One challenge that is very popular on bookstagram is the “12 book recommendations from 12 friends” challenge. I think the idea is to read one of those 12 for each month of the year. I wanted to do it this year, but I did it a little differently. Since you know that one of my goals is to reduce my physical TBR, I had my friends choose books from my physical TBR!

Happy November everyone! November is #SciFiMonth, hosted by Lisa at Dear Geek Place and Imyril at There’s Always Room for One More. This year they are celebrating 10 years!! of hosting SciFiMonth, which is amazing. You can find Imyril’s post with a short introduction and the list of prompts for the month here. And of course please do explore both Lisa and Imyril’s blogs for more SciFiMonth goodness. I’ll try to be doing these prompts both here and on my Bookstagram. The first prompt is: “Set Your Course – SciFi Month TBR.”

I’m a mood reader, so I definitely don’t stick to TBRs. Or even make them haha. My TBR is just an overall general term, not like a monthly thing. So I’ll just talk about a handful books that I own and would like to read sooner rather than later!

The Happy Place 5 is a monthly series where a few friends and I post 5 of our favorites books for a certain topic or theme. The name is from a Discord group that I am a part of. We created the space to have a positive environment for a handful of close friends. All of us are bookworms, and many of us are bookstagrammers and bloggers. So we decided to start a blog post series together! I’ll link my friends blogs and posts for this month’s topic at the end of this post.

I guess I missed the November edition of The Happy Place 5 haha. But oh well! We continue on with the series with this month’s theme. December is a month of wrapping up the past year, but it’s also a great time to look ahead to the coming one. In that vein, today I’ll be talking about five of my anticipated 2022 books. This was honestly so hard to choose (and you’ll see I cheated and added an honorable mention). 2022 is really looking like an INCREDIBLE reading year. So let’s get to it!