It’s that time of the week again when I bring you the Top 5 Wednesdays, created by gingerreadslainey. If you want to know how T5W works you can go to the Goodreads group by clicking here. This week theme is Favorite Self-Published Books. When I first saw this theme I thought I would have a hard time in finding self-published books that I’ve read but after looking to my read shelves on Goodreads I actually found a few. Because I’ve read most of these books as ARCs I won’t be talking about any of the books but I’ll leave the link for each review (and also the remaining books of the series) on this post. Here’s some of my favorite self-published books 🙂
5. True Calling (True Calling #1) – Siobhan Davis
Reviews:
True Calling (True Calling #1)
Beyond Reach (True Calling #2)
Destiny Rising (True Calling #3)
4. More Than Once (Chasing the Dream #4) – Elizabeth Briggs
Reviews:
More than Comics (Chasing the Dreams #2)
More than Once (Chasing the Dreams #4)
3. Rikki (Hart University #1) – Abigail Strom
Review:
Rikki (Hart University #1)
2. Always Second Best (Broken Dreams #2) – Elodie Nowodazkij
Reviews:
One, Two, Three (Broken Dreams #1)
Always Second Best (Broken Dreams #2)
1. Hopeless and Slammed (Slammed #1) – Colleen Hoover
Review:
(I haven’t read these one as a ARC but I still have a review for Slammed here in the blog)
These are my favorite self-published books. What about you? Which are your favorite?
The Girl Who Read Too Much 
Wait, slammed was self published!!!???
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It was and it made the New York Times Best Seller list as a self-published book. Atria Books republished it a few months later and has been publishing all of her books after that.
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Oh wow, so that’s why there’s a different brown cover. Woah, I didn’t know that, ha ha, thanks!!
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I think the brown cover was the self-published edition. I just changed the post because of that and also to add Hopeless because I just found out that Hopeless was also self-published 🙂
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I haven’t read hopeless yet, but wow, colleen rocks! 🙂
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She does. From what read Hopeless was the first self-published novel to make #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list which is great.
Hopeless is really good too. It’s one of my favorite Colleen Hoover’s books 🙂
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I’ve heard that hopeless is a little darker than her other ones, I’ve read them all except hopeless and never never, but I can’t wait to read them! I’m not even surprised that CoHo is so fabulous like that ;P
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It is. In the beginning it might seem like a normal young adult contemporary but then you start to realize that a lot of dark things happened in the past and that changes the whole book.
I also never read Never Never but I hope to read it as well as November 9 and the other Slammed books
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November 9 is one of my favorites! Ok, then note to self, do not read hopeless when you’re in a bad mood ha ha
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It’s not a good idea but you should read it anyway 😀
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Thanks so much for including True Calling in your list 🙂 I recently discovered Colleen Hoover, and I’ve read the Hopeless series and Never Never, and both are excellent. Slammed is definitely on my TBR shelf. I didn’t realise either of those books had been self-published though I know Never Never is. Great post.
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You’re welcome 😀
I loved the Hopeless series but I still have to read Never Never. Slammed is a great book but to be honest I loved every Colleen Hoover book I’ve read
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Same here. I stayed up until 5.38am reading Maybe Someday – read it in one go, just couldn’t put it down! She’s amazingly talented, and I look forward to checking out the rest of her books in the near future.
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what? Hopeless was self published? really? WWWOOOOOWWWWWWWWW
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It was and it was the first self-published book to be the no 1 in the New York Times Best Sellers list 😀
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😄 omg, that must have taught a lesson to all the publishers who looked her over
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Right?? Now everyone, at least in the YA/NA community knows who she is 🙂
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Yeah, but you want to know something disturbing? I couldn’t find her anywhere in the 4 floors bookstore in Glasgow 😕
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Really?? That’s weird. Maybe they sold every book. Who knows. After Christmas I looked for the new Nicholas Sparks book everywhere and I couldn’t find it
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Not likely… there wasn’t even space on the shelf where her books should be 😢 I was looking to get one… oh well… ebooks it is
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It’s like I said yesterday with ebooks you don’t have to wait. Okay, if I could would have everything in physical copies but the wait is terrible
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The wait and most of the times, the price!
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That too, especially when you sometimes you can find some ebooks for free on Kindle like Hopeless
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Yep 😁 it’s so good when that happens!
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It really is. You should read it sometime but not close to Forbidden. No one wants to read two books with dark subjects one after the other (this coming from the girl who read 3 books related with mental illness in about 1 month last year XD )
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Lol, yeah, not gonna happen… the arcs sometimes surprise me that way, and I’m left craving for a fun and easy read
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I know. Sometimes I need fluffy and cute books after reading some arcs
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The one I started today is a bit weird…
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Why? What is it about??
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Its new adult. The main character is obese, the guy has bipolar disease. They are becoming friends, I guess, but it’s a bit weird
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Weird. It’s not something that happens a lot in books
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It’s not. And it might be good, but also weird. The girl didn’t eat for a week. That’s not healthy and makes me mad
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That’s terrible. I always had weight problems but the worst thing I ever did was going to gm class with eating. It always ending with me leaving class early and calling my dad to go get me. Goo thing it only happen two or three times
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Lol! Yeah, it should never be done! My ex boyfriend once had a dizzy spell on body pump class because he thought he could do it without eating first… dumb guy!
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It’s really dumb but sometimes peole do dumb things XD . But a week without eating? That’s bad
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Coffee, just coffee… weird as hell. They work together, but only see each other once s week. One week he’s ok, the other he’s not, most likely drink…
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Really weird. Keep me updated about it. I want to know how that’s going to end
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Jr Just royalty humiliated her. She’s crying. This book is making me depressed!
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That’s not good
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No favourite self published books because I haven’t read any or loads at least! I should do though, support the fellow writer you know!
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I know. Until today I thought I wouldn’t have a list too but it looks like I’ve managed to read a few 🙂
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I thought I’d heard that the first Colleen Hoover books were self published but I wasn’t sure which ones actually were. Great list!
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