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  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/28/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading an upcoming book from Chris Bohjalian (author of Midwives), a historical Hour of the Witch is a historical thriller about the first divorce in North America and the witch trial If you like stories about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Wonderfully

  • Review of Will They or Won't They by Ava Wilder

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/23/21 Edition

    Now I'm reading a romantic book about aspiring musicians with intertwined pasts; the rich fictional history If you like stories about music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories real-life, essential projects—the creation of Central Park, the founding of the Met Museum and the Natural History they discover strange, unique powers as they rely on each other and attempt to unravel their shared history

  • Review of Going There by Katie Couric

    more more more memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out these Greedy Reading Lists: Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month: a wonderful story about a grumpy female I mentioned Naomi Alderman's novel The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and You might also want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fascinating Dystopian here for my full review of The Future. 03 North Woods by Daniel Mason Mason's novel isn't simply a historical But North Woods isn't a charming historical fiction novel.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/18/24 Edition

    reading Micaiah Johnson's science-fiction novel Those Beyond the Wall; I'm listening to Kristin Hannah's historical Kristin Hannah I loved Kristin Hannah's book The Nightingale and mentioned it in my Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/6/22 Edition

    If you like books that play with time, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories. of this book courtesy of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, MCD and NetGalley. 02 Empire of Pain: The Secret History Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe I'm listening to Patrick Radden Keefe's fascinating, exhaustive history

  • My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer

    I had a great reading summer, so I had a tough time deciding on the six books I most loved reading during You might also want to check out the books on my spring Greedy Reading List Six of My Favorite Reads This book made it onto the recent Greedy Reading List Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, Six Great Light Fiction Stories Perfect for Summer Reading, and Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

  • Review of Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/12/22 Edition

    time-travel mind-bender that's also about responsibility and causality; and I'm listening to a stand-alone historical If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore and Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories--or you can search

  • Review of Yearbook by Seth Rogen

    For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about

  • Shhh! Bossy Nonfiction Book Gift Ideas

    These six nonfiction books look like excellent last-minute additions to a holiday gift list if you're Six More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! More Book Gift Ideas for the Holidays Shhh! by Alex Johnson In Art Day by Day, editor Alex Johnson offers snapshots of important moments in art history , through interviews, accounts, and records from art historians and experts. thefts, murders, and mishaps included too, Johnson's Art Day by Day offers unexpected gems from art history

  • Review of Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be 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.

  • Review of The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World

  • Review of The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

    You, One Plus One, The Girl You Left Behind, The Ship of Brides (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of All the Sinners Bleed by S. A. Cosby

    agent, has returned to his hometown in Charon County, Virginia, to serve as the first Black sheriff in history Cosby is also the author of Razorblade Tears, a book I listed on my Greedy Reading List Six Satisfying

  • Review of Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth

    books with this type of tone and spirit, you might also like those listed in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the American West. And stay tuned for this Friday's upcoming list of Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: two memoirs, two historical fiction titles, a science here for my full review of Between Two Kingdoms. 03 The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn The Diamond Eye is historical Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress, review of The Diamond Eye. 04 The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Richardson's historical But this is a solid historical fiction story that I loved.

  • Review of World Running Down by Al Hess

    book sounds down your alley, you might want also to check out the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels, Six More Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels, and Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien Life, and AI.

  • Review of Queens of London by Heather Webb

    Queens of London is fascinating historical fiction that explores the gritty underbelly of post-World I loved the girl power, historical detail, and the intersecting storylines. This is immensely readable historical fiction.

  • Review of This House Is Not a Home by Katlia

    A book that kept coming to mind as I read this one is This Tender Land, historical fiction by William the "restructuring" that cut off many American Indians from their culture, their families, and their history

  • Review of The Great Transition by Nick Fuller Googins

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels and Six More Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels.

  • Review of Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre

    History was pivoting around her. Macintyre also wrote the fantastic Spy and the Traitor, which was one of my Six Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year last year and which I also listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Books If you like reading about female spies, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Books

  • 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 a bona fide movie star; and I'm reading Kate Manning's Gilded Mountain (to be published tomorrow), historical If you like stories like this, you might also enjoy the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/6/23 Edition

    I mentioned Naomi Alderman's novel The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and been sooooo excited to read this final installment in Freya Marske's Last Binding trilogy, a queer historical

  • Review of The Future by Naomi Alderman

    I mentioned Naomi Alderman's novel The Power in the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Dystopian and You might also want to check out the books on the Greedy Reading List Six More Fascinating Dystopian

  • Review of Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang

    Tomorrow I’ll post Six Fascinating Books about the Immigrant Experience. For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about

