Hosted by Amanda @ On a Book Bender, Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal, Shirley @ Creative Deeds Reads and Hannah @ Once Upon a Time.
I am participating in the Bout of Books Read-a-thon. See my original post HERE.
A week and 134 votes later, my reading list is ready. Thank you everyone who voted. See the Vote Results HERE.
My reading list for the read-a-thon. (Click on cover for Amazon link and Title for Goodreads link.)
The clear winner with a whopping 20 votes is The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden, #1) by Julie Kagawa.
The second book with 14 votes is Kill Me Softly by Sarah Cross.
The third books are at a tie with 10 votes each. They are Hourglass Series – (Hourglass, #1) & Timepiece by Myra McEntire AND Velveteen (Velveteen, #1) by Daniel Marks.
The next with 8 votes is Lies Beneath (Lies Beneath #1) by Anne Greenwood Brown.
And with 7 votes each, the next on my list are Juliet Immortal (Juliet Immortal #1) & Romeo Redeemed (Juliet Immortal #2) by Stacey Jay AND The Hunt (The Hunt, #1) by Andrew Fukuda .
Apart from these books, I am also hoping to read for review-
So I’m a Double Threat (Double Threat, #1) by Julie Prestsater
Xor: The Shape of Darkness by Moshe Sipper
Farsighted (Farsighted, #1) by Emlyn Chand
For some pleasure reading, I intend to read-
It Rains in February: A Wife’s Memoir of Love and Loss by Leila Summers
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Added later: Divergent (Divergent, #1) by Veronica Roth
Straight to Heaven by Michelle Scott
I think I may have gone a bit overboard. But well, that’s all that I hope to read this week.
Total books to read – 15 17
Awesome picks! I so want to read Velveteen and The Immortal Rules.
And I loved The Hunt, hope you’ll enjoy it, too 🙂
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Thank you so much, Cayce. 🙂
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Looking forward to hearing what you think about “Still Alice” … I’ve heard it’s really good!
xx, Lauren
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I am reading and liking it so far. I am reading it with a Goodreads group. 🙂
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I’ve only read Hourglass and I loved it! I’m going to look into So I’m a Double Threat…it looks interesting! Good luck with reading this week!
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Thank you so much, I hope to love Hourglass and Timepiece. 🙂
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Wow! At least I’m not the only one who has a huge pile to read for this!! I haven’t read The Immortal Rules, Timepiece, Kill Me Softly, Velveteen, or The Hunt yet – but they are all on my TBR wishlist!! They didn’t seem to make my cut for this read-a-thon though. Good luck & happy reading!
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I know! I have a HUGE pile. LOL! Figures since I got crazy on NetGalley. 😀
Thank you and good luck to you too.
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wow that is quite the pile of books! I sure hope you can read really fast to get through all of those.
I hope you enjoy reading that large pile and that you have a great/fun read-a-thon!
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Thank you Alexa. Hopefully I will read most if not all of them. 😉
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You’re crazy! These books look spectacularly awesome, though. I’m looking forward to following your progress! 🙂
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LOL! Thank you. That’s about right, I AM crazy! 😉
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Ugh…. my witty comment got sucked out into the internet. Oh well. Basically, I said good luck with all your books. 🙂
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Aww! That’s bad. Sorry. Thank you. 🙂
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OMG!! wow, what a super long reading list but yet amazing books in there!! I have some of those on my reading list (not for this read-a-thon though), Timepiece will be read next week,i hope. I am really intrigued by the Juliet Immortal and Romeo redeemed- will you be reviewing all the books you read on your blog?
thanks xx
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Thank you, lol! Yes, I will be reviewing all those awesome books on my blog. Thank you for stopping by.
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15 books, wow, good luck! I hope you manage to read all these books. You sure have some amazing titles there 😀 Happy reading and I’ll follow your progress!
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Thank you so much, Melanie. I am a bit on the optimistic side, you see. 😉
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Wow, these are a lot of books for one week. I hope you actually manage to read them all. I’d love to get my hands on Kill me Softly and Velveteen. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by.
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I am hoping to read most, if not, all of them. 🙂
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Good luck hun! You’re nothing if not ambitious 😉
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Ha ha! I’m thinking this ambitious’ness will kill me some day. 😉 LOL!
Thanks for stopping by. Haven’t seen you around lately. Though I have been busy too.
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Crazy list! Best of luck sweetie. 🙂 Some great titles on there.
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Thank you so much. 🙂
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Great list of books! I have Farsighted on my Kindle and I really need to read that one too. Have fun and good luck! (Did you link up the post on the Bout-of-Books site. If you did, I missed it. Sorry!)
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Thank you! Uh oh. I was so excited about the list, I forgot to link it up. My my! I will go link up right now. Thanks for reminding.
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No worries… I just didn’t remember seeing it and then remembered your tweet this morning. Glad I went back. 😉
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I just linked up. Thank you for stopping by. My clock is going to announce 00:00am of 14 May in about 18 minutes. So I am all ready to go. 🙂 Just finishing up a few books I am reading.
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What a great mix!!! I hope you can make a big dent, if not finish them all! I’m hoping I can manage to read more than on my own list…but I’m in a bit of a reading slump.
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I do hope to make a big dent. Reading slump here too, is it the weather or what? LOL
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Awesome list!!! I’m hoping I can manage more than what is on my own list, but I’ve been slacking off badly recently…kind of in a reading slump.
Good luck!
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I am in a reading slump too. That is why I’m hoping this read-a-thon motivates me enough.
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Wow, what a super list! I hope you enjoy all of your books and especially Lies Beneath. I love it!
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Thank you. I have only read 3 books this month so far. So hoping to read many this week. 🙂
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Your welcome. Good luck with reading them all. I could never read so many in one week. I read on average 3 or 4 books a week.
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My average is around 5-6. I’m going to push myself more this week.
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