It’s Tuesday and that means that it’s time for another Top Ten Tuesday post! You’ll be spoilt today, because I’ll be publishing multiple posts today since it’s the first of the month and I’m hopelessly behind on my reviews as I’ve finished 4 books in the past week. So, without further ado, let’s dive into today’s prompt! As it’s April Fool’s Day, this week’s topic is “Books You’d Be A Fool Not To Read”. I tweaked it a bit to “Books I Would Have Been A Fool To Have Missed”. And yes, that are quite a few!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
- The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling – I’m always very conflicted about mentioning these books on my blog because this author is problematic as can be, but these books still were a huge part of my childhood. And I didn’t want to read them at first, because I thought fantasy wouldn’t be my cup of tea. I got the first audiobook as a present and I was lost.
- The Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer – I only heard about these books when the first movie got out in 2008, so yeah. The books weren’t available to me before, because the library for the blind/visually impaired never took them in production until I requested them to do so. Ebooks weren’t a thing in my teenage years.
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – I started this series late again, in 2018 to be exact. But I DNF’ed the first book as I couldn’t get into it at the time. This changed in 2020 and now I also finished the prequel. My review of the latter will be up soon.
- Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead – This was actually for the same reason as for Twilight, the books weren’t available to me. The spin-off series however was, a bit strange to be honest. I was finally able to read this series once ebooks were available on iOS and screen reader friendly. That was 2015.
- Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi – Another series I wasn’t able to read before. I also learnt about it quite late, when I picked reading back up after the well-known slump after high school and required reading.
- The Mortal Instruments and other series in this universe by Cassandra Clare – Another series I hadn’t heard of until 2018 or so.
- Archer’s Voice by Mia Sheridan – I finally picked this book up last year after having it on and off my TBR for years.
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – Another book I only heard about when the movie came to theatres.
- The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer – I think that I wouldn’t have known about this series if I didn’t start blogging or finding my way onto bookish social media, but that applies to more books to be honest.
- The Lux series by Jennifer L. Armentrout – This series was only being published in Dutch in 2018, I mainly read Dutch novels and hardly picked up English books back then. In all honesty, I wasn’t drawn to these books at all at first and I swore to never ever ever read them. Yup, I was lost after reading the first book!
What books you’d been a fool to miss if you wouldn’t have read them?
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