Mina's TBR List
Welcome to my TBR list! These are the books currently waiting on my bookshelf (or wishlist). From highly recommended reads to books that simply caught my attention, these are the stories I can’t wait to dive into.
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🐉Fantasy & Magic🧚
Title: Kneel Before Me
Author: Lindsay Straube
Why it’s on my TBR:
This is the third book in the Split or Swallow series. I accidently came across this series, but I quickly became obsessed. So I’m impatiently waiting for this to be released so I can finish the series. I can’t wait 😊
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★⯪
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Crown Me Dead
Author: Liv Zander
Why it’s on my TBR:
So, I was scrolling through Amazon looking at books and seeing what sticks. This stuck. It’s a dark fantasy, and everyone is a villain. How does that not sound intriguing? Plus, there are only two books in the series. Love that for me.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Becoming
Author: Nora Roberts
Why it’s on my TBR:
I chose this book based on the cover. And then I realized this was book two, so now I’m reading book one and I’m hooked. I’m glad I picked this up on a random Wednesday afternoon. I can’t wait to see where the series takes me.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: From Blood and Ash
Author: Jennifer Armentrout
Why it’s on my TBR:
Slow burn, romance, magic, and a woman destined for something great? It sounds like my kind of story. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book, so I’ll throw it here and see how it goes.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Shadows Between Us
Author: Tricia Levenseller
Why it’s on my TBR:
Morally gray female lead, who wants to take over the kingdom? Okay, so she seduces the Shadow King, marries him, and plots to kill him so she could take over his kingdom. Yes! Sign me up!
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★⯪
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Bride
Author: Ali Hazelwood
Why it’s on my TBR:
Duty makes the daughter of the most powerful vampire marry an alpha werewolf to keep the peace. But she has has her own reasons for marrying. What could a vampire do without getting caught by the wolves she lives with?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Witch’s Heart
Author: Genevieve Gornichec
Why it’s on my TBR:
I have a thing for the classics and like every good classic lover, The Odyssey is pretty high on that list. But this isn’t The Odyssey, this is The Witch’s Heart. Not Greek mythology. Norse mythology. And a story about the witch who fell for Loki sounds pretty damn interesting to me.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★⯪☆☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Uprooted
Author: Naomi Novik
Why it’s on my TBR:
To be honest, it sounds sooo good. And that cover drew me in. So a girl is held hostage as collateral for the ultra powerful wizard called “Dragon” who protects her village from the dark wood that is full of dark magic. She is to serve him for 10 years. A lot can happen in 10 years. I’m curious to find out.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: A Touch of Darkness (Saga)
Author: Scarlett St. Clair
Why it’s on my TBR:
I love Greek mythology. My favorites? Hades, Athena, Hecate and Gaia of course. So, put a modern touch on the story of Hades and Persephone and I’m here for it. Especially because I tend to have a weak spot for the underdogs. And let’s be honest, Hades was always an underdog.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Books: Amazon
Title: Shield of Sparrows
Author: Devney Perry
Why it’s on my TBR:
Other than how cute the book looks on the outside, this book sounds interesting. A slow burn romance, enemies to lovers (which I rarely go for), and a little bit of spice. A stubborn MC who is tired of doing what she’s told. I love a good rebellion.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★⯪☆☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Books: Amazon
Title: The Poison Daughter
Author: Sheila Masterson
Why it’s on my TBR:
Imagine killing people with just a kiss. It gives, Rogue from X-Men or Kissing Kate Barlow from Holes (both are characters I love). But this is different because the one person who survives her kiss is the last person she wants to live since he will become her husband. Sounds juicy.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Books: Amazon
📚Contemporary & Everything Else📖
Title: Verity
Author: Colleen Hoover
Why it’s on my TBR:
To be honest, I was judging this one by the title… and then it became a movie and the preview sold me. Book first, movie second.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Before I Let Go
Author: Kennedy Ryan
Why it’s on my TBR:
The title is enough to draw me in. Love, second chances and second guessing. And cosigned by Colleen Hoover? I can’t not want to read this.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Things We Never Got Over
Author: Lucy Score
Why it’s on my TBR:
So, there’s an evil twin sister, a loner who doesn’t want love, and a runaway bride who took in her 11-year-old niece. Are you not curious?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Pearl
Author: John Steinbeck
Why it’s on my TBR:
I’m a sucker for the classics, and this is one that I have not yet read. This has always been recommended to me since I was in high school, so I’m officially putting it on my TBR.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★☆
🌶️ Spice Rating:
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Why it’s on my TBR:
This is absolutely one of my favorite books ever. I’ve read it more than once and it’s on here again, because I can’t wait to read it again!
