I was hoping to make this post in late December, or earlier in January, but as tends to happen…life got in the way. I’m still happy to share my top reads of 2020 with you though (and some of you might have already seen these in my Instagram Stories earlier in January)! So, without further ado, here are my Top Reads of 2020 (listed chronologically based on when I read them)! P.s. you’ll be able to click some of the book covers to be redirected to my review of the respective book here on my blog.

⤖ One ⬻

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”

– Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke and Bone

⤖ Two ⬻

“We build resentments toward our loved ones. Sometimes we’re not even aware of them. But they grow so strong, they prevent us from remembering what we loved about our partners in the first place.”

– Tessa Bailey, Love Her or Lose Her

⤖ Three ⬻

“Love is certainly never safe, but it’s absolutely worth it.”

– Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

⤖ Four ⬻

“I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it.”

– Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

⤖ Five ⬻

“Through love, all is possible.”

– Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

⤖ Six ⬻

“That’s why fiction resonates with people. It speaks to universal truths.“

– Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

⤖ Seven ⬻

“An important thing to remember is, just because a person has problems communicating, doesn’t mean that person doesn’t want to communicate with others.”

– Tomohito Oda , Komi Can’t Communicate

⤖ Eight ⬻

“Now go forth and shatter every convention.”

– Romina Garber, Lobizona

⤖ Nine ⬻

“No matter how other may look down on you, or try to tell you you’re somehow diminished, devalued or incomplete, they are wrong.”

– Nandi Taylor, Given

⤖ Ten ⬻

“A ship at harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.”

– Penelope Douglas, Birthday Girl

⤖ Eleven ⬻

“You hating me always meant more than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me. At least I’d had your full attention.”

– Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth

⤖ Twelve ⬻

“There is always breath for one more story to be told.”

– Anna Bright, The Boundless

⤖ Thirteen ⬻

“What a woman wears or doesn’t wear doesn’t give anyone the right to touch them…We’ve all BEEN through a lot but that don’t give you no excuse to abuse girls.“

– Tiffany D. Jackson, Grown

⤖ Fourteen ⬻

“Love is a powerful thing, more powerful than blood, although both run through us like a river.“

– Tracy Deonn, Legendborn

⤖ Fifteen ⬻

“He looked at me with a hundred stories lit behind his eyes.”

– Adrienne Young, Fable

⤖ Sixteen ⬻

“perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of good.”

– Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

⤖ Seventeen ⬻

“I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.”

– Laini Taylor, Days of Blood and Starlight

⤖ Eighteen ⬻

“People with secrets shouldn’t make enemies. People with destinies shouldn’t make plans.”

– Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods and Monsters

⤖ Let’s Chat! ⬻

Thank you for reading my Top Reads of 2020 post! Do we have any of the same favourites? What were your favourite reads of 2020? Let me know in the comments!