Every year our book club compiles lists and categories of the best books we read together and on our own over the last year. I compile all our lists into one comprehensive list for your viewing pleasure.
Here they are...
Book Club's Best Of
Here they are...
Book Club's Best Of
2013
picks
picks
Best Books We Read Together This Year
Just Her Luck By Kelli Evans, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, and The Sleepwalkers by J. Gabriel Gates
Best Books We Read On Our Own This Year
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans, Sweet Talk by Julie Garwood, Sisters of the Quilt by Cindy Woodsmall, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin, and Slave by Sherri Hayes
The Books That Gave Us A New Perspective
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey & A Class Divided: Then and Now by William Peters
Honorable Mentions: When She Flew by Jennie Shortridge
The Book With The Ending You Didn't See Coming
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Honorable Mentions: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn & Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Most Suspenseful Book
The Sleepwalkers by J. Gabriel Gates
Honorable Mentions: Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell, Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, and Five Mile House by Karen Novak
The Steamiest Book
Just Her Luck by Kelli Evans
Honorable Mention: The Devil's Pawn by Elizabeth Finn
The Book That Made Us Laugh Out Loud
Just Her Luck by Kelli Evans
Honorable Mention: Getting Rid of Bradley by Jennifer Crusie
The Book That Brought Us To Tears
The Christmas Clock by Kat Martin
Honorable Mentions: Chasing Dreams by Kelli Evans, and Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
The Book We Couldn't Put Down
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Honorable Mentions: The Sleepwalkers by J. Gabriel Gates, A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, and The Oxford Project by Peter Feldstein
The Genre/Book That We Liked But Didn't Think We Would
YA Horror - The Sleepwalkers by J. Gabriel Gates, and Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Our Favorite Author This Year
Kelli Evans (I promise I don't pay them to say this.)
Honorable Mentions: Kelly Armstrong, Mary Higgins Clark, Robin Cook, Julie Garwood, Irene Hannon, and Crystal Jordan
An Author We Discovered We Liked This Year
Nicholas Sparks
Honorable Mention: Loribelle Hunt
And The Books We're Most Excited About This Year:
The Bible, Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, Unforgiven by Elizabeth Finn, It Had To Be You by Jill Shalvis, Hot Shot by Julie Garwood, and Playing With Fire by Kelli Evans
