I always love reading this tag! So I thought I would do it as well! I also did it last year, which you can read over here!
This is mainly going to be lists since I can’t answer with just one book haha!
Best book you’ve read so far in 2020
Starting right with the most difficult one! I couldn’t make the list smaller than this..!
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Fool’s Errand by Robin Hobb
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Black Prism by Brent Weks
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Best sequel you’ve read so far in 2020
Bridge of Souls by Victoria Schwab
The Desolation of Devil’s Acre by Ransom Riggs
Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames
Rule of Wolves by Leigh Bardugo
Heartstopper vol 4 by Alice Oseman
New release you haven’t read yet but want to
Reaper of Souls by Rena Barron
Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard
The Jasmine Throne by Tashi Suri
Witchshadow by Susan Dennard (which released 2 days ago haha)
Most anticipated release for the second half of the year
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
The Bronzed Beasts by Roshani Chokshi
Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephani Garber
The Bone Shard Emperor By Andrea Stewart
Kingdom of the Cursed by Kerri Maniscalco
Biggest disappointment
A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dubois
Flashback by Shannon Messenger
Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas
Witches Steeped in Gold by Ciannon Smart
Mask of Mirrors by MA Carrick
Biggest surprise
The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Iron King by Julie Kagawa (Surprised by how much I enjoyed my reread!)
Favourite new author
Adrian Tchaikovsky! This year I’ve read 3 books by him (4 in total) and loved almost all of them! And I cannot wait to read more from him!
Silvia Moreno-Garcia! I already loved two of her works last year, but reading more from her definitely gave her a favourite author spot!
Newest favourite characters
The characters from Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien De Castell!
Book that made you cry
I think every book from Robin Hobb I’ve read this year made me want to cry..! I don’t actually cry with books though..
Book that made you happy
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune!
Hearstopper vol 4 by Alice Oseman
Why did I struggle with coming up with an answer?!
Favourite book to film adaptation
Shadow and Bone! Both because I absolutely loved this, and it is the only one I saw haha!
Favourite post you have done this year
Most beautiful book you’ve bought this year
Many! I really like the edition of East of Eden and nineteen eighteen four that I got. Also The Gilded Wolves, The Gilded Ones, Witches Steeped in Gold!
What book do you need to read by the end of the year
All of them? But right now the first ones coming to mind are:
The Secret History by Donna Tart
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Library of the Unwritten by AJ Hackwith
Aww man. The Tawney Man trilogy are my favs of Robin Hobb’s books. Same on them making me want to cry.
And I think Silvia Moreno-Garcia will become one of my fav authors too. I plan to get to Beautiful Ones at some point.
Tawny man is so good!
Glad to hear you love Silvia Moreno-Garcia as well!
Aww I’m sad to see Lost in the Never Woods wound up in your disappointment list! I loved reading your answers and am glad you had an equally difficult time limiting your answers for each question lol
I ws so excited for that one..
Chosing just one answer was just way too hard haha!
i loved this so so much! happy reading to you in the last half of the year… and forever! <3
Thanks! Yout too!
Great post and bummer on the disappointed books list – I have few of those on my TBR. But yes, totally love Silvia Moreno-Garcia right now – I need to read the rest of her books!
I hope you will enjoy those more then me!
Same for me! She has quote some books out already!
Haha, I totally relate to you not being to choose just one book for each question – I just finished writing my version of this tag for tomorrow and cheated a bit as well 😉 And you gushing so much about the Tawny Man trilogy has me so excited to read it!
It is too hard haha
I´m about to finish the third book and I´m in love! I hope you will love it as well!
Great tag! I need to do this one, haha. I am so excited for Once Upon a Broken Heart! I already have two copies preordered lol.
This one is always fun!
It sounds so good! Still need to order it though!