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Top 10 Books of 2013

2013 was a great reading year for me.  I read 115 books this year!

Here are my top 10 books that I read in 2013.

10) Cinder by Marissa Meyer
What a creative and original fairy tale retelling.


9) The Host by Stephenie Meyer


8)  The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon


7) The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey



6) Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth




5) A Dance with Dragons by George R R Martin


4) Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell

I received an advance reader copy of this over the winter and I just zipped through it.  Really great historical fiction. 

3) Me Before You by Jojo Moyes


2) Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell


I am really surprised that I have 2 contemporary books on my top 10 this year.  I am not usually a fan of contemporary but I loved these books.  

1) Ready Player One by Ernest Cline


1) The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley


I couldn't pick my #1 favorite book of the year so I picked 2!  Both books stayed with me for a long time after I read them.  Loved those books.  I also read the Firebird by Susanna Kearsley this year and loved it.  It is a sequel to The Winter Sea.

Top 10 Tuesday - September 4, 2012

Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish answering a different theme this week.  This weeks theme is:

Top Ten Books on my Fall TBR List

The books on my Fall TBR list aren't necessarily all new releases.  Just books that I am really excited about reading and haven't got to yet.  My List is in no particular order.



  

The Judas Strain by James Rollins

This is book #4 in the Sigma Force series by James Rollins.  I started reading these books at a recommendation of a friend who said he was their favorite author.  I really loved the first book of this series, Sandstorm. 

Sandstorm was a fun ride and I enjoyed in thoroughly.  However, as the series progresses, I am not sure that I am enjoying it anymore.  The stories are a bit far fetched for me and I find myself wondering why I am reading it the whole time.  Maybe just not my style of book right now.  I may continue the series later but I am not sure right now.  I hate starting a series and not finishing it, but....if I am not enjoying it, why continue.  We'll see....

The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain

I just finished The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes by Diane Chamberlain.

This was the Book of the Month for my GoodReads group.  This book has been on my to-be read (TBR) shelf for over a year now but I am just getting to it now. 

It was a quick read and it held my attention.  This is the second book that I have read by Diane Chamberlain.  Last year, I read The Midwife's Confession and I enjoyed that book as well.  I like her style of writing and I find I get hooked onto the characters right away.  Overall, I enjoyed this book.  I would definitely read another one of her books again.

Matched & Crossed by Ally Condie

I just finished reading "Matched" and "Crossed" by Ally Condie. 

 

They are books #1 and #2 in a trilogy.  It is a series of Young Adult (YA) books set in a dystopian world.  I was looking for a light read and the cover of the books drew me in.  I found Matched a little slow going at first and it took my mind a while to get into the mindset of the dystopian world.  However, by book #2, Crossed, I was vested in the main characters, Cassia, Ky, & Zander and I was eagerly following along wondering where the story was headed.  They were not my favorite books by any means, but, overall, I did enjoy them. Book #3, Reached, is being released in November 2012 and I plan on finishing the trilogy when it is released.