  • Review of Happy Place by Emily Henry

    Six longtime friends gather for one last Maine vacation--but each of them has been keeping secrets that Now they've been engaged for six years, they're desperately in love, and they've been dating long-distance Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six another great Henry story; you can check out my review here, and you might like to check out its spot on Six

  • Review of Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

    Every Summer After is a love story told over the course of six summers and a weekend. For more books I've loved, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Great Light Fiction Stories and Six

  • Review of The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr

    Lisa Barr's World War II-set historical fiction follows a Jewish resistance fighter and spy through the In Lisa Barr's newest historical fiction, The Goddess of Warsaw , the author tells a story in two timelines

  • Review of I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang

    novel This Time It's Real, read it in one rainy afternoon, and included it in my Greedy Reading Lists Six of My Favorite Light Fiction Reads from the Past Year, Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading, and

  • Review of You Can't Be Serious by Kal Penn

    For more more MORE memoirs I've loved that you might want to try, check out the Greedy Reading Lists Six Illuminating Memoirs to Dive Into, Six Illuminating Memoirs I've Read This Year, Six More Illuminating Memoirs to Lose Yourself In, Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite, and Six Powerful Memoirs about

  • The Bossy Five-Star Reads So Far This Year

    These are my six five-star Bossy reads so far in 2022. 01 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War.

  • Review of A Conspiracy in Belgravia (Lady Sherlock #2) by Sherry Thomas

    Raybourn's Veronica Speedwell series (A Curious Beginning, A Perilous Undertaking, A Treacherous Curse, and six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/11/22 Edition

    You can find my review of Blake Crouch's Recursion (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Riveting NetGalley. 03 When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill In Kelly Barnhill's When Women Were Dragons, a historic event has occurred but is being denied by the government and historians alike: a Mass Dragoning, in Through various preserved historic accounts and young Alexandra Green's observations, the reader begins

  • Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

    In The Vanishing Half, Bennett follows the history of the fictional Vignes twins, Desiree and Stella, This book is also part of the Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads. #race, #historicalfiction, #siblings, #fourstarbookreview

  • Review of The Light of the World: A Memoir by Elizabeth Alexander

    I mentioned The Light of the World in my Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Memoirs to Explore. You might also be interested in the titles on the Greedy Reading List Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing

  • Review of Funny Story by Emily Henry

    Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading List Six another great Henry story; you can check out my review here, and you might like to check out its spot on Six

  • Review of So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men by Claire Keegan

    You might also want to check out the short story collections listed in my Greedy Reading Lists Six Short Story Collections to Wow You and Six More Short Story Collections I Loved.

  • Review of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

    Several of my Greedy Reading Lists highlight some of my very favorite books that twist time: Six Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, Six More Riveting Time-Travel Stories to Explore, and Six Second-Chance

  • Review of A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk and Robot #1) by Becky Chambers

    Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency... If you're interested in books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: contemporary fiction, young adult, nonfiction, fantasy For my full review, check out A Marvellous Light. 02 Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler I listened to Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe's exhaustive history of the Sackler family as traced His book Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland was one of my Six of the Stories or Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes, or these Bossy reviews of books that play with time.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 12/14/21 Edition

    The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Amor Towles's almost-600-page historical fiction story Lincoln Robert Galbraith's 944-page fifth installment in the Cormoran Strike series, Troubled Blood, and reading Six and I like having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's twists and turns. 03 Six

  • My Very Favorite Bossy 2022 Reads

    In Taylor Brown's recently published historical fiction novel Wingwalkers, Zeno, a former World War I Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War. check out Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. 05 Our Woman in Moscow by Beatriz Williams Williams's historical In Beatriz Williams's historical fiction, Our Woman in Moscow, it's 1948, and Iris Digby, her American The Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer

  • Review of The Traitor (Alias Emma #2) by Ava Glass

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Books about Brave Female Spies and Six More

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/25/20 Edition

    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

  • Review of Love, Lists and Fancy Ships by Sarah Grunder Ruiz

    You might also like the books on my Greedy Reading Lists Six Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading and Six More Great Rom-Coms Perfect for Summer Reading.

  • Bossy Favorite Reads of the Year So Far

    My Greedy Reading Lists are usually made up of six books, but I've had a wonderful start to 2024 reading 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 Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality and Six More Powerful Books about Facing Mortality. If you like this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great

  • Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

    into Hazard's wonder at new experiences and his and other characters' perspectives on the world and history If you like books that play with time, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Fascinating Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories and Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/3/22 Edition

    one of McCracken's short story collections, Thunderstruck & Other Stories, in the Greedy Reading List Six If you're interested in books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six If you're interested in books about witches, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading Lists Six Wonderfully Witchy Stories and Six More Wonderfully Witchy Stories to Charm You.

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