It’s been a while, but I’m excited to be back with a post for the Bionic Bookworm’s Top 5 Tuesday!
Books surprise us all the time. Usually, it’s something that we think we’re going to like and end up LOVING! I guess there’s the other kind of surprise, where we think a book is right up our alley and end up hating it. I didn’t both putting any of those books on this list. Good surprises only.
FURIOUSLY HAPPY
by Jenny Lawson
One of those books that I didn’t hear a single bad thing about, but it just didn’t seem like it was for me. I was wrong. Full of insight and hilarity all the way through.
11/22/63
by Stephen King
I don’t know why King’s books still surprise me. I always know I’m going to like them, but when I read the synopsis, I never think I’m going to LOVE them. I’m wrong pretty much every time.
THERE WILL COME A DARKNESS
by Katy Rose Pool
I believe this was a debut, and there was some fire behind it, so I was relatively confident this was going to be pretty great and it still managed to exceed expectations!
THE WAREHOUSE
by Rob Hart
This might have been the biggest surprise of the year. It sounded like a cool premise, but I hadn’t heard of the author and the cover made me think it was self-published (not that there aren’t great self-published books.) However, this delighted me in several ways.
A MAN CALLED OVE
by Fredrik Backman
Okay, maybe THIS was the biggest surprise of the year. It’s one of those books that just doesn’t sound like there’s much going on. And there wasn’t in an action, monsters, and spaceships sense. But there’s plenty of meaning and feels in this delightful page-turner.
I think you’re the first person I’ve heard talk about There Will Come a Darkness, so now I’m looking forward to it! And I’m definitely planning on reading A Man Called Ove. Welcome back!
Thanks! There Will Come A Darkness has everything I look for in a book! I was really impressed
Great choices! I loved There Will Come A Darkness.
I’ve been informed that I NEED to read 11/22/63 by my mother in law. She says it’s one of her all time favourites….. but I keep leaving it on my shelf lol. Soon (i hope)
I felt the same way. But eventually got around to it.
I LOVE Furiously Happy and A Man Called Ove. I’m reading The Warehouse now and hoping to love that too.
I really want to read 11/22/63 – I’m so curious about that one!
You are one of the sole reasons why There Will Come a Darkness is on my radar. You made it sound SO good, and with all this talk lately of heists and rag tag groups, it’s really looking like it’ll make my wish list this year.
I think I deserve some kind of commission, don’t you?
I definitely think so!
The cover of Furiously Happy makes me want to read it so badly! I’ve also been meaning to read There Will Come a Darkness since it published so thank you for reminding me about it!
Loved furiously happy and a man called ove! Great list!
Furiously Happy has such a terrible and creepy cover that I don’t think I could get past that and give it a chance haha. Glad you liked it! And Welcome back!
Trust me, if you end up reading the book that cover becomes hilarious instead of creepy. For example… imagine that racoon riding a cat…
Oooh, have you also read Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson? Seriously her books are some of my favourites. 💕
I have no. Maybe I should…
I highly recommend!!