December 25: Books I Hope I Find Under My Christmas Tree This Morning (If you don’t celebrate Christmas, spin this to be a book wish list.)
I was going to do this list based on all of the upcoming releases I really want to pick up, but I figure we’ll be doing all of the anticipated early-2019 releases soon enough. Then, I thought I could do 2018 releases I still need to pick up, but again, there’s loads of top 2018 book prompts going around. So, here are ten 2017 books (some are pretty new, but all are at least a full year old now) which I don’t currently own but would love to either receive as a gift or (more likely) gift myself.
Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller
The Tethered Mage by Melissa Caruso
History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
Foxes and Fairy Tales 
I’ve only read History is All You Left Me, but it’s SO good. I hope you get a copy soon. I still need to read Silvera’s latest – They Both Die at the End.
-Lauren
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I’ve actually read They Both Die at the End so it’ll be interesting to read his earlier work.
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An Extraordinary Union sounds interesting.
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It does! And I’ve been wanting to try something by Alyssa Cole. 😊
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The Alchemists of Loom is amazing – I need to continue that series. 🙂
Lauren @ Always Me
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I’ve heard so many good things!
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Ooh Daughter of the Pirate King looks so awesome- that and Forest of a Thousand Lanterns. Those are both books I wanted to read and never got to. Hope you get some of these soon!!
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DotPK has been on my TBR for so so long 😂
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A lot of these books I need to read!
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Wow, some of these have beautiful covers! Whichwood especially.
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I love it. And it’d look so pretty next to Furthermore!
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Lou, love how you -reset- the bookish wish list to suit your own needs!! You’re quite right too – 2017 had a lot of lovelies being published, even I didn’t get to half of them and one in particular stood out to me on your list!! “Forest of a Thousand Lanterns” — after I re-queue “A Mortal Song” to finish this New Years, I want to read this one next! I am hoping I feel as attached to it as Song, as everything I’ve read about it seems like it would be a good fit for me — we shall see!
Others that also interest me are: Whichwood – I know I’ve heard something about this one but I’m not remembering well what it was,.. hmm. The four novels with Cole’s are ones I want to research – the cover art is eluding to stories that could swoon me with interest but I don’t know the premise yet so its hard to say for sure!
The only author who personally disappointed me was Alyssa Cole – I tried reading one of her Romance novels but for me it was just too abrasive and brash. I have a sliver of a hope left in case she one days writes something I could soak into but until then, I had to let it go.
I love your game plan with this list – its like you said, stories never expire – we just take a bit longer to get to them! 🙂
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“stories never expire”
That is such a beautiful phrase! I completely adore that. I’m going to have to start applying it to my backlist books or something!
I’m sorry Alyssa Cole’s writing didn’t work out for you! Personally, I’ve never read anything by her yet, but she seems to get favourable reviews so I’ll at least give it a try (hopefully!). I think she’s also got some Hamilton-inspired novellas, so I thought they might be a great fit for my readathon in March! 🙂
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