Top Ten Tuesday – My 10 Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
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 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Top Ten Tuesday has been one of my favorite memes ever since I started blogging, so huge thanks to Jana for taking over the hosting duties!
This week’s TTT topic is a Freebie, so I thought it would be fun to share my 10 Favorite Reads of the Year So Far. All of my favorite authors delivered big for me in the first half of the year, so these are all highly anticipated releases that met or exceeded my very high expectations.
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My 10 Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
1. HELLO STRANGER by Katherine Center
2. FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros
3. THE TRUE LOVE EXPERIMENT by Christina Lauren
4. THE SUMMER OF SONGBIRDS by Kristy Woodson Harvey
5. YOURS TRULY by Abby Jimenez
7. THE PARIS DAUGHTER by Kristin Harmel
8. THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP by Ashley Poston
9. BUSINESS OR PLEASURE by Rachel Lynn Solomon
10. LOVE, THEORETICALLY by Ali Hazelwood
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It sounds like you’ve had a great reading year so far. 🙂
Thanks, I really have. 🙂
I have so many of these still on my TBR, so I’m glad to see them on your list! Business or Pleasure is one I’m particularly looking forward to!
Business or Pleasure was a fun read for me, so I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
Happy Place, Love Theoretically, Hello Stranger, Fourth Wing, and The True Love Experiment are all on my TBR, so I’m excited to see them on your top 10 list!
I hope they are all wonderful reads for you!
This is such a good idea for a top ten list. And I’ve read two of these and loved them too! (Seven Year Slip and Fourth Wing)
Thanks! I fully expect that the sequel to Fourth Wing will be on a similar best of post for the second half of the year. 🙂
Love, Theoretically sounds interesting for sure.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
It’s a fun one. 🙂
Just about everything on your list is either on my reading plan for the next couple of months or I’ve already read. Wonderful list (of course), Suzanne💜
Thanks! I hope all of the ones still on your TBR end up being winners for you. 🙂
Yours Truly and Fourth Wing were five star reads for me too. I do plan on reading Happy Place, and I own it, but I’ve been waiting because it’s the September choice for one of my book clubs.
I hope you enjoy it when it’s time for the book club read. 🙂
Wow, there are quite a few here I would love to read. I keep hearing about The True Love Experiment. Have a wonderful day, Suzanne 🌞📚💜
That’s such a fun one. It pairs up with The Soulmate Equation so if you haven’t already read that one, you’ll want to start there. 🙂
Can you believe it’s mid year already?? These look like nice summery reads as well.
Right? My son will be back in school in less than a month and it feels like he just got out, lol.
For the ones I read, I have to agree – total standouts. Center, CLo, Jimenez, Henry, and Poston are always great for me. I can’t wait for them to release new books. I was able to snag the Harvey book from the library today. Very excited to read it
I hope you love the Harvey book!
I’ve read 4 of these and have plans to read a couple more. Center, Lauren, Henry and Hazelwood I’ve read.
I hope they’re all great reads for you!
I loved Happy Place too! Glad to see a few of the books on my TBR on your list of books you’ve loved this year.
I hope they’re all great reads for you. 🙂
Oooh! Great list! Glad you read some good books this year!
Thanks, me too! 🙂
It’s so disappointing when a highly-anticipated book by a favorite author bombs, so I’m glad all of these worked well for you. THE SUMMER OF SONGBIRDS is one I really want to read. It sounds excellent.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
If you read it, I hope you love it!
So many on my tbr! I want to read Fourth Wing, Happy Place, Love Theoretically, The Seven Year Slip AND The True Love Experiment! Glad you loved them 🙂
I hope they’re all great reads for you!
Forth Wing is popular. I hadn’t heard of it before people started posting their “best books” lists this month. I’m glad you enjoyed all these!
Fourth Wing wasn’t on my radar until then either, but it definitely lived up to the hype for me.
I’ve got all but two of these books on my TBR list, and I’m just waiting for library holds to come in on three of them. 😀
I hope they’re all great reads for you!
I’ve read half of these and loved them (#s 1,2,5,8, & 10). I guess I need to read the rest!
Here’s my TTT post.
If you do, I hope you love them. 🙂
Fourth Wing, The True Love Experiment and Happy Place made my list too! I only just finished The Seven Year Slip, otherwise it would have been on my list too 🙂 And I’m super excited about Love, Theoretically and Business or Pleasure.
I hope they’re both great reads for you!
Great selection! I can’t wait to read Hello Stranger, Yours Truly and The True Love Experiment… All three are on my list of most-anticipated 2023 releases.
I hope all three of them are winners for you!
The Paris Daughter is on my TBR so I’m happy to see it’s been one of your favourites from this year so far!
It’s one of my favorite books from Kristin Harmel too. I hope you love it as much as I did. 🙂
I pre-ordered Fourth Wing because it’s Rebecca Yarros and it’s gorgeous, but I’ve been paralyzed ever since and have yet to start it. I get so nervous about fantasy. It’s just not my genre and I actually worry that I’m not going to be able to follow/keep up. Crazy, I know. *shrugs* But there’s no denying the rave reviews!
I would say to try a chapter or two and see how you feel about it.
It’s a great feeling when you can rely on a dependable author to deliver and keep delivering. I haven’t read any of these (though I definitely recognize most of ’em!), but The Summer of Songbirds’ cover immediately caught my eye. Sounds like a rich, thoughtful read.
Looks like your reading year is going great so far. Happy reading! My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/my-top-ten-tbr-veterans/
Thank you!
I’ve read three and loved them. ( THE TRUE LOVE EXPERIMENT, YOURS TRULY and HAPPY PLACE). I have three on my TBR (HELLO STRANGER, THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP, and LOVE, THEORETICALLY) and am looking forward to reading them shortly. So happy to see so many I am looking forward to on this list.
I just finished The True Love Experiment today and I loved it!
That was such a fun one. I loved Fizzy so much!
Everyone talking about The Seven Year Slip makes me want to cave and read it. Hope the second half of 2023 is full of wonderful reads for you!
Thanks, I wish the same for you. 🙂