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Favorite Books from the past year??

What are your favorite books that you've read within the past year?? They don't necessarily have to have been released in the past year, but just something you've read.  I am looking for new reading material as I haven't read much since I graduated college (been stuck in an "I don't want to read because I was forced to for so long...." kind of mood.)
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  • Hands down Mariana by Susanna Kearsley.  I just finished a re read (listen) this morning and it was even better then second time.

    Other books I really enjoyed were Hopeless and Horns.
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    116 books in 2016

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    Lauren (SnShne322)'s book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)
    Wes: 10/8/2012


  • ewill7911ewill7911 member
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    Hmm thats a hard one. I think Watership Down was one of my favorite books of all time. I read it last year, but am thinking about rereading it again in between reading off my TBR list.
    I edited and added the link!
    Some other good books: Tuesdays with Morrie and Divergent.
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  • Me Before You
    Sea of Tranquility
    The Name of the Wind
    Every Day
    75 Books in 2015?
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  • 5 stars from the past 12 months (not including any re-reads):

    The Sea of Tranquility
    Siege and Storm

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  • I think the best book I have read so far this year is The Time Between by Karen White. I loved it and have been recommending it to everyone.
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  • Eleanor & Park
    On the Island

    I went though one of those I-can't-read phases after college. It passes, I promise!

  • My favorites were the final trilogy in The Wheel of Time series, but that one is an endurance challenge to get that far. The Fables graphic novel series is great from the start.
    Much lighter reads that I enjoyed were Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar and Ghost Planet.
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  • I just looked at Goodreads and I haven't given out many 5-star books in the past year! The only two were Tatiana and Alexander and The Last Noel by Michael Malone. That kind of makes me sad.

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  • My 5*'s were:

    There is No Light in Darkness by Claire Contreras
    Vain by Fisher Amelie
    Emma's Secret by Steena Holmes

    4*'s that I loved too were:

    On The Island by Tracey Garvis Graves
    Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
    Closer Than They Appear by Jess Riley

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    Jess (Shepherdjel)'s book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)
  • 2012 five stars:
    The Night Circus
    The Bronze Horseman

    2013 five stars:
    Mistborn
    The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    A Monster Calls
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  • Water for Elephants

    Ready Player One

    The Lovely Bones

    Hopeless

    Into the Darkest Corner

    my read shelf:
    Cathy (CathyL7910)'s book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)
  • Sea of Tranquility
    Every Day
    Just One Day
    Silver Linings Playbook
    Eleanor & Park
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  • awesome!! thanks everyone :) so many choices. i'm going to start looking into these tonight!
  • Shadowy Horses by Susanna Kearsley
    The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
    Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
    Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple
    A Shot of Sultry by Macy Beckett
    Beautiful Sorrows by Mercedes Yardley
    Throne of Glass and all of the prequel novellas that go with it by Sarah J. Maas
    Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
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  • Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
    Chocolate Wars by Deborah Cadbury
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
    Waiting for Gertrude by Bill Richardson
    Raisins and Almonds by Kerry Greenwood
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  • Eleanor and Park
    Code Name Verity
    The Handmaid's Tale (it was a reread, but so worth the time)
  • My five stars for the year are:

    A Storm of Swords
    11/22/63
    The Storyteller
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    Denise's book recommendations, favorite quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)


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  • My favorites are The Uglies series and Winter Garden.
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    Miranda's book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)
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  • Girl Unmoored
    The Sea of Tranquility
    This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
    Me Before You
    Eleanor and Park
    Wonder
    This is Where I Leave You
    Please Ignore Vera Dietz

    Kristen's book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)

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  • Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett (good ol' fashioned spy novel)
    A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
    My favorite place on earth: The Amargosa Valley.
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  • *grabs pen and starts writing a list*

    Seriously, I think most of my TBR list is from books you all have recommended!  Coming to this board is much easier/better than browsing B&N for a few hours for a new book to read.

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    Andrea (andypandy625)'s book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)
  • Montana Sky, Honest Illusions, Chasing Fire, and the Three Sisters Island trilogy by Nora Roberts
    The Sultry series by Macy Beckett

    I've been on a romance kick haha.

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  • NOS4A2 - Joe Hill
    Tell The Wolves I'm Home - Carol Brunt Rifka
    The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson

    90 books in 2015?
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  • *grabs pen and starts writing a list*

    Seriously, I think most of my TBR list is from books you all have recommended!  Coming to this board is much easier/better than browsing B&N for a few hours for a new book to read.
    haha seriously!!! i'm going to have enough books to read for like a year, even on half the recommendations
  • If I Stay by Gayle Forman
    Intensity by Dean Koontz

    I guess I only had two from 2013. Bummer.

     

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  • NOS4A2 - Joe Hill
    Tell The Wolves I'm Home - Carol Brunt Rifka
    The Sky is Everywhere - Jandy Nelson

    Oh good.  This is next up to listen to on audio.
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    116 books in 2016

    my read shelf:
    Lauren (SnShne322)'s book recommendations, liked quotes, book clubs, book trivia, book lists (read shelf)
    Wes: 10/8/2012


  • The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

    Daughter of Smoke & Bone & Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

    Vain by Fisher Amelie

    The Seven Realms series by Cindi Williams Chima

     

     

     

     

     

     

     


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  • SRodi811SRodi811 member
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    edited August 2013
    The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
    Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
    The Sultry series by Macy Beckett

    Next on my to-read list (based on 4/5 * reviews): Gone Girl, Me Before You, Eleanor & Park, There is No Light in Darkness
    Books Read in 2016: 4/50

  • The Happiness Project by Gretchin Rubin
    7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker
    Tenth of December by George Saunders
    Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
    The Dinner by Herman Koch

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  • The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

    The Fever seres by Karen Marie Moning

    Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

    Slammed by Colleen Hoover

    The Premonition series by Amy A. Bartol

    Written in Red by Anne Bishop

     

     

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