Every year I look forward to the Goodreads Choice Awards and this year was no different. Even long before I started book blogging, the GR Choice Awards provided the perfect opportunity to show my love for my favourite books and (of course) increase my TBR by adding some of the biggest book names of the year.
TITLE: The Hate U Give
AUTHOR: Angie Thomas
SERIES: N/A
RELEASED: February 2017; Balzer + Bray
GENRE: YA Contemporary
FORMAT: Physical
KEY INFO: YA leadership, black lives matter, activism, finding your voice and speaking out
REPRESENTATION: woman of colour MC, people of colour
CONTENT WARNINGS: police violence, on-page murder of an unarmed young black man, racism, microaggressions
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Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly book tag run by The Broke and the Bookish who provide us with a different prompt every week! Anyone is welcome to join in on their blog, in the comments or any other way.
– Top 10 New to me Authors that I Read in 2017 –
2017 really was the year of exploration for me and it’s something I definitely want to continue into 2018. Being able to read more meant that I was able to branch out and discover loads of new authors and their wonderful works. I love this week’s T101T topic because we often spend a lot of time celebrating the books we love, sometimes without ever really celebrating the very authors who created those books. So, here are some of my favourite author discoveries of last year!
