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my full review, check out Doctors and Friends. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is vividly set in Europe In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow it's 1948 and Iris Digby, her American

Science Fiction Faves I've been giving book talks lately about stories I've loved and upcoming titles I'm excited about, and I've seen some eyes-glazing-over reactions when I gush about science fiction I love character-driven science fiction stories. Which other books should I add to my science fiction to-read list? Chambers's story is science fiction that's full of heart, heartbreak, and hope.

Six Bossy Favorite Light Fiction Reads from Last Year I love spending Fridays highlighting books I've (You can check out my roundup list Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year, which I For more romantic reads and lighter fiction Bossy favorites, you might want to check out the books on these Greedy Reading Lists: Six More Great Light Fiction Stories Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved.

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. What are some of your favorite science fiction reads? crew, the mystery and suspicion, and most of all the character-driven storyline in Kitasei's science fiction In Yume Kitasei's science fiction thriller The Deep Sky, a mission to deep space is disrupted by an explosion

recently published mystery set in the forest, One Step Too Far; and I'm reading Donna Everhart's recent historical fiction novel set during the Depression, The Saints of Swallow Hill.

More Light Fiction Favorites When I posted a few weeks ago about favorite light fiction reads and asked What other lighter fiction authors or books do you love? You might also like some of the titles on my first Greedy Reading List of light fiction favorites. 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

I looove a historical fiction mystery. If you do too, you might want to check out Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You.

01 Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman In Out Front the Following Sea, upcoming historical fiction

More Science Fiction Faves I love character-driven science fiction stories. You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Science Fiction Favorites to Dive Into Which other books should I add to my science fiction to-read list? fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate selves in this science fiction full review of Dark Matter. 03 How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu Nagamatsu's science fiction

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amor Towles's almost-600-page historical fiction story Lincoln

engrossing gymnastics details that made the setting come to life, Head Over Heels was the engrossing, light fiction details that made the setting come to life, Head Over Heels was, as I'd hoped, the engrossing, light fiction I mentioned this book (along with the epic science fiction/fantasy To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and a young adult historical fiction story set during the Gold Rush, How Much of These Hills Is Gold) in the Greedy

Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs The majority of page time in the historical fiction title is spent showing the tasks of daily life (and This title was listed in Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year. This title was listed in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year.

She's eager to dig in and learn more about her mother's wartime history, yet desperate not to be defined So if you're in for Fiona Valpy historical fiction like I now am, you have lots of lovely reading to

You might also like some of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to

McLain's When the Stars Go Dark, about a missing persons detective coping with her own tragedy; the historical fiction story A Curious Beginning; or the campy Finlay Donovan Is Killing It.

This is magical realism, folklore, and historical fiction wrapped up in one very interesting read. 05 The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo The Night Tiger is a wonderful historical fiction mystery and love story I listed this book in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You. 06 Uprooted

This book was mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year. wrote One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, which was mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West.

Six More Great Bossy Science Fiction Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! A while back I posted about Six Four-Star (and Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and here are six more of my favorite science fiction reads from the past year. You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads?

based upon Nathaniel Hawthorne--although the author treats him very differently as a character--is the historical fiction novel Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese.

Conquerer's Saga series, has cover art that to me evokes fantasy, but the series is actually captivating historical fiction. This blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and paranormal continues with LaFevers's Dark Triumph, Mortal The Invasion of the Tearling offers more history of the Crossing, which led people to settle in The Tearling

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading A Rip Through Time, the first in Kelley Armstrong's time-travel historical fiction mystery series; Young Mungo, Shuggie Bain author Douglas Stuart's most recent literary fiction

Six Great Bossy Science Fiction and Fantasy Reads The Obsessive Wrap-Up of Favorite Reads continues! You can click here for other science fiction and fantasy books that I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads? moments with those lost to us) or evil (creating a whirlwind of negative feeling that shapes others' actions

