I feel like winter is the perfect time to curl up in your room, with fairy lights, a candle burning on the side, with a hot chocolate next to you with a good book.
I did a similar post back in July about summer reads - if you missed this or are interested, it is here.
So, here are my favourite 5 books I would recommend at the moment!
1) The Girl On The Train - Paula Hawkins
I mentioned this in my 2015 favourites, so I won't ramble on about this too much, but I love this book so much! It is quite involved, with stories from several different perspectives, but is such a good read once you get into it.2) Prisoner Of The Inquisition - Theresa Breslin
Admittedly, I haven't finished this book so I can't tell you about the full story, but that would spoil it anyway! A young girl lives in Spain with her father, with a seemingly idealistic life - she is spoilt for choice for men, and is free to do what she likes. However, suddenly things go downhill with her mother dying, her father marrying a woman she hates and after a bad decision, things go from bad to worse. I would recommend reading this 100% - this has plenty of plot twists and I am really enjoying it so far!
3) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
I started to read this a couple of months ago after a friend recommended me to read it once I'd bought it in Berlin to help with my GCSE History course and although a tearjerker, it is so worth a read. Based in Nazi Germany in 1939, you really feel like you have been transported back in time. Without giving away the plot, there are 3 deaths in the book, each affecting this young girl in various ways and it really shows the trouble you can get into for adopting jews into the house at the time. For anyone it is amazing, however, if you are doing History at school/college/university, it makes everything seem much more real and sticks with facts in your head without reading a textbook!
4) ...and that's when it fell off in my hand - Louise Rennison
This book was given to me by my cousin when she had a clearout a year ago and I've recently re-read it and it definitely deserved a mention. This book is a laugh out loud sort of book - written in diary format, it shows a girls hilarious and awkward encounters with boys and love. It is so comical and well written, I read it in a day. If you need cheering up or love advice from another perspective, I would so buy this.
5) Noughts & Crosses - Book 1 - Malorie Blackman
The plotline of this book reminds me of the racial discrimination in Africa before Mandela, or the discrimination of Jews in Nazi Germany, but slightly different. A boy and a girl from different backgrounds and classes - one higher up the hierarchy than the other - fall in love with each other and break several laws to be together. It is such a beautiful book and leaves you on such a cliffhanger - I've asked for the other two following books for my birthday as I am obsessed with them!
I hope you've enjoyed this very chatty blog post and you consider buying some of these books that take your fancy. You can buy them from Waterstones, WHSmith or Amazon online or in store.
Have a nice week,
Katy x
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