Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Brokeandbookish. This week’s theme is Ten Books I Enjoyed Recently (last yearish) That Weren’t My Typical Genre/Type of Book (or that was out of your comfort zone). I decided to change it up a bit, and go with Ten Books I Want To Read that are out of my comfort zone. Basically, this is just me wondering about a lot of hyped books and a little bit of less hyped books, and staring at them on my TBR, wondering which one I should buy next. Be prepared: there’s a LOT of fantasy and retellings here. Don’t forget to click on the title of the books to read their fabulous synopsis!
1 • The Lunar Chronicles, Marissa Meyer
I KNOW, everyone’s talking about that series, and I haven’t read it yet. I missed the hype train, clearly, but well. I have to say, I don’t read a lot of retellings, and, hm, androids either, BUT I’m definitely going to read that soon, I’m so curious about it.
2 • The Darkest Part of The Forest, Holly Black
Fantasy is one of the genres I want to read more of,this year, and this book seems SO weird, I don’t know if it’s really right up my alley, or not…But I do know that cover is gorgeous and I want to read what’s behind it.
3 • Splintered, A.G. Howard
Talking about gorgeous covers…That one definitely is breathtaking. AND it’s once again, a retelling, something I’m not too familiar with, but, ALICE. I love Alice, and this book seems so good.
4 • The Raven Boys, Maggie Stiefvater
YES I will read that book, and I put it there because it’s fantasy and ghosts and weirdness and I’m all up for weirdness now even if it’s not what I’m used to read about.
5 • Lock & Mori, Heather W. Petty
Yet again another retelling, aren’t I FULL of surprises? I found out about this book not that long ago, and it seems filled with mystery and ups and downs, just what I like.
6 • The Reader, Traci Chee
This is another fantasy, but damn, that synopsis really got me, I’m intrigued, and I’m willing to step out of my contemporary comfort zone to try that one out.
7 • A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E. Schwab
Everyone is talking about that book. EVERYONE. And I haven’t read it *goes hide in shame*. I guess it’s not the kind of book I’m always used to, it being historical fiction AND fantasy. BUT I want to read it now.
8 • Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo
Hello, hype, once again you’re making me SO curious. This book is clearly out of my comfort zone, and I’m yet still wondering whether I should read it or not. TELL ME.
9 • The Wrath and The Dawn, Renee Ahdieh
A retelling, because, well, why not?! This one’s loved by TONS of people, and the cover is gorgeous, the story seems epic, and I’ve been told that the romance is great. I LOVE romance too, so… .
10 • The Mortal Instruments series, Cassandra Clare
HELLO THERE. I don’t even know by now if this book is out of my comfort zone or not. I read the first book, then I stopped. But now I feel like restarting again. The real question is, that series, or the other series ?! HELP ME.
Cinder was good, but Scarlet just isn’t doing anything for me. I’d recommend The Shadow Queen instead. Six of Crows was decent, but not worth the hype. My TTT
Oh thank you for the recommendation, I’ll check that one out! 😀 And I’m glad you’re saying it’s not worth the hype, I feel like everyone’s raving about that book, it’s great to hear a different opinion!
Thank you!
I can tell you that The Darkest Part of the Forest and Cinder are both incredible books. They’re beautifully written. I personally didn’t like A Darker Shade of Magic but there’s a lot of hype around it. Great list!!
My TTT
ohh well I’m glad to hear that, I’ll put them high on my TBR then! 😀 And it’s good that you didn’t like it so much, I’m always happy to see people thinking outside of the box a bit, ahah. Thank you so much! <3
Great idea for a topic! I should’ve thought of that hahaha. One of the most fascinating worlds I’ve read about recently is definitely the one in Daughter of Smoke and Bone 😀 I reeeeally recommend it.
Aww thank you Anette, glad you like it 😀 I need to check out that book, thank you for the recommendation!! 😀
YES READ THE LUNAR CHRONICLES!! 😀 I really want to read The Raven Boys as well. The last one comes out this year, so maybe this is the time haha. There are so many books to read though, how to read them all?! *sigh*
Oh, well if you tell me to, I will 😀 Exactly what I’m telling myself, ahah, all the books are out now, so if we love it, we won’t have to wait for the next book to be released! I don’t know, we just need more hours in the day…
Thank you!! <3
I like that you went the want to read route! Very cool! I’m not really a fantasy reader, but I have read quite a few on your list. I loved The Raven Boys, Six of Crows, City of Bones and The Darkest Part of the Forest.
Thank you! 🙂 Ohh I’m so happy to hear you liked those, it encourages me even more to get to reading those soon 😀
I really enjoyed the Lunar Chronicles. I never thought I would’ve before! They’re worth reading.
Ohh, I hope it’ll be the same for me! Thank you 🙂
The Lunar Chronicles are great–highly recommended.
I really enjoyed The Mortal Instruments so I say it is worth rereading. But if reading 6 books daunts you and/or you prefer steampunk, The Infernal Devices is even better 😉
I really enjoyed Six of Crows. I liked it A LOT better than the original Grisha Trilogy. It’s a slower start but it builds up to a great place.
