Category: Book List

Best YA Books of 2024

Posted December 29, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, 5 Stars, Best Books, Book List, Bookish Post, YA / 1 Comment

Hello, my lovely readers! As 2024 is drawing to a close, it’s time for me to recap my year of reading and select my top ten books of 2024. This year, choosing my favorites was surprisingly easy. I’ve discovered incredible new writers, stumbled upon underrated YA gems that deserve much more attention, and found books that were not only unforgettable but ones I’ll recommend forever. Best of all they are all 5 star + reads! I couldn’t keep it to 10 unfortunately, it was too hard. I feel incredibly fortunate to have met some of these authors throughout the year […]

My Most Anticipated Books of 2024

Posted January 2, 2024 by Emma in 2024 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, YA / 1 Comment

Hello my lovely readers and Happy New Year to you all! 🎆 I hope 2024 is happy, healthy and filled with amazing books! I love a new year for simple reason of resetting goals, refreshing your bookshelf with brand new books and trying to tackle that ever growing TBR. Today I’m sharing my most anticipated reads of the year! There is some incredible books coming out , some not yet titles from some new authors like Amara Sage and A.Connors which I can’t wait for. So let’s get straight into the books I can’t wait to read in 2024. My […]

My Top Ten Books of 2023

Posted December 30, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, Favourite Author, UKYA, YA / 4 Comments

Hello my lovely readers. As 2023 is drawing to a close it’s time for me to recap my year of reading and select my top ten books of 2023. For some reason this was the easiest year to select my top 10. I have found some incredible new writers this year, some very underrated YA books that need loads more love, absolutely unforgettable and a book that I will always recommend. I’ve been extremely lucky to have met these authors at YALC this year sharing my admiration and love for these incredible books. I’m excited by what 2023 has brought […]

5 Books I want to read this Spooky season 🎃

Posted October 23, 2023 by Emma in Book List, Bookish Post, TBR, YA / 0 Comments

Hey Everyone, it’s been a while again. I’m currently on my half term after one really busy first term of the academic. My goodness, that was a long one. But I’m survived, I’m here. Now, I’m living for the autumn, cosy vibes that this week and a bit off will bring including some spooky books I can’t wait to read. In a way I’ve set myself quite the pile of books but I’m joining the Spookathon that Booksnest is hosting this week on her patreon and I can’t wait! I would love to know what yours would be. Let me […]

My Top 5 YA Standalone books ‘I wish I had when I was younger’

Posted August 25, 2023 by Emma in Book List, Bookish Post, LGBTQ+, UKYA, YA / 2 Comments

Hello my bookish friends, today’s post is inspired by Heartstopper. With the new season out and the hype and love around it, the comment I keep seeing or reading is ‘I wish I had this book/series when I was younger’. So I thought I would do a few posts, from standalone books to book series (which will include Heartstopper no doubt). So as an adult reading Young Adult and some Children’s books, it got me thinking about the books I wished I had when I was younger. Young Adult books wasn’t a category when I was a young adult. I […]

My 5 Underrated YA Books you must read if you love books set at sea

Posted August 11, 2023 by Emma in Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 3 Comments

Hello my lovely bookworms, I am on holiday by the sea and it got me thinking about YA books set at sea. I always take with me books that are set on around the seaside. I have read some incredible books, 3 of these I have read this year and I feel these are all very underrated books, action-packed, compelling and unputtadownable reads. I love this setting and world building, can be applied to any genre but mainly fantasy I have to say. They feel more escapable and real as you can imagine them a whole new world out and […]

Happy National Book Lovers Day with my ultimate favourite books!

Posted August 9, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, Favourite Author, Favourites, LGBTQ+, UKYA, YA / 3 Comments

Happy Book Lovers Day my fellow readers! August 9th is National Book Lovers Day celebrating our favourite books and what it means to be a reader, to be a book lover. On my bookstagram I post about my favourite books all the time but not here. They do tend to change every so often especially this year where I’ve added at least 3 new favourites. But how does it become a favourite book? I have my own criteria when it comes to favourite books that I thought I would share. Yes it may be 5 stars and the storytelling is […]

5 New YA Books that you need on your radar!

Posted July 6, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, UKYA, YA / 3 Comments

Hello my bookish friends, so today is a major publication day for quite a few UKYA books and I thought I would do a round up. They are all authors I’ve read and I can’t wait to read them all after getting out of my slump from Fourth Wing. 😅 If you’ve read it you know what I mean… I’ve been very lucky to receive a proof of each of these and I can’t wait to read in the next couple of weeks. If you haven’t picked up a book from any of these author then I would highly recommend […]

My Top 5 Underrated LGBTQ+ Book Recommendations for Pride Month

Posted June 23, 2023 by Emma in 2023 Books, Book List, Bookish Post, LGBTQ+, UKYA, YA / 1 Comment

Happy Pride Month my friends. The last few years I have read more queer books, I find for me as a reader and a librarian it’s important for me to read different, diverse and inclusive books. I think Heartstopper really kicked off my love for LGBTQ+ books. I’ve grown as a reader and I love that. So I thought today I would share some of favourite books, some underrated ones that you might not have heard of that need to be on your radar. ONLY ON THE WEEKENDS BY DEAN ATTA This was my first verse novel and I absolutely […]