This is the Your Choice category. (On the list in no particular order)
Anne – Books / Series I Really Wanted to Read in 2022
- The Good Turn by Dervla McTiernan
- Sebastian St. Cyr series by CS Harris
- Kate Burkholder series by Linda Castillo
- DI Kim Stone series by Angela Marsons
- DC Smith series by Peter Grainger
- No Evil trilogy by Allison Brennan
- Rizzoli & Isles series by Tess Gerritsen
- Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas
- Shining Smith series by Faith Hunter
- Until the End of the World series by Sarah Lyons Fleming
(yes I own most of these on audio and some of these I have started the series, some not.)
Robin – Most Interesting Premise
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Nobody’s Ghoul by Devon Monk – The gods vacation in the little town of Ordinary and this time around a Ghoul has infiltrated the town somehow and all the gods most dangerous weapons keep showing up at their doorstep.
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Gilded by Marissa Meyer – Very Very loose retelling of Rumpelstiltskin if you also mixed in some fae lore with Michael’s Wild Ride and seven different gods just for good measure.
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Middlegame by Seanan McGuire – Roger and Dodger genetically engineered to be a perfect pair. He is language she is math and together they can make or destroy our world.
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Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher – A nun princess, a witch and an ex-knight go on a quest to save the nun’s sister from a fate worse than death.
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Verity by Colleen Hoover – She is supposed to ghost write a book, he is married to the author currently in a vegetative state. She finds a diary of their past and just might be falling in love with a married man. But the more of the diary she reads the less she thinks things in this big house are anything like they seem.
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Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett – A sentient key gets a body and gets to be a real boy as it goes on a quest with friends to save the world from being rewritten into something completely different.
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The Other Side of the Sky by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner – Nimh is a living goddess and cannot be touched. She lives on the earth with the priesthood. North is a prince of the sky and thought the people on land died out generations ago when his people escaped to the side. He was wrong but then again so was she.
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Greywarren by Maggie Steifvater – Dreamers can pull things out of dreams, the dreams themselves go to sleep if their dreamer dies. But what if there was a way to keep all the dreams a dreamer ever dreamed alive even after they died and what could a dreamer do to this world if there was just more power to keep the dreams awake.
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Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire – There are doors in this world that you can walk through if you are sure. Doors that take you to where you were meant to be instead of this place that doesn’t fit you. But sometimes the door sends you back to the world you don’t belong in. How can you get back to the place you were always meant to be.
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Bastille vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson – Librarians are evil and they’ve been controlling information and lying to those of us in this mundane world our whole lives. The Smedry’s are a family with unique powers like breaking things and showing up late protected by a special order of knights and set on saving the world from…you guessed it the evil librarians.
Sophia – New to me Authors
Unnatural Creatures by Kris Waldherr- A Guide to Medieval Gardens by Michael Brown
- Dead Man’s Hand by David Nix
- Seduction of the Crimson Rose by Lauren Willig
Suddenly Psychic by Elizabeth Hunter- Freeze Fresh by Crystal Schmidt
- Solar System Reference for Teens by Dr. Bruce Betts
- Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor
- Big Swamp by Kelly Dean Jolley
- Before the Alamo by Florence Weinberg
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Coming up this week:
Friday, December 23rd – Top 10 Your Choice Category ( Narrators, New to Me, Couples, Series, Books I Meant to Read This Year, etc)
Saturday, December 24th – Top 10 Books I Want in 2023
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Monday, December 19th– Top 10 Books of 2022
Tuesday, December 20th– Top 10 Audiobooks of 2022
Wednesday, December 21st – Top 10 Book Covers of 2022
Thursday, December 22nd – Top 10 Book Characters of 2022
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Some great picks. Crescent City series by Sarah J. Maas & Author Elizabeth Hunter is on my TBR to try.
I got to read two Elizabeth Hunter series starters this year and both were great.
I enjoyed Suddenly Psychic a lot. All the books in that series were fun.
I own the Crescent City on audio an they are looong. I love Elizabeth Hunter and have read almost everything of hers. Thanks for joining us!
So on the fence about trying the new Sarah J Maas…I want to sorta sometimes and then say maybe not.
I own the audiobooks but haven’t read them yet. They are very long like 30+ hours I think.
I still need to finish both of Maas’s first two series. Verity and the Stiefvater book are both on my TBR too! I shared both of my “choice” topic posts since I did another one last Saturday.
I’ve yet to start the Maas book I’ve got (shamefaced).
That’s great Lisa. We are happy to see all your choices. Thanks for sharing.
I want to read the DI Kim Stone series too.
That’s a Jonetta envy read. I’ve bought them all on audio.
Fun topics! I am looking forward to the new Kate Daniels book coming in January! Best New to Me author I read in 2022 was probably Cass Kay.
We kind of all went our own way this year.
I loved Middlegame, the entire Rizzoli & Isles series by Tess Gerritsen, which I devoured years ago pre-blogging. Sophia I’ve enjoyed Elizabeth Hunter.
I also love Elizabeth Hunter. I like that we all didi different choices this year.
I didn’t read many new authors this year and I thought about doing new genres since I did try out a couple. But Billionaire romances are so not my thing, Christian romances were just so/so, I had some success with Paranormal Women’s Fiction and Self Help books but that was about it.
I was really surprised by Middlegame. The other book set in that world is great too.
Rizzoli & Isles is a series I think I’d really enjoy too.
The Crescent City series is something I really want to read too! I’ve heard it’s really good but the books are so thick, it’s a little daunting!
yes, I often get fantasy books on audio for that reason. Plus I don’t have to figure out how to pronounce the names.
I adored Nettle & Bone largely because of how unique it was.
T. Kingfisher has been a win for me in almost every book I’ve read by her. Nettle and Bone was just fantastic.
Anne, I’d make DI Kim Stone & Sebastian St. Cyr a priority. Both were group reads and the love was unanimous among the participants.
Robin, Verity is on my list, too.
Sophia, all of those would be new-to-me authors, too!
Thank you Jonetta. I’m about 1/4 of the way into Sebastian St. Cyr so it is a very high priority. I own all the DI Kim Stone. Some of the other series are smaller and will be to fit into the schedule though. I loved Verity too.
Lauren Willig is one of my faves!!!
They always sound great in Sophia’s reviews. I may have to read them.
I love the Kate Burkholder series Anne, the 2022 book almost made my 20 list
You’ve made want to take a look at some of your premise choices Robin
Everyone is new to me except Lauren Willig on your list Sophia Rose
Happy New Year, Happy Reading in 2023
Well Debbie, hopefully we will add some winners to your TBR. I can’t wait to try the Kate Burkholder series. Jonetta’s reviews have me ready to try it.
Loved seeing your selections, thanks for sharing.
I’ve added mine to the Linky.
Thanks for sharing Shelleyrae! It’s so fun to see what others liked and some of yours also made my top lists. I can’t narrow down to 10 so I have to have 6 days of top 10 in slightly different categories. I probably would have added it to Top 10 Reads rather than Your Choice but it works here too.