The Raven Boys is also on my list to read this year…a little scared for that one I admit haha
I need to read The Lunar Chronicles soon then , if you recommend it 😀
Ohh, well I’m kind of hesitating between the two at the moment…I don’t know which one to pick ahah :p
I’m so scared for The Raven Boys, too, everyone’s loving it, i’m scared I won’t, haha!
Thank you so much Lauren! <3
A Darker Shade of Magic is everywhere and it’s making me curious. I’m pretty sure I always miss the hype train for books haha .. great post! 🙂
It is EVERYWHERE really, yes! No worries, I always miss this train, too, we’re in this together, ahah! :p
Thank you so much! 🙂
Sometimes the hype actually unhypes me! Just in case that is the same for you, I’m not going to tell you which books on this list were AMAZING!! I will just commiserate with you about wanting to read: ADSOM, Splintered, and Cinder when the hype dies down. I’m already knee deep in the Raven Boys story so I’m looking forward to the new one coming out in April. Great list!
Ohh I get the feeling! I really want to read those books, but sometimes I think I better wait ’til the hype dies down a little bit, so my expectations will be a little less high 🙂 Ohh, and are you liking it so far? 😀
Thank you so much! <3
I have so much to say about that list hahahaha
I just ordered the entire Splintered trilogy because ALICE! I hope I’ll like it, I’ll definitely let you know once I am done. Which will take a while, because Morning Star and Glass Sword … and other books. SO many books.
Lock & Mori was something I loved! I just don’t want you to expect too much mystery from it. They are teenagers and it shows, but what a fun book to read! I loved Mori’s POV.
I am probably one of the few people who didn’t love A Darker Shade of Magic … which didn’t stop me from ordering A Gathering of Shadows. It just felt so unfinished, because silly me didn’t know it was a series ahahaha I do now. I could love it more probably.
I SO NEED TO READ THE WRATH AND THE DAWN, but because of the cliffhagner I will wait until the second part of the duology is released.
The Infernal Devices is better than the Mortal Instruments and you would spoil yourself for some stuff if you read ALL the TMI books before TID. Does that make sense? Book 1-3 of TMI was released before TID, but then they took turns being published and there are major spoilers towards the end …
Ahah WOW indeed you had things to say about this! I LOVE it! <3 I can't wait to know how you like Splintered, I'm so curious about it! 😀
Oh, well it's actually refreshing to hear tht you didn't like ADSOM so much, I feel like everyone loves it, haha. I'm curious to discover that series, though! 🙂
ME TOO! Well maybe we should plan on buddy reading The Wrath andThe Dawn, I don't think I will order it right now, so… 🙂
Oh yes okay, that perfectly made sense, I always wondered what were the links between those two series… I don't know which one to read now, hhahaha
THANK YOU, Kat, I love these long comments! <3
I am glad you didn’t feel like I suffocated you with that long comment hahaha
ADSOM was definitely not a bad book, but somehow I never felt as much love for it as the others. I think it’s good to have lower expectations though, that mostly makes the books better in the end. But I just found out that they are making it into a TV show and I love that idea!
YAS! Let’s buddy-read The Wrath and the Dawn! I’ll let you know when I plan on ordering it and then we can coordinate 😉
Yeah, TID is the “prequel” to TMI, that’s why you don’t want to read it all before TID. There’s like a crossover of characters and stuff 😀
You’re so right about this. I have a lot of expectations on that book already, because everyone’s loving it so much…but what if I don’t ?! :O
OH yes I’m in! We definitely should start thinking about that book club,… :p
Ohhh okay, I get it now, THANK YOU! I was so confused about both those series, haha.
Well, if you don’t love it, then you don’t. It happens sometimes.
We should … that should be our next project, so shortly before buying the books, we should discuss this!
YES, we should! Well, you’ll let me know, whenever you’re planning on buying new books 😀
Will do!
(sorry for writing in English but “ça ferait tâche” if I didn’t) It took me a while to even consider reading the Lunar Chronicles, but when someone rec’d the books to me personnally, I didn’t have much choice haha (Cinder and Scarlet are not waiting on my shelf – soon !). I heard more positive things about the Infernal Devices, if that can help, although I haven’t read them. And YES to the Raven Boys !! I began these books without really knowing what I was getting into so I didn’t expect to become completely obsessed with them !
Haha, no worries! I LOVE writing in English, so I’m okay with it! 😉 I can’t wait for you to start that series, then, I would love to know your thoughts! 🙂
Oh yes, this helps a lot! I don’t know which series I should read, or if I should read both.. ahah.
OHHH this makes me SO happy that you love the raven boys. I NEED to read those books! <3
Thank you so much!! <3
I feel like you could have literally got this week’s TTT books from a list of my favourites 😀
I love Splintered, the fact that it’s inspired by Alice in Wonderland was a massive draw for me, and The Lunar Chronicles series is my all-time favourite series, you have to start Cinder, I’d really highly recommend it 🙂
All the books you’ve picked are brilliant, the only ones I think I haven’t read are Lock and Mori and the Darkest Part of the Forest but Holly Black is a brilliant author and I’ve heard good things about Lock and Mori as well.
