I know I’m super duper late with this – so sorry guys! – but I’m posting it today so I can make sure I’m caught up later this week. Thank you again so much Mandy @ Devouring Books for bringing this back, and for tagging me on Twitter to do this one. I love having a post to work on every day of the week, and I love coming up with lists.
Rules!
- Share your top 5 books of the current topic– these can be books that you want to read, have read and loved, have read and hated, you can do it any way you want.
- Tag the original post
- Tag 5 people
I feel like I’m not much of a psychological thriller person, but there have been some that I liked. But like I’ve said before, I think that expanding my genres will help me find some more books that I may end up enjoying. So let’s see what I add on this list.
This has been on my TBR list for like a month or more, and I swear I’m going to read it before the year is out! I super swear it.
One of my long time friends actually recommended this one, so I’ll have to check it out. Not just because it’s a Reese Witherspoon book club choice. That’s definitely not the reason.
I’m not a CoHort (yet?) but this is one that I’ve been wanting to read. I also heard that this was pretty damn creepy, so hopefully I can get through it.
I read The Wife Between Us, and I listened to a podcast about this one (spoilers in it, so beware) and I was really intrigued by what they had to say about it.
I was really into Lock Every Door when I got chosen for the blog tour with Fantastic Flying Book Club, and I keep hearing that I should read Sager’s previous books as well. I figured I’d read this one.
This one was actually kind of hard to do! It really makes me realize that I don’t want to get into the psychological thriller genre as much, or that there’s so many that I’ve seen before but haven’t really wanted to read yet. I also think there aren’t any YA psychological thrillers, although I may be wrong. Do you have any that I should start with?
- Brittany @ Brittany the Book Guru
- Joanna @ The Geekish Brunette
- Sara @ Year of Reading Dangerously
- Sammie @ The Writerly Way
- Book Club Mom
Don’t feel pressured to do these if you don’t want to! I just want to make sure I spread the word on this weekly meme, and maybe get some more people to play along. Who knows? You may know someone who wants to try it.
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Thanks for joining!! I really wanted an ARC copy of Whisper Network, but didn’t wind up getting one. I LOVED An Anonymous Girl, I thought it was really well done. Also, Final Girls is the only unread Riley Sager novel that I have left and I really want to read it as well. Hopefully some of the upcoming topics will be easier for you to find 5 books for– there are a few that I’m really excited for! If you have any topics that you’d really like to have on Top 5 Saturday I am totally open to recommendations!
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Of course! Thanks so much for tagging me 🙂 I’m sorry I was super late though! I hope to listen to the audiobook of The Whisper Network honestly. I actually kind of wish that publishers could send audiobook ARCs because I could get through those way easier than on my phone. I hope you get to read it soon though!
Oh that’s good! I hope I enjoy An Anonymous Girl. I’m glad to hear that you loved it, so I’m a little bit more excited to read it now 🙂 Probably listen, but you know what I mean.
I’ll definitely think about some suggestions and run them by you 🙂
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Don’t be sorry for being late! I don’t care WHEN people do it, even though I do it on Saturdays, I just want people to participate!
I actually entered a giveaway on Goodreads a while ago for an audiobook of The Whisper Network, I didn’t win though. 😦
I didn’t really think I would love An Anonymous Girl as much as I did. It was a lot better than I had anticipated it to be.
I honestly think after this conversation that I might do audiobooks one week, because I think a lot of people really enjoy audiobooks and I have some books that I have heard great things about the audiobooks.
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Doing audiobooks for one week would be a fun one! Having to narrow it down to 5 is going to be hard, but definitely fun 🙂
I feel like I don’t win anything on Goodreads anymore lol. I only won 4 times in my entire lifetime. I hope you win soon though!
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I win way more through Shelf Awareness Pro and sometimes I win ebooks from Goodreads though. I’m starting to have a rough time coming up with topics but audio books are going on the list!
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I’ve heard a lot about Anonymous Girl, but I haven’t written it yet. I’m not a huge Colleen Hoover fan, mostly because I feel there’s a lot of misconception in her characters and the relationships (at least the ones I’ve read about) are very toxic. I read November 9 and the Maybe Someday books, and that’s what I felt. She is a good writer though, and her books are quick reads, so I do want to give her another chance. Great post! I love the concept of this list.
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Let me know when you do end up reading An Anonymous Girl! One of the reasons why I want to read it eventually was because of the podcast I listened to. They are actually in the town I work in, so it was cool to listen to a local podcast!
I haven’t read any Colleen Hoover books, but people keep raving about them. I may just not be into adult contemporary. Same thing happened with Kristin Hannah for me, and I wasn’t into it. I had to wish for the book to finish. Oh no I don’t like toxic relationship books 😦 Those books are the ones that have toxic relationship? I was going to read Maybe Someday for a book club but never got around to it. Maybe it was a good thing.
Thanks Marti! I hope you jump in on this meme 🙂 It’s pretty fun!
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It sounds fun to have a local podcast! November 9 is the book with one of the most toxic and wrong relationships I’ve read about for sure. Maybe Someday wasn’t that bad, I would put a trigger warning for cheating because I do not approve of that behavior and I just don’t like reading about it. My main issue with Maybe Someday was the protagonist, but who knows, maybe you would like it better!
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I haven’t read Verity yet, but I really want to! If you’re looking for YA thrillers I would suggest trying All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick!
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Oh my gosh! I didn’t realize Kit Frick had another book out 🙂 I really liked See All the Stars and even got a chance to read an ARC for it a year ago or so. I’ll be on the lookout for this one! Thanks so much 🙂
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Thanks for the tag! I don’t think I have ever read a psychological thriller, haha. I guess its a genre I need to look into!
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You’re welcome Joanna! I’m like that too. Someone has to like convince me to read it in order for me to read it, and hopefully I end up liking it 🙂
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I read Sager’s “The Last Time I Lied” and it was pretty good! I enjoyed reading it, I think he’s a good writer. I’ll see what I can come up with for this post 😉
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I need to read that one as well! I’m glad that you liked that one. Feel free to tag me in that so I can see it as well 🙂
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I will!
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I loveeee psychological thrillers!!! The only one I have read on this list though was An Anonymous Girl. I got it as an ARC a while back and I realllly liked it! It has some majorly creepy vibes to it!
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I’m going to have to rely on you for recommendations! Did you write a review for Whisper Network? I don’t remember if I read it before but I’d love to hear your thoughts on it. ❤ Ahh I'll have to listen to it soon.
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No, I haven’t read that one! Just the An Anonymous Girl one! I have a review for that one, though! If you’re OK with morbid psych thrillers, Gillian Flynn is a great author to try out!!
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