Top Ten Books Featuring Purple, Green, or Gold on the Cover

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and The Artsy Reader Girl. This week's cover feature is in honor of Mardi Gras, which starts today! I picked all of these books off of my Favorites shelf on Goodreads.

1. Born at Midnight by C.C. Hunter

2. Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini

3. Once & Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy

4. Beauty Tempts the Beast by Lorraine Heath

5. The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

6. Splintered by A.G. Howard

7. Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier

8. The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead

9. With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

10. Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

Have you read and enjoyed any of these books? Or do you have other books with green/purple/yellow covers that you enjoy? Let me know in the comments!

Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases in the First Half of 2020

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and The Artsy Reader Girl. Oh boy, this list is going to be hard! To see my full list of 2020 books I'm excited for, go here or click the Best of 2020 tab at the top! Also, this list ended up over ten because I just couldn't make myself make it any shorter.

1. Throw Like a Girl by Sarah Henning (January 7, 2020)

2. Ember Queen by Laura Sebastian (February 4, 2020)

3. Break the Fall by Jennifer Iacopelli (February 18, 2020)

4. Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare (March 3, 2020)

5. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas (March 3, 2020)

6. Girls With Razor Hearts by Suzanne Young (March 17, 2020)

7. Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi (March 31, 2020)

8. Sword in the Stars by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (April 7, 2020)

9. Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner (June 2, 2020)

10. The State of Us by Shaun David Hutchinson (June 2, 2020)

11. My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows (June 2, 2020)

12. All Eyes on Her by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn (June 2, 2020)

13. Rage and Ruin by Jennifer L. Armentrout (June 9, 2020)

14. Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson (June 30, 2020)

Top Ten Books I've Read That Are Outside My Norm

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and The Artsy Reader Girl.

1. Wilder Girls by Rory Power - this veers towards horror/thriller, but I loved it!

2. Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy - this does have the fantasy I love, but it also has a lot of outer space, which I don't read *as* much

3. The Lonely Hearts Club by Elizabeth Eulberg - I don't usually read much music-inspired books, but I loved Eulberg's other books!

4. Believarexic by J.J. Johnson - this book is a little different stylistically than what I usually read, but it's gorgeously written!

5. The Only Thing to Fear by Caroline Tung Richmond - this is a great alternate history book

6. Asylum by Madeleine Roux - this falls into the horror genre, which I usually avoid, but I couldn't resist the actual pictures from real asylums!

7. The Madmen's Daughter by Megan Shepherd - I don't read much historical fiction that doesn't also have a fantasy element, but I enjoyed this book

8. Rush by Eve Silver - Rush has a very scifi/aliens vibe, but it also has enough general paranormal elements that it pulled me in

9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - this is one of the few non-fiction books that I have read and enjoyed, but at times it practically reads like fiction!

10. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White - one more scary book. Despite how often they're coming up in this list, I usually don't read many. Also, the writing in this is some of the best I've ever read!

Top Ten Books That Should Be Adapted Into Movies or TV Shows

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and The Artsy Reader Girl.

1. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead - They did try to make a movie, but it wasn't very good. Personally, I think a TV show would be the way to go with this series.

2. A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan - This would make a great teen action/spy movie!

3. Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter - This would also make a great TV show. There are many shows out there that center around day-to-day life in high school (think Riverdale) only this would be a spy high school!

4. Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard - The Red Queen series would make for a great epic fantasy movie series! With its ties to our world, the show could also explore how the earth came to be the way it is in the series.

5. Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy - This would make a great movie. Adventures in space + LGBTQIA peeps + King Arthur retelling = amazing. Plus, I would love to see the adventures the gang go on. Think similar to Firefly/Serenity and shows like Killjoys.

6. The Selection series by Kiera Cass - This would make a really fun TV show. I almost want it to be done in an over-the-top Bachelor kind of way, and slowly get to the gritty reality.

7. Take a Bow by Elizabeth Eulberg - This would make for a great teen movie. I feel like it would be similar in feeling to To All the Boys I've Loved Before, just on a different subject.

8. My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows - A movie adaption would be great if made in the style of The Princess Bride. It would be a great combo of fantasy and humor, with a dash of history breaking mixed in.

9. Mara Dyer series by Michelle Hodkin - A TV series of this trilogy, and maybe even the accompanying Noah Shaw trilogy, would be great. It would start with the reading of Mara's letter, and with an unreliable narrator, it could be super intriguing.

10. All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis - This would work in either a TV or movie format. I loved the book, and it would be really cool if the ads were done in such a way that it looks like a utopia, and then the end product reveals the truth.

Top Ten Favorite Books With Under 2,000 Ratings on Goodreads

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and The Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I'm going through my Goodreads list, this will be in order from least reviews to most (all under 2,000). Some might also be upcoming releases, and that's why they have under 2,000.

1. Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy - 115 reviews

2. The Birds, the Bees, and You and Me by Olivia Hinebaugh - 178

3. Soul in Darkness by Wendy Higgins - 322

4. Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan - 525

5. Olivia Twisted by Vivi Barnes - 568

6. The Reckoning of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin - 641

7. Zero Repeat Forever by G.S. Prendergast - 1,051

8. The Scandal of it All by Sophie Jordan (romance) - 1,085

9. Give the Dark My Love by Beth Revis - 1,364

10. Ignited by Corrine Jackson - 1,398

11. All That Glows by Ryan Graudin - 1,745

Top Ten New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2018

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and The Artsy Reader Girl.

1. G.S. Prendergast

2. Laura Sebastian

3. Amy Rose Capetta

4. Tracy Banghart

5. Eva Darrows

6. Olivia Hinebaugh

7. Danielle Banas

8. Jennifer Honeybourn

9. Rebecca Ross

10. Karole Cozzo

Top Ten Books I Read in 2018

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and The Artsy Reader Girl. This is going to feature a number of 2019 releases, as I've been reading ARCs recently. Also, as you can tell, this is significantly longer than 10 books because I can't make decisions.

1. Ash Princess and Lady Smoke by Laura Sebastian

2. Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

3. Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare

4. The Cruel Prince and the Wicked King by Holly Black

5. Grace & Fury and Queen of Ruin by Tracy Banghart

6. The Reckoning of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin

7. The Birds, The Bees, and You and Me by Olivia Hinebaugh

8. Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy

9. Zero Repeat Forever by G.S. Prendergast

10. The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White

11. Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi

12. My Plain Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

13. Say You'll Remember Me by Katie McGarry

Top Ten Books on My Winter 2018 TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and The Artsy Reader Girl. I've already read a few of my top picks, so those won't be on here.

1. Only a Breath Apart by Katie McGarry - January 22, 2019

2. King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo - January 29, 2019

3. A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer - January 29, 2019

4. Lady Smoke by Laura Sebastian - February 5, 2019

5. The Cerulean by Amy Ewing - February 5, 2019

6. Soul in Darkness by Wendy Higgins - February 12, 2019

7. Bloodwitch by Susan Dennard - February 12, 2019

8. Last of Her Name by Jessica Khoury - February 26, 2019

9. From the Grave by Kresley Cole - March 2019

10. Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy - March 5, 2019

Stay tuned! The page with all my favorite and most anticipated 2019 books will be going up soon!