Top Ten Books I Loved Best So Far This Year (54)

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Oh heyyyyy it's Top Ten Tuesday time! This week's topic is "Top Ten Books I've Read So Far This Year." (But obvs I retitled it because I'm sassy.) I have read an embarrassing 40 books so far this year (I moved slowly at the beginning of the year and I've slowed a bit recently) so I don't have that much to pick from. But I like to think I've been spending my time on books I really want to read instead of books I kinda sorta want to read. Because, y'know, I know what I like better now and have people telling me thoughts on books that I can apply to my life. (Friends of Goodreads, I love you.)

Anyway, I hope to read more - and faster - ASAP, but until then, here are the Ten (nay, eleven, since I included a sequel) Books I Loved Best So Far This Year.

PS: THANKS TO MY BEAUTIFUL, LOVELY, ALL KNOWING EPIC RECS PARTNER (LISA) FOR MAKING ME READ TWO OF THESE BOOKS.

1. A MONSTER CALLS by Patrick Ness

2. BRIGHT BEFORE SUNRISE by Tiffany Schmidt

3. THE ARCHIVED by Victoria Schwab

4. THE UNBOUND by Victoria Schwab

5. GRAVE MERCY by Robin LaFevers

6. PRISONER OF NIGHT AND FOG by Anne Blankman

7. SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE by Morgan Matson

8. THE GEOGRAPHY OF YOU AND ME by Jennifer E. Smith

9. FAR FROM YOU by Tess Sharpe

10. LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD by Ava Dellaira

11. ASK AGAIN LATER by Liz Czukas

I think it's worth noting that these books are all kinda different. I might put GEOGRAPHY, LOVE LETTERS, and SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE in the same-ish circle and, if only for tone alone, PRISONER and FAR FROM YOU. I also might throw GRAVE MERCY and THE ARCHIVED together because both of their plots are little out there (assassin, magical nuns in historic times and their friends, those who maintain the library of the dead). But it's really kind of a mixed bag. Which is mostly because I'm not the kind of person who likes just one genre or one tone. 

If you want more notes on the why, ask me in the comments below, because I'm pretty sure I've been slacking this year and have only written reviews for two of these. Oops. 

Anyway, that was just a disclaimer - a "if you like one on this list, don't necessarily read the others thinking they'll all be very similar" y'know?

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