Top 10 of 2019: Books I'm Looking Forward to in 2020

Top 10 of 2019 is hosted once again by Kimberly Faye Reads, and this year she has a co-host Ginger @greadsbooks.   Today's topic was the easiest, because even though there are tons of books I'm looking forward to next year, there are ten that definitely stand out the most!

1.

Loved the original His Fair Assassin series, and the book that started us back, Courting Darkness, so I need this one soon!

2.

I really liked the first two in this series and have been patiently waiting for this one, has it been over a year?

3.

Christina Lauren books can be hit or miss on whether I am excited for what the book is about, but this one sounds perfect!

4.

Seeing as the first book in this series was on my top list for last year, it's probably obvious how anxious I am for this one!

5.

I've also mentioned how much I love Cletus Winston, so a whole series where he is solving mysteries?  Sign me up!

6.

I also can't wait for Jackson James to finally get his own HEA.

7.

No cover yet, but I am ready for the conclusion? or at least the third book in yet another series by JLA that I adore!

8.

Even though I don't think I picked the first book, The Haunted, on any of my other Top 10 lists, it was a really good book, so I'm eager to see where the author will take it next.

9.

So, I'm not positive if this is coming out in 2020, it says it is, but the author also mentioned that she is having a bit of trouble with it. But I hope it does, because I love this series!

10.

Now this one comes out in January, so I'm ready for it now though!  I love Hunting's hockey boys, new and old, and I love when she brings the older characters back in these stories as well.

Were any of these books on your TBR for 2020?  If not, I hope maybe I've given you a few to add to your list.

I always love doing these Top 10 lists every year, but kind of sad it's over.  Now on to determining what challenges I'm going to do for next year!

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Top 10 of 2019: Best of the Best (Favorite Books)

Top 10 of 2019 is hosted once again by Kimberly Faye Reads, and this year she has a co-host Ginger @greadsbooks.   Today's topic is best of the best, so you know it was hard.  Just 10?  I think that would be impossible for me. So, the only way I could come up with to do this so that I didn't end up with tons and tons of books was to do it monthly, and still divide it up by YA and my Romance titles.  And I'm not going to put any explanation.  Also, I might have picked a few so that I was picking just a standalone vs. a series, because whenever I pick one from a series, example - Winston Brothers, I end up just arguing with myself over which was best. So here we go!

January:

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

July:

August:

September:

October:

November:

December:

Have you read any of these yet?  Did you like them if you did?


If you're interested in joining in to the Top 10 of 2019, you can go to the links at the top for the hosting blogs.  There's only one more day to do it!

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Top 10 of 2019: Favorite Book Boyfriends

Top 10 of 2019 is hosted once again by Kimberly Faye Reads, and this year she has a co-host Ginger @greadsbooks.   Today's original topic, OTP or favorite couples, was one that while it might be fun, I changed it to something I thought was more me, favorite book boyfriends.  I'm going to have to narrow it down to only 10 for this year, when I read so many good books!

1.

I love Austin Jacobs, that's all there is to it.

2.

I think it was Sam, the bearded ginger, who started my year off right though!

3.

I had to pick the Irish bad boy Roark!

4.

Landon makes me wish I could find a guy from my past that things could work out with.

5.

I could honestly probably pick any guy from any Emma Hart story, but I'm choosing Jay!

6.

A new sexy hockey player to fall in love with, meet Porter!

7.

This story actually was similar to the first one on my list, So That Got Weird, but I loved Reece and his role in this story.

8.

I can't decide which Winston brother to pick, so I pick them all!!

9.

Loved Will, and how he dealt with the whole porn film bit at the beginning!

10.

So, when you read over 200 books, it's really hard to narrow down to just 10, even with a whole series up above!  Maybe I should have stuck to favorite authors and the boyfriends I got from them.  But I loved Jason, he cracked me up so much!


Have you met any of my book boyfriends yet?  Want to fight me for them?  LOL!!  Who were your book boyfriends this year?


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Top 10 of 2019: Cover Love (Favorite Covers)

Top 10 of 2019 is hosted once again by Kimberly Faye Reads, and this year she has a co-host Ginger @greadsbooks.   So today's topic is a fun one, but a hard one!  There may be a couple of the numbers on this list that include more than one book, maybe a series, since that is the best way I could do this.

1.

The librarian and book lover in me adored the covers for the Green Valley Library series from the SmartyPants Romance books this fall.  They had the library card background for each of the different faces with different beards/mustaches/hairstyles.  And at least one of the books even had each chapter based on a Dewey Decimal number/category matched to what was happening.

2.

While the story itself didn't blow me away as much as I'd hoped, that cover, wow!  And if you've seen the cover to the second book, they're not backing down on awesomeness!

3.

Now this is one I haven't read, but I loved the cover so much I went ahead and am sharing it.  Because I honestly wasn't sure what it was at first, and it took me awhile, I don't know why, to realize it was a girl's head!

4.

Again with the SmartyPants Romance books, I loved the covers of the Donner Bakery series as well!

5.

So, I love all the covers of the books in the Winston Brothers series, and I've read all but I think one or two of the earlier ones, and one or two of them I've read in past years, but I had to share all of them.  I was lucky enough to get this magnet set at Book Bonanza back in August as well.

Hmm, I'm seeing a trend of beards on my favorite covers this year, did you notice that?

6.

I kind of like the new trend of kind of comic-ish looking covers, and this series definitely had that!

7.

A great story with a great cover!

8.

Again, a great story with a great cover.

9.

Again, this is totally the librarian/bookseller in me adoring this picture!  Plus it totally reminds me of the movie The Mummy.

10.

I just really like the way the basketball is peeking out of a heart-shaped "tear" in the paper/cover of the book.


What do you think of my cover choices?  Would you agree on any?  What covers blew you away this year?


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