Hey Guys! Welcome or welcome back to my blog!
Can you believe it’s the last day of 2021. Ngl, I am relieved, and I can believe it.
So, anyway, Kristin @Kristin Kraves Books is doing this challenge where she’ll read 12 books recommended by 12 friends in 12 months, and she asked for recommendations on her blog! And I thought why don’t I do the same?
So, well, hit me up with your recs in the comments down below! I know the number will probably exceed 12, so I’ll make chits and pick 12 books out of them! My preferred genres are contemporaries and mysteries, but well, if you have exceptional books in other genres as well, do let me know in the comments! Also, please don’t mention any series- stand alones only!!
Also, this challenge was created by shadowbooker over on Instagram!
P.S.- Ngl, I am kinda scared about this, I hate reading recommendations by other people- because if I pick a book and don’t like it, that’s on me. But if someone else picks a book for me and I don’t like it, that’s on them, and I don’t like it when it’s on them.
Whispering Stories 
One Of Us Is Lying and One Of Is Next…..they are a part of trilogy and the third book is coming in 2023….if you haven’t read it yet, I’ll prolly recommend it
And alsoooooo The Gallagher Girls series😭
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I have read One of Us is Lying and One of Us is next and I can’t wait for the third book to come!
Also, no series, I am sorry! Standalones only!
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Ahh even I can’t wait for ittt
Ohh yess I did figure that out later😭
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Gallagher girls is sooo goooood!
Riddhi, if you wanna give a chance to series, please read this 6 book one..its awesome
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I knowww righttttt😩
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Ahh okayy!
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I LOVE Gallagher girls they are such badasses
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IKR!
and ZACHARY GOODE😍
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IKR
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I’d recommend The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. It’s a great quirky mystery with brilliant characters and lots of funny moments.
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Thanks Laura! Sounds interesting!
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For contemporary, I’d say “What Katy Did”. It’s a children’s book too, but I found it amazing, though it’s upto you. And I can have a recommendation for crime fiction if you’d like to read it, “The Prisoner of Birth” by Jeffrey Archer. Choose your pick 😉
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Oooh, okay, thank you!
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THE QUEEN’S RISING. Ridh I’ve been begging you to read it. READ.
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Is it a stand alone Sep?
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well.
um.
no.
*cries*
but it’s only a duology.
I mean. If you don’t like it. Don’t read the next one.
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I ll add it in the chits!
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A thousand splendid suns by Khaled Hossenei
Its historical fiction, with its focus on women and its amazing
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I read that almost 3 years ago but that story still sticks with me!! 🤍🤍
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Ahh, it is one to take up a part in you.
I completed it like yesterday and I can’t stop thinking about it
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Ooh thanks!
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The ICKABOG. It’s about a good monster, who every thinks is a bad monster.
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It’s by JK Rowling
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Okay!
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Ooh okay thanks!
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Read The Inheritance Games!
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Okay! Thanks!
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You might ve already read this.. Bloodline by Sidney Sheldon
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I havent- but I do wanna read more of Sidney Sheldon!
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The Stranger in The Mirror and The Sky is Falling by Sidney Sheldon, and Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin. So far, that’s all I got
I know the 3rd one is kind of on the horror side, I figured you might like it
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Thanks!
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Anytime!
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A List of Cages is on of my favourite contemporary standalones!! It has an incredible friendship but deals with darker themes like trauma and abuse so please take care if you do pick it up!
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Oooh okay thanks!
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Eliza and Her Monsters! I already told you you should read this, so I’m just going to use this opportunity to push it at you again 😁 I really think you’re going to relate to it a lot, especially since the internet is a big part of your life and since you liked Fangirl so much!
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Yes, okay, thank you!
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Mine by Robert R. McCammon haha
But also, The Devil, the Banshee and Me, it’s a middle-grade book and it was very fun to read, at least I thought so, by Lucy Falcone
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Ooh okay, thanks!
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No problem 🙂
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ahh between shades of gray! it’s one of my favourite books ever!
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Ohkay, thanks so much Suhani!
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Not My Problem by Ciara Smyth. It’s INSANELY funny, plus there are awesome characters! One of my favorite books of 2021!
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Oh okay, thank you so much!
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A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Rameeeeeeeee
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Thanks!
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The kite runner/?
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Thanks!
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1. The Elephant Chaser’s Daughter by Shilpa Raj (a little bit heavy and dark, but probably something that I’d blindly recommend to everyone in existence)
2. Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
3. The End And Other Beginnings by Veronica Roth
4. The Bridge Home by Padma Venkatraman
5. Holes by Louis Sachar
6. Villains by V.E. Schwab (it’s a duo, I k n o w you said standalones only but they’re almost the saaaame IT’S SO AWESOME)
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Ohkayyy thankss! And I didn’t like Addie LaRue, so I am kinda apprehensive about villains, but thanks!
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Okay but Villains is also very dark and heavy- so probably read a few Goodreads reviews and look out for trigger warnings as well…
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Okay, thanks!
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I will recommend Americanah by chimamanda Adichie
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Oh okay, thanks!
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I can see you have many lovely suggestions but if by chance you are still at a loss as to what to read, I definitely recommend Crooked House by Agatha Christie. Its a classic mystery so I wouldn’t be surprised if you had read it already but if by chance you haven’t, I definitely recommend it!
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Oh, I love Agatha Christie! I don’t think I’ve read Crooked House so I hope I do pick it!
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I can’t really remember a book rec abhi but I will let you know as soon as my brain starts working again tis on hiatus abhi
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Okayyy
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the jasmine throne !! or if you want contemporary you should try better than the movies by lynn painter.
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Oh, i have read Better than the Movies, but thanks for the suggestions!
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