2017 was a year of so much stress and the hassles of simple living took it’s definite toll on me especially in caring for myself leading to neglect of the things I like to do mostly reading.
When I was growing up, I remembered reading anything and everything I could find, my other talents suffered.
See, I’ll prefer to remain indoors and read instead of developing my inherent talent which included track and field events and other outdoor hobbies. By the time I was in my teens, I could not cook to save my life, I was the least domesticated person you could ever hope to come across 😁😁. I read, read and read some more. My gain? To stay informed and live in my own truth.
So me not doing what I do best for a whole year showed the amount of angst that surrounded me. So I’m saying no to that this year 2018 and moving forward devouring those pages.
First step was joining a book challenge on Goodreads for the year. I’m going to read at least 200 books this year. I will be sharing with you the reviews of the book that I love most as I go, one step at a time.
This is the list of 20 books that I’m starting with.
But to be fair, I’ve already started on my to-be-read pile before I made this post.
FYI-Hope I don’t loose points as most of them are eBooks😁😎. So get a glass of your favourite beverage and let’s go.
1. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
2. Without Merit- Colleen Hoover
3. Born a Crime – Trevor Noah
4. The Hate You Give – Angie Thomas
5. Around the Way Girl – Taraji P. Henson
6. Dating-ish – Penny Reid
7. The Hook-up – Kristen Ashley
8. Bossypants- Tina Fey
9. Egomaniac – Vi Keeland
10. The Hating Game- Sally Thorne
11. The Upside to being Single- Emma Hart
12. Midnight Blue- L. J. Shen
13. Back to you- Priscilla Glenn
14. The Mistake- Elle Kennedy
15. Tease- Ella Frank
16. Drunk dial- Penelope Ward
17. White Hot- Ilona Andrews
18. The Harder they fall-Mallory Monroe
19. Royally Matched- Emma Chase
20. Devil in Spring- Lisa Kleypas
So joined a book challenge this year? How many books do you want to read this year? Which one on my list have you read? Let’s share in the comment box.
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Great blog post! I love seeing other people’s reading lists – I’ve given your blog a follow on WordPress too for good measure so I can keep up with you 🙂
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I will definitely check these out! Thanks!
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I’m a painfully slow reader so no challenges for me – it’ll literally take me three weeks to read one book but only because I dedicate reading time when I’ve absolutely done everything else. I must read more though, I think its so good for you! Goodluck with your challenge!
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Thank you. I know that reading challenge is not easy but since it’s something I love to do……
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So many book here and so few authors I am familiar with! I haven’t set myself a challenge yet but I am sure I should! I love reading but i haven’t done it as often as i would love
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You need to get on that. Since you love to read, no excuses.
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Wow, the list seem never end but all sound interesting to read. When Breath Becomes Air sound a great title and has already catches my attention. I need to find out more about this book. I always believe you get so much joy from reading!
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So happy to have come across this, adding a few of these to my amazon shopping cart (and bookmarking the page to come back too when I am ready for more books)!
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200 books in a year would be so impressive! I’ve love to hear updates from you throughout the year. I’m always on the lookout for book recommendations so this is just the post I needed!
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Thanks Vivian. Keeping my fingers crossed that I finish it.🤞🤞
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I love reading but never seem to find the time – I am such a busty bee. The Drunk dial- Penelope Ward sounds like an interesting read x
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Just finished it and was captivated.
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“captivating”- Damn autocorrect!
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Wow that is an awesome list of books, I do hope you smash your challenge, it would be nice to see next year which ones you enjoyed the most!
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Thanks, Elizabeth for the encouragement.😗😗
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I’m doing The Daily Nerd reading Challenge along with Goodreads yearly challenge of 100 books this year for me.
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Cia, how can I join the Daily nerd challenge?
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Here’s my post on it, has all the information there. Let me know if you have any question, I’ll try my best to answer https://shealwaysreads.com/2018/01/25/the-nerd-daily-2018-reading-challenge/
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I challenged myself to read 12 books this year! I’m an author myself and I’m planning to release three of my own novels myself, but I love reading other books in my spare time.
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Go you! That’s what I’m gearing towards-becoming an author.
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I can’t get myself to use Goodreads with any consistency… I love your list! “The Upside to Being Single” sounds just like a book I’d enjoy. I also can’t wait to read your review on Without Merit! I’ve read my first ever CoHo novel some weeks ago, and I think she’s great 🙂
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Colleen Hoover is great even though critics says she writes on women who act as victims. I’m yet to see that.
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That’s definitely an interesting point of view. I’ll pay attention to that when I read her other novels.
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Do you share your ebooks? I love hard copies, but I realised they are harder to read on the go and before I sleep… hence I would still go for ebooks… Share with me if you have!
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Actually most of my books are eBooks and I’ll love to share. What genre do you like to read, let me know. Mine is more of romance and autobiography.
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You have some awesome book lists. I will definitely give some a try. The title sounds really interesting.
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Glad you are inspired, Shubhada
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I love reading, that was the only thing I used to do a few years back. After kids, I hardly get enough time but still, I try to be near books as much as I can. The Book Challenge sounds great, the list of books look so good, I would love to check few of these.
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You have a great list over there!! I’ll highly recommend Without merit and you should add to your list something by R.S. Grey her books are amazing =)
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Thanks for the recommendation. Will have a look at R. S. Grey
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Hello! Happy Valentines Day! This is a very interesting list you created. Amazing books.
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Thank you, lady! Glad you think so🤣🤣
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Although this challenge sounds fun, it takes me a long time to read a book considering I don’t have a lot of time 😩
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Sorry about that. What I do is try to read at least an hour before bed and during the weekend.
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