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I adored the first book in the series, Fable, in which the title character relied heavily on her survival

Scene: 1989-1999 by Tom Maxwell George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle by Philip Norman (published fall 2023 to check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction 2023 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music How Women Made Music is pulled from the NPR series year. 06 Heartbreak Is the National Anthem: How Taylor Swift Reinvented Pop Music by Rob Sheffield "Every

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres , and just as I do every year, I loved my historical fiction reads in 2023. Two historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and Chenneville I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy

It seems his livelihood may be on the verge of obsoleteness as the heavily harvested woods dwindle, and all, last time around, all kinds of horrible things happened as she dug into (and solved, thank you very Holly Jackson's third book in this series, As Good as Dead, is coming out next month, and I can't wait

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Mystery Reads If you want more favorite-mystery lists, check out round 1 of last year's Bossy favorites. You can also check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year What are some of your favorite mystery reads? affords her a certain power, and she is also the Alpha female of her husband's pack, which affords her a very

point or another and couldn't wait for the big reveal for this young adult mystery, the first in a series In this first book in the One of Us Is Lying series, McManus takes us through each of the suspects' experiences One of Us Is Next is the second book in the series, published last year. young adult mystery A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson, which is part of an in-progress series

Here are six of my favorite science fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for all my best-of reads from last year.) I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads? The third book in this series, Nona the Ninth, was published in 2022, with the fourth book, Alecto the Ninth, to follow in fall 2023.

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I loved Pippa and Ravi, and I'll definitely read the three other books planned for the series. I'll definitely read the sequel, Good Girl, Bad Girl (and the two additional books planned for the series

by Rachel Hartman; and I'm listening to Harrow the Ninth, the second in Tamsyn Muir's very dark, strange irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she broke from rigid medieval gender roles in favor Gideon the Ninth was also mentioned in my Greedy Reading List Six More Postapocalyptic and Dystopian Favorites The third book in the series, Nona the Ninth, was published in 2022, with the fourth book, Alecto the Ninth, to follow in fall 2023.

(I mentioned her Shadow and Bone series in the Greedy Reading List Six Royally Magical Young Adult Series

I'm eagerly awaiting the third book in the series. This is the second in Wolfe's Elizabethan Spy Mystery series; the first was A Murder by Any Name.

also check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites Holiday Book Gift Ideas: Books about Music Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Novels for Everyone on Your List 2023 Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas   2021 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Kid and Teen Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays 2020 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! original research into what he has observed that animals are communicating to each other through their varied

She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. This is one of my all-time favorite books. I'm in for reading anything Peter Heller writes (e.g. But bringing back their surprising findings might very well mean the wholesale rounding up and destruction #postapocalyptic, #dystopian, #fantasyscifi, #series, #fourstarbookreview What are your favorite post-apocalyptic A New Wilderness, published in August 2020, looks like a great dystopian novel too.

Six More Bossy Favorite Reads So far in 2024 I've been posting Friday Greedy Reading Lists of some of my favorite reads of last year by genre; for my all-around favorites of last year, you can check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads. I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite reads, whether you loved them last year or more

Beneath the Keep, to be published 2/2/21, is a prequel to Erika Johansen's Queen of the Tearling series (three other books are in the series, The Queen of the Tearling, The Invasion of the Tearling, and The Some of the characters I loved from the rest of the series (I'm looking at you, Mace, and also the Fetch --side note, that nickname always reminds me of the very off-topic movie Mean Girls) are star players Maura; Brenna and Arlen; Aislynn and Liam); these bonds are similarly key in the final book of the series

Six More Four-Star Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Two other historical fiction books made it onto My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads: Demon Copperhead and I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? You can click here for other historical fiction books (and lists of favorites) I've reviewed on Bossy That there would be two lines, heading in very different directions...

irresistible, hardheaded, wonderfully faulted Tess as she breaks from rigid medieval gender roles in favor Rachel Hartman is also the author of the Seraphina series. The second book in the Tess of the Road series, In the Serpent's Wake, was published last month.

Sports Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 sports books that I'm most excited to give as gifts Don't forget to check my past Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens 2021 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas 2023 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! team principal Guenther Steiner--who you'll know of if you and yours have been hooked on the Netflix series

Hamptons store Barefoot Contessa--necessitating extended time apart from Jeffrey and, eventually, a very If you enjoy memoirs, you can find Bossy reviews of my favorites here . And check out some of my favorite foodie memoirs here .

Schwab's Shades of Magic series. magic; Holland, White London royalty Lila loves to hate; Rhys, Kell's prince and brother; and one of my favorites The series is adult fantasy but would be appropriate for a young adult reader--if not averse to Lila's The first two books in the Shades of Magic series are A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows The first book in that series is Vicious and the most recent is Vengeful, with a third not yet published

to check my past Bossy gift idea lists (linked below) for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites Ideas: Sports and Recreation Nonfiction Bossy Holiday Gift Ideas: Books about Music 2023 Bossy Book Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas   2021 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Lila has planned her million-dollar wedding down to the last detail, and Phoebe's depression and her very is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious job: she'll be a handler for expats--and paid very

Six More Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite posted last month about Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, but I had six more favorites And four historical fiction books were on my overall favorites list for last year: The Last Bookshop You might want to check out all the titles on My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my very favorite I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads?

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! posted about Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and here are six more of my favorite I've posted roundups of favorites each Friday in 2023--check them out! And you can click here for My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads. I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads?

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Historical Fiction Reads Historical fiction is one of my very favorite genres Here are six of my very favorite historical fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite historical fiction reads? I'm so very glad I stuck this one out so I could see these characters through and witness their journeys

Movie, Media, and Music Book Gift Ideas Here are the 2023 books about television, movies, and music that Don't forget to check my past Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites 2020 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Books I'm Giving as Gifts This Holiday Shhh! More Book Gifts for Kids and Teens 2021 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas 2023 Bossy Book Gift Guides Shhh!

