I normally break my favorites of the year into my top favorite book of each genre. This is year I'm going to do things differently because it's too hard. This was an amazing reading year, and I'm just going to list all of my favorite books in the order that I read them!
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens {read review}
Inside a Marathon by Scott Fauble, Ben Rosario {read review}
The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson {read review}
Where the Woods End by Charlotte Salter {read review}
Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner
Little Darlings by Melanie Golding
The Apocalyptic Mannequin by Stephanie M. Wytovich {read review}
Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall {read review}
Blood Countess (Lady Slayers #1) by Lana Popović {read review}
Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo {read review}
Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3) by Brandon Sanderson
The Midnight Lullaby by Cheryl Low {read review}
Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 edited by Melissa Edmundson {read review}
Horrid by Katrina Leno {read review}
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson {read review}
The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf {read review}
Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega {read review}
Be Wary of the Silent Woods (The Weirn Books #1) by Svetlana Chmakova
The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Thank you for all of the support and friendship this past year! Let me know if you've read any of my favorites, and please feel free to leave me a link to your favorites of 2020!
This post is being shared as part of Top Ten Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl.
Awesome list! Midnight Lullaby made my list too, and I see a few books I just couldn't get to, especially The Boatman's Daughter. It was a really good year!
ReplyDeleteYay Midnight Lullaby! I feel like people either really connected with The Boatman's Daughter - or really didn't. I love his writing. It was such a great year.
DeleteThe Boatman's Daughter has such a fabulous cover. Wow!
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Right? It's a really cool book.
DeleteI added Where the Woods End because of your review! I'm currently in the middle of Long Bright River and am enjoying it too! So glad you had an awesome reading year. :) Here's to an even better one next year.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Bonnie! Cheers to you!! I hope you love Where the Woods End. I'm such a fan of the way she crafted Long Bright River.
DeleteWow there are so many fantastic looking books here! I am so glad that you enjoyed Where the Crawdads Sing. And it looks like I am adding quite a few new books to my TBR... Where the Woods End looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI highly recommend Where the Woods End! It's such a creepy little story. I read Where the Crawdads Sing at the beginning of the year, and that feels like a lifetime ago!
DeleteGreat post!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Char!!
DeleteA few of these are actually on my TBR so I'm glad to see they made it onto your 'best of' list!
ReplyDeleteNatalie @ The Biblioholic
Yay! I keep seeing TBR books on best of lists, and it makes me just want to shut out life and rrreeeeaaadddd. :)
DeleteI still need to read Ninth House. I loved Leigh Bardugo's other books so really want to read it.
ReplyDeleteI have a lot of Leigh Bardugo reading to catch up on! I have Shadow and Bone on my list for next year.
DeleteThere's such a great mix of books up there. Fiction, non-fiction, YA, adult, MG. Love seeing so many hits.
ReplyDeleteLooks like you had an amazing reading year! I hope 2021 will be awesome and will be full of great books :)
ReplyDeleteI loved Rules For Vanishing! Such a good read. I'm going to have to add some of those other titles to my 2021 TBR list. Hope you have a Happy New Year! :D
ReplyDeleteWhere the Crawdads Sing was a great book. I enjoyed listening to it.
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a great list! I haven't read any of the books though. Especially The Hollow Places looks interesting.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to get to both Horrid and Where the Crawdads Sing in 2021, as I ordered them both with Christmas money.
ReplyDeleteI'm just about to look up the Fluent Forever book as well, as that sounds perfect for me!
I just read The Clockwork Boys by Kingfisher and absolutely loved it. The Hollow Places is on my TBR. Thanks for the recommendations!
ReplyDeleteI greatly enjoyed Space Between Worlds and I want to read Save the Cat and Fluent Forever. Thanks for sharing your favorites.
ReplyDeleteGreat list! Ninth House is on my TBR, and I'd really like to try Horrid, too.
ReplyDeleteGreat list. I haven't read any of these but glad you liked them.
ReplyDeleteI haven’t read ANY of these, though a number are on my TBR.
ReplyDeleteGreat list! It's cool to see Save the Cat on your list, I'm really interested to read that!
ReplyDeleteI see several here that caught my eye during the year. Golding's book and The Hollow Places both sound amazing.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a nice New Year!
So glad to see you included Little Darlings. I absolutely loved that one!
ReplyDeleteSeveral of these are on my TBR so I'm thrilled to see they're on your favorites list. Where the Crawdads Sing was such an amazing book. I also really enjoyed Ninth House.
ReplyDeleteGreat list! I loved The Hollow Places and Little Darlings.
ReplyDeleteI see you belong to those readers who can't limit yourself to ten books, either. I always have trouble with that. Glad you also liked "Where the Crawdads" sing, one of my favourite books of the year.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting my TTT earlier.
I completely forgot about Little Darlings! It's still on my audible credits. I need to read it! Ninth House and Where the Crawdads sing are great, great reads.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year and I do hope that the new year will bring some awesome books along.
You're absolutely right, there's been so many awesome books this year! It feels like I read Blood Countess decades ago (lol) but I really liked it.
ReplyDeleteWow, so many good books here. I need to read The Ninth House, Horrid, Ghost Squad and Blood Countess. Pus a few others. Gee, it makes me wonder what I DID read this year :)
ReplyDeleteIt is great to see you still blogging Jen. After almost 2 years familiar faces feels special. Long Bright River is on my January reading list.
ReplyDeleteCrawdads made my 2020 list too! And I just put myself on a waitlist for The Boatman’s Daughter, so I’m crossing my fingers I get to read it this year.
ReplyDeleteAj @ Read All The Things!
Rules for Vanishing looks amazing. As does everything else on your list too! And I've just bought Save the Cat, thanks to your post! :-)
ReplyDelete~Lex (lexlingua.co)
What a great year, there's so many great books here. Always love to see Sanderson and I'm really wanting to read Ghost Squad!!
ReplyDeleteI read Ghost Squad and really enjoyed it.
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