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★⯪
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Before We Were Strangers
Author: Renee Carlino
Why it’s on my TBR:
What if you meet someone who changed your life in one year and then never saw them again? What if you saw them again 15 years later? Are you not interested in a second chance love?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Kiss Quotient
Author: Helen Hoang
Why it’s on my TBR:
Money is not the issue. The issue is love, intimacy, dating. So what do you do when you don’t understand something? You hire a tutor. Or in this case, an escort.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★☆☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Spanish Love Deception
Author: Elena Armas
Why it’s on my TBR:
Who doesn’t love a good enemies-to-lovers trope? Need a fake boyfriend and date to your sister’s wedding? Why not the person you hate the most at work?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Night We Met
Author: Abby Jimenez
Why it’s on my TBR:
Okay, so there’s a love triangle, a little mess and choices. Choices. Choices. Choices. The perfect guy vs. the one you choose. And does that not sound interesting?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Contract Marriage
Author: Nadia Lee
Why it’s on my TBR:
I’m not too big on billionaire tropes, but I won’t completely dismiss them either, especially when the cover draws me in. It’s a part of a series, but could be read as a standalone, so there’s a plus.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★⯪☆☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Books: Amazon
Title: Meet Me In Paris
Author: Kristin Harmel
Why it’s on my TBR:
Multiple intertwined stories that sound like they will leave me in all my feels. Honestly, I know I love tragic romance, but this isn’t just romance. And I don’t know if I’m ready.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Broken Country
Author: Clare Leslie Hall
Why it’s on my TBR:
Okay, so there’s a love triangle, a murder mystery, secrets and questionable choices. A marriage that is tested by a first love? Come on now, I have to know the chisme!
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★⯪
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Kneel Before Me
Author: Lindsay Straube
Why it’s on my TBR:
This is the third book in the Split or Swallow series. I accidently came across this series, but I quickly became obsessed. So I’m impatiently waiting for this to be released so I can finish the series. I can’t wait 😊
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★⯪
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Crown Me Dead
Author: Liv Zander
Why it’s on my TBR:
So, I was scrolling through Amazon looking at books and seeing what sticks. This stuck. It’s a dark fantasy, and everyone is a villain. How does that not sound intriguing? Plus, there are only two books in the series. Love that for me.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Becoming
Author: Nora Roberts
Why it’s on my TBR:
I chose this book based on the cover. And then I realized this was book two, so now I’m reading book one and I’m hooked. I’m glad I picked this up on a random Wednesday afternoon. I can’t wait to see where the series takes me.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: From Blood and Ash
Author: Jennifer Armentrout
Why it’s on my TBR:
Slow burn, romance, magic, and a woman destined for something great? It sounds like my kind of story. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book, so I’ll throw it here and see how it goes.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Shadows Between Us
Author: Tricia Levenseller
Why it’s on my TBR:
Morally gray female lead, who wants to take over the kingdom? Okay, so she seduces the Shadow King, marries him, and plots to kill him so she could take over his kingdom. Yes! Sign me up!
