Happy New Year! I just know that 2014 is going to be a great year!
My new year's resolution in 2012 was to read 50 books, which I did, but I decided I wasn't going to have a reading resolution in 2013. I did want to keep track of what I read, because what can I say, I like lists!
- Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl*
- Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
- Gorgeous by Paul Rudnick
- The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson
- City of Bones by Cassandra Clare*
- Just One Day by Gayle Forman
- Captain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers by Dav Piley
- Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
- All You Never Wanted by Adele Griffin
- See Jane Write: A Girl's Guide to Writing Chick Lit by Sarah Mlynowski and Farrin Jacobs
- Save the Cat by Blake Snyder
- Invisibility by Andrea Cremer and David Levithan
- Bond Girl by Erin Duffy
- Legend by Marie Lu*
- Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
- Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by EL Konigsburg*
- Open Road Summer by Emery Lord (coming April 15, 2014)
- Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
- The Lonely Hearts Club by me (there's a reason I had to re-read it!)
- Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walters
- Exile by Kevin Emerson (coming April 29, 2014)
- When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle*
- Ink is Thicker Than Water by Amy Spalding
- Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
- Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block*
- The Chapel Wars by Lindsey Leavitt (coming May 6, 2014)
- United We Spy by Ally Carter
- Just One Year by Gayle Forman
- The Lucy Variations by Sara Zarr*
- Rotten by Michael Northrup
- The Darkest Path by Jeff Hirsch
- We Were Liars by E. Lockhart (coming May 13, 2014)
- Only Everything by Kieran Scott (coming May 6, 2014)
- Life by Committee by Corey Ann Haydu (coming May 13, 2014)
- Noggin by John Corey Whaley (coming April 8, 2014)
- The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith (coming April 15, 2014)
*denotes book club book
I'm not going to single out any particular book because I loved so many of these books. But I do have to say that I can't even get over how many AMAZING books are coming out in April and May. Every single one of them is truly wonderful, and I was honored to give blurbs to a few (Exile, Open Road Summer, The Chapel Wars, Only Everything, and Life by Committee). All of the spring books deserve to be put on your spring to-read list (along with Better Off Friends, of course). ;-)
It'll be interesting to see how many books I read this year, I'm starting off by reading Kate Atkinson's Life After Life. What's on your to-read pile for 2014?
Happy reading! Elizabeth