Goodreads Awards Nominated Books I’m Adding to My TBR

It feels like all year, I’ve been seeing people rave about Tessa Bailey’s numerous romance novels and when I saw it on the Goodreads nomination list, it was a no brainer that I needed to finally read some of her work. Chandler from chandlerainsley put this in her top 5 when she read the entire romance category for the Goodreads nominations so I’m hoping that I love it as much as she did! I’ve already bought this one on my kindle and I’m really keen to read it this summer. I try not to read the blurb or if I do, don’t commit them to memory because I like to read a story with no assumptions – so I’m not 100% on what this book is about to be honest, but it’s set to be a fun summer romance read.

I spotted this book in the bookstore a few weeks ago and almost bought it – I regret not buying it then because it sold out so quickly afterwards that I couldn’t find it again. I’ve read books by Christina Lauren before that I absolutely loved, like The Unhoneymooners, which is one of my favourite romance reads I still need to get a physical copy of (I had borrowed it from the library at the time). I don’t usually spot any books by them in person and the premise of this one, in particular, sounds very fun. It’s about a woman who enters a matchmaking system based on her DNA and gets put with the company’s very own founder. They do some sort of fake dating for good publicity but may in fact be a really good match. I love the fake dating trope so I’m really excited to try this book out!

This is another book that I haven’t heard much about but I know that people have been raving or ranting about Emily Henry in the last couple of years since Beach Read became a TikTok favourite. I don’t know the full premise of the book but it’s something to do with friends to lovers, and a couple of best friends going on vacation together. I haven’t read many books with this trope and this one seems to have gotten a lot more positive than negative reviews in my circles. I’ve never read any books from Emily Henry and it literally won the Romance category, so I’m excited to see what this book is all about!

Inspired by my non-fiction kick that started recently, I spotted this on the nominations list (and it won!) and was immediately intrigued. It makes sense that John Green would go back to a scientifically based topic to write a book (I love his crash course content with his brother) but it still surprised me. This non-fiction novel is a collection of essays about the world in its current state, about what’s going on globally and the idea of that itself is so fascinating to me! There are so many different facets of the world that we don’t see or experience and to read a book with a bird’s eye view on humanity right now sounds awesome. I’ve been trying to get my hands on this book but alas, the one copy left at my local bookstore is missing so I’ll be keeping an eye out for it next time I drop by the bookstore to grab myself a copy.