Do any of you guys remember me writing about cutting down my reading goals, trying not to worry about them and focus on other things? Well, I don’t know if it was the lack of pressure or just some good books but I’ve managed to read a total of 70 books in the first half of the year! I wanted to share with you some of the excellent reads and I’m showing no signs of slowing down!

January

• 50 Queers Who Changed The World – Dan Jones 5 stars 
• Love, Hate and Other Filters – Samira Ahmed 5 Stars
• Bad Girls with Perfect Faces – Lynn Weingarten 3 Stars
• Anxiety is Really Strange – Steve Haines 2 Stars
• Night – Elie Weisel 5 Stars 
• Promise Me, Dad – Joe Biden 5 Stars 
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race – Reni Eddo-Lodge 3 Stars 
• Everything I Know About Love – Dolly Alderton  4 Stars
• The Secret History of Us – Jessi Kirby 4 Stars
• A Court of Thorns and Roses – Sarah J Maas 5 Stars 
• The Wicked +The Divine vol 6 – Keiron Gillen 3 Stars
• If I Don’t Know – Wendy Cope 3 Stars 
• Only Child – Rhiannon Navin 5 Stars

February

• Brave – Rose McGowen 5 Stars
• A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J Maas 5 Stars 
• Clean – Juno Dawson 1 Star
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body – Roxanne Gay 3 Stars 
• Time Bomb – Joelle Charbonneau 3 Stars
• But You Did Not Come Back – Marceline Loridan-Ivens 5 Stars 
• Why Have Kids? – Jessica Valenti 3 Stars
• A Court of Wings and Ruin – Sarah J Maas 5 Stars
• This is Really Happening – Erin Chack 3 Stars 
• This is Going to Hurt – Adam Kay 5 Stars 

March

• The Astonishing Colour of After – Emily X.R Pan 2 Stars
• Limited Edition – Aude Picault 3 Stars
• Lydie – Zidrou & Jordi Lafbre 4 Stars
• Misogynation – Laura Bates 5 Stars
• The Exact Opposite of Okay – Laura Steven 5 Stars
• Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 2- by Elena Favelli and Francesca Favello 5 Stars
• The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin 3 Stars
• Sex & Love & Rock & Roll – Tony Walksh 5 Stars
• Nobody Told Me – Hollie McNish 5 Stars
• Bygone Badass Broads – McKenzie Lee 4 Stars
• A Feminist Manifesto in 15 Suggestions – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 5 Stars
• Stacey Dooley On The Front Like With Women Who Fight Back – Stacey Dooley 4 Stars
• Bone – Yrsa Daley – Ward 3 Stars
• Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda – Becky Albertalli 3 Stars
• How to Stop Time – Matt Haig 4 Stars

April

• Red Clocks – Leni Zumas 4 Stars 
• #MeToo: A Women’s Poetry Anthology – Edited by Deborah Alma 4 Stars 
• The Witch Doesn’t Burn in This One – Amanda Lovelace 4 Stars 
• I am, I am, I am: Seventeen Brushes With Death – Maggie O’Farrell 4 Stars 
• Saga Volume 1 – Brian K Vaughn 5 Stars 
• Everywoman – Jess Phillips 5 Stars
• How Do You Like Me Now – Holly Bourne 2 Stars 
• Saga Volume 2 – Brian K Vaughn 5 Stars 

May 

• Unbroken – Martine Wright 5 Stars
• A Court of Frost and Starlight – Sarah J Maas 5 Stars 
• Saga Volume 3 – Brian K Vaughn 4 Stars 
• Dear Martin – Nic Stone 4 Stars 
• Orphan Monster Spy – Matt Killeen 5 Stars
• Light Filters In: Poems – Caroline Kaufman 3 Stars
• Saga Volume 4 – Brian K Vaughn 5 Stars
• With the End in Mind: Death, Dying and Wisdom in an Age of Denial -Kathryn Mannix 5 Stars
• The Surface Breaks – Louise O’Neill 4 Stars

June

• Moxie – Jennifer Matheiu 4 Stars 
• Maggy Garrison – Lewis Trondheim 2 Stars
• Grabbing Pussy – Karen Finley 2 Stars 
• Bookshop Girl – Chloe Coles 2 Stars
• Open – Gemma Cairney 3 Stars
• Glimmerglass Girl – Holly Wrath 2 Stars 
• Tyler Johnson Was Here – Jay Coles 5 Stars
• Love is Love – edited by Marc Andreyko 5 Stars
• 30 Things Before 30 – Hope Alcocer 5 Stars
• Eve of Man – Giovanna and Tom Fletcher 5 Stars 
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote 4 Stars
• Convenience Store Woman – Sayaka Murata 4 Stars
• Everything All At Once – Steven Camden 4 Stars 
• Surviving the Angel of Death – Eva Mozes Kor 5 Stars
• Girl Made of Stars – Ashleigh Herring Blake 5 Stars