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★⯪
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Bride
Author: Ali Hazelwood
Why it’s on my TBR:
Duty makes the daughter of the most powerful vampire marry an alpha werewolf to keep the peace. But she has has her own reasons for marrying. What could a vampire do without getting caught by the wolves she lives with?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Witch’s Heart
Author: Genevieve Gornichec
Why it’s on my TBR:
I have a thing for the classics and like every good classic lover, The Odyssey is pretty high on that list. But this isn’t The Odyssey, this is The Witch’s Heart. Not Greek mythology. Norse mythology. And a story about the witch who fell for Loki sounds pretty damn interesting to me.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★⯪☆☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Uprooted
Author: Naomi Novik
Why it’s on my TBR:
To be honest, it sounds sooo good. And that cover drew me in. So a girl is held hostage as collateral for the ultra powerful wizard called “Dragon” who protects her village from the dark wood that is full of dark magic. She is to serve him for 10 years. A lot can happen in 10 years. I’m curious to find out.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: A Touch of Darkness (Saga)
Author: Scarlett St. Clair
Why it’s on my TBR:
I love Greek mythology. My favorites? Hades, Athena, Hecate and Gaia of course. So, put a modern touch on the story of Hades and Persephone and I’m here for it. Especially because I tend to have a weak spot for the underdogs. And let’s be honest, Hades was always an underdog.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Books: Amazon
Title: Shield of Sparrows
Author: Devney Perry
Why it’s on my TBR:
Other than how cute the book looks on the outside, this book sounds interesting. A slow burn romance, enemies to lovers (which I rarely go for), and a little bit of spice. A stubborn MC who is tired of doing what she’s told. I love a good rebellion.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★⯪☆☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Books: Amazon
Title: The Poison Daughter
Author: Sheila Masterson
Why it’s on my TBR:
Imagine killing people with just a kiss. It gives, Rogue from X-Men or Kissing Kate Barlow from Holes (both are characters I love). But this is different because the one person who survives her kiss is the last person she wants to live since he will become her husband. Sounds juicy.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Books: Amazon
Title: Verity
Author: Colleen Hoover
Why it’s on my TBR:
To be honest, I was judging this one by the title… and then it became a movie and the preview sold me. Book first, movie second.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Before I Let Go
Author: Kennedy Ryan
Why it’s on my TBR:
The title is enough to draw me in. Love, second chances and second guessing. And cosigned by Colleen Hoover? I can’t not want to read this.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Things We Never Got Over
Author: Lucy Score
Why it’s on my TBR:
So, there’s an evil twin sister, a loner who doesn’t want love, and a runaway bride who took in her 11-year-old niece. Are you not curious?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Pearl
Author: John Steinbeck
Why it’s on my TBR:
I’m a sucker for the classics, and this is one that I have not yet read. This has always been recommended to me since I was in high school, so I’m officially putting it on my TBR.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★☆
🌶️ Spice Rating:
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Why it’s on my TBR:
This is absolutely one of my favorite books ever. I’ve read it more than once and it’s on here again, because I can’t wait to read it again!
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★⯪
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Before We Were Strangers
Author: Renee Carlino
Why it’s on my TBR:
What if you meet someone who changed your life in one year and then never saw them again? What if you saw them again 15 years later? Are you not interested in a second chance love?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Kiss Quotient
Author: Helen Hoang
Why it’s on my TBR:
Money is not the issue. The issue is love, intimacy, dating. So what do you do when you don’t understand something? You hire a tutor. Or in this case, an escort.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★☆☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Spanish Love Deception
Author: Elena Armas
Why it’s on my TBR:
Who doesn’t love a good enemies-to-lovers trope? Need a fake boyfriend and date to your sister’s wedding? Why not the person you hate the most at work?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Night We Met
Author: Abby Jimenez
Why it’s on my TBR:
Okay, so there’s a love triangle, a little mess and choices. Choices. Choices. Choices. The perfect guy vs. the one you choose. And does that not sound interesting?
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★⯪☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: The Contract Marriage
Author: Nadia Lee
Why it’s on my TBR:
I’m not too big on billionaire tropes, but I won’t completely dismiss them either, especially when the cover draws me in. It’s a part of a series, but could be read as a standalone, so there’s a plus.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★⯪☆☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Books: Amazon
Title: Meet Me In Paris
Author: Kristin Harmel
Why it’s on my TBR:
Multiple intertwined stories that sound like they will leave me in all my feels. Honestly, I know I love tragic romance, but this isn’t just romance. And I don’t know if I’m ready.
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★☆
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon
Title: Broken Country
Author: Clare Leslie Hall
Why it’s on my TBR:
Okay, so there’s a love triangle, a murder mystery, secrets and questionable choices. A marriage that is tested by a first love? Come on now, I have to know the chisme!
⭐ Expected Rating: ★★★★⯪
🌶️ Spice Rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
🛒 Get the Book: Amazon