Top 5 Wednesday: Favorite Top 5 Wednesday Posts of 2017

Top 5 Wednesday is a Goodreads group hosted by Sam from Thoughts on Tomes. Bloggers, booktubers and bookstagrammers post on a common topic every (you guessed it) Wednesday. You can find the lists by searching #T5W or Top 5 Wednesday. And you can join the group on Goodreads if you want to participate.  

We’ve decided not to do Top 5 Wednesday in 2018. We’ll still be making lists, just probably not every week. But we had a great time participating last year and wanted to look back at some of our favorite posts.

It seems that our lists fall into two basic categories, ones that recommend books in a particular category, and ones that have fun with the worlds and characters from our favorite books.

Here are our Top 5(ish) T5W Book Rec Posts:


5. Favorite Slump Busters


4. Favorite Books With Non-Western Settings


3. Favorite Enemies to Lovers Romances


2. Favorite SciFi/Fantasy Books


1.5 Favorite LGBTQ+ Reads


1. Future Classics

And these are posts we love that may not help you find your next read, but they’ll definitely entertain you:


5. Supernatural Creatures We Want to See More Often


4. Fictional Jobs We Want to Have


3. Books That Would Make Great Video Games


2. Characters Whose Fitness Routines We Want to Try


1. Books For Our Hogwarts Houses

You can look back through the year of Top 5 Wednesday posts by clicking the image in our sidebar.

Thanks to Sam for hosting and we hope to see all of our T5W friends around the comment section.


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2017 Reading Challenge Recap and 2018 Challenge Goals

It seems like we were just celebrating the start of 2017 and figuring out all of our reading resolutions for the year. 2017 was kind of rough but an excellent reading year for us. We ladies of Goldilox and the Three Weres worked really hard to stay motivated so we could be successful in our reading goals we set. Today, we're talking about how we did and what our goals are for the challenges we're doing in 2018.

Gretl

I read 15 books for the #RockMyTBR Challenge in 2017, which is more than the one a month goal though I didn't actually read one each month. (Six of them were in September.) Most of them were Kindle Freebies, which I do tend to hoard. One was a subscription box book, one was an old ARC, and two were new purchases of backlist books.

Rose Red

I had a goal to read 24 books for last year's #RockMyTBR Challenge and I'm happy to report that I read 35 books to complete it! A lot of them were 2017 releases I bought but I'm still happy with my progress. I'm also happy to report that I made my Goodreads goal of reading 52 books in 2017. I far exceeded my own expectations and read 255 books!

Gretl

After looking at last year's challenge results, I thought that this year I should focus on missed ARCs from 2017 (I had 24 vs. 10 from 2016 - yikes!)  as well as subscription box books (I read 3 of 17.) The list above includes all of those books. But then I went through my Kindle books and filled five pages, so I'm torn about where to focus my attention. I starred the ebooks I'm most interested in, and which I think I paid for as opposed to got as freebies, and I'm going to try to work some of those in as well. So I think my goal will be two backlist books each month (that's 24) one from the list above and one from the Kindle list. Some of those duplicate my physical unread books, so I'm hoping to knock a few of those out by accident.

I'm also trying out a new reading journal this year to track my progress. More on that coming in a post next week.

Rose Red


At the time of this post, I have 270 books on my physical TBR which is a lot of unread books to have sitting around the house. My unofficial goal is to get that number down to 200 but I'm going to set my official goal for this challenge at 24 books. I'm going to try to motivate myself and put a few TBR Bingo cards together throughout 2018 with the books I want to read off my TBR pile first. A lot of the books used will qualify for this challenge. My card for Spring 2018 is looking pretty great if I may say so myself.

We love our Weres Wanna Know discussion posts, but we're not always good about doing them consistently. So we're trying out a new challenge this year. The Discussion Challenge is hosted by Nicole at  Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon at It Starts at Midnight. It includes a monthly link up post to share your discussions, which I'm pretty excited about since one of my goals for the year is to be a better commenter.

The Levels:

1-10 – Discussion Dabbler
11-20 – Creative Conversationalist
21-30 – Chatty Kathy
31-40 – Terrifically Talkative
41+ – Gift of the Gab

We're going for Creative Conversationalist with a goal of posting one discussion every month. If you want to join in, check out the sign up post here. You can also follow the hashtag #LetsDiscuss2018 to share your progress and connect with other participants on Twitter.

How did you do with your reading challenges in 2017? 

What are your goals for 2018?

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2018 Most Anticipated Adult Books

Top 10 of 2017 is "a fun-filled week where we look back at some of the best of all things books of 2017 and look ahead to what we can’t wait for in 2018." It's hosted by Rachel at Fiktshun, Jaime of Two Chicks on Books, Nancy and Christy of Tales of the Ravenous Reader, Bridget of Dark Faerie Tales, and new this year, Fallon of Seeing Double in Neverland and Take Me Away To A Great Read.

Today's topic: 

Top 10 Books I’m looking forward to in 2018 

There's so many books we want to talk about that we split the topic into two posts. You can check out Our Most Anticipated YA Books in yesterday's post. So today we'll be talking about our 

Our Most Anticipated Adult Books of 2018.

Most of these won't be a surprise unless you've not been following us long. Almost every book on this list is by one of our auto-buy authors and we regret nothing! There's a ton of great stuff coming out this next year but we'll also be saying goodbye to a few of our favorite series which makes us a bit sad.

Each book's title is the link to its Goodreads page if you want to add it to your TBR.

 Claimed in Shadows by Lara Adrian

Releases: January 23, 2018

The Emerald Lily by Juliette Cross
Releases: January 29, 2018

Lake Silence by Anne Bishop
Releases: March 6, 2018

Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs
Releases: March 6, 2018

Scourged by Kevin Hearne
Releases: April 3, 2018

Magic Triumphs by Ilona Andrews
Releases: May 8, 2018

Ocean Light by Nalini Singh
Releases: June 12, 2018

Wild Hunger by Chloe Neill
Releases: July 10, 2018

Kill the Farm Boy by Kevin Hearne and Delilah Dawson
Releases: July 24, 2018

Here are some other 2018 books we'd like to put on the list but they don't have covers and/or exact release dates yet. You can still add them on Goodreads though.

The Wolf Lord by Ann Aguirre
 Releases: Spring 2018?
Born of Darkness by Lara Adrian
Releases: Spring 2018

Texoma by Charlaine Harris
Releases: 2018
Competence by Gail Carriger
Releases: July 18, 2018

Guild Hunter #11 by Nalini Singh
 Releases: Fall 2018
Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
Releases: September 25, 2018

Shades of Wicked by Jeaniene Frost
Releases: October 30, 2018

  What are your Most Anticipated 2018 YAs?

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Want to see what books are everyone else's list?  Visit one of the host blogs to find the Linky.
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Favorite Movies
Favorite TV and Streaming Shows
Favorite Non-Book Things
Favorite YA Books
Favorite Manga Series
Favorite Adult Books 

Did you see our Super Giveaway? Check out last Wednesday's post.