Books I Read Because Someone Recommended them to Me

By Brookelorren on 26 Comments
Top Ten Tuesday

Hello! Welcome again to Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl). Today we’re talking about book recommendations. We seem to get them every week on Top Ten Tuesday. Some books I know exactly where I got the recommendations from. Most books, however, I get recommended from you fine folks. So today I’ll start with the ones I know where they were recommended, and I’ll finish off with some that I heard about from blogging.

The World is Flat

After my grandma died, I went to her memorial “party.” It’s kind of weird to have a party, but that’s what she wanted. My former German teacher, Herr Taylor, was there. He was a good guy, and was more than just my German teacher; he was a friend of the family. We were talking, and he recommended The World is Flat to me. One of the things that stood out to me about that evening was I realized I probably was never going to see Herr Taylor again because my grandma was the main tie between us (he’s no longer with us, so I was right). The book turned out to be good.

Legend cover

Who says that libraries don’t sell books? I loved Divergent. One day at the library, I told that to the librarian, who recommended Legend to me. I have since purchased seven copies of this book (English, Spanish, German on Kindle, paperback, 1st printing hardback, and 2 as gifts). Not to mention I’ve purchased all of Marie Lu’s books since then (most of them in both hardback and Kindle versions).

Fallen Glory

When I was at the Penguin Teen Tour this March, Marie Lu said she had been reading Fallen Glory and thought it was really good. The day before the library shut down, I remembered the book and checked it out. It turns out, it was really good.

The Dysasters cover

Back when I was working at Walmart, one of my coworkers was Lydia. When I discovered that she was a reader, well, that gave us a lot to talk about. She really loved The Vampire Academy, but I still haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. Her favorite author was P.C. Cast, so when I saw The Dysasters over on Netgalley, I had to request it.

Rebel cover

Rebel by Beverly Jenkins was recommended by Bee on Twitter. I don’t know what happened to her–I haven’t seen her in a while, and when I searched for her, I couldn’t find her. I hope she’s okay. But she did recommend this book, which was one of two amazing books with the title Rebel that I read in 2019.

Deep Nutrition

Back when I was listening to Underground Wellness, Sean Croxton, the host, always had different authors come on and talk about their books. One of the books that I read as a result of his recommendation was Deep Nutrition.

The Raven Boys cover

The Raven Boys is one of those books that I saw all the time in the book blogging world before I actually got around to reading it. And then of course, since I liked it, I have to go around and recommend it to other people.

The Last Year of the War cover

And that’s all of the book recommendations I can say who I got the recommendation from. I heard about The Last Year of the War from one of my blogging friends. It was a beautiful book that I highly recommend to other people.

Fangirl cover

Fangirl is another one of those books that I ended up reading because everybody seemed to be raving about it. Although I checked this book out of the library, book bloggers deserve a lot of credit for spreading the word about all these amazing books that are out there.

Shadow and Bone cover

The Grishaverse books are another set of books that were recommended by many of you fine people in the book blogging world. At the time I started reading these books, the Six of Crows duology was huge, but I decided to start at the very beginning, which I thought turned out to be a good choice.

So those are ten books that were either recommended to me personally, were recommended by someone who talked about books they liked, or were recommended by book bloggers. What books were recommended to you? Do you get a lot of personal recommendations from friends and librarians, or are you more like me, finding many of your books from bloggers that gush about their favorites, and then you just have to read them too?

Next week is a Halloween Freebie. I don’t celebrate that holiday, but I’ll try to find something to write about in the ballpark.

26 comments

    1. I think Marie Lu’s books are the ones I’ve forced–err, recommended–other people to read. I bought the Legend Trilogy for my niece, both my kids have read it (my boy read the graphic novels though), and even my dh has read the first couple books! My boy has also read The Young Elites and the Warcross series. I took him to meet her in March.

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    1. Before Covid, I was at the library 2 or 3x a week, although I didn’t spend much time talking to the librarians either. I find so many books via book blogging that when I go to check out a book, I either a) put the book on hold and just pick it up at my normal library, or b) if it’s at one of the two convenient libraries to me and on the shelves, just go straight to the shelf location and grab it. Book blogging seems to have taken away the need to ask for recommendations, I guess.

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    1. It did for my niece too. She told me that she loved Divergent, so I got her the Legend trilogy for Christmas several years ago. Last Christmas, she told me that she liked Legend, so guess what I’m getting her this year… my extra copy of Skyhunter. I’ll probably get her Rebel and the Warcross Duology too, depending on whether my dh has a job by then. If not… my free copy of Skyhunter will have to do, LOL.

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    1. Me too!

      My book (hopefully to be queried soon) was based on a dream I had of Day and June. My book is about Medieval elves and humans and has magic and dragons, but there is a chain of connection between the two books.

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