I actually love a nice long science fiction tale to dive into, and this is the first adult title from There's more to Head over Heels, but I think this is going to be the engrossing, light fiction book I dictated another interesting mix of books for my current reading life with a fantasy title, a lighter fiction story, and a young adult historical tale with magical realism mixed in. I feel like mysteries, light fiction, memoirs, and fantasy are working well for me--plus historical fiction

illustrating the interconnectedness of grief, love, community, and nature in this heartwarming literary fiction The ending section is lovely, with heartwarming promise, hope, resolution, and a fig-tree-related revelation Stories of various characters are interwoven through the historical fiction novel and add depth to the They're from other times in history. protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure from history

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book from Chris Bohjalian (author of Midwives), a historical fiction story Hour of the Witch; I'm listening to Ross Gay's charming, funny, observation-filled, introspective Hour of the Witch is a historical thriller about the first divorce in North America and the witch trial

Historical fiction, light fiction, and fantasy/science fiction is the wacky concurrent combo working

Some Light Fiction Favorites At the start of the pandemic, I was particularly drawn to lighter fiction These are some of my light fiction favorites, and they're also perfect for summer reading. I'm due to create another Greedy Reading List of my more recently read light fiction favorites, but meanwhile , you can find other Bossy light fiction reviews here. What other lighter fiction authors or stories do you love?

Light fiction, historical fiction mystery, and celebrity memoir. I recently offered a roundup of Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism if that feels down your

Schwab's stories take place within her detailed fantasy world (with some historical fiction elements

It was tough to witness Casey's struggles and pain (even fictionalized, the disastrous trifecta of money That was suuuuch a different book (dark historical fiction set in 1933 New Guinea), but as in Writers

Kate Quinn, the queen of historical fiction about women who are spies, recently recommended these titles I'd love to hear: What are your favorite (fiction or nonfiction) books about tough lady spies? For my full review, see The Huntress. 03 Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein In Wein's young adult historical fiction novel, it's 1943, and a British spy plane has crashed in Nazi-occupied France. And while the second section isn't a complete surprise, I found it really satisfying. 04 The Nightingale

And you can c lick here for other science fiction and fantasy books I've reviewed on Bossy Bookworm. dragons, dragon-related science, emotional and physical ties to dragons, and the cultural importance, historical Because the restrictive Anglish world--and its selective history of the destruction of the Indigenous I love a mix of historical fiction and fantasy, and while this novel isn't as layered and complex or The janitor is a cultural outsider with a complicated history, and what he lacks in training he makes

natural world, she explores three timelines of women connected through the ages by power and by society's historical dose of feminism, and a dramatic showdown. 06 Hester by Laurie Lico Albanese Hester is richly imagined historical fiction with connections to themes and characters from The Scarlet Letter.

This mix is working well for me: science fiction with themes about society's reliance on attention and small-town mystery with beautifully imperfect characters bringing it all to life; and a woman-powered historical fiction story of an expedition to the coldest of destinations, the Arctic.

woman while stumbling into her iconic lifetime role as Princess Leia; The Invisible Woman, World War II historical fiction by Erika Robuck based on the real-life spy Virginia Hall, a courageous, idealistic, determined independent, defiant, appealingly strong young women split by time; Hour of the Witch, Chris Bohjalian's historical book, please see The Princess Diarist. 02 The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck The Invisible Woman is historical fiction about the real-life World War II-era spy Virginia Hall.

Six Four-Star (and Up) Bossy Science Fiction Reads I realize I just said this last week regarding mysteries , but really, doesn't the cold winter also feel like the perfect time to cozy up with a science fiction Here are six of my favorite science fiction reads of last year--with another list to come! I'd love to hear: what are some of your favorite science fiction reads? Chambers's story is science fiction that's full of heart, heartbreak, and hope.

