Hello again, and welcome to Top Ten Tuesday! Today’s topic is supposed to be “The Last Ten Books That Gave Me a Book Hangover.” I don’t know if I get them? So I’m going to go with some of the most recent books I couldn’t put down. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. Let’s get started!
Thousands is the fourth book in the Dollar series by Pepper Winters. I don’t know what it is about these books, but they’re really difficult to put down. A warning though, they are definitely not for kids.
Every Stolen Breath by Kimberly Gabriel was another book I had difficulty putting down. I just had to know what was going to happen next!
That Night by Amy Giles is the story of some teens that survive a mass shooting. The characters and story kept me interested and I didn’t want to put the book down!
I waited until 10 PM on September 30th to read Marie Lu’s Rebel and stayed up all night reading it. Fortunately, I had planned to do that and didn’t need to go anywhere the next day.
Naughts & Crosses is another book which had characters and a story that I became invested in. I had to find out what happened to this forbidden couple.
2019 was the year when I read two really good books with the same title. I enjoyed Beverly Jenkins’ Rebel as well.
When Dimple Met Rishi was adorable and I flew through this book, finishing it well before I had planned. Now I get to be on Sandhya Menon’s street team, and I get to go to her Of Curses and Kisses launch party tonight (assuming the snow isn’t too bad).
Sky Without Stars is another book I couldn’t put down. I can’t wait until the second book in this duology comes out, at the end of next month. Jessica Brody is going to be at The Tattered Cover for the next book in this series, Between Burning Worlds, and I can’t wait!
Oddly enough, I’m going to see four of the authors on this list at The Tattered Cover between tonight and the end of March, because Sandhya Menon, Marie Lu, and the next author are all going to be there soon.
I couldn’t put down Astrid Scholte’s Four Dead Queens either. She’s going to be at the Tattered Cover with Marie Lu on the 5th. In October of 2018 I wrote a Top Ten Tuesday post talking about some authors I’d love to meet. Marie Lu, Kiersten White, and Astrid Scholte were all on the list. I thought I’d probably never get to meet Ms. Scholte since she lived in Australia. Kiersten White was at The Tattered Cover last month, and soon I get to meet two of the other people on my list! So far, 2020 has been pretty good to me.
Finally, I had a hard time putting down Jodie Lynn Zdrock’s Spectacle. It has murder, public morgues, mystery, and was written in a way that I didn’t want to put it down.
And here’s the part where I mention that I read all these books in 2019. Although I’ve still been reading good books, I’m behind on my ARCs (in fact, I have the ARC of Sensational, the sequel to Spectacle, and haven’t started it yet, even though the finished copy is out). I’ve barely touched my Winter TBR. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately or something else.
So what books did you list for this week? What was the last book you couldn’t put down?
I think if you couldn’t put a book down, that qualifies as a book hangover! Every Stolen Breath and That Night look fantastic!
I figured it was the closest thing to the definition!
Great list! That Night sounds really interesting, I’ll have to check it out.
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I haven’t read any of these books (yet) but I’m especially excited to read Four Dead Queens. I’ve heard so many amazing things! I’m also a sucker for that cover of Sky Without Stars. Great list 🙂
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I’m a little surprised how most of these books turned out to be ones I don’t talk about all the time. But they deserve it!
I’ve heard so many good things about When Dimple Met Rishi.
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What a great list! Sometimes it’s to know if a book has given you a hangover or not. Most of mine are in a good way and make me think.
There are a few books I obsess about, but I don’t think that qualifies as a book hangover because I’m still reading other books even though the characters continue to live with me.
Every Stolen Breath looks good just from that cover! And I love the sound of Four Dead Queens too.
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The last book I couldn’t put down was The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan (yesterday) which is the 3rd book in a crime series set in Ireland. Amazing!
I’ve never heard of that one, but I like the Irish setting!
Sorry to hear you are having snow. It was like 50 degrees here today in NJ (crazy!). I do hope you get to the book launch and have an amazing time. WDMR filled me with so much joy, and thinking about those two brings a smile to my face. I thought That Night was fantastic, and finally! Marie Lu gave me what I needed back when I finished Champion. Now I feel like I have closure on that series
Yes, closure was definitely needed and gotten. It was beautiful. The launch party was great! Sandhya recognized me from the street team (which is a pretty good feeling). I almost died on the way home (my windshield wipers stopped working and the first time I tried to get off the freeway I spun the car twice), but fortunately God was watching out for me and nobody hit my car.
I hope you made it to Sandhya Menon’s launch party!
I did and it was wonderful! The drive home… not so much.
Oh, I have When Dimple Met Rishi on my shelf! I need to pick that one up soon. 🙂
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Definitely! It’s great.