Books You've Read Because of Booktube/Blogging/etc. - Top Five Wednesday

Books You've Read Because of Booktube/ Blogging/etc. 

(Top Five Wednesday)- September 27th, 2017

These are some of my favorite books that I found because of Booktube, Blogs, and Goodreads.

Top 5 Wednesday is a group created by Lainey of Ginger Reads Lainey on Booktube. It is now hosted by Sam of Thoughts on Tomes on Booktube. Here is a link to the group on Goodreads if you are interested in joining:

5.) The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary by Laura Shovan: I picked up this book because I heard Peter Monn highly recommend it multiple times. It's a great book and I am so glad that I decided to read it. 

4.) The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee: I heard about this book on Epic Reads from an interview with the author. She interested me herself and I knew I wanted to read the books that she had written. So I read this book and adored it. I will be picking up her other book This Monstrous Thing next month for Halloween. It's based on Frankenstein and I am thrilled to read it.  I can't wait. 

3.) The Six of Crows duology by Leigh Bardugo: I don't remember whose BookTube channel I first saw a review of this duology, but I'm glad I did. This quickly became one of my favorite series and I really love Leigh's writing. I was hesitant to go into this series because of the hype but I can say that hype is well deserved. I read each book in a day each last year and was thoroughly engrossed. Also, the books are stunningly designed. I will be picking up the rest of Leigh's books soon.

I have heard that there are similar elements in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. That will be a series I'm going to read in December.

2.) The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller: Last year I was doing a search on Goodreads List option: Listopia for Greek Mythology retellings and came across many different books that looked good. One of those books was The Song of Achilles. This was not the first time that I had heard about this book but after reading the synopsis again, I decided that I wanted to read the book. It has become one of my favorite retellings of all time. She has another book coming out next year about another Greek Mythology character Circe, which is my most anticipated read of next year. 

I love this cover. 

1.) The Insanity Series by Cameron Jace: Three years ago I began to actively look up Alice in Wonderland retellings and again I went on Goodreads' Listopia option. This is when I found Cameron Jace's Insanity (book 1)  and Figment (book 2). At the time two of the books in the series were out and I bought them both. I read them in about a day and now the rest is history. I'm glad that I found this series because it is definitely in my top five series. It will be great when the rest of the series comes out, but I know I'll miss new books coming out. Also, the author is really great.