Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten 2015 Releases

This week, The Broke and the Bookish is asking for the Top Ten Books I’m excited for in 2015. Ummm I have a feeling I won’t be able to contain this to a top ten…

 

1. Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman
2. I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
3. FAIREST by Marissa Meyer
4. The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
5. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
6. I Was Here by Gayle Forman
7. WINTER by Marissa Meyer
8. Winds of Winter by George R.R. Martin
9. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
10. The Winner’s Crime by Marie Rutkoski
11. THE RAVEN CYCLE #4 by Maggie Stiefvater
12. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
13. The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West
14. A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
15. Golden Son by Pierce Brown
16. Salt and Stone by Victoria Scott
17. Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
18. The Vanishing Throne by Elizabeth May
19. Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
20. The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente
21. The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
22. Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
23. We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach
24. Tonight the Streets are Ours by Leila Sales
25. Armada by Ernest Cline

 

I had to stop looking at 2015 releases once I got to 33 books and then edited the list down even more from there – and it was super hard! Basically, if these were the only books I read in 2015 I would call it a success because they are all extremely important sequels or standalones/starts of new series from authors I love or debuts that sound amazing or just plain ol’ GIVE IT TO ME NOW books.

Top Ten Tuesday: Most Owned Authors

This week, The Broke and the Bookish is talking about the authors we own the most books from. I’m going strictly by physical books, because I’m too lazy to go through my kindle books, but I don’t think it would change things too much. Since really all it takes is for an author to write a trilogy plus one other book to be included on this list, there is a distinct lack of YA because I either don’t own the full trilogy, or I own too many trilogies to include them all. These are all the authors that I own more than a trilogies worth of books.

1. Neil Gaiman – 18 – I’m counting the Sandman graphic novels
2. JK Rowling – 8 – Harry Potter + The Beetle and the Bard
3. Margaret Atwood – 7
4. Megan McCafferty – 5
5. Kurt Vonnegut – 5
6. Libba Bray – 5
7. John Steinbeck – 5: When I moved to Salinas/Monterey I went a little Steinbeck crazy trying to immerse myself in the town. It was the first place I’d ever lived that wasn’t the place I grew up, so I went a bit overboard. Plus, I love Steinbeck. I read The Grapes of Wrath in high school and briefly thought about becoming a long haul trucker.
8. George RR Martin – 5
9. Tom Robbins – 5
10. Laurie Notaro – 4
11. Catherynne M Valente – 4

 

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books When You Need Something Light & Fun

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This week, The Broke and the Bookish is asking for the Top Ten Books When You Need Something Light & Fun.

1. Humor essays: David Sedaris, Jen Lancaster, Laurie Notaro, Sloane Crosley

2. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

3. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

4. Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins

5. The Harry Potter Series

6. The Hunger Games trilogy

7. Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour by Morgan Matson

8. Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

9. Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Authors I’d Auto-Buy

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

This week, The Broke and the Bookish want to know the “Top Ten Authors That I’d Put On My Auto-Buy List (basically an auto-buy list is no questions asked..you love this author so much that no matter what they wrote next you’d buy regardless of genre or subject matter)”.

1. Neil Gaiman: my favorite author and one of my favorite humans.
2. Laurie Notaro: I must clarify: I will auto-buy any of Notaro’s memoirs. I did auto-buy her fiction book, but I didn’t enjoy it. It’s for the same reason I’m not going to read Jen Lancaster’s fiction: I know which details they’re pulling from their own lives and I prefer it from their personal voice or perspective or whatever.
3. Megan McCafferty: While I could read about Marcus and Jessica and their lives until they die of extreeeeeeemely old age, I’m probably in the minority. I can’t wait for Jessica Darling’s It-List #1. And Bumped, which was an auto-buy, but for some reason never an auto-read.
4. Gayle Forman: I didn’t love If I Stay and Where She Went, but Just One Day and today’s release of an excerpt from Just One Year…I’m sold.
5. Elizabeth Wein: I thought Code Name Verity was so strong, I will auto-buy everything else she writes. Historic fiction always throws me off, because it’s not really my thing – in my head everything before 1950 looks like the wild west.
6. Libba Bray: I love Libba’s voice. I mention historic fiction above, but historic fiction with a supernatural element? Watch out world, Libba’s done it. The Diviners? More like The DIVINE-ers. Beauty Queens is a national treasure, ya’ll. She is equally as fabulous on her twitter.
7. Stephanie Perkins: Perfection. All of her characters are so different and fully formed, I’m just amazed. Definitely auto-buying Isla and the Happily Ever After. And everything that comes after that.
8. Erin Morgenstern: Like Code Name: Verity, I thought The Night Circus was so fantastic I could scream, but I didn’t because I’m a quiet person. Instead, I will buy everything else she puts out, quiet squealing and rolling around and being extremely embarrassing.
9. Veronica Rossi: This was a battle of the Veronicas for me because I love Roth’s Divergent (erm…Four) SO MUCH, and while they are both auto-buys for me, I just want to gush about Rossi. The Under the Never Sky series (is that what we’re calling it?) blows me away. The entire world that’s been built, the amazing characters, the smoochies…
10. John Green: Green is not a consistent 5-star author for me. Actually, only The Fault in Our Stars has that distinction. The boy-wants-girl books are great, have some terrific writing (who doesn’t love the bit about the drizzle and the hurricane??), but the manic pixie dream girl thing is what holds him back for me. He gets it close enough to be an auto-buy, but I’m hoping TFiOS is the mark of an upswing.