Non-YA Books I Enjoyed

Top Ten Tuesday

Hello again! Welcome to another edition of Top Ten Tuesday (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl), where we talk about books! Today’s topic is “Books I Enjoyed that are Outside My Comfort Zone” but I’ll read just about anything (the exceptions would be the ones that I find distasteful or immoral, and I won’t read those on principal). A look at a recent “Currently Reading” list shows that I read quite a variety of books:

There’s a YA book, an adult book, a Spanish book, a German book, and a 3980 page monstrosity whose first volume was published in 1776. So today I’ll focus on non-YA books, since at the moment, YA is what I tend to read the most of.

Rebel cover

I don’t read a great deal of romance; many of them seem quite generic and a lot of the covers are a bit of a turn-off. If you’re picky about the guys you find attractive like I am, the generic romance covers often leave a lot to be desired. Anyway, I loved Beverly Jenkins’s Rebel and I’d definitely read more from her.

The Fourth Turning Cover

The Fourth Turning was my favorite new-to-me book I read in 2016 (the second post I ever wrote for this blog). Even though I checked this book out of the library, I recently bought a copy of this book because I kept thinking about it and wanted a copy of it for reference.

Ghost Fire cover

Ghost Fire was one of the recent books I received from Bookish First; it’s an adult book set in India and in colonial America that I liked a lot.

The Last Year of the War cover

I should have bought stock in tissues before reading The Last Year of the War. This was such a beautiful story of two friends who met in the US concentration camps during World War II and were separated at the end of the war. I highly recommend it.

Pennies cover

Pennies is a darker book with disturbing themes and is definitely not YA. I still haven’t read the last two books in this series, although I did pick the next book from the random number generator for my fall TBR, so I’ll be reading that one soon

Here and Now and Then cover

Mike Chen’s Here and Now and Then is another adult book (although teens could enjoy it as well). It was the first of three time travel books I’ve read in the last 12 months, and probably is my favorite of the three.

Kiss Quotient cover

The Kiss Quotient is another adult book, although I wouldn’t recommend it to teens like I would Here and Now and Then. I hope to read the sequel, The Bride Test, at some point.

Never Stop Walking Cover

Never Stop Walking is another adult book, although its contents are mostly appropriate for YA audiences. It is a memoir (which I don’t read too many of) about this lady who grew up in Brazil to a poor family. What she survived is amazing.

Unbroken cover

Unbroken is the amazing story of Louis Zamporini, who could have been an Olympic athlete if not for World War II. It’s a beautiful story about forgiveness. It’s even more awesome because this is the story of another Trojan like me.

This History of the Renaissance World cover

I was first introduced to Susan Wise Bauer’s works through her Story of the World books, which are great homeschooling books for middle schoolers. I read all of her History of the — World books; The History of the Renaissance World is one of them. All three of her adult books are equally good though.

So there are ten non-YA books that I enjoyed reading. What books did you enjoy that were either outside of your normal genre or are outside of your comfort zone entirely? I can’t wait to see what you have to say.

Next week we’re going to talk about “Books On My TBR I’m Avoiding Reading and Why.” I don’t normally avoid reading books, so I’ll probably do something like “Books On My TBR that I Really Want to Read But Haven’t Yet.” I’ll see you then!

29 comments

    1. I guess The Kiss Quotient would fall under the “protagonist hires someone to teach them romance and then accidentally falls in love with them” trope!

    1. A lot of Americans ended up in Japanese concentration camps, but I don’t know if many displayed the amount of forgiveness that he did. I think he broke a record for days at sea on a lifeboat too.

    1. There’s probably some stories in there that weren’t in your high school history! There are a couple stories in there that are a little too gruesome for putting in non-college public school education.

  1. So glad you read Unbroken, what a story! I found the movie super disappointing though, as it basically skips the Redemption part, which I think gives meaning to the whole book. I’m surprised the author accepted that.
    I really want to try Marie Lu!

    1. I found the book to be way better too. So much more detailed. And I hope you get the chance to read Marie Lu. I adore her characters!

      I’ve actually said in my review of Warcross that j’adore Legend because words in English couldn’t express it!

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