Year End Favorites

I’ll start off by saying it was extremely hard to pick my top ten favorites.  I got to 20, then 15, and then finally 10 and it broke my heart to cross any of them off my list.  Lol.   I read some really great books this past year and Goodreads tells me I read over 120 books (including audiobooks).  Sheesh, who would have thought I read quite that much.  Lol.  So here it is – my Top Ten (in no particular order):

1.  Evergreen by Rebecca Rasmussen

2.  The Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Ryan Hyde

3.  The Pearl that Broke its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

4.  A Day of Fire by Stephanie Dray, Ben Kane, E. Knight, Sophie Perinot, Kate Quinn, and Vicky Alvear Shecter

5.  The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon

6.  The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

7.  The Virtues of Oxygen by Susan Schoenberger

8.  Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen

9.  The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

10.  The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Phillipp Sendker

Has anyone else read and loved these books?  Here’s to hoping that 2015 will be  another great year of reading a whole lot of wonderful books!

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Well it’s that time of year to make up our lists of our favorite books of the year. It’s hard to go through all that you’ve read and pick and choose. At least it is for me because I truly don’t remember reading any bad books this year. Anyhow, that being said, I cannot just pick a t0p 10 so I’m having a Top 20 and here they are in no particular order…

I loved all of these books for one reason or another. Some were just plain good reads that kept me turning the pages in a hurry and others were books that really touched my heart in some way.

Many of these books come from favorite authors like Helen Hollick, Karen White, John Shors, Susan Higginbotham and Sarah Addison Allen but this list contains some new authors for me that are now favorites as well; most notably Beth Hoffman, Lori Ann Bloomfield, Therese Fowler and Shandi Mitchell. That’s not to say I won’t be reading more from all of the authors new to me but these are the new ones that really had an impact on me with their books.

I’d love to say thanks to all the authors who work so hard on getting their books out there for us to enjoy. As a book lover, I appreciate it more than words can say! I hope 2011 will be another really awesome year of reading and great books!

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