Top Ten
Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is top ten
2015 releases that I meant to read, but didn’t. I decided to only focus on YA
novels because there are a lot of books that I failed to read last year. Let me
know if I should read any of these.
Ten 2015 Releases I Failed to Read
1. Red Queen – Victoria Aveyard. I was excited for this one when I first read the
synopsis, but then I started seeing a lot of “Meh” reviews. I lost
interest in it.
2. An Ember in the Ashes – Sabaa Tahir. I was waiting for this one to
go on sale at my local bookstore because I didn’t want to pay full price. It
still hasn’t gone on sale. It's not even in-stock anymore.
3. All the Bright Places – Jennifer Niven. I actually own this book. I
got it last summer, but I still haven’t read it. It’s just been sitting on the
shelf.
4. My Heart and Other Black Holes – Jasmine Warga.
I was attracted to the melodramatic title, but I’m not sure how much the actual
story would interest me. It seems like I’ve read a lot of these types of
stories before.
5. Illuminae – Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. I might still read this one. I’m
waiting for the hype to die down. (And for my TBR pile to get a little smaller
so I can justify buying more books.)
6. I’ll Meet You There – Heather Demetrios. This is another book I own. I
will read it. Eventually. I promise.
7. Made You Up – Francesca Zappia. I’ve seen awesome reviews of this book, but I kind
of lost interest in reading it.
8. Things We Know by Heart – Jessi Kirby. The premise and ARC reviews
sounded promising. I think this book just fell off my bookish radar. I never
got around to buying it.
9. More Happy Than Not – Adam Silvera. I own this one! It will be
read this year.
10. Walk on Earth a Stranger – Rae Carson. I recently bought this book, and I’m so excited to read it.
I really enjoyed An Ember in the Ashes and definitely recommend it. I liked Red Queen too but I know it's a bit of a love/hate book. I really need to read Illuminae too, I keep hearing good things about that one!
ReplyDelete--Nicola Reads YA
Uh I've read a few but missed the other few as well hehe
ReplyDeleteGreat list!
Laura @ psilovethatbook
Al the Bright Places made my list too. You have a couple others I want to read though as well - I'll Meet You There, Made You Up, More Happy than Not and Illuminae. I own most of those so no reason not to. Good luck with getting them read!!
ReplyDeleteI didn't get around to reading any of these either but I've heard such good things about all of them! :)
ReplyDeleteKrystianna @ Downright Dystopian
At least now I'm not the only person that didn't read Illuminae. I don't even own the book! It's definitely time to change that, gosh.
ReplyDelete- Jen from The Bookavid
Red Queen was on my list this week too.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/top-ten-tuesday-39/
Illuminae was so good! All the Bright Places, and More Happy Than Not are on my list too.
ReplyDelete- Emma @ Emma Likes Books
The only one I've read is Red Queen. I'm afraid I am one of those 'meh' reviewers. If I get the opportunity then I may read the second book in the series, but there was nothing that stood out about it for me. Having said that, a lot of people love it! So I guess it depends on the individual!
ReplyDeleteI bought All the Bright Places when it was on sale in the summer and haven't read it either. I hope to get to it this year. I did enjoy Illuminae. Great list!
ReplyDeleteOf the books you've mentioned, I read Red Queen in 2015. I don't typically read newly released books, they have to really captivate me, but Red Queen did that. I loved it and can't wait for the next book to come out. I did see a lot of the meh reviews, and I know a lot of people who read that kind of genre regularly found it be samey samey, but I think with most books there will be those who love and those who aren't so keen.
ReplyDeleteI hope to get round to My Heart and Other Black Holes this year.
Reading With Jade
The only book I have that is on your list is Illuminae and I never got to read it last year but it is on my list to read this year. My son actually wants to read it so I have to hurry in reading it. So many books and not enough time
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