers series Welga Ramirez is an elite bodyguard who is former special forces, and she's on the verge of retirement

My very favorite October reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a bitingly funny, poignant book of essays; a candid And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? He takes the reader on a roller coaster of emotions, and I love every bit of it. Schur, creator of the television series The Good Place, explores various schools of thought about ethics

My very favorite September reads! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two new novels from favorite authors who each include stories; one nonfiction book I've been meaning to read for years; a book that plays with time (one of my favorite And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? For my full review, check out Every Summer After.

My very favorite books from August! What a fantastic Bossy reading month! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, all of which I rated 4.5 stars. And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? The Last Bookshop in London is never sentimental but very powerful, and I was brought to tears while And Emma would very much like to make it out of this alive as well.

You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into She's hacked into the game plenty of times and glitched the system to work in her favor. the Edge of the Universe (Salvagers #1) by Alex White The first in Alex White's Salvagers space opera series White's science fiction novel A Big Ship at the Edge of the Universe, the first in White's Salvagers series

My very favorite books from July! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two memoirs, two historical fiction titles, a science And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined power and scope of gene engineering, the world on the verge

Six Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads I'm having so much fun spending Fridays highlighting books I've loved : Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Memoir Reads Last Year You can check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my absolute most favorite What are some of your favorite lighter fiction reads, from the past year or from this one so far? of a close-knit network of community members) and a successful city doctor with expensive taste and very

My very favorite books from June! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: contemporary fiction, young adult, nonfiction, fantasy And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads?

#comingofage, #heartwarming, #faith, #nordic, #fourstarbookreview What have been your favorite books published this summer, or favorite books you've read this summer?

Six More Favorite Fiction Reads I listed Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year in this Greedy In today's post I highlight six more of my favorite fiction reads from last year. Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads Doctors and Friends. 03 This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub This Time Tomorrow was also one of my overall Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads.

My very favorite books from April! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? 01 The Rose Code by Kate Quinn This was my favorite read of the month! The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

My very favorite books from May! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, which include contemporary fiction, suspense, nonfiction And I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads?

My very favorite books from March! Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, in no particular order. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams This was my favorite read of the month! road bumps he encountered, and his dogged determination--which was admittedly shaken after landing very

Memoir Reads Last Year And check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my absolute most favorite Trying) by Cristina Fernandez How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) was also one of my overall Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads. And Not Die Trying). 03 Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt Marcellus the octopus is the very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads.

My very favorite books from February! Here are my favorite reads of the past month, in no particular order: No Cure for Being Human, a funny I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys The author saved every one of her grandmother's voicemails, and here she uses them--along with emails

My very favorite books from January! Aaaaaand here we are in February! My favorite reads of the past month include, in no particular order: The Maid, Nita Prose's recently of sweetness; The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, the first in Becky Chambers's science fiction series I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? some surprises, and Molly seems more than capable of extricating herself from suspicion by using the very

My very favorite books from December! that time of year: it seems everyone has an opinion about the year's best books and their personal favorites My own Favorite Books of 2021 comes out on December 31. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? In her novel from my favorite publishing company for young people, Peachtree Publishing, Rebecca Elliott

My very favorite books from October! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? This was my favorite read of the month! The music is all included again at the very end of the book, by which point the listener understands Novik builds upon her irresistible Scholomance world in The Last Graduate, and I'm so very glad there

My very favorite books from November! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? I read Caste with a group and met every other week to discuss it--and we went months past our original

Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise

My very favorite books from August! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? Some of the wrap-up details near the very end felt a little bit unsatisfying, but resolving them cleanly Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books last year, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List

My very favorite books from September! I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads? And for more young adult stories about royalty, you might try Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series.

My very favorite books from July! Here are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I'd love to hear: what are some of your recent favorite reads--or books you've read recently that just Cosby This was my favorite read of the month. loved his gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads list.

My very favorite books from June! strong, ruthless, clever young seafaring woman, Fable; A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor, one of my two favorite maudlin or sappy despite the tragedy and yearning at the book's heart; Soulmate Equation, my other favorite What are some of your recent favorite reads--or books you've read recently that weren't for you? by Hank Green This was one of my very favorite reads of the month!

My very favorite books from May! Hall, a courageous, idealistic, determined, and imperfect heroine I was intrigued by; Great Circle, my favorite What are some of your recent favorite reads--or books you've read recently that weren't for you? this book, please see The Invisible Woman. 03 Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead Great Circle was my favorite Shipstead is a wonderful writer, and I loved every word of this.

My very favorite books from April! What are some of your recent favorite reads--or books you've read recently that weren't for you? No one's forgotten the heartbreak of that day, nor has there been very much healing from the pain of The Survivors is my favorite Harper book yet. The Last Graduate, the second book in this series, is slated for publication in June 2021.

My very favorite books from March! What are some of your recent favorite reads--or books that weren't for you? the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series). I loved having more time with my favorite minor character, the plain-speaking, tough, brutal but fair , plus the series ending I didn’t even know I wanted.

I do like a thoughtful memoir if I can get it, and in A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir, Colin Jost offers Jost begins A Very Punchable Face with a story that is really his mother's (to be fair, it's gripping

ICYMI: This series by Naomi Novik introduces vain, strong-willed, talking dragons, their complex, wonderfully “It seems very strange that the ocean is full of things that one can eat as one likes, and on land everything “I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.” The stories in her book Buried Deep revisit some favorite Novik worlds as well as introducing the world where Novik's future series takes place.

