Yes, I’m here again with another Top 10 Tuesday post. I’m trying to get back into taking part in the weekly challenge as I love how it brings the book blogging community together!

This week’s theme includes one of my favourite things to do: talk about books that I’ve absolutely loved. I haven’t got reviews for all of them yet, as I have a backlog of ones that I need to write, but ones that I have reviews for are linked 🙌🏻.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish list prompt originally hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

 

The topic for this week is:

Favourite Books of 2020

 

The rules are simple:

• Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
• Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
• Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
• Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

 

 

This was the year of audiobooks for me, and there were only a handful of books that I read physical copies of such as The Mask Falling. 

Sadie was such a beautiful, harrowing story that I definitely recommend listening to the audiobook for (if you can), because it’s told in the style of a podcast. Yes, I finally got around to reading the Six of Crows duology. It’s been years, but finally, 2020 was the year that I took them off my TBR pile, dusted them off, and read long whilst listening to the audiobook. Allegedly is definitely in my top 5 favourite books for this year. It was so dark, yet beautifully told, and one that I know I will be re-reading multiple times.

 

 

The next lot of book is a mix of old and new. I remember that I had finished reading The Diviners series on audiobook, and I wanted something kind of similar, so I asked one of my best friends, who recommended the Lockwood & Co. series. So, I downloaded the first audiobook, gave it a listen, and fell in love straight away. It’s a middle-grade ghost/mystery series that has such a good mixture of humour and suspense.

Girl, Woman, Other was a book that I had to read for my MA course. I had been meaning to read it anyway, but my masters just gave me another reason to. The writing style is quite odd, but the story itself is so brutally honest about being a woman, and about being a woman of colour. After I had finished reading Girl, Woman, Other, I remember that I had just recently received The Shadows Between Us in a Fairy Loot box, so I decided to read that straight away. I remember reading it during the first lockdown, and I was sat in the park just reading it, and it’s such a nice, peaceful memory.

 

 

What books have you loved this year? Let me know in the comments below, and happy TTT! 

Until next time…

 

 

Future Top 10 Tuesday Topics:

January 5: Most Anticipated Releases for the First Half of 2021
January 12: Resolutions/Hopes for 2021 (bookish or not!)
January 19: Books I Meant to Read In 2020 but Didn’t Get To (You could take this opportunity to tell us what’s left on your seasonal TBRs from last year. Or books you were super excited about and then you didn’t get to them.)
January 26: New-to-Me Authors I Read in 2020 (If you didn’t read 10 new authors, that’s fine! Just do what you can.)
February 2: Books Written Before I Was Born (These can be books you’ve read or want to read!) (submitted by Davida Chazan @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog)
February 9: Valentine’s Day/Love Freebie
February 16: Purple, Yellow, and/or Green Book Covers (in honor of Mardis Gras, which is today!)
February 23: Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud (Claire @ Book Lovers Pizza)

 

 

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