Celebrating 7 Years of GReads with Heidi

All month long I'm celebrating my 7th year of book blogging with the help of my bookish friends. To learn more about the event, please visit my introduction post I've linked just below. There, you can also enter to win a book by one of the fabulous authors who will be joining me this month to celebrate, as well.

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To help me celebrate today, Heidi from YA Bibliophile is here to share some of her most memorable reading recs from the book community. I've known Heidi since my early days of blogging and feel that we've grown together in this community. I love that I can still recommend books to her, and she can also influence what I read. Heidi's voice online, as well as offline as a school librarian, is so important for YA books. She's been an amazing advocate, and her enthusiasm for reading is so contagious! Please welcome Heidi to the blog...

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First things first, I’m so pleased to be here celebrating 7 years of GReads! Ginger and I started blogging around the same time and I’ve loved getting to know her and talk books (and life.)

One of my favorite things about being a blogger (and part of the online bookish community) is being surrounded by people who love to read and recommend books as much as I do! To celebrate this, I thought I would share ten favorite books I've read because someone else recommended them! For most of them I no longer remember exactly who raved about it. It was likely lots of people! There are a couple I remember and I've noted the recommender :)

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (Recommended by Ginger, of course!)

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen

Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler (I think maybe because Andi from Andi's ABCs raved about her books!)

Raise by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Read because Melissa Marr blurbed it)

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Grace Mercy by Robin LaFevers

The Ruby Oliver Books by E. Lockhart

Open Road Summer by Emery Lord

Of course there are so many more I've read because of the buzz pre-pub. These are just the ones I picked up because bloggers and authors I trust were talking about them! Thanks to Ginger for always having great recommendations and for sharing her love of books for seven years!