Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by our friends over at The Broke and the Bookish! And a special congratulations to one of their contributors, Jamie, who got married last weekend! Huzzah!
Today’s topic is actually pretty easy for me, since I’ve only been blogging about five months and therefore don’t have hundreds of books to pick from. For those of you who have been at this for years, you have my sympathies.
So here’s tonight’s topic:
Top Ten Favorite Books You’ve Read During The Lifespan Of Your Blog
With the exception of the first two (which will link to Amazon because I haven’t posted my reviews yet), I’ll just link the title to my review of each book. Because if I had to summarize what I loved about each of these in just a sentence or two, they’d all say the same thing (“THIS BOOK IS AWESOME”) and it would get boring.
Crown of Embers by Rae Carson
Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
Defiance by C.J. Redwine
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
The Selection by Kiera Cass
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Timepiece by Myra McEntire
The False Prince by Jennifer Nielsen
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
And let me just say, I’m glad I started this blog and discovered so many other fantastic blogs, because if I hadn’t, I probably wouldn’t have read any of these, much less conversed merrily with several of these lovely authors on Twitter and even met two of them in person.
LET’S ALL CELEBRATE BLOGGING.
HAHAHAHA I loved the gif at the end! Yaay for blogging! 😀
TFiOS and The Immortal Rules made my list too and I’m super excited to read the Book Thief soon!
Joie @ Joie de Lire recently posted..Top Ten Books I’ve Read in the Lifespan of My Blog
I love The Fault in Our Stars, and John Green in general is one of the best discoveries I’ve made since starting my blog. I put Will Grayson Will Grayson on my list.
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Awesome celebratory gif! Love your list. I can’t wait to read Crown of Embers and Defiance so I’m happy to see they are tops on your list. Pushing the Limits is another one I can’t wait to read. TFiOS made my list too. Thanks for sharing!
Lucy @ The Reading Date recently posted..Top Ten Favorite Books I’ve Blogged About
Everyone seems to adore Pushing the Limits. I haven’t read that book yet, but it’s a must read now! 🙂 Let’s do celebrate blogging. *doing happydance*. !!!!
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I love so many of your choices!! The Crown of Embers was amazing! And of course I loved TFiOS and Timepiece!
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Oh, that gif. I’m ROLLING ON THE FLOOR. For serious, people are looking at me funny. 🙂
We were just talking about “Pushing the Limits” last night at Barnes and Noble where we were “writing”. I guess now i HAVE to read it!
Sarah @ Breaking the BInding recently posted..[Top Ten Tuesday] Top Ten Favorite Books I’ve Read During The Lifespan Of My Blog
It’s not my typical fare, but I really, really enjoyed it. Review will be up later this week.
And yes, James Van Der Memes is where it’s at.
Oh my gracious, there are SO MANY OF THEM. How did I not know that this existed?
Sarah @ Breaking the BInding recently posted..[Top Ten Tuesday] Top Ten Favorite Books I’ve Read During The Lifespan Of My Blog
Yes, it’s pretty much my favorite thing ever. Picking only one for this post was DIFFICULT.
James Van Der Memes?! No waaay! That is amazing!
On a different note, loved most of these. Except the selection! It totally didn’t do it for me. But what I have to extra agree with you on is the wonderful way in which blogging introduces you to new titles. It’s pretty much my favorite thing. (oh and blogging = wonderful other BLOGGERS!)
Mary @ My Sisters Bookshelf recently posted..Book Review: And Both Were Young by Madeline L’Engle
Yes, you and I have to agree to disagree on that one! But at least we agree on fun bloggers 🙂
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Haha, I love the gif! I have only read a couple of these books but I absolutely LOVED them and I’m sure I would enjoy some of the others on your list, so I’ll definitely have to check them out. Thanks for sharing!
Steph @ SteppingOutOfThePage.co.uk
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The Fault in Our Stars and The Book Thief are both fabulous! Haven’t read quite a few of these, but they are on my wishlist.
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Oooh I love your list! I have a few on there that I still need to read – And I can’t wait until Defiance comes out! 🙂
Normally I don’t like gifs, but I love that JVDB image hahah
Brittany @ The Book Addict’s Guide recently posted..Top Ten Tuesday – August 21, 2012
How can you NOT like a Van Der Meme?
TheHouseworkCanWait recently posted..Top Ten Tuesday (August 21) – Best Books Since I’ve Been Blogging
Ok, James Van Der Memes is pretty much the best thing I’ve ever seen. No joke.
And I agree with you about blogging, I’ve found some pretty great books I otherwise would have no idea about had it not been for all the wonderful book blogs out there.
I’ve only read half of the books on your list but I’m pretty sure the other half are already on my TBR list, so nicely done! I’m most looking forward to Defiance and The False Prince.
Thanks for sharing 🙂
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I’ve only read two of the books you listed—THE BOOK THIEF and THE MAZE RUNNER. The former is one of my all-time favorites and I thought the latter was entertaining, even though the writing was just so-so. There are several on your list I’ve been meaning to read and a couple I hadn’t heard of, so thanks for the recommendations!
So glad to have found your blog 🙂
I honestly couldn’t tell you the quality of the writing in The Maze Runner, because I was SO ENGROSSED in the story and characters. I seriously felt like I held my breath for that entire book. And The Book Thief — oh heavens. I was NOT PRETTY when I finished that book. Not. At. All.
Thanks for stopping by!
Great list! We have some in common, and you have several that almost made my list! Too many books to choose from!
Karis @YA Litwit
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Karis (YA Litwit) recently posted..Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Favorite Books I’ve Read Since I Started Blogging
You’ve read Crown of Embers already? How exciting! I can’t wait to read your review of it.
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Yes, and it’s WONDERFUL. I loved it even more than GoFaT. Review will be up in a couple weeks 🙂
TheHouseworkCanWait recently posted..Top Ten Tuesday (August 21) – Best Books Since I’ve Been Blogging
Oooohhhh.. I have Pushing the Limits to read! Can’t wait to start it. Received it from NetGalley, it was my first request and I was accepted. Very exciting. 🙂
Christine
Rainy Day Reads
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I read the NetGalley version too. The only weird thing about that version is that while the story is told from 2 POVs, the NG version won’t tell you when they switch. There’s not even a line break. They just switch. It can get a little disconcerting, but the quality of the book more than makes up for it.
Great list! I’ve read about a third of them and the rest are on my TBR list! Your little graphic of our buddy James dancing made me chuckle! My TTT is here. Happy Tuesday! 😀
I have had The Fault in Our Stars on my iPad forever and have always put it on the back burner of my TBR list. I have got to get on it!
You DO! You will be glad you did 🙂
Great choices. The Book Thief holds a special place in my heart, as it was the book I got to pass out at World Book Night 2012.
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Great list! The Fault in our Stars is on mine as well :), and I’ve been meaning to read The Book Thief and Defiance for a while now.
Here’s Mine
Becky @ Cardigans, Coffee and Bookmarks recently posted..Top Ten Favorite Books Read During the Lifespan of Our Blog
The Maze Runner is next on my to-be-read list and after your review, I think I may be headed for the bookstore.
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Love your post. I’ll admit I have read exactly none of the books on your list, but “The False Print” looks interesting.
I’m actually an author as well as a blogger. Looking for good readers to let me know their thoughts on my work or the work of my fellow authors. If you’re at all interested, I’d be willing to supply a digital copy of one of our novels. Pick one out at engenbooks.com if interested. I write YA thrillers.
Again, love the post.
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