A couple people have asked me about book recommendations, so based on my 2017 reads I’ve whipped up a few random lists for you. The only way I could think to do this was by creating a few categories, because everyone’s taste is different.

P.S. Not all of these books were published in 2017, but I read them all last year.

Books that teen Theresa would have <3 <3 <3 and fangirled all over

• A Crown of Wishes by Roshani Chokshi
• The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
• Want by Cindy Pon
• The Crown’s Game by Evelyn Skye
• Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

Books that I think everyone should read

• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• See also, the next list.

Books that are devastatingly good (but also nearly destroyed me or messed with my head)

• The Broken Earth books by N. K. Jemisin
• The Changeling by Victor LaValle
• My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier

Books for fairytale lovers

• Roses and Rot by Kat Howard
• The Girl Who Swallowed the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
• Ash by Malinda Lo
• Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie Dao

Books for the worldbuilding afficionados

• The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
• The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

Newest comfort reads 

• Archangel’s Shadows by Nalini Singh
• Caraval by Stephanie Garber

Insta-buy Authors

• Renee Ahdieh – Historical fantasy + romance
• Sabaa Tahir – Big not quite grimdark epic fantasy + romance side plot
• Marjorie Liu – Monstress graphic novels

Compulsively readable, oh God I dislike those tropes, but why am I so invested?  Someone help me I have a problem…

• The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare (Have you seen the TV show? I can’t wait for season 3 – also I’m glad they aged up the characters, because some of these themes are kinda iffy for YA)