Top Ten Tuesday used to be a weekly post hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, but was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl. “It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.” This is definitely something I can understand and want to participate in.
I have a few people that I consistently rely on for awesome book recommendations. This is my chance to spotlight them!
First and foremost, I want to give a shoutout to Kristy @ Caffeinated Fae. She is my book recommendation guru, and literally every single book that she’s told me to read has been incredible. She’s also an amazing human being and a great blogger, so if you haven’t gotten a chance to check out her blog, I highly suggest that you do so!
Another blogger that I always love reading reviews by is Susan @ Novel Lives. Her book reviews are comprehensive, funny, and reflect her personality in the best way possible, so they’re incredibly amusing. She and I have some similar taste in books, and I’ve found some great books by browsing her blog. Also, she has some of the most amazing overlords cats ever.
Dini @ DiniPandaReads is my bookish twin. She and I have some very similar taste in books as well, and I often get a lot of inspiration from her blog. She posts the most awesome stuff, and I absolutely adore her. So check her out!
- Hook and Pan by Gina L. Maxwell, suggested by Kristy @ Caffeinated Fae. Yes, I know that these are two books, but it’s in the same series, and they’re amazing!
- The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden, suggested by Kristy @ Caffeinated Fae. This Russian fairy tale retelling is such an amazing story, and I love the heck out of it!
- Sparrow by Mary Cecilia Jackson, suggested by Kristy @ Caffeinated Fae. She actually sent me a copy, which I appreciated so much. It’s a really powerful story, and it’s written so well.
- Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert, suggested by Kristy @ Caffeinated Fae. This book is incredible, and it had everything I could have ever hoped for — enemies to lovers romance, chronic illness that was accurately and sensitively portrayed, humor that had me laughing out loud, and scorching sexy scenes.
- The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson, suggested by Susan @ Novel Lives. Man, was this book great. I can’t speak highly enough about this book, so if you haven’t already read it, just read my review and then read the book.
- Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake, suggested by Susan @ Novel Lives. She practically twisted my arm to get me to read this book, but once I started I couldn’t stop. I’m currently reading the last book in the series, and I regret nothing!
- This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab, suggested by Dini @ DiniPandaReads. Ok, so Dini didn’t necessarily suggest THIS book directly, but she did suggest this author, and this was the one that my library had on hand. So of course, I grabbed it, and fell in love with the story and the author’s writing style. I’ll definitely be reading more of her work.
- Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven by Bella Forrest, suggested by my friend Kim. She makes a lot of great suggestions to me, and I’ve taken literally all of them except one, because she a) knows me really well, and b) picks amazing books. This wasn’t the *best* book I’ve ever read, but it was certainly an enjoyable, quick read.
- Recommended for You by Laura Silverman, suggested by Kayla @ Kayla Reads and Reviews. I know Kayla through Twitter, and she suggested that I give this one a read because it was a Jewish OwnVoices book. Plus, it was a sweet YA romance set during Chanukah in a BOOKSTORE, featuring the enemies to lovers that I love so much.
- The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang wasn’t suggested by anyone directly, but I wanted to read it because it just felt like everyone on book Twitter was talking about it, and I wanted to see what it was all about. And let me tell you — the hype was not overrated at all!
I’m always open to hearing about new books to read, so give me some of your favorites!
Categories: Top Ten Tuesday
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Thank you for recommending these to me in turn, I’m especially interested in This Savage Song! ☺️
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My pleasure! It was such a good book, I couldn’t help but love it.
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Great list! I really enjoyed The Bear and the Nightingale and I liked The Year of the Witching, too. Three Dark Crowns is one I keep thinking about picking up!
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Do it! It’s such a good one!
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Sparrow was definitely an underhyped book. I’ve read a few others on your list and liked them too. I got Three Dark Crowns on sale a couple years ago, but still haven’t read it. I need to!
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Three Dark Crowns is a really good one! You should absolutely check it out, especially if you already own it. There’s so many surprises in the series.
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The Poppy War is definitely one I’ve become more interested in over the last year because everyone on Twitter seems to be talking about it!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/10/20/top-ten-tuesday-286/
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Read it!!! It’s a little brutal but totally worth the read. It’s an incredible book!
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I’ve heard so many good things about The Year of the Witching.
My post.
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It really was a great book, I highly suggest it. 🙌🏻
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Wow! I don’t think there’s any bigger compliment that you could give a book blogger than that EVERY ONE of her recommendations is on point. That’s huge. I’m going to check out your go-to blogs for sure.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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What can I say, my peeps know what I like, and make great suggestions? It doesn’t hurt that one is a former bookseller (Kristy) and one is a current bookseller (Susan). I hope you love all their blogs as much as I do!
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I loved Get A Life, Chloe Brown! Here is my post-https://paigesofbook.blogspot.com/2020/10/top-ten-tuesday-books-series-i-read-am.html.
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You’ve got to read The Weaver Trilogy by Lindsay A. Franklin! They are so good! I’ll have a review on the first one tomorrow, so you can get more info from that. It is really good, though!
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Oooh I just looked it up, and it sounds really interesting. Thanks for the recommendation, I’ve already added it to my TBR! I’ll definitely be checking out your review tomorrow, though.
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Good! See ya then!
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I loooooove the Winternight series!
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It really is such a great series. I’m forever indebted to Kristy for introducing me to it!
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I read Chloe Brown because everyone and their sister seemed to be reading and loving it.
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Loved Chloe Brown! And I definitely read it because of all my fellow blogger’s recommendations, too. 😍
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It was such a good one, and Dani Brown was too!
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Awwh, YES! Schwab is the best 😍 I would definitely recommend her other books too. Her Darker Shades of Magic and Villains series are two of my all time faves! I totally second a lot of these other recommendations including Chloe Brown and TPW! They were so great 🙂 I’m now super intrigued by Hook and Pan and I’m going to check them out after this lol great list!
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Thanks! I can’t wait to read more Schwab! And I really hope you love Gina’s books as much as I did. 😍
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