Beyond the Cover: Books That Left a Mark
These are books that have made a huge impact on me. Many of them I come back to read again and again.
Books that Helped Me Reach the Next Level
This book is all about pursuing goals and the happiness that striving for something can bring you. It's a great book to read when you feel stuck in a rut. It's one that I often go back to for inspiration.
This book is about making the things you want to accomplish fun like a video game. You can reach different levels and give yourself powerups.
Whenever I start to feel sorry for myself or make excuses, listening to David Goggins is the cure. This man has an insane level of self discipline.
The 12 Week Year is all about breaking your big goals up into smaller tasks so that you get more done in 3 months than most people do in a year.
Romance
I love a good romance that has more elements to the story than just the romance itself.
I love stories where the characters have a goal bigger than just their romance. This book centers around two people working as spy's for the resistance turing WWII. There is so much sexual tension between them that all they have to do is look at each other and I can feel it through the pages.
This book made me laugh out loud multiple times. It was super cute and never lagged.
This book made me reminisce fondly about my time in college and would be the perfect read for someone who is just beginning that journey.
Young Adult Books
These books made a huge impact on my childhood. They instilled a love of books and a desire to create my own magical worlds.
This book ignited my imagination as a child. It made me fall in love with fantasy and medieval times. It inspired me to want to write my own stories.
The sequel to the Castle in the Attic. My favorite duology about a young boy who is gifted a toy castle that transports him to medieval times.
This is a great book about an outcast 16 year old girl in the 1600s and what happens when she forms a friendship with an elderly woman who is believed by the colonist to be a witch.
I always struggled with reading as a child. I received this book in a fourth grade Christmas Yankee swap and it changed everything for me. I couldn't wait to keep reading to see what happened next. Goosebumps improved my reading skills so much by mak...
This is a great collection about a girl who craves adventure so she disguises herself as a boy so she can take her brothers place and train to become a knight.
The story of a girl who receives the gift of obedience from a fairy when she is born.