Great picks for this week, I really hope you enjoy all these books when you get around to them!
Oh really?! Well this just makes me want to read ALL the books even more, knowing that you love them so much! 😀 Thank you so, so much, I hope I’ll enjoy those as much as you did, so we can fangirl about it together 😀
Yay! In my opinion they’re all brilliant so I’m really hoping you like them as well 🙂 and yes, I need more people to fangirl over books with, it’s pretty much one of the reasons I started my blog 😀
YES, me too!! Let’s fangirl together, haha 😀 😀
You should read Cinder! I’m not sure if it’s just my mood then when I read it or it’s really the bool which got me captivated. It’s a one-of-a-kind retelling of a fairy tale!
I heard it’s one-of-a-kind, and that’s what makes me want to read it. I’m not a big reader of retellings, but everyone talking about this makes me SO curious. Hype is cruel like that, haha.
Thank you Trisha!! <3
It’s not exactly a retelling but more like a fairy tale-based story in a dystopian setting. Does that make sense? Haha!
Oh okay, that totally make sense! Thank you! 🙂
I feel like you could have chosen your TTT picks from my list of favourite books, I have literally read and loved nearly everything on your list this week 😀
Splintered is one of my favourites, the fact that it was an Alice in Wonderland inspired book was a huge draw for me, and the cover as well :). Also The Lunar Chronicles is probably my all-time favourite series. You have to read Cinder, I’m sure you’ll really love it as well! Plus all the books in the series have already been released so if you love it as much as most other people have you wont have to wait for any of the books to be released, the wait between Cress and Winter was horrifyingly long for me 😀
I think you posted your comment twice, haha, but I LOVEED reading it even more the second time than the first 😀 Waiting for a sequel is sometimes SO annoying, I get that 🙁
Ha, yeah, my internet is pretty unreliable and it crashed right as I sent the first comment. So I obviously I thought it hadn’t sent and wrote it again but I guess I’m just really impatient and didn’t realise my internet was sending the first one. Oh well!
I think it’s the only downside of loving read so much, having to wait for the sequel 😀
Ohh this happens to me ALL the time, and I’m always scared people will think I’m crazy for sending four times the same comment, haha :p
It’s happened a couple of times for me now, I kind of need a decent Internet connection to stop it from happening so often 😀
But no I worried the same thing when I sent the comment to you twice, I’m glad you didn’t think I was crazy 🙂
Well if it happens when you’re on my blog, you’ll know for sure I will return twice the comments you post, so at least that will make it up for your sucky connection :p
Oh no, I wouldn’t! And we’re all crazy a little bit 😉
And if it happens on mine the same goes. It’s happened to me a few times so I know it’s easy to make that mistake 🙂
Life’s more interesting when people are a little bit crazy 😀
EXACTLY! So we can be crazy bookworms together 😀
Definitely! That’s half the fun of blogging isn’t it 😀
It is more than half the fun of it :p
READ THE INFERNAL DEVICES. I love that series like 100000 times more than The Mortal Instruments – it’s so much less info dumpy, the love triangle is AMAZING (and I don’t say that about those much) and you’ve got a protag that loves BOOKS 😀
I recently read A Darker Shade of Magic – I can see why so many people like it! Definitely give it a shot if you love awesome world building! It’s kind of an alternate universe kind of book – so things are still understandable, and you don’t have to learn too many new tems! 🙂
But yeah, I’m the same with Splintered – kindaaa wanna read it, but at the same time THE HYPE and I’m so worried it won’t live up to expectatons!
OH wow, okay, well I’ll definitely think about reading TID then! I’m always wondering which of these series I should read, but I think you just answered my question :p
Well that’s definitely a good thing about ADSOM, sometimes world-buildings are so complicated, it’s hard to follow, I’m happy to hear that’s not the case!
ME TOO, the worry is eating me away. We should try and read it together ahah, to reassure each other :p
Haha yeah sure, we can totally read Splintered together! Wanna read it sometime in March…?
That would be great! March is going to be a little hectic for me though, I think :(… how about you or I, or we both let each other know when we order new books, so we can both take Splintered, and read it around the time we get it? 😀
Yep, haha I TOTALLY get it xD I’ll let you know when I’ve gotten Splintered then! 😀 Hopefully, it’ll be before May…. xD JUST MAKE SURE TO BUG ME AND REMIND ME 😀
Haha yay, I hope I’ll get it before May, too…I’ll make sure of it, no worries, in between our CRAZY LONG comments I’ll remind you :p
You’re seriously missing out on these! I LOVED A Darker Shade of Magic, lunar chronicles, six of crows and raven cycle series. They’re unique, easy to read and so fun! You might not really like historical fantasy fiction but ADSOM was so incredible.You might really love it 😀 I hope you get to read it soon.
Ohh, so glad to hear you loved so many of those books! It makes me want to read them RIGHT NOW. I hope I’ll get to them soon. Thank you so much Raihana! 😀