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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

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