The majority of page time in the historical fiction title is spent showing the tasks of daily life (and This title was listed in Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year. This title was listed in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year. Fiction Books I Loved This Year Six of the Best Nonfiction Books I've Read This Year Six Lighter Fiction Stories for Great Escapism Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You Six Illuminating Memoirs

Pride of Eden just might be the literary fiction version of what I think Tiger King sounds like: exotic I can't wait to see what the heck this book is all about. 02 Rodham ​ Curtis Sittenfeld offered a fictionalized version of a first lady's personal history in An American Wife, which I loved, and I thought her short In A Witch in Time, Constance Sayers is offering us historical fiction, witches, and repeated reincarnation

Hearne offers a playful, action-packed, magical, layered modern-day London. Are you interested in a historical fiction retelling of the story of King Edward, Lady Jane Grey, and I loooved this witty, romantic, action-packed steampunk novel from Gail Carriger.

Conquerer's Saga series, has a cover that to me evokes fantasy, but this series is actually captivating historical fiction. This blend of historical fiction, fantasy, and paranormal continues with LaFevers's Dark Triumph, Mortal The Invasion of the Tearling offers more history of the Crossing, which led people to settle in The Tearling

for Love . 02 White Houses by Amy Bloom White Houses  is gorgeously written, exhaustingly researched historical fiction about Eleanor Roosevelt and her love, Lorena Hickock, and it was a five-star read for me. behind-the-scenes peeks at the residential rooms of the Roosevelt White House (which, Bloom recounts in interviews, functioned

This book was mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved Over the Past Year.

favorite reads from lots of genres that I've loved reading in the past year: Six of My Favorite Lighter Fiction Reads from the Past Year Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads from Last Year Six More of My Favorite Fiction Four-Star Mystery Reads I Loved Last Year Six More Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year Six Four-Star (And Up) Science Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year, and With sections read by stars of The Good Place, Schur's How to Be Perfect is funny, interesting--and a

01 When These Mountains Burn by David Joy Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction author of Pride of Eden, Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War, and Wingwalkers. The Caretaker. 05 The Girl from Widow Hills by Megan Miranda Miranda uses the framework of a famous fictional

For my full review, please see Happiness Falls . 03 A Literary Fiction Novel about Life and Love You I loved this literary fiction--the increasing vulnerability and search for connection after heartache For my full review of this book, please see Listen for the Lie . 04 Smart Historical Fiction with a Time-Travel They're from other times in history. protagonist's focus in her work is Commander Graham Gore (a character based upon a real figure from history

supporting characters--as well as a romantic story that tackled weighty issues (my favorite kind), and a historical fiction story that made me buy into a body-snatching storyline . Dunlap's debut novel is dark, twisty, gothic, and it's set in 19th-century Scotland as fictionalized

show personality; a dark academia story that centers around feminism and building new perspectives; historical fiction about a traveling librarian in 1930s Appalachia; a luminous story of astronauts on the International The janitor is a cultural outsider with a complicated history, and what he lacks in training he makes

of gymnastics details that made the setting come to life, Head Over Heels was the engrossing, light fiction , see Head Over Heels. 02 Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis ​ Sometimes in order to delve into a lighter fiction Not Dating by Christina Lauren Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating totally fits the bill as light-fiction What are some of your favorite lighter fiction books? So here's the greedy question: What are some other lighter fiction stories I should be reading?

Check out these Bossy links for more romantic novels or lighter fiction . Reads of the Past Year Six More of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads of the Past Year Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading , and Six More Great Light Fiction Stories 01 Funny Story In Christina Lauren's newest romantic fiction, Anna and West are a young married couple on the verge fiction young adult romance.

This was funny, sweet, steamy, and poignant--a fantastic summer light-fiction read that I loved. 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. 02 The Rachel Incident In Caroline O'Donoghue's contemporary fiction The Rachel Incident, main character Rachel is an Irish The bedrock for Lucky Red is made up of wonderful historical fiction details of life in the dusty, volatile