A Year in Review 2013

Books That Made Me Laugh Out Loud:

Winger by Andrew Smith

A Big Guy Took My Ball by Mo Willems

Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea

New-To-Me Series That On One Hand I'm Glad To Have Found, But On The Other, I'm Seriously Horrified That I'd Missed Out On Until Now:

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Legend by Marie Lu

Sequel Happiness:

Shades of Earth by Beth Revis

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Impulse by Steven Gould

Book That Made Me Crave Food:

Fat Angie by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

Most Enjoyable Bad Book:

Breath by Sarah Crossan

Forgettable Plot Saved By a Fresh, Honest Voice: 

Splintered by A.G. Howard

Book(s) I Was Most Surprised By:

Homesick by Kate Klise

The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson

Made of Pure Awesome:

Codename Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

This Girl is Different by JJ Johnson

Fallout by Todd Strasser

Best Book Hidden Under the Worst Cover:

Below by Meg McKinlay

Impulse by Steven Gould

More Adorable Than Sparkling Puppies:

Robomop by Sean Taylor and Edel Rodriguez

Dream Animals by Emily Winfield Martin

YA Book Most Likely to be Loved By Adults More Than Actual YAs:

One + One = Blue by MJ Auch

Janie Face to Face by Caroline Cooney

Best Vampire Book for Twilight Haters:

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Biggest Disappointment: 

Fire by Kristin Cashore

Mister Max: The Book of Lost Things by Cynthia Voigt

The Eye of Minds by James Dashner

Books that Invoked Irrationally Violent Emotions in me:

Juvie by Steve Watkins

Fallout by Todd Strasser

Books I Loved For Their Imperfect Heroines:

Codename Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Fat Angie by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

Best Book For Wimpy Kid Lovers:

I Even Funnier: A Middle School Story (I Funny) by James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein

Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett by Tom Angleberger

Favorite Roadtrip Book:

Viva Jacquelina! By L.A. Meyer

Best Action/Adventure Book:

W.A.R.P. The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer

The Hostage Prince by Jane Yolen & Adam Stemple

Books that were weird just to be weird:

The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron

Sci-fi's that made me think there is still a future for this genre (future, get it):

Impulse by Steven Gould

Earthfall by Mark Walden

All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

Books I lent out to people multiple times:

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Worst Book of the Year:

Time Fetch by Amy Herrick

Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block