Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is The Last Ten Books That Gave Me a Book Hangover.
Instead of the most recent 10, I thought I’d go with a mix of older and newer books that gave me HUGE book hangovers.
1. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Of course. This is a world I entered and never wanted to leave. And maybe that accounts for how many times I’ve reread the series!
2. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell: Another I’ve reread multiple times. And no matter how many times I read it, it still packs a punch.
3. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer: Don’t laugh!! It makes me cringe now, but thinking back to the early days of Twilight mania, as soon as I finished this book, I started it over again from the beginning, because I was on a trip, didn’t have New Moon with me, and couldn’t even think about reading anything else but this book, over and over again!
4. The Newsflesh series by Mira Grant: Honestly, I just could not get these books out of my mind. Once I started, I couldn’t stop until I’d read all the books and stories. Amazing!
5. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger: Another one that I had to start over from the beginning as soon as I finished reading it.
6. A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers: This book hasn’t even been released yet! It’s coming soon (early March — don’t miss out!), and I hope it’s a big success. I have not been able to get the story out of my head since finishing it. (Check out my review, if you’re interested!)
7. Our War by Craig DiLouie: Ooh boy, this book was devastating and disturbing, and with everything going on in our country these days, it’s no wonder that I find myself flashing back to scenes from this book.
8. The Pact by Jodi Picoult: This was the first book I ever read by Jodi Picoult, and it just about killed me. I couldn’t not shake this book off for a long, long time.
9. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein: Man, this book made me ugly cry so hard. I’m still not over it.
10. All the Winters After by Seré Prince Halverson: I loved the characters, the setting, and the plot itself, and just wanted more and more when it was done.
What books have left you with book hangovers?
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Outlander does stay with you. https://pmprescott.blogspot.com/2020/02/ttt-021820.html
Always! 🙂
Yeah, The Sparrow was incredible.
And I’ve heard so many people say nice thing about Outlander.
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Outlander is probably my all-time favorite. I’m so glad to know you appreciate The Sparrow as well.
I’ve never read any of these books, but I have heard amazing things about The Time Traveler’s Wife and can totally see how it would give someone a book hangover!
It’s really a wonderful book. I had to read it twice in a row to make sure I fully absorbed it all and was ready to move on. 🙂
Oh yeah outlander would be on my list too!
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Ha, I think Outlander appears on about 90% of my top 10 lists. 🙂
Great list! Ugh Feed broke me – I’m still not over it. I really want to try Code Name Verity and The Sparrow!
I know what you mean about Feed. I really want to reread all the books, but I’m a little scared to start again and get so caught up once more. Maybe the audiobooks next time around.
Yep.. I can’t believe I forgot Outlander! I read it after watching the show and it still killed me! Great list!
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Outlander stayed with me for such a long time. It was almost impossible to convince myself to read anything else for a long time after that.
I’ve read the first 3 books and the first book is still one that I remember the most!
I haven’t read that Jodi Picoult book, but I find that all of her books give me a book hangover because they are just so good, hard hitting and really well researched!
I completely agree! She always finds some deeply emotional issue to focus the books around, and always manages to make them so personal somehow.
Ditto re The Time Traveler’s Wife! And, I am totally hooked on the Outlander TV series right now, so can only imagine how immersive the actual books are Lisa. Great post!
A novel I can recall having a huge book hangover from was Jenny T Colgan’s ‘Resistance Is Futile’ — it was so funny, moving and dramatic — I was just swept away by it.
The Outlander books are incredible! Definitely worth checking out if you’re loving the TV series. The Jenny T Colgan book sounds great! I’ve read some of her romances, but this sounds really different, so I’ll have to track down a copy.
Yes, I understand it is a little different from her usual romantic fare — this one published by Orbit Books and definitely a science fiction rom-com: https://bookloverbookreviews.com/2015/07/book-review-resistance-is-futile-by-jenny-t-colgan.html
I love your story about Twilight. I did exactly the same thing. When I finished it I immediately turned back to the first page and read it again!
I can make fun of it now, but at the time? Wow, such an obsession!
Fab list and YES to outlander and feed!
Such amazing books.
I love that image so much that I’m tempted to print it and hand it to my director on Thursday. Since i work at a library, I feel like that should be a legitimate excuse. xD Think it’ll work?
I haven’t read Feed yet, but have you read Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant? It was so spectacularly creepy that it stuck with me.
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I loved Into the Drowning Deep! I really hope she writes a follow up. I especially loved the first piece, Rolling in the Deep. That one haunted me for weeks afterward! I’ll never look at mermaids the same way again.
I still haven’t read Rolling in the Deep! I keep forgetting. Actually, I should go look for that now while I’m thinking about it …
But I really enjoyed Into the Drowning Deep. I’m just trash for monster in the deep books, and Grant/McGuire is just fantastic at creepy suspense.
She is amazing! Rolling in the Deep is SO good. I hope you enjoy it!
I LOVE all your memes!!!
Thanks! It was fun finding them. 🙂
I really agree on Code Named Verity! Have you read Rose Under Fire? I never got into Twighlight when everyone got obsessed and I feel kinda sad about that haha. Great list, here’s mine: https://bookslifeotheroddities.wordpress.com/2020/02/17/my-opinion-on-your-last-5-star-read/
Yes, Rose Under Fire was so powerful as well. Both books really had a huge impact.
I love all the little memes you included ❤ Book Hangovers are real!! haha the only one from your list I read was Twilight and it did give me a book hangover too
It’s really funny to think back on the Twilight years and how all-consuming those books were. 🙂
I really must get back to the Outlander series. I read the first book and then started watching the tv show. I’ve kept up with that but for some reason never been back to the books.
I remember really enjoying Twilight when I read it for the first time 🙂
Great list!
The Outlander books really are wonderful, so I do hope you go back at some point. 🙂
Oh, yes to Outlander and Twilight! 😉 The Fiery Cross made it on my list this week, but that’s just because it’s the last one I’ve read. I need to get to the next one!
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They’re all so wonderful! Enjoy!