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  • Thankful for Five-Star Bossy Reads

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Five-Star Bossy Reads to Check Out. an immensely readable book rich in period detail, great dialogue, and satisfying elements of love, mystery

  • Review of Ready or Not by Cara Bastone

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  • Review of Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau

    Blau is also the author of six other books. Because of the music involved in the story, Mary Jane reminded me of the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • My Very Favorite 2021 Reads So Far

    but now that 2021 is halfway over, it feels like time to share the best books I've read in the past six We Begin at the End is a great character-driven, suspenseful mystery. If you like character-driven suspense and mystery books, you might also like John Hart's (grittier) books Cosby; I loved Blacktop Wasteland last year (it was one of my Six Favorite Summer Reads) and I just read The connection between Marianne and Connell is the beautiful, haunting, swirling source of misery, heartache

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

    pasts; the rich fictional history of an esteemed figure in early twentieth century New York and his mysterious If you like stories about music, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month: a bitingly funny, poignant book of essays; a candid Jennette became a child actress at age six in order to please her mother, pushing down her own anxiety 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. 04 The Fire and the

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

    Anyway, here are my six favorite (and varied!) reads of the first month of 2023. Similarly, when he stumbles onto a truth about his own mysterious heritage--a mystery he felt he had heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in this third book in her young adult mystery

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/14/23 Edition

    He lays bare some of the mysteries of college admissions--aiming to offer some sanity to those of us Thomas A Study in Scarlet Women was the first book in Sherry Thomas's gender-flipped Sherlock Holmes mystery Lady Ingram is seeking confidential answers to the mystery of the disappearance of someone revealed as client and her duty to reveal the hurtful truth to her friend as she dives into solving this complicated mystery

  • Review of No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler

    Kate's book Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) in the Greedy Reading List Six For more books I thought warranted five big stars, check out the Greedy Reading List Six Five-Star Bossy

  • Review of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

    Her sister steps in to help with their dad at home, and Emma moves to Los Angeles for six weeks of inspiring

  • Review of You Have a Friend in 10A by Maggie Shipstead

    If you like short stories, you might like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Short Story Collections

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/4/22 Edition

    I recently listed some of my favorite romantic, light stories in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Light listed other heartbreaking and beautiful memoirs about facing death and loss in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Rednecks by Taylor Brown

    The Gods of Howl Mountain, and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of All the Dangerous Things by Stacy Willingham

    estranged parents, her other heartbreaking losses, her unaccounted-for hours sleepwalking, and others' mysterious podcaster taking too deep of an interest in Isabelle's personal past rather than trying to solve the mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key plot point of Willingham's newest mystery Click here for Bossy reviews of more mystery and suspense books.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/24/21 Edition

    If you like books with wintry settings, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six themes about society's reliance on attention and outside stimulation; a gritty modern-day, small-town mystery

  • 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.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/21/24 Edition

    If you like the sound of this book, you might also like the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Romantic

  • Review of Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro

    I mentioned Dani Shapiro's fascinating memoir Inheritance in the Greedy Reading List Six More Illuminating

  • Review of Charm City Rocks: A Love Story by Matthew Norman

    If this book sounds intriguing, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List, Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/24/22 Edition

    Reading Now I'm reading A Restless Truth, the second book in Freya Marske's historical fiction fantasy mystery Truth (Last Binding #2) by Freya Marske A Restless Truth is the second in Freya Marske's queer fantasy mystery A Marvellous Light was full of Edwardian England detail, gay love, mystery, magic, wonderful dialogue to an elderly woman on an ocean liner (so she can help her beloved older brother resolve a magical mystery Is it possible that Marcellus holds the key to finding answers regarding her son's mysterious disappearance

  • Review of Antarctica by Claire Keegan

    Antarctica showcases Keegan's masterful ability to distill varied lives into seemingly small moments, If you like short stories, you might also be interested the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Short

  • Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

    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.

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

    Here are the six books I most loved reading this past month. In a world of the near future, a young (unnamed) woman is one of several civil servants offered a mysterious

  • 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 After long months of mystery and suffering, she received a diagnosis: acute myeloid leukemia and a rare Kate Quinn is a master of historical fiction and is the author of the fantastic titles The Huntress, You can find my review of Blake Crouch's Recursion (mentioned in the Greedy Reading List Six Riveting

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

    Here are my six favorite reads of the past month, in no particular order. Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's historical fiction mystery, based on real-life double agents broken up by and bound together by tragedy; Quantum Girl Theory, Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction-mystery-speculative Williams's historical fiction mystery--based on real-life double agents in the Cambridge Spy Ring--is Revival of Opal & Nev. 06 Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan In Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction mystery

  • Review of Bear by Julia Phillips

    I mentioned Julia Phillips's fascinating novel Disappearing Earth  in the Greedy Reading List Six Chilly

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition

    listening to the fourth installment in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible Veronica Speedwell Victorian-era mystery Beginning, the first book in Deanna Raybourn's feisty Veronica Speedwell series of historical fiction mysteries Raybourn is masterful at providing a captivating main character with depth and flaws; a tantalizing will-they-won't-they a tease, and dialogue that makes me laugh out loud--all set against the backdrop of a Victorian-age mystery

  • Review of The Phoenix Crown by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang

    Henry Thornton is a wealthy railroad magnate and owner of the mysterious Phoenix Crown, an artifact legendary Five years later, the crown reappears--spurring more mystery and questions than answers.

