Hi everyone!

Above is what one of my book spaces looked like a few months ago, more books added since then.

In case you haven’t seen it, I’m sharing the following information with you that is on Goodreads. None of my books shown above are on included in it.

They compiled a list of 9 of the most popular books in 9 categories (so far this year in Goodreads), so 81 titles. The selections are based on the total number of reader reviews and the titles that Goodreads members marked as “want to read.”

CONTEMPORARY FICTION:

1. Hello Beautiful – by Ann Napolitano
2. Yellowface – by R.F. Kuang
3. Someone Else’s Shoes – by Jojo Moyes
4. Maame – by Jessica George
5. Pineapple Street – by Jenny Jackson
6. The Collected Regrets of Clover – by Mikki Brammer
7. Big Swiss – by Jen Beagin
8. Birnam Wood – by Eleanor Catton
9. Adelaide – by Genevieve Wheeler

HISTORICAL FICTION:

1. Weyward – by Emelia Hart
2. The House of Eve – by Sadeqa Johnson
3. River Sing Me Home – by Eleanor Shearer
4. The Covenant of Water – by Abraham Verghese
5. The House is on Fire – by Rachel Beanland
6. Hang the Moon – by Jeannette Walls
7. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? – by Crystal Smith Paul
8. The Trackers – by Charles Frazier
9. Lady Than’s Circle of Women – by Lisa See

MYSTERY:

1. All The Dangerous Things – by Stacy Willingham
2. The Housemaid’s Secret – by Freida McFadden
3. What Lies in The Woods – by Kate Alice Marshall
4. I Have Some Questions For You – by Rebecca Makkai
5. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers – by Jesse Q. Sutanto
6. Homecoming – by Kate Morten
7. The Maid’s Diary – by Loreth Anne White
8. I Will Find You – by Harlan Corben
9. The Bandit Queens – by Parini Shroff

FANTASY:

1. Fourth Wing – by Rebecca Yarros
2. Hell Bent – by Leigh Bardugo
3. A Day of Fallen Night – by Samantha Shannon
4. Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (book #1) – by Heather Fawcett
5. Tress of the Emerald Sea – by Brandon Sanderson
6. Atalanta – by Jennifer Saint
7. Witch King – by Martha Wells
8. Victory City – by Salman Rushdie
9. Clytemnestra – by Costanza Casati

SCIENCE FICTION:

1. In The Lives of Puppets – by T.J. Klune
2. The Ferryman – by Justin Cronin
3. Chain-Gang All-Stars – by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
4. Ascension – by Nicholas Binge
5. The Marriage Act – by John Marrs
6. Some Desperate Glory – by Emily Tesh
7. Children of Memory – by Adrian Tchaikovsky
8. Meru – by S.B. Divya
9. The Endless Vessel – by Charles Soule

HORROR:

1. How to Sell a Haunted House – by Grady Hendrix
2. Lone Women – by Victor Lavalle
3. A House With Good Bones – by T. Kingfisher
4. Don’t Fear The Reaper – by Stephen Graham Jones
5. Sisters of The Lost Nation – by Nick Medina
6. Natural Beauty – by Ling Ling Huang
7. Bad Cree – by Jessica Johns
8. The Haunting of Alejandra – by V. Castro
9. Looking Glass Sound – by Catriona Ward

ROMANCE:

1. Happy Place – by Emily Henry
2. Romantic Comedy – by Curtis Sittenfeld
3. Yours Truly – by Abby Jimenez
4. Final Offer – by Lauren Asher
5. Things We Hide From The Light – by Lucy Score
6. Exes and O’s – by Amy Lea
7. Meet Me at The Lake – by Carley Fortune
8. True Love – by Christian Lauren
9. The Right Move – by Liz Tomforde

YOUNG ADULT:

1. The Stolen Heir – by Holly Black
2. Chain of Thorns (The Last Hour, book #3) – by Cassandra Clare
3. Song of Silver Flame Like Night – by Emelie Wen Zhao
4. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute – by Talia Hibbert
5. These Infinite Threads – by Tahereh Mafi
6. The Davenports – by Krystal Marquis
7. Divine Rivals – by Rebecca Ross
8. Warrior Girl Unearthed – by Angeline Boulley
9. Forget Me Not – by Alyson Derrick

NONFICTION:

1. Spare – by Prince Harry
2. The Wager: a Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder – by David Grann
3. Poverty, By America – by Matthew Desmond
4. A Fever in The Heartland – by Timothy Egan
5. The Creative Act: a Way of Being – by Rick Rubin
6. You Could Make This Place Beautiful – by Maggie Smith
7. Quietly Hostile – by Samantha Irby
8. A Living Remedy: a memoir – by Nicole Chung
9. King: a Life – by Jonathan Eig

I am sad to say that I have read NONE of these yet! I own a copy of Hang the Moon which I have yet to get into, and I want to read Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, The Housemaid’s Secret, Homecoming, The Wager, A Fever in The Heartland.

Which books have you read of the 81 listed above? Did you like or dislike them? Which ones do you want to read?

Thanks for visiting! I appreciate you, And … Creative Musings! – Lynn