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Year End Favorites

My 2014 Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year

December 31, 2014 by Darlene

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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):

 

evergreen

1.  Evergreen by Rebecca Rasmussen

hoofbeats

2.  The Language of Hoofbeats by Catherine Ryan Hyde

The-Pearl-The-Broke-Its-Shell

3.  The Pearl that Broke its Shell by Nadia Hashimi

day

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

wife

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

wings

6.  The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

virtue

7.  The Virtues of Oxygen by Susan Schoenberger

lost lake

8.  Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen

winter

9.  The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

heartbeats

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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Favorite Reads of 2010

December 31, 2010 by Darlene


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…

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman
Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
Our Hart by Lloyd Lofthouse
The Wives of Henry Oades by Johanna Moran
Shadow of the King by Helen Hollick
The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
The Stolen Crown by Susan Higginbotham
Mistress of Rome by Kate Quinn
Claude & Camille by Stephanie Cowell
On Folly Beach by Karen White
The Last River Child by Lori Ann Bloomfield
The One That I Want by Allison Winn Scotch
Souvenir by Therese Fowler
Sea Escape by Lynne Griffin
Cold Rock River by Jackie Lee Miles
The Miracles of Prato by Laurie Albanese and Laura Morowitz
Under This Unbroken Sky by Shandi Mitchell
The Wishing Trees by John Shors

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!

© 2010, Darlene of Peeking Between the Pages. All Rights Reserved. If you’re reading this on a site other than Peeking Between the Pages or Darlene’s Feed, be aware that this post has been stolen and is used without permission.

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