More about Melissa Caruso books--and more favorite Bossy reads that play with time: This is the first Caruso is also the author of the Rooks and Ruin and Swords and Fire series. For Bossy reviews of many other books that play with time--this is one of my favorite elements--you can

Gadgets, disguises, alternative identities, bugs and surveillance-- The Trap  involves many of my favorite

My favorite elements were the action sequences, the opportunities for humor, and the pacing of this 640 Yet she also serves up an unexpected (as in, we thought he was dead, so: very unexpected) second chance characters to be less earnest and more playful and to invoke a little bit of dark humor at times (my favorite One of my favorite dragons is almost completely absent from the book (sleeping for hundreds of pages) The tone is very different from the Empyrian series--no teen angst or steamy scenes.

I love a story that flips a traditional setup, and Long Live Evil  is my most recent favorite in the dying, and in a panic, she makes a magical deal in which she lives on...in the world of her sister's favorite fantasy series.

This third book in McManus's young-adult mystery series keeps the surprises coming, ties new twists into early events from the series, and strengthens the bonds between the Bayside sleuth friends. I listened to this third installment in Karen McManus's young adult One of Us Is Lying mystery series established characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites The first two books in the One of Us Is Lying series are One of Us Is Lying and One of Us Is Next.

The third in Jane Harper's Aaron Falk series offers procedural detail, a lush Australian setting, and The Survivors, which is set on the Tasmanian coast, is one of my favorite Harper novels.

I've got enough other favorites in this vein to make a second list sometime. It's a little dark, consistently fascinating, sometimes funny, and very satisfying. Shadow and Bone is my favorite among multiple great Bardugo series, and it's also the title of the first The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings (this was possibly my favorite among favorites), Thick As Thieves, and Return of the Thief are the other books in the series.

In what's possibly my favorite book yet of the seven in the Cormoran Strike series, we see some emotional I listened to The Running Grave, the newest in the mystery series by Robert Galbraith (J. K. In the newest doorstop of a book (960 pages; the audiobook is 34 hours and 14 minutes) in the series, This was quite possibly my favorite Cormoran Strike novel so far.

In Carley Fortune's debut Every Summer After, Persephone Fraser knows all too well the saying "you can't Every Summer After is a love story told over the course of six summers and a weekend. I love stories about returning home, reconnecting with old flames, and chances for redemption, and Every Every Summer After is Carley Fortune's debut novel. Her second book, Meet Me at the Lake, is scheduled for publication in May 2023.

relationship exploration, and storytelling continues in this third and last installment of the Last Binding series final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical fiction fantasy-mystery series mischievous and complementary) group of allies fights to reveal the source of the evil at work, and favorite

mentioned the great Folk of the Air trilogy in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

Sutanto's Vera Wong is playful, brusque, bossy, and connects an unlikely cast of characters, all murder Vera Wong is running a largely unvisited tea house, lamenting her grown son's lack of time for her, and When a dead body shows up in her tea house, Vera takes charge of the investigation of what only she is This was absolutely my favorite part of the book. But in Vera Wong, while Vera is pushy she is also deeply caring, helpful, and serves as a connector--

01 Ink & Sigil: Ink & Sigil Series In this first book of Kevin Hearne's new Ink & Sigil series, patterns Published August 25, 2020. an oddball fantasy element in which the life-and-death conflict is not religion, but the rights and very #historicalfiction, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview Any new-to-you or longtime favorite oddball series you love?

I loved A Curious Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of banter and sexual tension and match-up of will and intellect between Stoker and Veronica that are my favorite aspects of the series? It wasn't my favorite of the series mysteries thus far, but I enjoyed the dark, gothic feel of twisting And in this installment of the series, Raybourn allows for The Situation Between Veronica and Stoker

Collapse, we catch up with the delightfully grumpy Murderbot (SecUnit), who in this seventh book in the series

The audiobook was narrated by Dick Hill, who has a voice that sounds very similar to Sam Donaldson in This felt very retro to me, and I admit that I often found myself thinking of the narrator’s voice rather Child has been writing Jack Reacher novels since 1997, so whether you're committed to the series or you #mysterysuspense, #series, #threestarbookreview

Finlay dips her toe into a criminal underworld in the second in Cosimano's campy mystery series. In Elle Cosimano's first book in this series, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It, we meet main protagonist In Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead, Finlay has her friend Vero in her confidence--and in her household One of my favorite elements is how Finlay, a mom of two very young children, is absolutely irresistible Cosimano is also the author of the young adult mystery series Nearly Gone, the young adult fantasy series

Rachel Aaron is also the author of the DFZ Changeling series, the Heartstrikers series, the Crystal Calamity series, and other books.

It's a little dark, consistently fascinating, sometimes funny, and very satisfying. Shadow and Bone is my favorite among multiple great Bardugo series, and it's also the title of the first The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings (this was possibly my favorite among favorites), Thick As Thieves, and Return of the Thief are the other books in the series. I've got enough other favorites in this vein that I could probably make a second list sometime.

The first in this dragon rider series by Yarros is full of dramaaaaatic teen angst, a cutthroat path to becoming a warrior, bucking expectations, a looming war--and, my favorite element of the story, dragons Fourth Wing is the first in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean fantasy series, about a war college for dragon Aside from the dragons, my favorite element of the story is Violet's determined coping with and accommodations I'm a fan of varying language and also of creative cursing, so at the risk of being a Grumpy Old Lady