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.
For today’s Top Ten Tuesday post, the topic assigned today was Best Books I’ve Read In 2018 (So Far) (This prompt was originally going to be a TTT throwback, but I know how much people love the bi-annual top ten books of the year and I forgot to add it to the list! Feel free to do a throwback instead if you want!).
If you would like to check out my last weeks post – click here.
TTT: My Five Star Reads This Year So Far!
Since I recently did the Mid-Year Freak Out Book Tag, I thought I would showcase all my 5-Star or in my case 5 Yummy Doughnut reads from the first half of this year! It has been a wonderful year of reading so far!!
- Children of Blood and Bone (#1) by Tomi Adeyemi
- Iluminae (Illuminae Files, #1) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- Gemina (Illuminae Files, #2) by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
- Lake Silence (The Others, #6) by Anne Bishop
- An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1) by Sabaa Tahir
- Thunderhead (Arc of the Scythe, #2) by Neal Schusterman
Were any of these 5-star reads for you too? Any of these on your TBR? Let me know of some of your 5-star reads from the year so far!
As Always….
HAPPY READING!!!
Children of Blood and Bone and the Illuminae Files are some of my favorite reads from 2018 too!! great list, Maddie!
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Thank youuuuu! Yes! They are seriously good!
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COBAB is one of my fav too!! Ahh I’ve seen so many of Illona Andrews these days. Are they really good? Now I’m intrigued! Great picks!!
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Yes! I love urban fantasy but it’s hard to find a series truly binge worthy. This one is the bomb dot com. I tried the innkeeper chronicles too and that one was really good too.
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Aaaah I’m getting even more excited now!! Which do you think I should read first?
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Magic Bites! It’s the first Kate Daniels book!
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Thank you so much!! 💕
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So many of these are on my TBR! Also, The Kiss Quotient and The Hating Game! ❤️
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Yayyy! The kiss quotient forevs 😍😍😍😍
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The only one I’ve read on here is Ember in the Ashes, which was AMAZINGGGG!! But so many of these are on my tbr. I’m glad they were good!! ❤️
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Yaaaaaaaahh! I’m slow to catch up on the series, I keep getting distracted!!
Hope you like the ones on your TBR too!!
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I loved An Ember in the Ashes – it was such a gorgeously written book! I’m really looking forward to reading Children of Blood and Bone.
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It was so well balanced and paced, I loved Elias! I found a lot of similarities between this and COBAB, so I hope you enjoy it!!
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Now I’m even more excited to pick it up! 🙂
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Looks like you’ve had a good reading year! I think I’ve had maybe three 5-star reads. Lol. I did read Gemina and Obsidio this year, and adored both of them. 5 stars for sure.
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Haha that’s okay!! It’s been an amazing year of reading so far!
I need to finish Obsidio, I’m hoping super soon!!
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Illuminae and An Ember in the Ashes were in my top books so far this year, too! I just received Life Like in a book box and I am hoping it will be good (it sounded super interesting!).
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Yes!! It’s very cyber steam punk, I loved it! Hope you like it too!
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The Kiss Quotient is my favorite book of the year so far. 🙂
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Woohoo! It’s the best!
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So many of these are on my TBR!!!
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woo woo!! hope you enjoy them!
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Circe tops my list! And I loved The Kiss Quotient as well.
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Yay!! I think those two are my all time favourite reads this year so far! They were so good!
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This is a great list, Maddie! I think every book you have I’ve read (and loved)(An Ember in the Ashes and Children of Blood and Bone) OR it’s on my TBR (The Kiss Quotient, Born a Crime, and The Illmuniae Files).
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Yay!! I hope you enjoy them!!
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What a great year so far! I’m reading Reaper at the Gates right now & I’m so scared because everyone is saying to brace yourself for the ending…. but it can’t be as bad as Thunderhead, right?… Right?!?? 😀
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Hahaha ahhhh I’m scared for you too!!!!
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LAKE SILENCE! I can’t wait for her next book, this series never disappoints me ❤❤❤
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YES!! I cannot wait! I wonder if they give out ARCs for the next one… lol we can bribe whoever to get a copy.
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I love Lifel1k3, Crice, and An Ember in the Ashes! I need to read Illuminae and COBAB soon! Lovely list! ❤
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Yes you doooo! I’m hoping to finish up Obsidio soon!
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That’s a very impressive list of books… I can’t wait to read them all ❤️❤️❤️
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