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This is my favorite kind of lighter-tone contemporary fiction.

Here are six of my favorite mystery and suspense reads of last year--with another list to come! And I'd also love to hear: what are some of your favorite mystery reads? This allows for the cooperative problem-solving that I adore in the rest of the series. And Emma would very much like to make it out of this alive as well. I was so happy to realize this is the first in a planned series. Sign me up for every bit of this!

upcoming romance story-within-a-story, Great Big Beautiful Life ; I'm listening to the first mystery in a series Henry's Beach Read  was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading This is the first in a series of three books about Joe Talbert. 03 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

My favorite writing often turns expectations on their heads, and In Show Don't Tell , Sittenfeld draws

My favorite science fiction novels examine the Big Issues: What makes us people?

book made it onto my Greedy Reading Lists Six Historical Fiction Books I Loved This Year and My Twelve Favorite 2020 Books.

The Summer Favorites These titles aren't light "summer reads," but they were my favorite reads from a what loyalty means, and to face how dark the path ahead might become when the bad guys are truly evil, very

coping with the grief of having lost her mom and navigating romance using the inspiration of her mom's favorite coping with the grief of having lost her mom and navigating romance using the inspiration of her mom's favorite

The found-family element is a favorite of mine, and the makeshift nature of Caffall's imagined future

My Oxford Year is my favorite kind of romance; Whelan uses a light-fiction structure to take on seriously

Intermezzo is one of my favorite Rooney novels yet, exploring complicated families, grief, unconventional relationships is unconventional, and various players involved struggle to let go of societal expectations in favor

Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Favorites I've been thinking through my favorite books of the year for an What made them your favorites? 01 The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell This book! Edward tries on the mantle of taking responsibility for every life lost; he wallows in the despair of oddly unresolved at the end--even keeping in mind that there's a second book in Donati's Waverly Place series

The Guide is a literary thriller by one of my favorite authors, in which Jack (from Heller's book The I was also unclear in the very last scene of the book about the seeming surprise of a character's reaction

With her savvy smarts and big heart, she was one of my favorite characters.

I've been listening to two great, very different books and reading a third. I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light

Barbara Brown Taylor is one of my favorite authors, but this slim, early book of hers didn't offer the

I love a time-travel book (see lists of some of my favorites, linked below). In A.G. Ultimately, very little of Lost in Time takes place in this distant past.

Peter Heller is an absolute favorite author of mine. His writing is just gorgeous and I'm in for every word.

Brooks's newest book, Horse, and I realized that I haven't posted a Bossy review of another Brooks favorite

Elliott In this young adult novel (ages 12 to 16) that's one of my current reads--and published by my favorite The next book in this series is Pretty Rude for a Girl. Elliott is also the author of the Owl Diaries series and over twenty picture books. 03 Subpar Parks: You can also buy posters and postcards of your favorites--in our laundry room we have a poster of a grumpy My local favorite is Park Road Books, and their smarty staff can get you the books you want--or recommend

What are your favorite witchy stories? Danger and darkness lurk around every corner. The Last Graduate is the second book in the Schlomance series. The Golden Enclaves, the third book in the series, is expected to be published in 2022. 04 The Year of The atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town created an eerie, claustrophobic feeling.

What are your favorite witchy stories? Novik's Scholomance series is set at a magical school with two routes out for its students: a grueling Danger and darkness lurk around every corner. spent showing the tasks of daily life (and almost-claustrophobic interconnectedness) within a tiny, very Through a series of unexpected events, Lucky St.

listed in my Greedy Reading List Six More Time-Travel Stories to Explore , but included as one of my favorite

Not in Love is irresistible, the pacing is great, and the banter is excellent--funny dialogue is a favorite

We read aloud Barbara Robinson's 1971 holiday classic every Christmas season around here, and I love it every single time. is a favorite moment in the story.

Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

This book made my Greedy Reading List of My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

What are your favorite witchy stories? Danger and darkness lurk around every corner. The Last Graduate is the second book in the Scholomance series. The Golden Enclaves, the third book in the series, was published in fall 2022. 04 The Year of the Witching The atmospheric descriptions of the remote, tiny town created an eerie, claustrophobic feeling.

