Top Five Wednesday: Most Anticipated Releases

Most Anticipated Releases

Top 5 Wednesday is a group challenge created by Lainey and run by Sam that includes a new book-related topic every week. Check out the goodreads group for topics and to interact with the community.

This month, Top Five Wednesday is doing rewind topics, so you can choose any topic from previous months/years. To be honest, I'm actually just assuming that "most anticipated releases" has been a topic in the past, because I wanted to talk about some books that are coming out and here's a good reason to do so. So without further ado, some books coming out in 2018 that I really want to read.

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Top Five Wednesday: Teachers & Mentors

Teachers & Mentors

Top 5 Wednesday is a group challenge created by Lainey and run by Sam that includes a new book-related topic every week. Check out the goodreads group for topics and to interact with the community.

This week's Top Five Wednesday, we're talking about mentors and teachers. For some reason, this week's list ended up being very male-oriented, which is kind of a shame, so if you have any suggestions for books with great female mentors, I would love to hear them.

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Top Five Wednesday: Forgettable Books

Forgettable Books

Top 5 Wednesday is a group challenge created by Lainey and run by Sam that includes a new book-related topic every week. Check out the goodreads group for topics and to interact with the community.

This week's Top Five Wednesday, we're talking about books we've read, whether we liked or disliked them at the time, that just haven't stayed with us.

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Top Five Wednesday: Books You Meant to Read

Books You Meant to Read in 2017 

Top 5 Wednesday is a group challenge created by Lainey and run by Sam that includes a new book-related topic every week. Check out the goodreads group for topics and to interact with the community.

This week's Top Five Wednesday is all about books that you meant to read in 2017, but never got the chance to, making them the top of your list for this year. I am chronically bad at maintaining any kind of TBR, largely because I'm a mood reader and also because I am a slave to what's available from the library, and so this list was embarrassingly easy to envision. Something interesting I noticed putting this selection together is that I have a bad habit of shying away from adult books that I really want to read, largely because they intimidate me and because I don't have a lot of free time, but I hope to fix that moving forward.

Without further ado, and in no particular order, the Top 5 books I wanted to read last year but didn't.

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Top Five Wednesday: Books Without Romance

Books Without Romance 

Top 5 Wednesday is a group challenge created by Lainey and run by Sam that includes a new book-related topic every week. Check out the goodreads group for topics and to interact with the community.

This week's Top Five Wednesday is all about books that don't include a huge romantic subplot. This isn't to say that there is no mention of romance or relationships in the book, just that it really doesn't factor into the plotline or the story as a whole. It was honestly a little sad and a little surprising to find that there are so few of these kinds of stories on my shelves. Even some of the middlegrade books that I have include a romantic subplot. In any case, here are my Top 5 books without romance.

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