Hey Peeps!
New Year’s eve is among us!!! I hope you all are ready to ring in the New Year and make this your best year yet! This has been a really great and blessed year for me. It has also been a year full of good reads! I think any avid reader will tell you that it is hard to make of a list of the books they loved the most throughout the year. There are so many talented authors out there.
So, with that being said I am going to list some of my top picks that I have read this year. I might even list the books I am dying to crack open but just haven’t had the chance.
See if some of your picks are on my list!
Note: I chose my books for this list based on several criteria. One: It held me interested in the story. Two: I liked the characters, Three: It was memorable. Meaning out of all the books I read, I can recall it pretty clearly in a sea of words. 🙂 Four: I like the cover. 🙂
#1 Unearthly by Cynthia Hand.
#2 Unraveled by Gena Showalter (I really enjoyed the entire 3 books in the Intertwined series but I will admit the third book, Twisted was a little disappointing)
#3 Nightshade by Angela Cremer
#4 Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
#5 Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
#6 Beastly by Alex Flinn
#7 Legacies of Talimura: War of the Witch by Angel Haze and Slade Sewell
#8 Cold Blood by Heather Hildenbrand
#9 Cold Blood by Heather Hildenbrand (This book has a character named after me!!)
#10 Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#11 Hollowland by Amanda Hocking
So I managed to narrow it down to these, LOL. But they aren’t the only great books I have read this year.
Here are a few books I am dying to read and WILL get to in the New Year:
So those are just a few books I must get my hands on in 2011…. and the list continues to grow!!!
So what were your fvorite reads this year? How about your not so favorite reads??
Again, I wish you all a very Happy New Year!!!!!!
Great choices! I definitely like Raised by Wolves. Such an interesting story. I’m just sad none of these are indie books. 🙁 But hopefully you’ll get to read some good ones in 2012! 🙂
Happy New Year, Cambria! 😀
Alexandra~
http://www.wordsoftheworlds.blogspot.com
Thanks Alexandra! Actually four of the books listed above are indie books. Legacies of Talimura: War of the Witch is an Indie as well as Dirty Blood, Cold Blood and Hollowland.
I read a lot of both indie and traditionally publiahed books this year and i feel that this list is a good mix of both! Thanks for stopping by the blog!
As always, my lovely Cambria, you have done another great post.
I love the fact that you always take the time to help out others by sharing the books you loved with us all, whether they be with a pub house or indie written.
You are such a generous, UNBIASED and AMAZING person and I love the hell out of you!!!!!
My favorite books this year were of course ALL of yours, C.S. Splitter’s, Lizzy Ford’s, E.C. Stilson and all the wonderful authors of Christmas Lites.
Happy New Year, bff!!!
Sigh so many good books need more time. I really want to read Dirty Blood they are on my Kindle waiting. As well as Juliet Immortal. We will have to read Hallowed together! Happy New Year to you. Here’s is to Book 2 in 2012!