For the past two years, I set a reading goal for myself at the beginning of the year to challenge myself to read more books. Last year I made it to my goal of 30 just in the nick of time, finishing my 30th book in the middle of December. This year I decided to challenge myself more and raised the goal to 35 books. Right now I’m on track to reach my goals, but I might need to pick up the pace a little bit.
This time of year I do tend to read more than normal because football is on every Sunday. I typically watch the full Eagles game every week, but my brother and dad have football on all day; so when the games aren’t that exciting, I’ll pick up my book and get some reading done.
Typically, I stick to psychological thriller/mystery books; but every once in a while, when I read a really messed-up or scary book, I have to throw in a romance novel. With all the reading I’ve done these past two years, I decided to write some recommendations for my fellow readers.
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Let’s start off with the romance books I’ve recently read:
- 1,000 Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole — Make sure you have tissues ready
- The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy by Jenny Han
- The Summer of Broken Rules by K.L. Walther
- Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
- In Five Years by Rebecca Serle — Another tear jerker
- Meet Me by the Lake by Carley Fortune
Now, moving on to psychological thrillers/mysteries, I have a lot more of these recommendations:
- Never Lie by Freida McFadden
- Ward D by Freida McFadden
- Verity by Colleen Hoover
- Rock, Paper, Scissors by Alice Feeny
- Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeny
- Local Women Missing by Mary Kubica
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
- Family of Liars by E. Lockhart
- The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
- The It Girl by Ruth Ware
- Bad Summer People by Emma Rosenblum
- Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (recently turned into a Netflix series)
- The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand (recently turned into a Netflix series)
Happy reading!
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