I knew immediately that I would definitely read the next in the series.

I love a Favorites list, and now that I've got a spreadsheet (ahem!) of my favorite reads of the past year by genre, the hits are going to keep coming! This list highlights six more of my very favorite mystery reads of last year (Check out My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads for my overall favorite reads from last year.) What are some of your favorite mystery titles or mystery genres?

Donoghue So far, Learned by Heart is giving me major Little Princess vibes...that was one of my absolute favorite Donoghue is also the author of Room, The Pull of the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books), and other books. McManus I'm listening to this third installment in Karen McManus's One of Us Is Lying series. established characters of Maeve, Nate, Phoebe, Bronwyn, and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites

Science and Nature Book Gift Ideas I spend most of my reading time on fiction titles, but my favorite And don't forget to check my past Bossy idea lists for quirky books, perennial classics, modern favorites My favorite bookstore is my local independent bookstore here in Charlotte, Park Road Books. For a committed science lover, this title could very well do the trick. 04 Brave the Wild River: The Bossy Book Gift Lists in the past, you know that bird books (including others by this author) are a favorite

Six Great Bossy Nonfiction Reads I promise that this is the last roundup list of 2023 favorites, which seems appropriate now that we have entered the month of May, 2024, ahem. You can find some of my many other lists of favorite nonfiction and memoir roundups here: Six of My Favorite What are some of your recent favorite nonfiction or memoir reads? Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.

French is the author of six books in the Dublin Murder Squad series: In the Woods, The Likeness (my absolute favorite of hers), Faithful Place, The Trespasser, Broken Harbor, and The Secret Place, plus the stand-alone In this first book in the One of Us Is Lying series, McManus takes us through each of the suspects in

Kimi Cunningham Grant's newest thriller, The Nature of Disappearing, Emlyn is a wilderness guide who very I love a book set in the wild (Peter Heller's novels The River and The Guide come to mind as favorites

I loved this first installment of Young's two-book series, which features pirates, a brave young heroine Fable, the first in a planned two-book series, offers pirates, a little forbidden romance, a handful

Lila has planned her million-dollar wedding down to the last detail, and Phoebe's depression and her very Espach leans into the concept of chosen family, a favorite of mine, and offers up second chances with

The pacing of the the first 100 pages felt slow, but after that I was totally hooked on this very compelling You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites, Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year, and Six Historical Fiction

I loved every bit of this. Oh, Olive!

Some of the books listed here also have supernatural elements, as in a recent favorite read I reviewed But every day Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. An Unexpected Peril, An Impossible Impostor, and the upcoming eighth title (to be published in early 2023 dangerous set of circumstances, complete with intrigue, a traveling show (why is this always such a favorite 04 The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton “There are very few certainties in this world, Mr.

Novik never seems to make a misstep, and the thirteen stories here revisit favorite fictional worlds, When I read a collection of short stories, I inevitably develop favorites, and while reading Buried Deep "After Hours" allowed me to delve back into Novik's Scholomance series, which I adored. Novik has also written a series of nine fantastic books about dragons, the Temeraire series. I've read seven of the nine installments, and I'm dreading reaching the end of the series.

(Side note: hearing "sweetheart" as his dirty-talk nickname for her felt jarring to me every time.) each other--who are, after all, near strangers linked by a devastating past event--and entered into very heated, varied sexual encounters. of lighter fiction or rom-com books I've loved, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six More of my Favorite Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Six of My Favorite

I loved this smart, funny young adult book--the first in a series--complete with Chinese folklore, a

Early in the story, Learned by Heart very much reminded me of A Little Princess. That was one of my favorite books when I was young, and within Learned by Heart, the concern with classism Donoghue is also the author of Room, The Pull of the Stars (which I loooved; it was one of My Twelve Favorite

I think I have enough other favorite reads in these categories to make two more Greedy Reading Lists. They take everything away, our very dignity, and anything we get in return feels like a gift. She tells her favorite teacher all the things she'll do when she grows up. This is one of my all-time favorite books. But bringing back their surprising findings might very well mean the wholesale rounding up and destruction

More Light Fiction Favorites When I posted a few weeks ago about favorite light fiction reads and asked And you can find other Bossy light fiction reviews here. 01 Very Sincerely Yours by Kerry Winfrey I delighted Winfrey's Very Sincerely Yours is light fiction that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise For my full review, please see Very Sincerely Yours. 02 The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon Rachel Lynn ), and Autoboyography (another favorite and a young adult LGBTQ+ gem).

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I haven't yet read the second in this Lucas Page series, Under Pressure--and when I read City of Windows I didn't even realize it was part of a series, it stands so well on its own.

Zevin's recent novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, I was reminded that ages ago I loved her (very His wife has died, his sales are down, his favorite collection of poems has been stolen, and he's drawing author of The Hole We're In, Margarettown, Elsewhere, Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, the Anya Balanchine series

I love when stories play with time (see my multiple favorites lists below), and I loved that the relationship Several of my Greedy Reading Lists highlight some of my very favorite books that twist time: Six Riveting

haunted by his secret; and I'm reading The Forgotten Kingdom, the second in Signe Pike's fantastic series I received a prepublication copy of this book, to be published May 11, 2021, courtesy of NetGalley and I loved Pike's first novel in this series, The Lost Queen, and so far this book is reminding me of The

excited to read Marie Lu's latest young adult science fiction/fantasy book, the first in the Skyhunter series Lu has written the Legends, Young Elites, and Warcross series. 02 The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy