Sometimes we book bloggers get stuck talking about the same books over and over.
This can be for two reasons, like (1) we just are sUPER passionate about our favourites and can’t stop talking about them !!!, or (2) we legit can only retain the memory of about three books overall so that’s why we repeat ourselves.
Which am I? Ah HAH AHA HA HAHA…yeah ok fine I am the second.
I love a lot of books with wild and deep abandon and yet I forget to talk about them?! It’s a terror. But at least books aren’t the only ones who suffer, because ask me my favourite food and I’ll just say “oh…cake!” Because I always say it. But you know what else I really really like? CORN CHIPS. I would sell my siblings all for a corn chip. (MAKE ME AN OFFER.)
Anyway. It’s time to FIX MY LIFE and talk about…
TOP TEN TUESDAY: Hidden Gems
1. ALL OF STEPHANIE KUEHN’S BOOKS
You know those books that are really super disturbing and you finish them and go, “EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS FREAKING ME OUT” and then slap on all the stars anyway??? Here you go. This author is here to fulfil all your needs for mind bending plots, twists that make your stomach flee, tragic characters, horrible characters, mental illnesses, and everything weird of ever.
My favourite is Charm & Strange, but also try When I Am Through With You, Delicate Monsters, The Smaller Evil, and Complicit.
2. WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS
This is about a boy named Adam who is really soft and loves to bake (literally got his girlfriend through making her lasagna) and…is also dealing with very severe schizophrenia. It is such a good book and will absolutely gut you several times. It’s told in a journal format too wHICH I LOVE.
I have no idea why I don’t talk about this book??? I have failed myself. There are literally whole pages devoted to his baking, c’mon.
3. WORDS IN DEEP BLUE
Clearly if a title has “words” in it, I just automatically forget it? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don’t make the rules here! My brain does! My brain and I do not talk so don’t ask for explanations!
Anyway this is an Aussie book, but it’s published in America too. Anyhow, basic summary: BOOK TOTALLY DEVOTED TO BOOKWORMS AND BOOKSTORES. It’s the gift we all deserve and an absolutely enabler to your bookstore addictions.
(I also am sitting here realising I read this in 2016 and remember like 14% of it…but I did love it!! I need to reread wow.)
4. TYLER JOHNSON WAS HERE
Yeah Tyler was here bUT YOUR HEART ISN’T BECAUSE IT’S LEFT THE BUILDING SOBBING. Which is the kind of literature we all need. Also this book is seriously beautifully written, heartwrenching, and #ownvoices about black kids who disappear and how it feels to have someone you love murdered by police.
It’s only been out since March so it is still a baby book…but I do wonder why it didn’t get much hype?
5. ALL THE KATRINA LENO BOOKS TOO
I am so massively cheating here by listing multiple books under one point, wow it’s impressive! I’m outdoing my usual rule breaking! Anyway I am firstly ashamed that I still down own any physical copies of her books, but they are super good and constantly underrated. Summer of Salt just came out but it’s all magical realism with sapphic romance + lowkey witches. But her older ones: The Lost & Found and Everything All At Once and The Half Life of Molly Pearce are so so good too.
REEEEAD THEM. Her books are full of anxious people and I, an anxious person, relate.
6. LAST NIGHT I SANG TO THE MONSTER
According to Goodreads, this has like 20,000 adds…which makes it emphatically NOT underrated in the world’s eyes. However I have never seen bloggers talk about it and it was published back in 2009 whICH IS PRACTICALLY NOAH’S ARK ERA. When this book came into existence I was 15 years old and thought I could exist on peanut butter alone. (Spoiler: I couldn’t. I was also allergic, wow, smartest teen ever.)
Anyway. This book is about: alcoholism and depression. It’s really tough to read at times and mostly set in a rehab facility. I love that it was about healing though! Usually books are about the downward spiral. But it’s really good!! I cry for Zach! Not as good as Aristotle And Dante, but still go read it.
7. WHITE RABBIT
This isn’t about Alice in Wonderland but it is about illegal drugs— OH WAIT. Kind of like Alice in Wonderland! (Shhh, Lewis Carroll was taking something when he wrote this, we know it.)
This, again, is a little baby book…only out since April! But hype? We don’t know her. It’s a shame, because it’s excellent. It’s a murder mystery with angsty queers (#ownvoices too) and it’s set over one night!
I also liked the author’s debut, Last Seen Leaving, but also feel that title describes me at any social situation.
8. A LIST OF CAGES
I mean…I actually mention this one from time to time. But not recently so let’s just go with it: I freaking love this book and it rips out my heart and watches me cry into my tea cup. It’s about broken tragic boys, disability (ADHD and dyslexia rep) and child abuse. And it has the sweetest friendship ever. I want to reread omg.
9. A TAXONOMY OF LOVE
I protest how this only has like 4,000 adds on Goodreads. Dude. This book is cute and fluffy AND deals with some seriously heavy topics (like depression and grief). It’s also about a boy with Tourette’s and I really look hard for books featuring disability so I’m glad this one is out there!
And I STILL love it even though it features wrestling?! Like I can think of few things more gross than wrestling (MAYBE ROTTEN EGGS) and yet here I am still recommending it.
10. THE WICKER KING
I’ll partially cheat here because I mention this one a lot (!!!) but I will mention it again (!!) because it is one of my downright favourite books. Definitely in my top ten (of ever) and I’ve read it twice this year and my heart still is all over the place. Adfjksald. It’s also about hallucinations + queer cast + very intense relationships/friendships + how society stigmatises mental health + tragic sad characters to steal your heart. And it hasn’t passed 10K adds on Goodreads which is criminal. It deserves the world omg.
MY #1 REC OF THIS YEAR.
(Also the author is super nice and noticed my wild and loving recommendations even though I don’t tag authors because #shy. And I both adore her and am mortified AHHHHHHH. I’m such a dork.)
Great list! The Wicker King is one I keep meaning to pick up, it sounds great, and Tyler Johnson Was Here is another one I definitely need to get to.
It is SO SO GOOD!! I will recommend The Wicker King so wildly forever!
Oh wow! Lots of new to me ones here! Though some are familiar to me! Becoming a huge trend for today! Lol!
Here’s my Tuesday Post
Have a GREAT day!
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It’s definitely a week prompt for adding to our TBRs.😂
I recently read Words on Bathroom Walls, and cannot understand how this book is not talked about by more people. Really wonderful and emotional. Taxonomy and Words in Deep Blue are two of my favorites. And YES! Katrina Leno books are so, so good.
I know right?! It’s so so heartfelt and aching and PERFECT and fajsdklfad I just have so many feelings and want more people to read it! (Also why aren’t Katrina Lenos’ books more well known?!)
Yeah so I haven’t read any of these but they sound EXCELLENT and are now on my TBR 😀
I’m definitely guilty of getting stuck gushing about the same books for YEARS. Actual years. If people ask me for recommendations I’m like HAVE YOU READ THIS BOOK IT’S AWESOME AND oops it’s so old it’s out of print sorry.
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Ahhh I’m glad you like the sound of them! And omg it’s like a problem to get stuck in a rut, right? Although I like recommending my faithful old faves, I just forget that it’s ok to recommend the newer or lesser-known ones too.😂
I actually own two of these books and am instantly bumping them up in my TBR! I have Summer of Salt and Words of Deep Blue and am really excited to read both. ♥ Also I remember exactly nothing about Words On Bathroom Walls but I enjoyed it too!
Ahh I think you will really enjoy Summer of Salt and Words In Deep Blue!! (There are so many books to read though omg.) And same with Words on Bathroom Walls.😂It’s like I KNOW I loved it and there was a girl called George, but I’ve got like…nothing else lmao.😂
Um c’mon Cait. WE ALL KNOW YOU LOVE THE WICKER KING. that was so not secretive at all 😂 it’s literally the only reason why it’s on my TBR hahaha
I KNOW! I’M TRYING HERE.😂😂 Honestly it needs more ratings on Goodreads though!!
I will buy it! I promise…eventually. there’s so many books to read and so little time 😭😭
A List of Cages made me so happy inside when all the seniors went to Julian’s awful play at school to watch him say like two lines. 😭 I need to go adopt a teen and shop with them and teach them Shakespeare.
Omg I know right?! It’s like anyone who adopted Julian with kindness jUST MELTED MY HEART I LOVE THEM ALL.
Oh, oh, oh!!! I love this post so much! I love pouring over under hyped books and getting new recs. I’m currently reading, as in I just picked up from the library, A List of Cages. And I’ve heard such GOOD things that I can’t wait to start reading it!
Some of my under hyped favs are: Dress Codes for Small Towns – seriously where is the hype for this book? Dear Rachel Maddow is so utterly fun and it’s queer rep! HAPPY QUEER REP! Please, people read this sweet treasure. American Panda is also awesome and #ownvoices and I felt like it didn’t get enough hype? And then, Foolish Hearts which no one really talks about? BUT I LOVE.
A List of Cages is SO GOOD. Omg I want to reread. I’m actually in a huge rereading mood and my TBR hates me already but oh well. 😂And I really want to read Dress Codes for Small Towns! I feel like I don’t see many people talking about it either and I Forget that I want to read it?! And American Panda = YES. My friend raves about it and I need to read it. I feel annoyed that so so many good and deserving books don’t get enough hype.
WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS is so so so good and sometimes funny. I remember laughing several times over adam’s sarcastic notes.
The wicker king was such a weird book and I liked it a lot as well.
YES YES SO MUCH EXCELLENCE FOR BOTH THESE. Apparently I like to cry over books with delusion disorders in them. 😭😭
oooh this is a challenge because forgetfulness is the bookworm’s greatest enemy. Last week I was reading an article about why we forget the books we read and then I realised that I’d forgotten but I’d read the article before… OH SNAP. I do get somewhat suck on the same old books. A few years ago, I decided on my five favourite series in the world, and my favourite books from each of those series were my favourite books (this may be a surprise to you, but one of thos books was sabriel! and reading sabriel is a good idea because then you can read lirael and lirael is a v. anxious introvert who loves her dog and has adventures anyway and you will love it, okay? please…also at this point I kinda don’t want you to read the old kingdom books because waht if you don’t like them and it is my fault?? this is my worry talking) ANYWAY, I love Eliza and her Monsters by Francesca Zappia, Dreaming of Amelia by Jaclyn Moriarty, The forbidden Wishy by Jess Khoury and The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne.
I’M SHOCKED THAT IT’S SABRIEL. 😂😂 (And also I totally get the fear of recommending favourites because if the person doesn’t like them ,like then what??? Do we eat them?? Never talk to them again?? It’s a trauma.) But I WILL get to it, I promise, I’m not totally sure I will like it!!
And I think sometimes it’s just easier to stay in the same groove of listing our favourites!?😂Which is good for those particular books because they get great promo. Buuut I need to remember to talk about some of my lesser-known favourites too.
How have I read so few of these? I just added most of them to my Goodreads TBR!
THEY’RE SO UNDERRATED IT MAKES ME SAAAAD. *recommends them all over the place*
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside because you mentioned some of my favorite underrated books (words in deep blue and a taxonomy of love) These books deserve all of the love in the world <3 And I agree with you, Lewis Carroll was definitely on something when he wrote Alice hahaha.
Three of these books are on my TBR list: The Wicker King, A List of Cages, and Tyler Johnson Was Here. Hopefully that means I’ll read them eventually. 🙂
I AM THE QUEEN OF REDUNDANCY. I swear my brain has a default list of books to shriek about every single time. I think people have long since gotten tired of my talking about the same books over and over again but they have no choice. I WILL TALK ABOUT THE SAME BOOKS OVER AND OVER.
But of course I would love to talk about others too and give them a chance to be known to the world?? My three braincells just forget this all the time so I blame them for it.
Um I don’t think I talk about The Kane Chronicles too much which is a total betrayal because I am in love with those books. They’re not underrated but I actually think this series is the less recognized among all Rick Riordan books. I just feel it.
I also don’t talk enough about Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty which is not YA but I love it with all my heart. It got me out of a bad reading slump and I’m so thankful. I also feel bad because I haven’t seen the series yet. I’m looking forward to watch it though!
There are too many books in this list I would love to read. I hope I can read a Caleb Roehrig book soon. I actually remember his name because he was recommended to me by Brittany Cavallaro who is the author of the Charlotte Holmes series. Oh I remember screaming when she noticed me on twitter about a year ago. HOW PURE WAS THAT BABY TWITTER ME. AHHHH
I knew numbers 3, 4, 5, and 8! And definitely 10. 😂 I didn’t realize, though, that you’ve read Last Night I Sang to the Monster. It’s been on my tbr for ages.
Well my tbr is dead, thanks. Also come to think about it I don’t think I talk about An Ember in the Ashes or Geekerella much, even thought they both got five stars and I don’t give out five stars lightly. Though I think the reason I don’t talk about AEITA much is because my reading experience for the most recent book A Reaper At the Gates was ruined because everyone was interrupting me and then I went to a movie with one chapter left and then when I was reading the final chapter people would not stop interrupting me. I actually had to re-read the last chapter after everyone went to bed but at that point the emotional impact was gone 😒
Last Night I Sang to the Monster sounds like a tough but rewarding read. And I’ve never heard of it, so Goodreads is lying. 🙂
Ooh, I need to check out A Taxonomy of Love. I feel like Tourette’s doesn’t get mentioned often enough in fiction.
My favorite hidden gem is The Language Inside, by Holly Thompson. It’s a YA contemporary told in poetry format!
Hahaha I have a terrible memory too sometimes. Whenever someone asks me if I’ve read any good books lately/what are some of my favourite books…I SUDDENLY FORGET ALL THE BOOKS I’VE READ EVER. Muchly awkward.
I really want to read A Taxonomy of Love! *_*
Words on Bathroom Walls totally deserves more attention than it’s gotten.
I find it so strange, but you’re right, us book bloggers tend to focus on so many releases and it always ends up being the same ones, over and over again. I know I do that because I am so forgetful just as well though, I’m the worst hahaha.
This is such a great list! I LOVE Words In Deep Blue so, so, so much as well, it was such a sweet story with amazing characters and THE LETTER LIBRARY was just perfection.
I really want to read ALL of Katrina Leno’s books, I keep adding them all to my TBR but not reading them and I am not sure why?? they sound amazing, I need to get to theeeeeeeem soon.
A LIST OF CAGES. Ugh. That book just destroyed meeeeeeeeeeee and my feelings. And A Taxonomy of Love was amazingggg too, I agree! 😀
Such a great list! <3 <3
The Wicker King, I’ve been meaning to read that one.
I also really loved Words in Deep Blue! I don’t know why it isn’t more popular, it’s the ultimate book for bookworms.
And Summer of Salt absolutely sounds like I want to read!
Ooh I forgot I wanted to read Words on Bathroom walls! But now I can since you’ve reminded me……. even though I have like 12 books to read by the end of the month 😆
I definitely only talk about some of the books I’ve read, just because when I think too much about them, I get really nit picky and only remember the bad parts, even if I really really loved it! And then when I compare them to my greatest favorites, they don’t measure up in the same way, so I guess that’s why they go unmentioned.
BUT: I lovvvved Unhooked, Traitor to the Throne, The Pendragon Series, Everything Everything, and Defy the Stars. Even tho they’re not my FAVORITE favorites, they were amazing 😊
I have a couple more adultish series that I really love – Xanth, Pern, a few others – but don’t really talk about because (a) they’re not my focus promotion material (I really focus on Indie Fiction) and (b) I know that they’re a bit raunchier than my target audience prefers to read.
I don’t talk enough about what I read, across the board. I’m trying to fix this, though.
There’s actually several of these on my goodreads tbr! thanks for sharing. I’m adding some to my tbr too!
I’ve been meaning to pick up The Wicker King for ages, ever since you first mentioned it here.
I have SO MANY books that I just loved to death but nobody else seems to ever talk about, and I’m always left wondering if I’m really so out of touch with what’s popular in YA.
Books that I will never stop gushing about:
– Anything and everything by Cat Winters. The BEST spooky YA historicals; how is she not more famous?! In the Shadow of Blackbirds is my personal favorite (1918 flu epidemic + WWI + spirit photography = EXTREMELY RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS) but shout out also to The Steep and Thorny Way, a gender-flipped retelling of Hamlet set in the 1920s with a biracial MC.
– Speaking of spoopy historicals: Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier and Jackaby by William Ritter get all the recs from me.
– Liv, Forever by Amy Talkington is one of those books that feels like it was specifically written to cater to my interests. Featuring murders, ghosts, and conspiracies at a sinister boarding school, it’s like Truly Devious meets The Raven Boys. Baffled that this one never blew up.
– Tokyo Heist by Diana Renn, an art heist novel set in contemporary Japan. Super relatable MC and just plain fun to read.
– I just really like heist/crime novels? Pretending to be Erica by Michelle Painchaud, Thieving Weasels by Billy Taylor, and Overturned by Lamar Giles are also great.
– Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan is a really dishy revenge thriller.
– Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak; small town magical realism with the softest queer romance. Another book I’m surprised never got more attention. In fact, I missed it when it first came out, and I purposely seek out new LGBTQIA books.
– The Kiki Strike series by Kristen Miller. I’m so bummed that I only discovered this series after new books stopped coming out, so I couldn’t evangelize it more. Seriously some of the most inventive YA I’ve ever read, and a welcome antidote to the grimdark trend (not a grimdark fan, don’t @ me). Sadly the series was never properly ended; still hoping we’ll get a fourth installment some day.
I could go on, but these are the ones I always implore people to read, if only so I’m not the only person I know who’s heard of them.
A List of Cages = yes! I definitely connected with the characters and all the heart-wrenching stuff. I loved the relationship between the foster brothers. <3
I haven't read Last Seen Leaving or White Rabbit yet, but I can't wait to. I just don't read enough mystery.
Ahhh it hit me so hard in the feels. I need to reread it actually…this post has me wanting to. 😂
Wow! These books sound so intense! I’ll have to look them up and consider adding them to my tbr. Here is my Top Ten Tuesday.
Thanks for reading!
Ha ha yes, I definitely tend to flail about the same like ten books over and over again and just ignore everything else, which isn’t really fair, but I’ve read a lot of books and it’s hard to talk about them all, all the time! I’m not sure if I never mention any of my favourites though, if I’ve really loved a book, chances are I’ll have mentioned it on the blog at some point, even if it was one I read a while ago. I try to talk about everything I read, as long as I enjoyed it-I tend not to want to talk about the ones I didn’t enjoy!
Anyway underhyped faves that I love:
-Timekeeper/Chainbreaker-WHY ARE THESE NOT TALKED ABOUT MORE? Soft gay boys, clock spirits, steam punk vibes and the second book is set in Victorian India. I seriously hope the third one also has e-ARCs though because they’re not published in the UK and I need to know what happens in the end!
-By A Charm and Curse-I LOVED this one and it’s not talked about anywhere? WHY? It’s so good, such a weird little book but so entertaining.
-Cross My Heart-This was actually on my list this week, it’s a WWII historical fiction about the Belgian Resistance and it’s so good and no one has heard of it, which hurts my heart just a little bit!
-Pure Trilogy-This one kind of flew under the radar, I think because it was after all the dystopian buzz died down, it’s like a post apocalyptic world where most people are left with horrible fusings from a nuclear apocalypse but there are a few who were protected inside a special Dome.
Omg I LOVE Timkeeper! I’m mad at myself for not putting it on my list too. I actually plan to reread it later this year = then get to Chainbreaker (and hopefully the finale will be out by then too.) YES TO CHARM AND A CURSE! I haven’t heard of your other two but must look them up!
It’s so good right, it’s wild that it doesn’t get talked about more! Yeah finale comes out in January I think, I may have to get it from Amazon if there are no e-ARCs because I HAVE to know how everything ends. Yes, Charm and A Curse is so good and I never hear anyone talk about it. You definitely should, they’re both really great.
Okay well there goes my tbr?? (what did I expect, though.)
(also Lewis Carroll was definitely on some kind of… something… and the Caterpillar sat on a mushroom and smoked drugs… Who picks these books for children’s classics??)
I am HERE to destroy one’s hope of not being crusted by their TBR. It is kind of me. I am loved by all. 😂 *ducks as everyone throws things at me*
Lewis Carroll was something…that’s for sure. And yeah that Caterpillar was high. SO.
What a glorious rainbow of books! I’ve not read any of these, yet!
Aww thank you!
I must read The Wicker King. I keep saying this, have been saying it for about a year, ugh. It IS on my highest TBR tier, because yes, I have those hah. I also obviously need to read Charm & Strange too- which I also have but I think is packed away already, sad. Same with Katrina Leno’s books. I loved Half Life of Molly Pierce, and I have a few others, I just haven’t gotten to them yet. Time is so rude. And I totally agree with you about Words in Deep Blue and When I Am Through With You!
*piles it on top of your head* You’ll whip through it SO fast though. It’s really short and the chapters are like 1 page so saying “one more chapter” ends in 50 more and, ya know. The book ends. And you’re crying.
IT’S A GRAET TIME, HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
I just saw The Wicker King on another list! It looks so awesome! I’ve listened to some of Tyler Johnson Was Here on audio and so far, so good!
It’s absolutely EXCELLENT and if I could only rec one book this year, it’d probably be that one!
I remembered why the cover for Words on Bathroom Walls looked so familiar . . . I had a vague novel idea a while back and I decided I was going to title it Letters on Bathroom Stalls, because it sounded cool and I thought I was all unique and stuff. Then I googled the title and realized somebody had essentially beat me to the title and they had done it better. I abandoned that project. xD
I am HERE for sapphic romance and lowkey witches. My favorite kind of book actually. I can’t wait to read Summer of Salt.
Omg don’t you hate that with the titles?! I’ve had that happen with book premises before and was all like “tHEY STOLE FROM ME” despite, um, never having even written mine.😂But oh well. It’s like inception or something. (And yes yes I feel like you’d love Summer of Salt!)
Haha I always seem to talk about my favorite books or the ones that are the most popular. I guess I always think that if they’re popular, that means my readers will like them more. But on the flipside, underrated books are a great way for my readers to find ones! Like this post… *scurries off to add to TBR*
Yes I agree! And like people are more prone to engage if they KNOW or have read the book…which can be frustrating for hyping up the lesser known ones.😂
…Well now I really want to check out Stephanie Kuehn’s books… I love dark, twisty books. I need to read more of them.
Burn Mark is a good duology about witches in modern day Britain. I don’t talk about that enough.
You totally good! They’re so wild and you find yourself hating the characters but liking them too?!? THEY’RE AWFUL I LOVE IT.
I have pretty much all of these books on my TBR… there were only a couple that I hadn’t heard of {but am adding now}… I think I need to find a way to make reading my full time job so I can get through my ever growing TBR!!
Oooh I’m glad I was convincing for those few then.😂 But also kind of happy these weren’t TOO underrated and you’d heard of some!! (Also yes pls can we get paid for reading someday?!)
Oh I’ve actually been thinking about this a little bit lately! I was thinking back to the stories that meant the most to me when I was younger and I can never get past the Everworld Series by K.A Applegate. I was freaking obsessed, and I still absolutely love them and think they are brilliant (so complex and high stakes with incredible layered flawed characters and rich very dark mythology and legends) but I never ever talk about them…..
Hehe… I think you may have inspired me to write my own blog post now….
🙂
Aww that’s great you also love your childhood favourites though!! I tend to reread my childhood favourites now and not like them.😂So usually I just keep my fond memories haha.
Last Night I Sang to a Monster is 11/10 a book I would read based on the title alone because do they actually SING to a monster? Is it figurative? My brain likes interesting titles and come up with possible scenarios.
I’d like to say that I TRY to talk about all of my favorites, but now that I REALLY think about it, I don’t talk about them enough. (Who am I kidding though there’s never enough favorite books.)
It IS actually figurative singing to monsters (the monster is like alcoholism and addiction) but the title has like 989 magical realism book ideas brewing in my brain now tHANKS FOR THAT.
There are too many favourite books to give equal love to for sure though?! 😂We suffer.
