Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
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Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday post, with a topic that I love! The rage on bookish social media is to talk all about the hot new books, which naturally leaves many great titles & series to be put on the back burner.
One other thing to note is that the different media channels all seem to focus on different books! I might no longer see a book on twitter or in the blogosphere, while maybe it's still really active on Instagram for example.
That said, I'm going with books/authors/series that I personally no longer see anyone talking about anymore!
(P.S: I love to interact with other people's lists and I will follow back new followers! If you link to random things that aren't a TTT list - tags and articles and reviews aren't lists and this isn't the place for it
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1) Any book ever by Tricia Levenseller that is more than six months old
I love TL, it just seems like her books fall off the bandwagon really quickly once they've been out for a few months.
2) The Queens of Renthia by Sarah Beth Durst
SBD is another author whose more recent or upcoming books I will see talked about, but her lovely popcorn fantasy series The Queens of Renthia seems to have fallen off the wayside
3) John Sandford
Sandford is still cranking out books like crazy but I think that the Prey books were more popular with the generation above me. I still love them but I don't think he's nearly as talked about as he used to be despite continuing two old series (Prey and Virgil Flowers) plus writing a new series about Letty.
4) Robin LaFevers
Grave Mercy and the His Fair Assassin series literally used to be ALL over Instagram, but I think the popularity declined with the spinoff Duology and I don't see them around much anymore. These were the first books I bought with Instagram FOMO
5) Crowns of Croswald by DE Night
These are some of the only Indie published books that I've ever seen just explode everywhere. She sent out a massive number of review copies for a while and had a TON of interest a few years back, but I haven't seen them since
6) Ash Princess by Laura Sebastien
This is another series that was ALL over instagram for ever, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. I think that despite the pretty covers (photogenic books do best on Insta even if they are terrible), people just expect more from YA books these days
7) R.A. Salvatore
So... Ok back in the day when Salvatore was in his prime, the Drizzt books were everywhere. The series is still continuing but many of the people reading the new book hadn't read the rest, and felt like it was flat. I didn't see the book stay in conversation long, and idk if anyone reads Salvatore in general anymore. If they do, I don't see it. I'd say go back and read the first two trilogies for some real classic fantasy
8)Iris Johansen
Back to the thriller spectrum - does anyone ever see Iris Johansen talked about anymore? I loved the Eve and Bonnie books although they did get samey after a while. I don't see her in circulation much anymore.
.... Ok I'm blanking on two more, so you guys tell me which books you never see talked about anymore!!
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