Top Ten Tuesday

TTT – My Favorite Books To Escape With

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Oof. This week’s prompt, books that provide a much-needed escape, really speaks to me. I’ve been using books for an escape for the majority of my life, and to escape from a variety of situations and issues. Lately, I’ve been reading to escape chronic pain and frustration. Here are some of my favorite books that offer me the escape I desperately need:

  1. The Will of the Many by James Islington. In this book, the author created such a vivid world and intensely compelling story, I couldn’t help but find an escape.
  2. A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik. I love an immersive story as an escape, and this kicked off a whole series that was effortlessly immersive.
  3. Red Rising by Pierce Brown. Let me get this out of the way first, I am not a sci-fi person, but this series had me checked out of my own life and out in space instead as I devoured all the books that have been published so far.
  4. Belladonna by Adalyn Grace. A series starter about a girl immune to death, and Death becoming intrigued by her had me so caught up in the story.
  5. The Stand by Stephen King. I rarely turn to dystopia or horror when I’m trying to escape a life that is looking more and more dystopian every day, but this story has echoes of good and evil in a dystopian version of America. At least it isn’t the dystopia we are currently living in.
  6. The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart. This series captured my attention and my time—I couldn’t put it down and blew through the trilogy as a buddy read in record time. Fantasy is my favorite escape.
  7. How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler. This time-loop fantasy was hilarious and snarky and clever and wonderfully creative. I was cracking up while listening to it, and it was impossible to stay upset or mad when I was reading this.
  8. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas. This series, man. It’s addictive in the best possible way, and starting one of these bad boys means that I’m not going to be available for hanging out, meals, phone calls, texts, or anything else until I’m done.
  9. The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan. I loved this dark, political fantasy centering on the fight between justice and a corrupted form of faith, and was so hooked on the series.
  10. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wexler. Although this was slower moving than I usually like, the turn of the century nostalgia and combination of Jewish and Arabic mythology and culture and history made this a wonderful book that was the perfect escape.

Have you read any of these? What books do you turn to for an escape?

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  1. I am so sorry you’re dealing with some hardships now, Leah. Wishing you a happier rest of this year, and YAY for some lovely escapism novels! I hope you find more amazing ones to round out this year. 🙂

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  8. Don’t you just love those books that swallow you up and leave the world behind? I am glad that you are able to escape into these worlds when you need to. The Stand was one of the first Stephen King books that I read and it is just such an amazing huge world written in those pages. You could wander through there for hours!

    The Belladonna series has been on my radar, and so has How to Become the Dark Lord!

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    • I absolutely adore a good book that completely swallows me up and provides a great escape. I’m super nervous about reading horror novels, because I’m a chicken, but I can read certain Stephen King books that aren’t *too* scary for me.

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