Book Club's Best of 2013 Picks

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

2013
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