A co-conspirator from the Rogue Book Coven that I’m a part of suggested this great tag she saw from Emily Fox’s Booktube channel.
- Best book you’ve read so far in 2019
- Best sequel you’ve read so far in 2019
- New release you haven’t read yet, but want to
- Most anticipated release for the second half of the year
- Biggest disappointment
- Biggest surprise
- Favorite new author (debut or new to me).
- Newest fictional crush
- Newest favorite character.
- Book that made you cry.
- Book that made you happy.
- Most beautiful book you’ve bought so far this year (or received)
- What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
- Gideon the Ninth by Tasmyn Muir. It’s released in September by Tor.com, but I was able to get my hands on a digital ARC. Freaking fantastic and I can’t wait for you all to read it.
- Brazen and the Beast by Sarah MacLean
- The Outside by Ada Hoffman. I have an ARC for it and just haven’t gotten to read it. I am here for #ownvoices representation.
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood. Are you kidding me?! A sequel to Handmaid’s Tale after 34 years? It’s hard not to have expectations.
- We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia. I wanted to love it so much, but the writing was boring.
- Middlegame by Seanan McGuire. I knew Seanan had skill. I knew that she is a fantastic author, but what she did with Middlegame BLEW MY MIND.
- Tasmyn Muir! If what she did with Gideon is just the beginning of what she has to offer, I can’t wait to watch her shape what Science Fiction is.
- Gideon Nav from Gideon the Ninth. As my friend said, she’s the jockiest jock to ever bro and even though I didn’t think she’d be my type, I’m so here for it.
- Â I loved so many great characters that I’ve read this year, it’s hard to narrow it down.
- The Nickel Boys by Colston Whitehead almost made me cry. It was intense.
- The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal was fantastic. I loved Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows so much so I was excited to get my hands on her next novel and it didn’t disappoint. She’s a joy to read.
- Beautiful covers or beautiful prose?
- I don’t have a list of things I have to read. I would like to clear a lot of my digital arcs just to make things cleaner.
Hey, for 12 just answer both ways! Brat. 🙂
1. When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egpyt. Yas Queen 🙂
2. A Conjuring of Light
3. Sorcery of Thorns!!!
4. Apparently Gideon the Ninth 🙂
5. The Feather Thief, because of the end
6. Monstrous Beauty. Picked it up because a friend wrote it, really good stuff
7. S.K. Ali, of Love From A to Z
8. Michael from The Kiss Quotient
9. Circe
10. On The Come Up
11. Autoboyography
12. Magonia for prose, Blackbird for graphics
13. Tooo looong!