Five Books I Want To Read This Fall

   So I was thinking, what books do I have to read? We all have those growing TBR piles and all those books for review... but still, aren't there these few books that we just HAVE to read? No one is pressuring us into reading them -we just want to. 

   So here are five books I want to read this fall (i.e by December 20). I'll check back in on December 21 to see if I managed to read all five books on this list!

   Let's get started, then!  
5) Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy: This book has been on my TBR for the longest time! Although I'm not feeling the contemporary right now, I plan on finally getting to it before fall ends, so let's hope for the best!

What if you'd been living your life as if you were dying—only to find out that you had your whole future ahead of you?

When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is grim. To maximize the time she does have, she vows to spend her final months righting wrongs—however she sees fit. She convinces her friend Harvey, who she knows has always had feelings for her, to help her with a crazy bucket list that's as much about revenge (humiliating her ex-boyfriend and getting back at her archnemesis) as it is about hope (doing something unexpectedly kind for a stranger). But just when Alice's scores are settled, she goes into remission.

Now Alice is forced to face the consequences of all that she's said and done, as well as her true feelings for Harvey. But has she caused irreparable damage to the people around her—and to the one person who matters most?

Julie Murphy's Side Effects May Vary is a fearless and moving tour de force about love, life, and facing your own mortality.

4) The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey: So this book is really popular at the moment, especially following the release of The Infinite Sea, its sequel. I think this is going to be my next read, so yay!

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker.

Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

 3) The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson: This is a fairly new release that's gotten so much hype lately, and I'm just dying to read it! And look how beautiful the cover is!

A princess must find her place in a reborn world.

She flees on her wedding day.

She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection.

She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.

She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.

The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.

Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love.

2) The Revenge of Seven by Pittacus Lore: I really enjoy Lore's I Am Number Four series, and The Revenge of Seven, book 5 in the series came out last August and I still haven't gotten a chance to buy it! I won't include a synopsis to avoid spoilers. 

 1) The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan: Book 5 in the Heroes of Olympus series comes out in THREE DAYS and I am so unbelievably excited for this -you have no idea! I love this series to death and aaahhh I'm just so pumped! (Again, no synopsis to avoid spoilers)