10 Best Books of 2019 So Far

I love finding new books to read and I’m always on the look out for recommendations. I love to hear what others have been reading, and with that in mind, below you’ll find the best 10 books I’ve read in 2019 so far.

Twisted by Steve Cavanagh

Before you read this book, I want you to know three things:

1 The police are looking to charge me with murder.

2 No one knows who I am. Or how I did it.

3 If you think you’ve found me, I’m coming for you next

After you’ve read this book, you’ll know the truth is far more twisted …

Get Twisted here.

Edwina by Willow Rose

Marie-Therese is about to take in another child in foster care. But Edwina is no ordinary girl as Marie-Therese is about to discover.

Stories of death and destruction follow her trail and soon events in the small Danish town will take a decidedly macabre turn on one horrifying and endless night.

Get Edwina here.

Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

Are you playing the game or is the game playing you?

Vee doesn’t know if she has the guts to play Nerve, an online game of high stakes dares. But whoever’s behind the game knows exactly what she wants, enticing her with lust worthy prizes and a super hot partner.

With Ian on her team, it’s easy to agree to another dare. And another. And another.

At first it’s thrilling, as the manipulative audience, or Watchers, cheer them on to riskier challenges. But things quickly get out of hand.

Will Vee and Ian risk their lives for the grand prize dare. Or will they lose their nerve?

Get Nerve here.

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

Alice could be anyone – she could be someone you know, or someone you love – and Alice is in trouble …

Being fifteen is hard, but Alice seems fine. She babysits the neighbour’s kids. She’s doing well at school. Someday, she’d even like to get married and raise a family of her own. Then she is invited to a party, a special party where the drinks are spiked with LSD, and Alice is never the same again.

This tragic and extraordinary true life story shows the devastating effect that drug abuse can have. But the bog difference between Alice and other kids on drugs is that Alice kept a diary.

Get Go Ask Alice here.

You by Caroline Kepnes

Joe Goldberg is handsome, charming and ready to fall in love. And when aspiring writing Guinevere Beck strides into the bookstore where Joe works, he is instantly smitten. He knows he has to see her again. So Joe does what anyone might; he looks Beck up online and learns everything he can to set up another chance to meet her. Their chemistry is immediate. It seems like the perfect romance.

But there’s more to Joe than Beck realises … and more to Beck than Joe could ever guess. Their relationship soon spirals out of control, and the darkness they unleash will have deadly consequences for everyone in their lives.

Get You here.

The Rumour by Lesley Kara

When single mum Joanna hears a rumour at the school gates, she never intends to pass it on. But one casual comment leads to another and now there’s no going back …

Rumour has it that a notorious child killer is living under a new identity in the small town of Flintstead-On-Sea.

Sally McGowan was just ten years old when she stabbed little Robbie Harris to death forty eight years ago. No photos of her exist since her release as a young woman.

So who is the supposedly reformed killer who now lives among them? How dangerous can one rumour become? And how far will Joanna go to protect her loved ones from harm when she realises what it is she’s unleashed?

Get The Rumour here.

Death Row: The Final Minutes by Michelle Lyons

In 12 years, Michelle Lyons witnessed nearly 300 executions.

As a reporter and then spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville’s Walls Unit, where she recorded the final moments of death row inmates’ lives before they were put to death by the state.

Michelle witnessed some of the most notorious criminals, including serial killers, child murderers and rapists, speak their last words on earth, while a cocktail of lethal drugs surged through their veins.

Misgivings began to set in as the execution numbers mounted. She came to know and like some of the condemned people she saw die, and started to query the seemingly arbitrary nature of the death penalty.

Do executions actually make victims of us all?

Get Death Row: The Final Minutes here.

Joyland by Stephen King

College student Devin Jones took the summer job at Joyland hoping to forget the girl who broke his heart. But he wound up facing something far more terrible; the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and dark truths about life – and what comes after – that would change his world forever.

A riveting story about love and loss, about growing up and growing old – and about those who don’t get to do either because death comes for them before their time – Joyland is Stephen King at the peak of his story telling powers.

Get Joyland here.

Madeleine by Kate McCann

The decision to publish this book has been very difficult and taken with heavy hearts. My reason for writing it is simple; to give an account of the truth. Writing this memoir has entailed recording some very personal, intimate and emotional aspects of our lives. Sharing these with strangers does not come easily to me, but if I hadn’t done so I would not have felt the book gave as full a picture as it is possible for me to give.

As with every action we have taken over the last five years, it ultimately boils down to whether what we are doing could helps us to find Madeleine. When the answer to that question is yes, or even possibly, our family can cope with anything …

Get Madeleine here.

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Tally can’t wait to turn sixteen and become Pretty. Sixteen is the magic number that brings a transformation from a repellent Ugly into a stunningly attractive Pretty, and catapults you into a high tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks, Tally will be there.

But Tally’s new friend, Shay, isn’t sure she wants to be Pretty. She’d rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the Pretty world – and it isn’t very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn Pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.

Get Uglies here.

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