Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! Hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, this week’s prompt is a freebie so I have decided to highlight my favourite books of 2024 so far:
January:
Netgalley Book Review – Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett
FANTASY
Random Things Tours – Book Review – Be More Lucy by Suzanne Lissaman
ROMANCE
Random Things Tours – Book Review – The Time of her Life by Tracy Bloom
CONTEMPORARY/HUMOUR
February:
Netgalley Book Review – A Villa With A View by Julie Caplin
ROMANCE
Random Things Tours – Book Review – Point Zero by Seicho Matsumoto
MYSTERY/TRANSLATED
Library Book Review – Hex and the City by Kate Johnson
ROMANCE/FANTASY
March:
Random Things Blog Tour – In The Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
SCI FI/FANTASY/ROMANCE
Netgalley Book Review – The Good, The Bad and The Aunties by Jesse Sutanto
CONTEMPORARY/HUMOUR
Random Things Tours – Book Review – The Colossus by Simon Wright
HISTORICAL FICTION
Library Book Review – Hunted by James Patterson
THRILLER/SHORT STORY
What have been your favourite books so far this year?
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I’ve just started listening to the first ‘aunties’ book – it’s fun!
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The first one was my favourite and I recommend it all the time 🤣
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I don’t have a favorite yet. However, I see a book on your list I had to DNF LOL.
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I’m easily pleased at the moment 😂 ooo which one did you DNF?
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I wonder how many of these will make it into your end of year favourites list?
The best book I’ve read so far this year is A Better Place by Stephen Daisley, one of the books on the longlist for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. But don’t go looking for my review because I haven’t got around to writing it yet!
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Very true 🤣 my taste does change throughout the year 😂
😂 I want to read more Historical Fiction.
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A Villa With a View has a cute cover.
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It has. It’s the sort of cover that grabs my attention. It was also a great book!
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I’m reading the second Emily Wilde book right now! I’m happy to see you loved it!
Haze
https://thebookhaze.com/
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I preferred it to the first one! I’m looking forward to the next one! I hope that you enjoy it!
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I love listing books I’ve enjoyed at any point in the year! I haven’t read any of yours, but I feel like I keep seeing Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands everywhere, and I’m intrigued! I hope your reading continues to be as rewarding!
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Same 😂 I enjoy being reminded of them.
It is very good. It is book 2 to Emily Wilde’s Encyclopedia of Faeries.
Thank you and yours ☺️
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So far, my favorite book of the year is a James Patterson book called Holmes, Marple & Poe.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
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Oh yes! I’ve read that one. I didn’t understand the UK title – Holmes, Margaret and Poe 🤷🏻♀️ but otherwise I hope there is more to come with those characters!
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I love Emily Wilde!
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Same ☺️ I’m looking forward to the next book!
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I haven’t read any of these, but I do want to get to the first Emily Wilde novel this year. Glad you’ve found some favorites so far this year.
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It is a good book. I enjoyed the second one slightly more. I am looking forward to the next one!
So far I’ve been quite lucky to have found some really great books! Hopefully it continues!!
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The only one I’ve read of those is the second Emily Wilde and I loved it too!
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I preferred it to the first one for some reason. I am looking forward to the next one!
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Fab list and so good to see A Villa With a View on it!
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Thank you. I am now definitely a Julie Caplin fan!
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I’m glad you’ve found some great books already this year. I haven’t read any of them…yet 🙂
Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
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I’ve been really lucky. March was particularly good. I highly recommend them 🤣
Happy TTT!!
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Great idea for this list. Looks like you’ve read some good books so far. 🙂
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Thank you. I have been lucky so far ☺️
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I also LOVED In the Lives of Puppets!
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It was a great book ☺️
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Great topic choice! I haven’t read any of these yet, but Klune’s is on my tbr. 🙂
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Thank you. That’s a good one although I recommend any of them 😂
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Great list, as always, Emily! I love this topic idea, and may just have to borrow this one in the future. I definitely have to agree with you on Emily Wilde and Hex and the City – both of those were highlights for me this year as well!
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Thank you. Feel free, it was great fun to do 😊 I didn’t realise how far I had book travelled!!
They were so good. Emily Wilde especially!
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Awesome! And how could anyone not love Emily Wilde??
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😊 I have no idea 🤣
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