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Naomi’s Book Shelf - Reviews ✨
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items Books, from the good to the great (to some not so much) this is a master list of my most recent and all time favorite reads! Join me and let me know your thoughts on these books too! 📚
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Better than 5 Stars - All Time Favorites
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Better than 5 Stars - All Time Favorites
This is one of my all time favorite books. This is a touching, horrifying, and moving novel that at its core is a story about a woman in a world that so desperately wants to control her. She takes control of her life, insistently, violently, in the o...
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
This is a book everyone needs to read right now. I love Margaret Atwood and her writing, but I just wish she would get it wrong a little more often. Unfortunately for us, this novel does not miss the mark.
A book about the last man alive and his li...
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy #1)
This novel made me want to start writing letters to everyone I know. Written in the form of letters to and from our sassy, hard-headed, but often relatable and endearing main character Sibyl Van Antwerp. Sibyl’s 70+ year life story unfolds in delicio...
The Correspondent: A Novel by Virginia Evans, Hardcover
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This book made me cry. For days. Every time I thought about this book for almost 3 days after I would actually cry.
It is a beautiful, moving, heartbreaking story about young love and the consequences of hubris. A moving retelling of Achilles’ stor...
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
A deep dive into the wondrous and terrifying power of women. In an alternate 1950s, women all over the world suddenly transformed into dragons. Destroying houses, killing abusive husbands, and leaving for the great unknown, these dragon/women leave s...
When Women Were Dragons: A Novel
I absolutely love this series. Crazy Rich Asians and its sequels are a zany look into the ridiculous lives of the ultra wealthy. A self-aware and sarcastic series that is both ludicrously fun and subtly poignant. I love reading about ridiculous rich ...
The Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy Box Set - Kevin Kwan
The first of an incredible series! From the POV of “one of us” Rachel Chu who is unwittingly dating the heir to a massive fortune from one of Singapore’s wealthiest families. Rachel is thrown into their ridiculously wealthy world to both her delight ...
Crazy Rich Asians (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy #1)
We’re back again with Rachel Chu, who is about to discover something life altering about the father she never knew. An incredible follow up to Crazy Rich Asians that is just as funny, poignant, and heartfelt as the first. Kevin Kwan is a master story...
China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy #2)
The final book in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians trilogy. A dazzling finale to an impeccable trilogy, this story expands the story to include even more of our favorite side characters.
When the matriarch of the family is on her deathbed, and a fort...
Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians Trilogy #3)
The second book in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam series. An exciting follow up to her spectacular novel Oryx and Crake.
The world may not be as over as Snowman/Jimmy initially thought. In this second installment we get a broader look at the world Mar...
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy #2)
An exciting finale to Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy. With gritty narrative, loveable (and unlovable) characters, and a deep critique on human nature, society, and vain scientific advancement, this final book in the series delivers a thrilling a...
MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy #3)
Nesta’s story. A jewel in the ACOTAR series. Complicated, crass, and beautiful. A story that on the surface may be a romance, but at its core is a story of survival, redemption, and true female friendship. I absolutely loved this book.
Be warned t...
A Court of Silver Flames (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #5)
One of the first horror books I’ve ever really read and I am obsessed.
Youngest sister in a trio of young women, Clio remembers their childhood abuse the least, but may have been impacted the most. After the sisters’ estranged mother dies, they are...
Play Nice by Rachel Harrison, Hardcover
Cozy, compelling, and heartfelt. I fell in love with this story and have loved the other books in the series as much if not more.
When Viv, an adventurer by trade, decides she’s slain enough dragons and fought enough mages, she leaves her party to ...
Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes
I absolutely love this book and this whole series! It was exciting, dark, and wonderfully human (and inhuman). I loved the second book (Hell Bent) as well, and can’t wait for the third coming out this September!
Ninth House
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The first thing I must say is that this book is MILES better than the first (at least in terms of my enjoyment). All of the gripes and questions I had in the first book finally make sense. Be prepared for a plot twist that changes the game entirely a...
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #2)
Continuing the story from a Court if Mist and Fury, ACOTAR #3 is another winner. In this, alliances have been solidified (or have they?) and war is coming. With a thrilling conclusion to one arc of this sweeping fantasy series, the action is amped up...
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #3)
A sweet novella following the events of A Court of Wings and Ruin. It’s winter solstice in the Night Court and there is finally time to rebuild and renew after devastating war.
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #4)
The first installment of a hilarious, sweet, and meaningful series of hometown romances.
Jeanie just moved to Dream Harbor after confronting the jarring reality that her life in the city was slowing but surely draining the life out of her. Her quir...
The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, Book 1)
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The first in a sweeping series of famous romantasy novels, ACOTAR is a household name.
When I first read this book, I hated it. I think I still do. However, I think that may be the point of this book. The books that follow in the series make everyt...
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #1)