The everyday-person/famous-person love is a favorite trope of mine, and Norman adds emotional complexities

despite the fact that the number of unresolved homicides were growing exponentially across the country every Reading List Six Compelling Nonfiction Reads--and stay tuned for my upcoming list of Six Nonfiction Bossy Favorites

best-friendship between Jess and Fizzy (Felicity) is one of the funniest aspects and was one of my favorite My favorite book to date by this writing team is the lovely Autoboyography.

, hope and forgiveness, being true to oneself and growing up, and of course love. ...we should grab every while navigating the sparkly idea--and messy reality--of romance, with the inspiration of her mom's favorite

Barnes's eerie science fiction novel Ghost Station; and I'm listening to Emily Henry's newest delightful Henry's Beach Read was one of my favorite books the year I read it, and it made it onto the Greedy Reading

Do you have any favorite cold-setting books? There's a second book in this Naomi Cottle series, The Butterfly Girl, which I haven't yet read, and Disappearing Earth is a story that is as much about the varied cast of characters, the closed-off, remote The very existence of Hurley's images is incredible; the glass plate negatives lasted through months

This book is listed in my Greedy Reading List My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

Jessica Knoll is also the author of Luckiest Girl Alive , The Favorite Sister , and American Girl .

Alternative Arthurian legends twist through this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked reading Silver in the Bone, with its Arthurian references, during the same period I was reading another (very The book ends on a cliffhanger, setting up book two, which will hopefully be published in 2024 and which

corruption in Russia and the significant repercussions of doing so; The Guide, a new book by one of my favorite after the events of his book The River as main character Jack serves as a fishing guide at an elite but eerie The Guide is a literary thriller by one of my favorite authors, in which Jack (from Heller's book The I hope you'll join me in my adoration of Peter Heller's varied books, including his thrilling, character-driven

Photographic History by Ken Burns Our America is a collection of some of treasured filmmaker Ken Burns's favorite range of experiences from our 200 years of American history. 03 The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World by Lonely Planet The Travel Book is a 2021 stunner from Lonely Planet, and this Since then I've also watched him in the movie Meru and in the TV series Edge of the Unknown.

by Elizabeth Strout Elizabeth Strout is one of my favorite authors, and this recently published book The section of limericks centered around dogs and their rude behavior isn't my favorite so far, but I

radar, French is the author of six Dublin Murder Squad books (In the Woods, The Likeness--this is my favorite was a series until after the fact, it stands so well on its own. Panowich also wrote Like Lions and Hard Cash Valley, the next two books in this series. What mystery/suspense reads have been your favorites lately? These were all so good and so different--they were my favorites from 2019, in the general order of when

Every choice he makes is to further his chances of snatching the next fix. This book made my Greedy Reading List for My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads.

Do you have any favorite short story collections I should read? We get to know something about life in contemporary Britain through the varied interconnected friendships here for my full review of Festival Days. 03 You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead Shipstead's varied The tones of each captivating story vary wildly, whether lighthearted with an edge or tragic and dark Maggie Shipstead is also the author of Astonish Me, Seating Arrangements, and Great Circle, one of my favorite

The Five-Star Bossy Favorites Someone asked me a while back if I ever give five-star ratings to the books These are my six five-star Bossy reads so far in 2022. What made them your favorites? Every heart-stopping moment; every exquisite detail; the characters' growth, emotional distance, and

written by chefs and by people who are obsessed with food, and the books listed here are some of my favorites and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl Garlic and Sapphires may be my favorite Then the layers of crisp and sweet and soft intermingle, a series of surprises. Confidential thirteen years ago, well before I spent endless evenings happily watching multiple television series Reichl includes her own photographs and some of her favorite recipes, which together make the book feel

Yourself In Six Foodie Memoirs to Whet Your Appetite Six Powerful Memoirs about Facing Mortality Six of My Favorite

I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light

With the exception of Sawbones, each of these books was published in 2022. The inclusion of the viewer and the science focus reminds me of a different but favorite book gift of Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine by Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy This is a 2020

Do you have any favorite books that involve revenge? I loved this book and am eagerly awaiting another in this series from Walschots. Anna is a hench. Derek and Isiah were estranged from their ex-con fathers, each of whom now regret every moment they didn't loved his gritty, character-driven mystery-thriller Blacktop Wasteland so much that it made my Six Favorite

Hardinger's All the Forgivenesses, which I mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Historical Backlist Favorites