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Book Lists, Top Ten Tuesdays

Books With Character Names in the Title

February 1, 2022January 11, 2022by amyleighreads6 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is books with character names in the title!

10 Books I read with a character’s name in the title are:

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Aurora’s End by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman

Fable by Adrienne Young

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Scwab

The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand

Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

Anna K: A Love Story by Jenny Lee

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

Top Ten Tuesdays

New to Me Authors of 2020

January 26, 2021January 12, 2021by amyleighreads17 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is new to you authors. This list is 10 authors that I read from for the first time in 2020 and I loved them enough to want to continue to pick up either their back-list or any books they may publish in the future!

Pierce Brown

Talia Hibbert

Blake Crouch

Kerri Maniscalco

Brent Weeks

S.K. Ali

Emily Henry

Tricia Levenseller

K. Ancrum

Nnedi Okorafor

Book Lists

Series I completed in 2020

December 21, 2020December 20, 2020by amyleighreads3 Comments

These are all the series that I have either read all the books this year or read the last book in the series that was published this year! I haven’t included any series that have unreleased books still, I will just add them onto future lists!

Arc of a Scythe Series by Neal Shusterman

Binti Series by Nnedi Okorafor

Wayward Pines Series by Blake Crouch

The Crown’s Game Duology by Evelyn Skye

Truly Devious Series by Maureen Johnson

Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

The Heroes of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan

Falling Kingdoms Series by Morgan Rhodes

Red Rising Trilogy by Pierce Brown

Top Ten Tuesdays

✨ Witchy Books ✨

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020by amyleighreads12 Comments

I love Witchy Books and since this week’s Top 10 Tuesday prompt is a Halloween Freebie I figured this was the perfect time to list 5 books I’ve read and loved as well as 5 books I am dying to pick up that have some form of witches in the narrative!!

The Wicked Deep & Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw

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Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

These Witches Don’t Burn by Isabel Sterling

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

The Ravens by Kass Morgan & Danielle Paige

Wrap Ups

September Wrap Up

September 30, 2020September 30, 2020by amyleighreadsLeave a Comment

I have been feeling kind of slumpy lately and just not in the mood to read, so I am glad that I managed to complete what I did. Twelve books in a month whilst in the middle of a slump and still participating in two readathons I think is definitely a win for me!

The Night Masquerade by Nnedi Okorafor – ⭐️3/5 stars

The One by John Marrs – ⭐️4/5 stars

The Guest List by Lucy Foley – ⭐️3/5 stars

A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne. A Brown – ⭐️3/5 stars

The Memory of Babel by Christelle Dabos – ⭐️4/5 stars

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir – ⭐️5/5 stars

He Started It by Samantha Downing – ⭐️3/5 stars

Blood Heir by Amelie Wen Zhao – ⭐️4/5 stars

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo –⭐️3/5 stars

Night Film by Marisha Pessl – ⭐️3/5 stars

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir – ⭐️4/5 stars

Well Met by Jen DeLuca – ⭐️5/5 stars