Category: Book Recommendations & Lists

Top 5 Books of 2024

Posted January 9, 2025 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Books, Features / 2 Comments

Another year in the books! Most of my top reads this year were in the first half of the year, as the second half was dominated by pregnancy and baby books. These are in no particular order, except for Quicksilver being number uno. Quicksilver | You know that GIF of Lady Gaga that’s like “terrific, fantastic, phenomenal, iconic” etc? That’s how I feel about this book. Is it super original? No. I haven’t written my review yet but in many ways it felt like it could’ve started as ACOMAF fanfiction, but it was still so so good and captivated me […]

Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2023 | TTT

Posted January 10, 2023 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Features, Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Features/Memes / 7 Comments

Spare | January 10 | I watched and was enraptured by the Harry & Meghan doc on Netflix, and I’m so intrigued to see what kind of tea is spilled in this book! The Fraud Squad | January 17 | This is giving me Bling Ring meets Crazy Rich Asians meets Inventing Anna vibes. I love the whole trope of average girl infiltrates high society and/or royalty. Begin Again | January 24 | I love Emma Lord and I LOVE YA/NA books set in college (there needs to be more!) College is such a magical, unique time when you get […]

Best Books I Read in 2022 | Top Ten Tuesday

Posted January 3, 2023 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Features, Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Features/Memes / 16 Comments

Another year, another best books list. I decided to only do a roundup of my top 5 books this year since I only read ~40 books. The past two years I have definitely read less since I’ve become more involved in other hobbies, but I’ve really missed reading and want to re-prioritize books and blogging in 2023 (while also putting less pressure on myself- but that’s for a separate post). Unsurprisingly, 4 out of the 5 books on my list are the continuation of series that I already enjoy, as I’ve found myself gravitating more toward trusted authors and sequels […]

2022 Releases I Didn’t Get To That I Most Want to Read

Posted December 28, 2022 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Features / 11 Comments

Every year there’s inevitably the titles that we as reader’s don’t get to despite our excitement and best intentions. This year I had more books on my yearly TBR shelf than ever, yet read less books than normal. As you can imagine, this has led to a LOT of books from 2022 that I still really want to get to! I’ve rounded up the top ten releases from 2022 that I want to make a priority to read by the end of 2023, and will do a check in post at the end of next year to see how I […]

Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2022

Posted January 19, 2022 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Features / 3 Comments

I always LOVE making and reading upcoming releases lists at the beginning of each year, and 2022 in particular I’ve found SO MANY titles I’m excited for (my 2022 Releases shelf on Goodreads has 100+ books already!) I definitely see that I’m moving away from YA titles as my “most anticipated” books, and leaning more into romance and women’s fiction. I’m really excited for these titles and honestly a lot more too! Running Wild | January 25th | I am OBSESSED with K.A.Tucker’s The Simple Wild series, and I can’t wait to read this spin-off focusing on one of the […]

Best Books of 2021 | Top Ten Tuesday

Posted December 28, 2021 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Top Ten Tuesday, Weekly Features/Memes / 10 Comments

Can you believe we are at the end of 2021? *Cue meme about me still trying to process 2019* I decided to only do a roundup of my top 5 books this year since I only read ~52 books. 2021 was definitely the year of me reading less due to some major life changes and also picking up other hobbies, so I found myself gravitating toward books I wanted to read, rather than feeling like I needed to keep up with certain releases/authors. I also was surprised to find that 4 out of my top 5 books are not only […]

Books I’m Excited To Read for Spooky Season 2021

Posted September 1, 2021 in Book Recommendations & Lists / 0 Comments

I’ve always loved the fall season, but something about this year has me really excited for it. I’m talking my house is already decorated and it’s not even the end of August as I type this post! I think it’s because last year we didn’t get to experience it as normal due to COVID, and while this year is definitely still not “normal,” there’s at least a tiny more “normalcy” available now that vaccines are available and we can start going out a tiny bit more, and it also seems like less book releases are being delayed/pushed back. Therefore, I […]

Top 5 Books of 2021 So Far

Posted July 7, 2021 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Features / 7 Comments

I honestly can’t believe we’re at the halfway point of 2021…while 2020 felt as though it was the never-ending year, this year is FLYING by. I haven’t read quite as much as I hoped too (although I’m not too behind…as of now I’m only 5 books behind on my Goodreads reading goal) I still wanted to round up my top 5 favorite reads of 2021 so far. It will be interesting to revisit this list at the end of the year and see if my choices have changed! Devil in Winter | Read January 2021 | I started off the […]

Most Anticipated Releases of the Second Half of 2021

Posted June 29, 2021 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Features / 14 Comments

One of my favorite aspects of book blogging is making lists, especially of my anticipated upcoming releases! Today I’ve rounded up the top 8 books I’m most excited for that are releasing in the second half of 2021 (you can see my picks for the first half of 2021 here!) I’m also linking up with Top Ten Tuesday for this week’s post too! How Moon Fuentez Fell In Love With the Universe (August) | I am always trying to read more books with Latinx protagonists and I’m interested to see how this novel incorporates influencer culture. Also, I LOVE the […]

Looking Back On My Most Anticipated Reads of 2020 | How Did They Do?

Posted December 31, 2020 in Book Recommendations & Lists, Books, Features / 2 Comments

I LOVE end of the year wrap up posts. Not only are they fun to read, but they’re fun to write too- it’s so helpful to have a digital record on the blog of my roundups from each year, and today I’m going to be looking back at the books I deemed as my most anticipated 2020 releases and see how I ended up feeling about them! For reference, I made two lists of anticipated releases, one for the first half of 2020 and one for the second half of 2020. Not if a book has a half star rating, […]