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Underrated 2017 Reads

One of my favorite things to do on this blog is talk about books that I love! Recommending them is great, and talking to people who have also read and loved them is great, too. However, a lot of my favorites are severely underrated, meaning that I don't get to talk with too many people about them. I guess that just means that I'll have to recommend them all the more, because these books deserve more love!

I've wanted to make this post for a while, but I wanted to wait a bit after the end of the year since so many of these are relatively recent releases. After all, a book that just came out a month ago hasn't had the time to become seriously underrated yet - people just haven't had the time to get around to it! At this point though, I can safely say that these all fall into the underrated category.


WONDERFUL FEELS LIKE THIS by Sara Lovestam
• centered around an absolutely wonderful friendship between a high school student and an old man in a retirement home
• I love books about music
• so many vivid scenes where I could just see everything
• full review here
  
THE HEARTBEATS OF WING JONES by Katherine Webber
• my favorite book of last year
• I finished it and pretty much immediately reread it
• such beautiful writing I cried
• made me really want more books featuring grandparents
• full review here
 
GIRL OUT OF WATER by Laura Silverman
• wonderful summery contemporary
• fantastic family dynamic
• gave me some unexpected emotions at the end, but so good
• full review here
 
NOTEWORTHY by Riley Redgate
• pretty much the funniest book I've ever read
• I had high expectations and I was still blown away
• balances light contemporary with heavier topics 
• full review here
 
10 THINGS I CAN SEE FROM HERE by Carrie Mac
• one of the best books about anxiety I've ever read
• wonderful characters who I got attached to very quickly
• it just felt so real and raw
• I really needed a book like this and I'm so happy I found it
 
NORTH OF HAPPY by Adi Alsaid
• made me super hungry
• really powerful story about loss and self-discovery
• I loved this book right from the beginning and it just kept getting better 
 
ODD & TRUE by Cat Winters
• totally unlike anything I've ever read
• Cat Winters is the master of creepy historical fiction
• chronic pain representation! I almost never see this
• full review here
 
INTO THE BRIGHT UNKNOWN by Rae Carson
• perfect conclusion to a perfect trilogy
• I thought I couldn't love these characters any more, but I was wrong
• one of the most wonderful endings to any book ever  
YOU'LL MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE by Rachel Lynn Solomon
• anyone who likes reading about unlikable characters will fall in love with Adina and Tovah
• gave me so many feelings so quickly
• incredible writing
 
A SEMI-DEFINITIVE LIST OF WORST NIGHTMARES by Krystal Sutherland
• I didn't know what I was getting myself into with this but it was amazing
• made me sob on an airplane and made the middle-aged man next to me uncomfortable (sorry)
• broke my heart on at least ten separate occasions

What are some of your favorite underrated books? Tell me in the comments! 

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  1. SkyJuly 24, 2018 at 9:21 PM

    I still REALLY need to read Wonderful Feels Like This and 10 Things I Can see from here but I COMPLETELY agree with all your other picks.

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    1. ClaraJuly 25, 2018 at 10:07 AM

      I'm glad I could get somebody to read most of these! And yes, I absolutely am going to keep bugging you about getting to those last two.

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  2. Samantha@WLABBJuly 28, 2018 at 1:24 PM

    I read 6 of those, and I agree. They were fabulous, and I wish more people were screaming about them. Great picks!

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