Top 5 picks for June

Can you believe it, June is already here. We are half way through the year! i'm not going to sugar coat it, this year has been tough! But the good news is we have survived, we have celebrated, we have cried and most importantly we have stuck together. 

With reading becoming more in vogue now, i think it's time i released my top 5 picks for this month. 

Children's books: 

- Monty's Island - Emily Rodda + Lucinda Gifford

- Taylor Turbochaser - David Baddiel

- Diary of a minecraft Zombie Mission impossible - Zack Zombie

- Slime - David Williams + Tony Ross

- Wundersmith: The calling of Morrigan Crow - Jessica Townsend 

YA Fantasy:

- The language of Thorns - Leigh Bardugo

- Daughter of the pirate King - Tricia Levenseller

- Monsters of men -  Patrick Ness

- A court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J maas 

- The red Queen - Victoria Aveyard

YA Fiction:

- Deep water - Sarah Epstein

- One of us is lying - Karen McManus

- Get even - Gretchen McNeil 

- The sun is also a star - Nicola Yoon 

- Girls with Razor hearts - Suzanne Young 

Fiction Romance: 

- The two lives of Lydia Bird - Josie Silver 

- The Henna Artist - Alka Joshi 

- Daisy Jones and the Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

- Redhead by the side of the road - Anne Taylor

- The Jetsetters - Amanda Eyre Ward

Fiction: 

- Where the crawdads sing - Delia Owens

- Conversations with friends - Sally Rooney

- Grown ups - Marian keyes

- Confessions of a forty something - Alexandra Potter

- The minute i saw you - Paige Toon

Crime/ Thriller: 

- The dirty dozen - Lydia la plante

- The goodbye man - Jeffery Deaver

- Stick and stones - Katherine Firkin 

- Dark matter - Black Crouch 

Fantasy Romance: 

- The Midnight Lie - Maries Rutkoski 

- Sword of Fire - Katherine Kerr

- Monstrous Heart - Claire McKenna

- The Sinner - J.R. Ward

- The last wish - Andrei Sapkowski 

These last few weeks have been monumental for multiple reasons, and while the Pandemic has been a huge concern. It is the The Black Lives Matter movement, that has been close to my heart. Watching, listening, and educating a whole world simultaneously - Standing in solidarity. This has been the movement that has stopped the world. For the month of June i have been muted and listening. I would also like to highlight 5 books written by people of colour that i have really enjoyed this month and show my support to the movement. Every month i change up my top 5 picks and i choose them at random, but this month i would like to make a point of selecting authors of colour who have produced fabulous works. 

Top 5 authors of colour: 

- Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi

- A song below water - Bethany C Morrow

- A song of Wraiths and Ruin - Roseanna A Brown

- Girl, Woman, other - Bernadine Evaristo 

- Black Girl Unlimited - Echo Brown 

And there you have it. My top picks for the month of June. I hope there is something in there for everyone to enjoy. 

Love to you all 

C x