Welcome to 2025 and our first annual Tingly Awards!

Join Nikki and Meg as they look back at the books that made them blush, tingle, squee, and smile.

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Meg’s List of Categories & Winners:

Best Space Odyssey

* Earth Boys are Easy by C. Rochelle

* Ruby Dixon’s Risdaverse series

* Good Deeds by Kathryn Moon

Best Second Chance

* Replay by Amy Daws

* A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

* Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren

* The Ex Vows by Jessica Joyce

Least Annoying Kid Character

* Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam-Young

* Family Camp by Eli Easton

* You & Me by Tal Bauer

* The Other Side of Forever by Norah Prichard

Top Book Of The Year (that don’t fit the other categories)

* Firefly by Emmy Sanders

* Into the Multi Vers by C. Rochelle

* Scandalized by Ivy Owens

* Thank You For Listening by Julia Whelan

* Peppermint Bark, No Bite by Bailey Seaborn

Nikki’s List of Categories & Winners:

My Top genres

* Age gap

* X to lovers (enemies, friends)

* Protection! I’ll save you!

* Paranormal crime fighting

Books That Made Me Blush

* Back for seconds

* Alistair, in Winnie takes Paris by Lane Hayes

* Earth Boys are Easy by C Rochelle

* Heartless by Elsie Silver

Fave Enemies to Lovers

* Dear Plant Daddy by Shenee Howard

* Knocking’ Boats by DJ Jamison

* As the Raven Flies Meghan Maslow

A Surprise Love

* Men From Echo Creek by NR Walker (historical, cowboy)

* If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy

* Bride by Ali Hazelwood

* His Mate by Vengeance Lunetti Pack series by Mel Aitchess

Fave New Series

* Goliaths of Wrestling by Lily Mayne

* Wayward Sons by L Eveland

* On the Wind by Sam Burns & WM Fawkes

* Ink Slingers by KM Neuhold

Top Book Of The Year

* Conflicted by Lark Taylor (Hopeless blessed book 1)

* Jon’s Helter Skelter Cold Case by AJ Sherwood

* Soar (wings & wands book 3) by AJ Sherwood & Jocelynn Drake

* Rabble End Game by C Rochelle

* Devil’s Own (Palm Island book 6) by KM Neuhold

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