My Year of the Asian Reading Challenge TBR

I decided to take part in a the Year of the Asian reading challenge as I really want to read more books by Asian authors. I’m really excited to take part! If you want to take part here is the link to sign up

I have several books on my TBR already so hopefully I will get to read these and hopefully many more!

I will be keeping track on goodreads where I created a Year of the Asian shelf

My aim is to read 15-20 books but hopefully I can get through many more!

So here are some of the books I plan on reading:

1 When Dimple Met Rishi

2 Of Curses and Kisses

3 Alif the Unseen

4 The Kite Runner

5 Muslims Girls Rise

6 A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

7 A Spark of White Fire

8 Misquoting Muhammad

9 Gumiho

10 Spin the Dawn

11 Lessons from Surah Kahf

12 The Poppy War

13 Whichwood

14 Empress of all Seasons

15 The Bird and the Blade

So these are those I definitely want to get to read! Hopefully I will get through several more!

My Beat the Backlist 2020 TBR

I decided to take part in beat the backlist as I have so many unread books on my shelf and ebooks which I have been meaning to read for a long time! I have over 100 books on my tbr so I have a lot of books to get through but I’m going to choose a few that I really want to read soon!

Here is the link if you would also like to take part.

So here is my TBR of books which I definitely want to read:

The Forbidden Wish

Empress of a Thousand Skies

Defy the Stars

Everland

A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Uprooted

Poison Study

Alif the Unseen

The Kite Runner

The Bird and the Blade

Invictus

Scorpio Races

Let’s hope I can get through lots more than these!

Friday Favourites – Classic Books

This is hosted by Something of the Book who created this tag out of a love for lists. There are different topics for us all to be able to take part and you can find the prompts here. There isn’t a specific number of favourites so it’s entirely up to you how many you share. You can share your most or least favourites too!

This week are classics that I read years ago and absolutely loved but haven’t read them since. So these are books that I want to reread this year!

1 Black Beauty – I first read this book when I was 10 years old and fell in love! I reread this book at least 5 more times that year but I haven’t read it in so many years and I really want to read it again

2 The Secret Garden – another book I loved as a kid but haven’t read since and really would love to read it again

3 Little Women – I watched the recent three part tv show and fell in love all over again and now I really want to reread the book

4 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe – this is my favourite book in the series but I haven’t read it in years

5 Pride and Prejudice – this is the only book I have actually reread a couple years ago but with the retellings being published I really want to read it again

So here are some of my favourite classics I want to reread!
Do you like reading classics? Which are your favourites?

Friday Favourites – Diverse Books

This is hosted by Something of the Book who created this tag out of a love for lists. There are different topics for us all to be able to take part and you can find the prompts here.  There isn’t a specific number of favourites so it’s entirely up to you how many you share. You can share your most or least favourites too!

This week I’m going to share diverse books I want to read soon. I love that more diverse books are being released and by diverse authors and I hope that they continue to be released because I can finally see myself in books and I know lots of people feel the same.

So these are books I’m hoping to read soon:

1 We Hunt the Flame by Hafsah Faizal – I absolutely cannot wait to read this book! I have been eagerly awaiting for it to release ever since I heard about it last year.

2 On the Come Up by Angie Thomas – I adored The Hate U Give so I really want to read this too. I have been meaning to read it since it released.

3 The Descendant of the Crane by Joan He – another book that I have been excited about for a very long time! I got it in a recent Illumicrate box so I’m hoping to get to it soon!

4 The Candle and the Flame by Nafiza Azad – as soon as I saw the cover I fell in love and then I heard it has a Muslim main character and jinns and I knew I had to read this!

5 Pride by Ibi Zoboi – a pride and prejudice retelling and as I adore this classic I need to read all retellings! This one sounds so good!

6 Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri – a Mughal inspired world so of course I had to add it to my tbr!

7 Love from A to Z by S.K. Ali – a Muslim love story? Sign me up!

8 Aru Shah and the End of Time by Roshani Chokshi – this is inspired by Hindu mythology and sounds so interesting!

9 Empress of all Seasons by Emiko Jean – Another book I received in book box and have heard great things about so I am looking forward to read it!

10 A Thousand Beginnings and Endings edited by Ellen Oh & Elsie Chapman – this is an anthology with short stories and written completely by diverse authors which of course I need to read!

So these are some of the diverse books I really want to read soon!

What diverse books are on your tbr? Or what diverse books have you read recently and loved?

#RamadanReadathon 2019 – Non Western Setting Books Recommendation

Ramadan is almost here and it’s almost time for the Ramadan Readathon!

For this years readathon there is also a bingo card and there will be several posts over the course of the week sharing book recommendations for each of the prompts! So keep an eye out on the Ramadan Readathons social media page to read them all and help you choose what books to read this month!

This post covers the non-western setting prompt for the pilgrimage pillar. So here are my recommendations:

1 The Weight of our Sky by Hanna Alkaf

2 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

3 The Map of Salt and Stars by Zeyn Joukhadar

4 Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

5 Ayesha Dean – The Istanbul Intrigue by Melati Lum

6 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

7 Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed

8 Escape from Aleppo by N.H. Senzai

These books are set all over the world from Syria to Pakistan to Afghanistan. I have read most of these and loved them and the others are on my to read pile!

Are you doing this prompt for the readathon? What book have you picked?