It’s already November, and NaNoWriMo has begun! Today’s letter for the ABC Book Challenge is R. I’ve always associated the letter R with the tail end of the alphabet and November with the end of the year… it’s hard to believe we’re almost in the 3rd decade of the 21st century! Anyway, in this challenge, I go through My Books on Goodreads and come up with some of the best or most interesting books starting with that letter. I first found this challenge over at Me, Myself, and Books, but I think it was started by The Thrifty Bibliophile. Here we go!
It’s kind of fitting that The Raven Boys showed up on this week’s list, because Call Down The Hawk, which takes place in the Raven Boys universe, is coming out on Tuesday! I pre-ordered the book, and I’d like to read it shortly after it comes out, but with NaNoWriMo in full swing, I don’t know how much reading I’ll get done (ARCs take priority).
You might think that I would have highlighted the Rebel book by Marie Lu this week, but since it’s the fourth book in the series, it was covered by the Legend umbrella. At any rate, there were two really good books called Rebel that came out this year, and if you’re interested in a post-Civil War romance, you should check this one out.
I’ve wanted to read Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine for a couple years now. When I first heard about it, there was a waiting list at the library, and now there’s not, so maybe I should just go ahead and borrow it. But since it’s NaNoWriMo, it’ll have to wait a bit longer. This year, I’ve pretty much read books by all of the authors that I’ve often said “I need to read a book by ____”, so maybe it’s time to start reading those books that have been on my TBR for a while too.
The Red Queen series was huge over the past few years, and there was a long wait at the library for each of the books. I haven’t read Broken Throne yet, but perhaps I will at some point in the future.
I’m surprised that I only listed four books this week. I’ll probably make up for it next week with the letter S. There are pages of S books on My Books on Goodreads. It’s going to be hard to narrow them down to a manageable number. But that’s for another week. See you then!