Skip to main content

Top 5 Wednesdays: Debut Books

Top 5 WednesdayIt’s Wednesday so that means that it’s Top 5 Wednesday and this week’s topic is meant to be favourite required reading but in my school we didn't have a required reading list so instead I thought I would do favourite debut novels instead. To find more about Top 5 Wednesday’s you can join the goodreads group and discover the creator of the group Lainey. So let’s get started…

Number 5: Take Back The Skies by Lucy Saxon 

 Take Back the Skies (Take Back the Skies, #1)Lucy Saxon was 17 when she wrote this book and I give her credit for writing such as an epic fantasy book at such a young age. I really enjoyed this book although I did have some problems with the beginning it concluded with an ending that broke me. Thank you Lucy Saxon!








Number 4: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

 Shadow and Bone (The Grisha, #1)I really enjoyed Shadow and Bone and was a really good book and therefore a really good debut. I really like the Russian mythology running through the story and really enjoyed the characters. The whole series is amazing and I would highly recommend. 








Number 3: Cinder by Melissa Meyer

 Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)Cinder and this series as a whole must be up there as one of my favourite series of all time after I fell in love with the first book in the series. The way that she includes fairytales and science fiction together works effortless and is so well done that it is hard to believe that it is her debut novel. Did I mention I loved this book?







Number 2: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon 

 Everything, EverythingThis book is not out yet and comes out in August/ September which is one of the best debut novels ever. I read it a couple of days ago and I really enjoyed it. Although it the plot was predictable at times especially at the end, I found the characters really enjoyable and was happy with the diverse cast of characters, her writing was also amazing. I really liked this book and was a excellent debut. I highly suggest you pick up a copy when it is released. 






Number 1: Looking for Alaska by John Green 

 Looking for AlaskaWhat a surprise that John Green is at the top of this list! I loved Looking For Alaska which is Green's first book that got published over 10 years ago and is definitely one of my favourites by him, I would probably say more than TFiOS and was an amazing debut novel. 










Honourable Mentions:

- Solitaire by Alice Oseman 

 Solitaire









- Divergent by Veronica Roth

 Divergent (Divergent, #1)

 - Popular by Maya Van Wagenen 

 Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek

 - Iron King by Julie Kagawa

 The Iron King (The Iron Fey, #1)

 - City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

 City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)

 - The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

 The Bone Season (The Bone Season, #1)

 What are some of your favourite debut novels? Or what are your favourite required reading? Leave them in the comments below. 

 See you soon, 

 Amy
Labels:
Location: London, UK

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

My Reading Tastes Are Changing

For the last couple of years, I feel like this has become a reoccurring blog post but I want to talk about it now because I think something is actually happening in my reading life. My reading tastes are changing. I've felt it for a while. I haven't really been drawn to YA titles that much anymore especially contemporary. Being busy in my time, I have been really selective in the books that I pick up so for me: the shorter, the better. And when picking up shorter books, the less likely they are to be YA. The more I am exposed to more books, the more I get to read books that I connect to Some of the books that I have picked up have really surprised me because of how much I ended up enjoying them. I think as I grow older, I am looking for different stories, different experiences and different perspectives. These don't just fit the YA mould. I also have been really into different genres like horror and the occasional thriller which have not read from before and I'm interes
Post a Comment
Read more

Book Review: The Great Godden by Meg Rossoff

   * I am reviewing this book which I was gifted for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts are my own. * Title: The Great Godden  Author: Meg Rossoff Publisher: Bloomsbury  Source: NetGalley ( Bookshop UK |  Hive |  Goodreads  |  Storygraph ) Book Summary: Everyone talks about falling in love like it’s the most miraculous, life-changing thing in the world. Something happens, they say, and you know … That’s what happened when I met Kit Godden. I looked into his eyes and I knew. Only everyone else knew too. Everyone else felt exactly the same way. This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer – the summer when everything changes. In a holiday house by the sea, our watchful narrator sees everything, including many things they shouldn’t, as their brother and sisters, parents and older cousins fill hot days with wine and games and planning a wedding. Enter two brothers – irresistible, charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there’s
Post a Comment
Read more

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2021 Wrap Up

Every year since 2015, I have had the Popsugar Reading Challenge to diversify my reading. Over the course of the last year, I would like to think that I have done this and looking at did a good job considering I have been so busy over the last year. Even though I did actually have a plan of a book to read for almost all of the prompts, I did just wing it for the latter half of the year. This was because I was just reading what I wanted to and because I was not really reading at all.  So let's see what I read this year... A book that’s published in 2021    Book I Want To Read: Gut Feelings by C. G. Moore Book I Actually Read: Gut Feelings by C.G. Moore An Afrofuturist book Book I Want To Read: The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin  Book I Actually Read:  The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin A book that has a heart, diamond, club, or spade on the cover  Book I Want To Read: Heartbreak Boys by Simon James Green Book I Actually Read: Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé A book by an auth
Post a Comment
Read more