Another year, another 100 books added! I think that’s a nice reasonable goal to have. This year was the year of series. I read so many series. So many supernatural ones & I tried high fantasy but I’m still not completely onboard that genres. So let’s start this list
#10 The Upside of unrequited by Becky Albertalli. Cute & fluffy. A fast read & if you ever been a shy awkward mess around your crush. You will totally see yourself in Molly and love her to pieces!
#9 Kill the boy band by Goldy Moldavsky. This book is a dark comedy. It is very very dark People die dark. Yet if you ever been part of a fandom you would not be able to stop laughing. You probably know one or two people that will remind you of one characters.
#8 Saving June by Hannah Harrington. When your life falls apart you can’t fall apart with it. This is a story of a girl that goes on a cross country trip with her best friend & boy that’s practically a stranger. The goal is to reach California and spray her older sister ashes in the ocean. I should add a trigger warning: her sister commuted suicide & this story is about her dealing with her sister death. 
#7 one false move by Harlan Coben. This is book 6 in an ongoing series. Where you meet sports agent Myron Bolitar. He has now also become a reluctant detective and in this book a body guard. Both stories in this book had me from the beginning. The beautiful basketball player that needs protection but wants to be self sufficient. The disappearance of her father who once was Myron’s friend. The idea that her mother who disappeared years ago could be alive. The conclusion to this book broke me as much as Myron. He once again had to cross that grey area he lives in & I was as destroyed as he was. 
#6 Ready player one by Earnest Cline. A future where most people escaped their dreadful lives by living inside a virtual world where they can be anything they want to be. A reclusive 80’s loving millionaire that leaves his fortune to anyone that can solve a his game. A young boy that knows the only way his life can be better is if he wins the game. An evil corporation that will do anything to be the winners. All of these come together to make a very entertaining book. 
#5 Furthermore by Tahereh Mafi. Taking a bit from Alice in wonderland we get this gem of a book where a girl is born into a world full of color. Yet she no color herself. This makes her an oddity in her town and she embraces her uniqueness. That’s until her father goes missing, she messes up a very big test & the boy she hates the most ask her to join him in adventure where they can rescue her dad. This is a middle grade book, but it’s enjoyable for all ages. 
#4 Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong. This is book 10 in “The women of the underworld” series. It’s such a joy to see Elena finally put her ghost to rest ( or at least kick the crap out of them) & come into her powers. She’s now happily married, has 2 babies and is accepting that she will one day be the Alpha of her group. 
#3 Turtles all the way down by John Green. 
No one is more surprised by this than me. I have hated every single John Green book I’ve read before this one ( yes, I’ve read all but FIOS). This one got me, I could not put it down. It was uncomfortable to read at times but I kept reading. Mental illness are real & they are not pretty, they are not visible and they can’t alway be “fixed” and this book did a great job in getting the point across.
#2 The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner.
This book!!! It starts with a bang! The queen of Attolia has capture Eugenides and in order to pay him back for his actions in book 1. Well she does something horrible. What follows is a very interesting game between many countries that all want power! Politics but entertaining. Also never ever think our thief is defeated! Never
#1 On The Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta 
This book will hunt me for the rest of my life. I read it in the very beginning of the year & I never stopped talking about it. It’s not an easy book, it’s a bit depressing at times. It’s also magical, melancholic, stressful. It’s also beautiful and I love it. The story of a young girl in a small town in Australia. She is abandoned by her mother outside a store and taken in by a lady that at the beginning of the story also goes missing. To say she has abandonment issues will be an understatement. While searching for clues to the whereabouts of her guardian she finds a diary and begins to read it. So we get a story which Taylor has to decide if it’s fiction or nonfiction. Plus we also get a quirky town that has a territory war going on between the kids in town, the kids from the private school ( where Taylor attends) & the cadets that come to town every year to train. Yes it’s a lot going on but it’s beautifully woven together.
