- Yes Please
- Riding Lessons
- My Sister's Grave
- The Secret Place
- The Magician King
- The Magician's Land
- The Queen of the Tearling
- The Wide Window
- Flash Boys
- Red Rising
- The Orphan Master's Son
- Spoiled
- Beyond Belief
- To Kill a Mockingbird (I was supposed to read this in high school but I never did. Shhhh)
- Bird Box
- Under the Banner of Heaven
- On Immunity
- Flora
- The Girl on the Train
- Longbourn
- Destiny of the Republic
- Golden Son
- The Invasion of the Tearling
- Go Set a Watchman
- In the Unlikely Event
- The Husband's Secret
- All the Light We Cannot See
- Wild
- Everything I Never Told You
- Failure is Not an Option
- The Royal We
- Americanah
- Dead Wake
- Thirty Million Words
- Astonish Me
- The Selection
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Signs
- Watergate: A Novel
- Challenger Deep
- Trickster's Queen
- Jackaby
- The Elite
- Ready Player One
- The One
- Arcadia
- Fates and Furies
- Beastly Bones: A Jackaby Novel
- The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
This list could not have happened without the fist-full of jelly beans that is The Selection series. I cruised through the first four books with such agony over how they were the worst and yet I could-not-would-not stop. If you want to feel particularly bad about yourself as an unpublished author, I highly recommend them.
Also, I recognize that reporting out on this list is five months late. How did it get to be May so fast? Considering how I'm doing on other deliverables, half a year late is really not that bad.
Also, I recognize that reporting out on this list is five months late. How did it get to be May so fast? Considering how I'm doing on other deliverables, half a year late is really not that bad.
3 comments:
Well now I want to post my list from last year. I'm glad "The Selection" series got a special shout out even if it did not get bolded. Also, my commentary on your bolding/not bolding choices:
1- I loved Red Rising
2- Yeah, The Invasion of the Tearling does not deserve bolding but I am still hopeful for the third?
3- Go Set a Watchman only because it is FASCINATING to analyze the differences/changes between the two
4- I have In the Unlikely Event on hold at the library
5- I thought you didn't like The Royal We for some reason? I loved it. Maybe that was Lizzie who didn't like it?
5- AMERICANAH IS THE BEST
6- I have a copy of Challenger Deep sitting on my shelf...good to know that I should actually read it
7- How is Tamora Pierce not automatically bolded? You are wrong on this one.
8- I liked Jackaby a lot more than I liked the sequel
9- Arcadia like Tom Stoppard's Arcadia? Because, if so, DISAGREE
10- Opposite of Loneliness is the last on your list and I think the first on my list for 2016, so we are just cosmically connected by our reading lists!!!
Ok, that is all for now. Let's read more things together this year.
A rebuttal:
1- I categorize Red Rising with the Selection books in terms of both easy readability and being pretty terrible.
5- I liked it more than I thought I would, it also is a book I read twice this year which feels like an automatic bolding.
6- It is a heart breaker, but so, so powerful.
7- That was the WORST Tamora Pierce book ever (okay, maybe not). It had the best cover and the worst story.
9- No, it is Arcadia by Lauren Groff. My mom thinks she's great, I am less impressed.
10- Heart emoji
Let's please read more together. I need you to tell me what to read because I've been flailing this year.
Ok, I posted my list for you...
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