BOOKSHELF TOUR 2020 (800+ books!)

And The Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah J. Maas.

Now, I've only read A Darker Shade of Magic. I haven't gotten to the last two yet, but I really loved the first one, and V. E. Schwab is like a favorite author of mine.

And A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness is another favorite of mine and I really like this version because they have some really cool illustrations all throughout it.

A Traitor Kind of Wonderful is another really great book about bipolar disorder.

Again, but Better by Christine Riccio, who is of course a fellow BookTuber and really good friend of mine. I absolutely loved her debut novel as well.

Beauty Queens is a super fun all girls retelling of Lord of the Flies and it is just totally worth the read.

A few favorites of mine are In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero, Becoming by Michelle Obama, and Unfiltered by Lily Collins.

And the Bloodlines series, these are just like classic fantasies for me.

Challenger Deep is a National Book Award winner and it is a story about a young boy living with schizophrenia.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. Then, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo, a story about two separated sisters.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. I have Daisy Jones and the Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, both by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Dark Places is definitely my favorite and Sharp Objects has to be my least favorite.

I've read almost every book on this shelf, which makes me really happy. So, I'm just going to showcase a few favorites of mine. Definitions of Indefinable Things by Whitney Taylor talks about two teens living with depression.

Some of my favorite textbooks from grad school so far have been Developing Multicultural Counseling Competence, Counseling Theory and Practice, and The World of the Counselor.

Divergent, of course, one of the most iconic YA dystopians. I actually read Divergent for my first book with my high school book club and it was a really exciting time.

Eliza and Her Monsters is a really cute story about a girl living with anxiety, I believe social anxiety.

I really enjoyed the Everheart A Doorway series, which are all very short fantasy novellas with beautiful writing.

Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone is a favorite of mine and it deals with a girl who lives with pure obsessional OCD.

I really loved both of Nicola Yoon's books, Everything, Everything Sun Is Also a Star.

family Girl by Rainbow Rowell, one of the most iconic YAs about fan culture you could read.

Far from the Tree by Robin Benway, which is a profound story about adoption.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, and Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston.

Final Girls was pretty fun.

Finding Yvonne was also super beautiful.

Four Weeks, Five People by Jennifer Yu is a really great story as it follows five different teens dealing with a variety of different mental health conditions like OCD, depression, a dissociative disorder, and personality disorders and they all go to like a therapy retreat together.

I have really enjoyed both Illuminae and Gemina by Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff.

And a couple of standalones I really liked are The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown, Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart, and Sadie by Courtney Summers.

Girl Gone Viral was really fun. It's kind of like a low speculative sci-fi of like what our world could look like in a couple of years with the increase of technology.

Girl Made of Stars has some great commentary on sexual assault and rape culture in our world, but there is a like gender-fluid side character and also the main character is bisexual, I believe.

Two of my favorites are Life Without Ed and Goodbye Ed, Hello Me, which are memoirs/self-help books about eating disorders.

Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, volumes 1 through 3, which is an adorable queer graphic novel series. If you have not read it yet, I highly recommend picking it up for all the good feels.

Hello Girls by Brittany Cavallaro and Emily Henry, which is a super fun Thelma and Louise retelling.

Heretics Anonymous by Katie Henry, a hilarious story about an atheist going to Catholic school.

I recently read Heroine by Mindy McGinnis, which is all about a high school softball star who falls into the world of a heroin addiction and it was absolutely profound.

They Both Die at the End, and History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. Volition and Ignite by Lily Paraday.

I have really enjoyed both Illuminae and Gemina by Amy Kaufman and Jay Kristoff.

A few favorites of mine are In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero, Becoming by Michelle Obama, and Unfiltered by Lily Collins.

People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins, and Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson.

Let's Call It a Doomsday is a hilarious story about a friendship between two girls and there's a huge theme of mental health and anxiety.

Lily and Duncan is a great middle grade about bipolar disorder as well as trans kids.

Little and Lion by Brandy Colbert is a fantastic book about family dynamics and when living with someone who has bipolar disorder.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. Then, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert.

Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu, an absolute favorite of mine.

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf, which I thoroughly enjoyed both the graphic novel and the movie.

I ended up reading half of it on the train home and the other half the next day and now it's like an all-time favorite of mine.

Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oki, which follows a girl recently expelled from high school who starts getting some college credits and finds herself on a Big Brother-like reality show.

Night Film by Marisha Pessl is one of my all-time faves.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo, which is the signed and exclusive Waterstones edition.

Nobody Has to Know is a really fun and interesting book on my shelf because it is actually written by my high school English teacher, Frank Nappi.

Now Is Everything deals with abuse, which I really enjoyed.

And of course, an EmmaBooks favorite A Crown of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst, which is just like one of my favorite queer fantasies ever.

People Kill People by Ellen Hopkins, and Let Me Hear a Rhyme by Tiffany D. Jackson.

I've loved both of Karin Slaughter's works Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter and I'm super excited to read more from her because I feel that she is just a masterful writer.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, and Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston.

