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Top Ten Tuesday #60: Favourite Reads of 2014 December 16, 2014

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Each week, the girls over at The Broke and the Bookish think up a fun theme for the week and participating bloggers around the net join in. The theme for this week is:

Top Ten Favourite Reads of 2014

So many great reads this year! It was nearly impossible to narrow my favourite reads to ten. Ask me again tomorrow, and it’s likely I will say a variation of these and maybe some others!

1. The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows


2. The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski


3. Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano


4. The King’s Curse by Philippa Gregory


5. Illusions of Fate by Kiersten White


6. Open Road Summer by Emery Lord


7. If I Stay by Gayle Forman


8. Rites of Passage by Joy Hensley


9. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo


10. The Falconer by Elizabeth May

 

Top Ten Tuesday #59: New to Me Authors in 2014 December 9, 2014

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Each week, the girls over at The Broke and the Bookish think up a fun theme for the week and participating bloggers around the net join in. The theme for this week is:

Top Ten New to Me Authors in 2014

Some of these are debut authors and are new to everyone, but these are some of my favourite new authors!

1. Joy Hensley


2. Sara Raasch


3. Amy Ewing


4. Sarah J Maas


5. Leigh Bardugo


6. Jennifer Echols


7. Laini Taylor


8. Emery Lord


9. Romily Bernard


10. Erin Bowman