Favorite Books of 2021

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Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Best Books I Read In 2021. I'm looking forward to discovering some amazing books today. I'm cheating and going with lucky number 13.

Root Magic by Eden Royce {Review of Root Magic}

Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire {Review of Across the Green Grass Fields}

A Complex Accident of Life by Jessica McHugh {Review of A Complex Accident of Life}

Thirteens by Kate Alice Marshall {Review of Thirteens}

A Collection of Dreamscapes by Christina Sng

Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon {Review of Hide and Seeker}

Séance Tea Party by Reimena Yee

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill

Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton {Review of Feral Creatures}

Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff {Review of Too Bright to See}

Later by Stephen King

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker {Review of We Begin at the End}

I'm sad to see I didn't review so many of my favorites! It was a tough year.

Let me know if you've read any of my favorites, and please feel free to leave me a link to your favorites of 2021!

Favorite Books of 2020

I normally break my favorites of the year into my top favorite book of each genre. This is year I'm going to do things differently because it's too hard. This was an amazing reading year, and I'm just going to list all of my favorite books in the order that I read them!

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens {read review}

Inside a Marathon by Scott Fauble, Ben Rosario {read review}

The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson {read review}

Where the Woods End by Charlotte Salter {read review}

Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner

Little Darlings by Melanie Golding

The Apocalyptic Mannequin by Stephanie M. Wytovich {read review}

Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall {read review}

Blood Countess (Lady Slayers #1) by Lana Popović {read review}

Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) by Leigh Bardugo {read review}

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody

The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3) by Brandon Sanderson

The Midnight Lullaby by Cheryl Low {read review}

Women's Weird: Strange Stories by Women, 1890-1940 edited by Melissa Edmundson {read review}

Horrid by Katrina Leno {read review}

Long Bright River by Liz Moore

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson {read review}

The Girl and the Ghost by Hanna Alkaf {read review}

Ghost Squad by Claribel A. Ortega {read review}

Be Wary of the Silent Woods (The Weirn Books #1) by Svetlana Chmakova

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

Thank you for all of the support and friendship this past year! Let me know if you've read any of my favorites, and please feel free to leave me a link to your favorites of 2020!

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My Favorite Books of 2019

2019 was such an amazing reading year. These are my favorite books that I read this year:

Favorite Horror Novel

Character driven horror is my favorite horror. Violet by Scott Thomas is a beautifully written, slow burn of a novel, and I just loved it.

Favorite Horror Novella

If you love coming of age horror, I highly recommend Chad Lutzke's Of Foster Homes and Flies. I hope to discover more of Lutzke's works in 2020.

Favorite YA Horror

I would love more books set in the world of Wilder Girls, but I'm looking forward to anything Rory Wilder writes in the future. This was an amazing debut.

Favorite Fantasy Novel

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton is a fantasy, scifi, horror mashup that follows a crow and a dog through a zombie apocalypse. There is so much to love here!!

Favorite Fantasy Novella

Ormeshadow by Priya Sharma is a beautiful and heartbreaking coming of age fantasy novella. Priya Sharma is another author I will need to read more of in 2020.

Favorite YA Fantasy

In An Absent Dream by Seanan McGuire is my favorite Wayward Children book so far. I can't wait for book 5 next week!

Favorite MG Fantasy

I loved the entire Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull this year.

Favorite Science Fiction Novel

I seriously hope Blake Crouch keeps writing the style of science fiction he gave us in Dark Matter and Recursion. I am here for the fun science fiction that breaks my brain a little!

Favorite Science Fiction Novella

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers felt like it was written just for me.

Favorite YA Science Fiction

Brandon Sanderson. How does he do it?! The Skyward series is so much fun.

Favorite Mystery/Thriller Novel

If you love both horror and thrillers, I highly recommend Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly. It's brutal, and it's fun.

Favorite Historical Fiction Novel

I'm so glad I took a chance on The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag (translated by Ebba Segerberg). It was a very dark, compelling read.

Favorite Fiction Collection

I really love the Exploring Dark Short Fiction series, and A Primer to Kaaron Warren was so good.

Favorite Poetry Collection

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Choking Back the Devil is a collection of horror poetry by Donna Lynch, and I loved it!

Favorite Nonfiction

My favorite nonfiction this year was Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson. I loved reading this, and I have so many books I need to hunt down now and read due to recommendations in Monster, She Wrote.

Honorable Mentions

These books were also five star reads and could easily be placed in my list of favorites.

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
The Institute by Stephen King

Have you read any of the books that made my favorites list this year? If you've posted your favorites list for the year, I would love for you to leave me a link!