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Top Ten Books I Read In 2013
Or, ten favorites that I read in 2013:
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Read this year but were published before this year:
1. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell – my thoughts
3. The Scorpio Races by Mattie Stiefvater –
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Read this year and published this year:
4. Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer – my thoughts
5. Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole – my thoughts
6. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo – my thoughts
7. Sever by Lauren DeStefano – my thoughts
8. Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi – my thoughts
9. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell – my thoughts
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Read this year, representing indie publishing:
10. Escaping Me by Elizabeth Lee – my thoughts
11. Drop Everything Now by Alessandra Thomas –
thoughts coming soon, just finished – LOVED.
12. GREED by Fisher Amelie – my thoughts
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Read this year, will be published soon:
13. The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski – my thoughts
14. Love Letters To The Dead by Ava Dellaria –
just finished, thoughts coming soon – LOVED.
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It has been a really great year for books
BUT
it has also been a great year for
DISCOVERING BOOKS.
I’ve loved getting recommendations from
other readers and bloggers
and I’ve loved that some have trusted me enough
to take some of my recommendations.
Each of these have been rated 5-stars on my Goodreads
page (the two for which reviews have yet to go live will
also receive 5-stars on Goodreads).
BUT
it has also been a great year for
DISCOVERING BOOKS.
I’ve loved getting recommendations from
other readers and bloggers
and I’ve loved that some have trusted me enough
to take some of my recommendations.
Each of these have been rated 5-stars on my Goodreads
page (the two for which reviews have yet to go live will
also receive 5-stars on Goodreads).
Leave me your link so I can visit
and check out “favorites” lists!
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About Asheley
Asheley is a Southern girl. She loves Carolina blue skies, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and NC craft beer. She loves all things history but prefers books over everything.
You can find her somewhere in North Carolina, daydreaming about the ocean.
Find Asheley on Litsy @intothehallofbooks!
I have not heard of Nowhere but Home, but it looks SUPER AWESOME! I have now added it to my TBR.
And Love Letters….I WANT IT NOW! Can't wait for that one!
Happy New Year!
Jennifer @ A Librarian's Library–My TTT!
Love Letters to the Dead sounds AMAZING, I can't wait to hear (well, read) your thoughts!
Really can't decide if I'd read Love Letters to the Dead or not, but I might give it a try! 😀
My TTT 🙂
I loved Eleanor and Park!!! My top read of this year, but you had several awesome picks. And thank you for making everything clickable/linked so I could go check out some of the books I haven't read on Goodreads 😉
Ninja Girl
I haven't read any of these yet bust most of them are on my TBR pile. I did start with Mafi's Shatter Me but felt a little disappointed. I loved the ending so I will read on some day. 🙂
Happy reading and Happy New Year!
My TTT
I love that you've got some new-to-me books on there! This has been a great discovery year, hasn't it? Lots of new authors and new bloggers for me this year. And, hopefully, more to come in 2014!
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GREAT. It got eaten. Boooo… Basically I said: i love the way your broke down your list. I feel like I failed a lot of great books by not including them, but stuck to 10! I have E&P and got Fangirl and Attachments for Christmas.. plus Rainbow is coming to town the end of the month so I need to read at least 1 within the next few weeks! Also happy to see Sever on here. Haven't gotten to it yet, but am looking forward to seeing how that one ends!
I am curious about Love Letters to the Dead. Awesome list of books and eclectic which I like 🙂
I have Silver Linnings Playbook at home. I MUST READ SOON!
My TTT List
This might be a dorky comment, but I am crazy about the font on Love Letters to the Dead. It also sounds like a good read too!
I know, Rainbow Rowell is the best! I've loved all her books, but I decided to just chose one for my TTT. But they are all wonderful. And The Scorpio Races! Wasn't the audiobook amazing. Steve West's voice is ridiculously attractive!
SCORPIO RACES.
Thank you for holding my hand through that one. I owe you forever.
I'm glad Nowhere But Home made your list! I loved it too, and I definitely need to pick up more of Liza Palmer's backlist in 2014.
I haven't heard much about Love Letters to the Dead yet, so I'm glad to hear it get such praise from you! I thought the synopsis sounded great, and it's nice to know the actual story was, too.
I purchased SLP solely due to the movie, but I haven't read it yet. (Incidentally, I did read Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock which was dark and wonderful.) E&P has been sitting on my bookshelf for months, and it's one of the books I MUST get to in 2014.
Stephanie @ Inspiring Insomnia
Eleanor and Park seems to be on almost every list!
I loooooved Siege and Storm and Eleanor & Park! Sturmhond is one of my new favourite characters, and Eleanor & Park destroyed me.
Happy New Year!
Of course I'm so excited about Attachments, The Scorpio Races, Nowhere But Home and Unravel Me. Four amaaaaazing books! And I'm really excited about a few of the books on your list that I haven't read yet but do own. Also, you + everyone else in the blog world have me DYING to read The Winner's Curse. DYING, A.
Great list. You've got some really amazing books on your list – I really loved The Silver Linings Playbook when I read it. I really want to read some Rainbow Rowell, I've heard nothing but good things about her books. Happy New Year 🙂 My TTT.
I'm really making it a point this year to read Attachments, Nowhere But Home, and Letters from Skye because they've gotten so much love this past year!! Also? Unravel Me!!! Eeeep! 😀
Thanks so much for the love! <3