Top 5 May Book Releases Added to my TBR
Time to Spring into another month of new books! Here are my top 5 most-anticipated YA book releases for May.
Top 5 April Book Releases Added to my TBR
Will I be fooled this April? I’ve hand-picked my top 5 most-anticipated YA book releases for this month. Hopefully they won’t let me down!
Top 5 March Book Releases Added to my TBR
Which March releases made the cut? Check out the 5 new YA books I’m most excited for this month.
Top 5 February Book Releases Added to my TBR
Are you ready to fall in love with these February releases? Check out the 5 new YA books I’m most excited for this month.
Top 5 January Book Releases Added to my TBR
Happy New Year! To kick 2021 off right, a bunch of great new YA books are about to hit the shelves. And to help you decide which one to pick up first, I’ve chosen my top five. Learn what they’re about and how they made the cut!
Top 5 December Book Releases Added to my TBR
We’ve nearly made it to December, the bitter end to this crazy year! Luckily, to ferry us into 2021, a new batch of YA books is about to be released. Here are my top five most anticipated reads, what they’re all about, and why they’ve caught my eye.
Top 5 November Book Releases Added to my TBR
November is here! And with it comes another amazing batch of new YA books. Here my top five most anticipated reads, along with a brief description of why I can’t wait to get my hands on each one.
Top 5 October Book Releases Added to my TBR
October is almost here! I’ll summarize my top five most-anticipated YA book releases for next month, along with a brief description of how they made the cut.
Top 5 September Book Releases Added to my TBR
Is anyone else super overwhelmed by how many amazing-looking books are coming out next month? I’ll summarize my top five most-anticipated YA book releases, along with a brief description of why I’m so darn excited about each one.
5 Popular YA Series I Will (Probably) Never Finish
Sorry, not sorry. I list five popular YA series that I just can’t bring myself to finish, along with the various reasons I’ve given up.
Top 5 August Book Releases Added to my TBR
Take a gander at my five most-anticipated YA books of August 2020. I’ll (briefly) summarize what they’re about and explain exactly why I’m unbelievably excited about each one.
Buy, Borrow, Burn: Top 10 Most Popular YA Books
There are a lot of YA books with an unbelievable amount of hype. So much so that it’s sometimes hard to know if they actually deserve it. That’s why I thought it might be fun to reflect on some of the most popular YA books from the past few years—see if they were really worth…
Top 5 July Book Releases Added to my TBR
It’s nearly a new month. Which means a new batch of books are nearly ready to be published. And, since it’s futile to try to read them all (no matter how much I might want to), it’s decision time. Time to rise to the monthly challenge. My never-ending quest to whittle these hopefuls into a…
9 Books with LGBTQ+ Characters to Read During (and After) Pride 2020
It’s that time of year again! Rainbows fill front porches and social posts. Parades liven up monochrome streets. A bright spectrum of passions and inclinations shines proudly out from the hetero-normative mist. And with this grand celebration, this embrace of love in any and every shade, has come an increasing interest in books describing the…
12 YA Books with Pandemics to Read before Breaking Quarantine
Whether quarantines in your area are just starting or just starting to lift, all of us have pandemics on the brain. So why not feed our collective curiosity with some entertaining YA fodder. Below are 12 books that put an unforgettable twist on pandemics and epidemics. 1. Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1) A planetary invasion.…
9 YA Books with POC Main Characters to Read Next
The problem isn’t a new one. But it’s an important one, especially right now. There’s a glaringly noticeable lack of YA books prominently featuring characters of color. The shelves are shamefully white-washed. Rows and rows of pale beauties smile bright-eyed at us from every isle. And, between the pages, token side characters check off boxes…
4 Reasons Reading on the Beach Is Kind of Terrible
We all know that vacation ad. The one with the beautiful girl in the big white hat and sunglasses, stretched across a sandy lounge chair, with the clear blue ocean behind her—and a book in her hand. It looks enticing. Peaceful and gorgeous. Picture perfect. But it’s a big fat lie. Nearly every beach reading…
Top 5 June Book Releases Added to my TBR
It is a truth universally acknowledged that no human will ever be capable of reading all the books. And part of the glorious problem is that we continue to be blessed with more book releases. Yet, dedicated book lover that I am, I feel it is my solemn duty to try to read as many…
Top 8 Reasons to Give eReaders a Chance
One birthday, probably close to ten years ago now, my well-meaning parents bought me an eReader. Raised in libraries, with the smell of ink in my nose and the weight of a hardcover in my hand, I did what any self-respecting book lover would do: smiled, said thank you, and promptly stuck it in a…
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