I absolutely LOVE magical realism and can never find enough of it so I’m definitely adding the Katrina Leno books! Thank you!!!
Isn’t it so gorgeous and entrancing?! I adore it forever and want aaaall of it.
THE WICKER KING OMG YESSS…but also i want to read tyler johnson and all the other ones but they’re all tragic and sad and i want to read something happy/fluffy for once im…
Ok this I totally understand. 😂 I did kind of hit us with a really heart-wrenching list this week?! A Taxonomy of Love is sweet and cute though!!
A List of Cages and Words in Deep Blue have been added to my wishlist – you enabler, you!
I’m so glad I’m being convincing here. 🎉🎉
I bought A List Of Cages at a book festival and met the author partly because you recommended it and WOW IT’S SO GOOD I STAYED UP WAY TOO LATE FINISHING IT BECAUSE AHH. And let me tell you the ADHD rep is hella accurate. It’s so good and so sad and I LOVE ITE!!
I’M SO GLAD MY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE WORKING ALSO CONGRATS ON HAVING YOUR HEART RIPPED OUT BY THIS EXCELLENT BOOK TOO. (Also I’m really glad to know the ADHD rep was accurate!! That’s great to know when I’m rec’ing it. 🎉🎉)
A Taxonomy Of Love looks great! I love the cover. 🙂
It was so cute and sweet ahh!!
I really need to read Summer of Salt and Everything Leads to You, my friend is a huge Katrina Leno fan and keeps recc’ing them to me! I definitely shout about the same books a lot, even the underrated ones. Maybe especially the underrated ones hahah. I’m forever recommending the Tyme series by Megan Morrison (Grounded and Disenchanted), and everything by Emma Mills, I adore her.
Yessss try all the Leno books!! And I’m glad I’m not alone in accidentally always shouting about the same books. 😂But hey at least you do give love to the underrated ones!! You’re doing better than me there.😂
I own three Stephanie Kuehn books, and I’m ashamed to say that I’ve only read one. D: I really liked it, though. It was really creepy, and had an odd charm to it. I really need to get to my years-old copy of Charm & Strange already!!! I also have Tyler Johnson, A Taxonomy of Love, and The Wicker King on my TBR!
Her books are so twisted right?! Like nearly always unlikeable characters…but it’s addictive and I still always feel sorry for them (aLSO SHOCKED BY THE ENDS) ahhh!
I may have to add some of these to my TBR!
I’m glad I was convincing then!
Lovely choices and it’s awesome when you can rec an author’s entire works! The Wicker King is the only one I’ve read and it’s bloody amazing. Such a unique format <3 Thanks for the recs!
omg omg another Wicker King fan!! *flails*
I also adore Words on Bathroom Walls, and I definitely don’t talk about it enough even though it’s brilliant. AND I loooove Caleb’s books, both were perfect thrillers for me.
Great post, as always!
~Brittany @ Brittany’s Book Rambles
It was so so good afjsdkald I want to recommend it more! And LOVE ALL OF CALEB’S BOOKS. So glad he’s keepin’ ’em coming!
Some recent reads that are heavily underrated are I was Born For This by Alice Oseman and Saints and Misfits by S.K Ali – and I also just realized that they both feature Muslim protagonists.
You’ve been raving about The Wicker King for so long now and I’m so tempted to check it out but I’ve unfortunately been in a bit of a reading slump. Maybe I should read it so that I can get out of it?
Lovely list, btw. I’ve heard of like 3 so it really goes to show how much we can forget about some of our favorite books. I must admit that I had to look into my Goodreads challenge haha 🙂 Speaking of which, you’re really coasting on it!
Ohh I LOVED I Was Born For This!! I’m actually reviewing it soon afjkds it’s so lovely. And I’m definitely recommending you try The Wicker King. It’s also really short so just easy to whip through! And then have your heart shredded by the end. :’)
YES YES WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS IS SO GOOD!!! I think it’s being turned into a movie!
Also I legit ahd to look up corn chips are they like nachos?? Idkk
Omg seriously!?? Are corn chips not universal!? I DID NOT KNOW THAT. but yeah I guess they’re nacho chips?