Then I have the Renegade series by Marissa Meyer, which is a favorite of mine like one of my all-time favorites. These are all also signed by Marissa Meyer.

And a couple of standalones I really liked are The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown, Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart, and Sadie by Courtney Summers.

Seven Ways We Live by Riley Redgate is a really interesting story and it has a pansexual character as well as an aromantic asexual character.

Dark Places is definitely my favorite and Sharp Objects has to be my least favorite.

I also loved the Shatter Me series when I read it all those years ago. I only read the original trilogy.

I've got quite a few books about feminism and sexual assault like Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu, an absolute favorite of mine. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.

I've only read the first one, which I absolutely loved and I would really like to get to Muse of Nightmares soon.

The Afterlife of Holly Chase, y'all know it's a favorite of mine. This is the best Christmas story for you to read to get into the holiday season. It is like a super fun remixed version of A Christmas Carol and I think at this point I've read it four times in the last three years.

I just recently read The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which is like the prequel to The Hunger Games. It got a lot of mixed reviews. I personally enjoyed it kind of just being back in The Hunger Games world.

And I recently read The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta which won the Stonewall Book Award and it follows a young mixed-race gay teen who gets involved in the drag world.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown and The Beautiful are two great vampire books.

it really reminded me of another favorite of mine, The Darkest Minds.

I have read The Devouring Gray. It wasn't a particular favorite of mine, but I love this cover so much that I decided to make it face outward.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. We have The Girls by Emma Cline.

I've loved both of Karin Slaughter's works Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter and I'm super excited to read more from her because I feel that she is just a masterful writer.

And of course, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, a beautiful story about the Black Lives Matter movement and police brutality.

these are definitely on here that I've really enjoyed are The Hobbit, of course, by J. R. R. Tolkien.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret is like an all-time favorite of mine. I got it at the Scholastic Book Fair when I was in elementary school. It has like 300 pages of gorgeous sketch illustrations that really help complete and tell the story.

The Naturals series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. I unfortunately didn't love the last two books in the series as much, but it totally gives me a lot of nostalgic feelings because they were an absolute favorite of mine when I was a teen.

And I've also read The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, which I did enjoy. I just feel like many other people in the book community love it a lot more.

Number Girls is another favorite of mine that has to do a lot with sexual assault, rape, and rape culture.

The Program is a series I loved as a teen, and I never really gotten around to finishing it.

The Selection series was a fun one at the time. I feel like if I reread it now as an adult, I would not enjoy it as much, but I kind of keep it around for the nostalgia.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. I have Daisy Jones and the Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, both by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. And also, Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick.

I really loved both of Nicola Yoon's books, Everything, Everything Sun Is Also a Star.

And a couple of standalones I really liked are The Truth About Keeping Secrets by Savannah Brown, Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart, and Sadie by Courtney Summers.

The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith, another absolute favorite of mine.

The Wrath and the Dawn duology by Renee Ahdieh.

The Diviners series by Libba Bray, an absolute favorite of mine. This original cover of The Diviners is like one of my favorite book covers of all time.

The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding was really fun. I definitely want to get to the sequel.

And The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis.

The Last to Let Go is a really profound story about domestic abuse and how it affects the lives of children, but the main character is a lesbian.

They Both Die at the End, and History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera.

This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales, one of my favorite reads for my teenagehood about how music has the power to save lives.

these are definitely on here that I've really enjoyed are The Hobbit, of course, by J. R. R. Tolkien. The Three Dark Crown series by Kendare Blake.

The To All the Boys I've Loved Before series by Jenny Han.

My top series on the shelf has to be Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson.

And then Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, which is another Own Voices novel as John Green and the main character both have OCD.

I was such a Twihard back then.

And Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise O'Neill is an Own Voices novel as the author and the main character both live with issues like agoraphobia, anxiety, I believe OCD, and self-harm as well.

A few favorites of mine are In the Country We Love by Diane Guerrero, Becoming by Michelle Obama, and Unfiltered by Lily Collins.

Then I have the Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead. I have most of these signed as well, which is pretty cool. And the Bloodlines series, these are just like classic fantasies for me.

And A Very Large Expansive Sea by Tahereh Mafi, which follows a Muslim teen after the events of 9/11.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. Volition and Ignite by Lily Paraday.

I absolutely loved Warcross and Wildcard was unfortunately a really big letdown.

What I Lost by Alexandra Ballard is my favorite novel about anorexia that I've ever read.

I've pretty much read every book on here, and consider it one that I really loved. I have Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

I absolutely loved Warcross and Wildcard was unfortunately a really big letdown.

And then closing it out, I have Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson. This is the UK cover, which I really pretty.

Another Elizabeth Acevedo book With the Fire on High.

And I also was a big fan of The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn. It's a shame because I adored this book so much.

I absolutely loved You by Caroline Kepnes and I'm a huge fan of the TV show.

You're Welcome, Universe is a gorgeous story. I absolutely adore.