Happy Tuesday!! This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic (hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl) asks us to share the last ten books that gave us book hangovers. I would define a book hangover as when you finish a book and just can’t seem to get into another one because you can’t stop thinking about the last book you read. Although a book hangover isn’t necessarily always a sign that you’ve recently finished reading a terrific book, for the purposes of this post I’m going to highlight books that gave me a book hangover because they were so fantastic and I couldn’t stop thinking about them. In no particular order:
- Everything I Know Now by Dolly Alderton | My review
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss | My review
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck | My review
- An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green | My review
- Dear Fahrenheit 451 by Annie Spence | My review
- In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien | My review
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood | My review
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion | My review
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf | My review
What do you think of the books on my list? What’s the last book that gave you a book hangover? Was it a positive one? Let me know in the comments section below!
Yours,
HOLLY
Great list! I’ve been wanting to read Everything I Know About Love for a while! 💛
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Thank you! I hope you enjoy it whenever you get around to reading it!
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Great list! I had to read Of Mice and Men for school and really enjoyed it – I should check out more of Steinbeck’s work.
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Of Mice and Men is the only Steinbeck novel I’ve read, but I’m definitely hoping to read more of his work as well!
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The name of the wind.. Definitely gave me a book hangover!
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Absolutely!!
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I’m always thinking that I need to read The Name of the Wind and then it intimidates me for some reason lol, but has to happen, I’ve heard the best things 😍😍
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It’s so good!! Would highly recommend. And once you get sucked into the story it doesn’t even feel that long!
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I haven’t read any of this book yet, but the last book that gave me book hangover was A Conjuring of Light by V.E Schwab!
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Oooh I’ve read the first book in that series but I still have to read the other ones!
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I barely remember Of Mice and Men (read it way too many years ago), but I do remember why it would leave you feeling hungover. It was such a sad, good story.
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Yes! So sad, and right at the very end!! A lot to think about after that last scene.
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Wow, I haven’t thought about In the Lake of the Woods for years, but that’s such a powerful book, and it really stuck with me after I finished. Chilling.
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I’m so glad you liked it too! I haven’t chatted with many people who have read it
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Oh yes to Mrs. Dalloway! I loved that book so much. So beautifully written!
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Such a brilliant book! ✨
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Of Mice and Men definitely gave me a book hangover! I just finished Anna K which gave me the biggestttt book hangover too 😭
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Oooh Anna K has been on my tbr for ages!! Did you enjoy it?
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I loved it!!
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I don’t get book hangovers very often, but when I read In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan a few months back, I couldn’t pick up anything else for almost a week after because I knew nothing else would compare 😂 I also LOVED An Absolutely Remarkable Thing!!
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Yes, it was so good! Glad you loved it too!
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