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/19/24 Edition

    For more cold-setting stories, check out my Greedy Reading List Six Books with Cold, Wintry Settings

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/27/21 Edition

    it, Browder traces his path from Wall Street to the Soviet Union after its breakup--and the crimes, mysteries you like nonfiction books that read like fiction, you might try the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk

    If you like memoirs, you might want to check out this Greedy Reading List, Six More Fascinating Memoirs to Explore--which links to six more memoir lists for you to dig into!

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

    through two timelines; the final book in a darkly playful young adult fantasy series; a quirky, campy mystery There are mysterious forces and machinations, many of which remain unclear to the reader until late in a black student from Washington, DC, finds herself involved in unraveling a complicated historical mystery After a series of almost slapstick misunderstandings, Finlay is left a mysterious note implying that Cosimano's mystery has a wonderfully quirky setup and campy tone.

  • Review of The Villa by Rachel Hawkins

    The Villa is gothic suspense told in two timelines, both at the same Italian villa, where dark mysteries flighty Chess is a popular, single self-help author and influencer, while Emily, who is emerging from a mysterious long-term illness and in the middle of a contentious divorce, is the author of a successful series of cozy mysteries Hawkins takes us back and forth from the decades-old mystery and deaths at the villa to the growing unease

  • Review of The Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown

    is still on my to-read list), Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Review of Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash

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

  • 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 And stay tuned for this Friday's upcoming list of Six More Great Historical Fiction Stories Set in the

  • Review of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

    You might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Robots, Humans and Alien

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/24/21 Edition

    the attention of a nearby diner, who mistakenly interprets what's happening and leaves Finlay with a mysterious the sixth and final book in Turner's Queen's Thief series (which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition

    I'm reading Nocturne, Alyssa Wees's fantasy novel about a prima ballerina in 1930s Chicago and her mysterious listening to Rebecca Makkai's novel I Have Some Questions for You (also to be published tomorrow), about a mysterious boarding school and a return to the case and all the past issues it raises; and I'm reading the newest mystery time reading missing-children stories, and somehow I missed that key aspect of Willingham's newest mystery

  • Review of The Fire and the Ore by Olivia Hawker

    Hawker is also the author of The Ragged Edge of Night, which I mentioned in Six Historical Fiction Books Hawker also wrote One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow, which I listed in the Greedy Reading List Six

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

    listening to Dolly Alderton's contemporary literary fiction about a stand-up comedian's breakup, Good Material Kristin Hannah I loved Kristin Hannah's book The Nightingale and mentioned it in my Greedy Reading List Six I'm listening to The Women as an audiobook. 03 Good Material by Dolly Alderton Andy and Jen were in love I'm listening to Good Material as an audiobook.

  • Review of What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline

    Scottoline's suspenseful mystery offers surprising depth in exploring grief while the main protagonist In Lisa Scottoline's recent suspenseful mystery What Happened to the Bennetts, Jason Bennett is a suburban Her treatment of this delicate issue within a solid, suspenseful mystery cemented my interest in reading The mystery within What Happened to the Bennetts is twisty without being manipulative, and the denouement Scottoline is the author of Eternal and 31 other mysteries.

  • Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan

    Detective Inaya Rahman and Lieutenant Waqas "Qas" Seif work to solve the mystery of the girls' murders Ausma Zehanat Khan is the author of the Esa Khattak/Rachel Getty mystery series (The Unquiet Dead, The You might like some of the other mystery and suspense titles I've reviewed on this site.

  • Review of The Ink Black Heart (Cormoran Strike #6) by Robert Galbraith

    The mystery's investigative work involves the somewhat tedious examination of online messages, and the destructive callousness and powerful mob mentality that can persist online in real life as well as in the mystery There's an extremely disturbing scene as a climax to the mystery. But the building of the mystery is satisfying, and having spent five prior books with the main characters

  • Review of Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora

    You might also like the books I listed on the Greedy Reading List Six Fascinating Books about the Immigrant

  • Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/4/23 Edition

    Over the course of the past two books, the Bayview Four solved mysteries and established that they were and Knox from book one--along with other old favorites and fresh faces--in a new set of intertwined, mysterious unexpected comes to town, our sleuths realize that not everyone is who they say they are; that old mysteries

  • 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 Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

    If you like this book, you might also be interested in the books on my Greedy Reading List Six Great

  • Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee

    Maneka Roy has temporarily returned to India after six years teaching creative writing in the American

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

    If you're interested in books about robots, you might also like the books on the Greedy Reading List Six

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