Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week we talk about our top ten with a different topic provided by Jana. This week’s topic is top ten – Books That I Refuse to Let Anyone Touch.
For this post, I’m going to change the topic instead to books I want everyone to read because books I won’t let anyone touch will be the books that I have collectors editions. So, in no particular order here are ten (or more) books I recommend the most.
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (specifically the audiobook)
How She Died, How I Lived by Mary Crockett
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody
The Birds, The Bees, and You and Me by Olivia Hinebaugh
Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (specifically the audiobook)
Dry by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner
What books do you find yourself recommending the most? Have you read any from my list? What books do you think should have made this list?
Keep on reading lovelies, Amanda.
Aru Shah, my heart! I love anything by Roshani so much. She’s such an incredible writer and Aru is so much fun. I need to get to the second in the series asap.
Omg I just finished the second one today! The beginning was a little confusing because they really jump right into things but I LOVED it anyway.
Ace of Shades was really good. That’s the only one I’ve read so far.
King of Fools was even better! Have you read the sequel?
I like your twist to this week’s prompt!
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Thanks! I only have like two books that no one is allowed to touch, but even then…I have copies of those books to lend to people lol.
I’ve been on the library waitlist for Dry for quite a while. You’re only making me more curious to read it.
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It was SO good. I’ve seen a few mixed reviews but I adored it.
Ooh I love Ace of Shades! Have you read King of Fools yet? It’s fantastic!
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Yes! I loved it even more than Ace of Shades
Me too, so good right? I cannot wait for the third book to come out next year!
Same!! I got to meet her at one of her book tour stops and she’s so funny!
Oh I’m so jealous! I’d love to meet her, but her publishers haven’t sent her on a UK tour yet. Hopefully some day!
Awe! That would be super cool. I’m sure shell make it over there!
Hopefully!
There are so many good books on this list, but Beartown really stands out to me. I had a hard time with it in the beginning. It was so slow, but it was really setting up an amazing story. It’s so important. Great list!
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I totally agree about Beartown.
Great list! I really want to give Elizabeth Acevedo’s work a try, her books sound SO good.
I suggest the audiobooks for sure! She narrates them herself and it’s so cool.
I’ve had my eye on The Birds, and The Bees for a bit. I heard about it a while ago but haven’t heard anything about it much so far. I’m glad you liked it!! I don’t remember the summary too much but I’m always here for a contemporary romance, lol
It’s her debut novel so it wasn’t the most amazing book I’ve ever read but it really hit home for me. It was the book I would have loved to have had in high school.
Aw that’s great! I’m so glad more books like that are coming out for teens! A book I would have liked in high school is probably going to be To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before. I love Lara Jean and her quiet self-confidence.
Too true! I was also lucky enough to meet the author Olivia hinebaugh and she was so sweet and funny.
Stephanie Garber is also like that! I met her in person, and while I didn’t love Caraval like so many, so was so friendly. It’s so nice when you meet authors like that, especially if you traveled far to meet them.
Yes! I don’t usually travel more than an hour or two thankfully. It’s always so fun.
That’s nice you’re able to go to book signings and they’re ~semi~ close! I have a bookstore that doesn’t do a lot of signings, but it’s only 30 minutes away so that’s nice.
that’s not too far! I’m lucky to be close to a major city that some authors visit!