Happy New Year! I did a lot of reading last year (104 books!) and since I am a super competitive person I decided to try and beat that by making my reading goal for this year 115 books.
Aside from my overall reading goal, I have a lot I want to focus on this year. I would really like to finish some of the series I’ve started. In the past I would read a series start to finish, and would even wait to begin a series once the final book was released. But this past year I have been so involved in the book community that a lot of my focus has gone to newer releases, so I have kind of broken away from the waiting thing. A huge goal for this year is tackling my TBR! I noticed that my goodreads “want to read” list never seemed to be going down, and in fact seemed to get bigger even though I was reading tons of books!? 165 books minus the 104 I read should not equal 170 books on my want to read list! But, I realized that by not finishing series I was just replacing book one of the series with book two. So I want to try and finish/continue series that I have previously started as a way to lower my big ole’ tbr.
Another way I was planning to lower that want to read number was by reading stand alone novels! My tbr is PACKED with stand alone’s (adult romance) and if I can try and focus on some of those maybe that will help.
The very last thing I want to focus on in order to diminish the ever growing tbr is to read my backlist of books. I have too many books that I have wanted to read in the past couple years that I haven’t gotten to, and I want to try and get to as many of those as I can.
While doing all of this I also will be reading new releases (because I’ve got to try and stay relevant) and picking up a lot more ARCs. Do I have a lot of reading goals for 2020? Yes I do. CanI achieve them all? Hopefully!? HAHA.

Keeping all that in mind, here is a list of the top 20 books I want to read in 2020. I have a little bit from each of my goal categories on here, so I hope you enjoy and can hopefully add something new to your tbr!

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House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

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Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare

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A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

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Renegades by Marissa Meyer

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Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

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Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Lani Taylor

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The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant

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Wicked Fox by Cat Cho

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The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

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A Dress For the Wicked by Autumn Krause

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The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo

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A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

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A River of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy

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Blood & Honey by Shelby Mahurin
THE COVER HASN’T BEEN RELEASED YET BUT EXPECT PUBLICATION IS 2020
(I really hope it is released this year because I am desperate to know what happens next)

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Heart of Flames by Nicki PauPreto

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An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

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The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

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An Ember in The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

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Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

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What are some of your most anticipated reads for 2020? Also, please recommend me new releases you’re excited about! Yes I want some new recommendations even though I am trying to shorten my tbr, and yes I know I’m weird like that. Thanks for checking out this post and Happy Reading 🖤