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I don't expect to finish any more books this year, so I'm ready to call it now :-)

Not counting rereads or novel-length fanfics - my top ten of 2023.


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This was a surprisingly difficult list to make, as I've reread a LOT, and I never count rereads for these lists. And unfortunately, when it comes to new reads, it's been a bit of a 'meh' reading year this year. But fortunately I did find some new reads that were absolutely outstanding, and became instant favourites.


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I haven't done one of those in ages, but I loved this topic, so here goes :-D

My Top Ten Favourite Bookish Settings... if a book takes place in one of those settings, I'm likely to pick it up based on that alone.

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Deciding on my top 10 books was really difficult this year, as I've been rereading a LOT. Thanks to COVID I was in more need of comfort books than usual and therefore had very little patience with new books (and even less with new authors!), so I've been rereading a lot more than usual. Fortunately I still managed to find some really awesome new ( Read more... )

... granted, some of these might be NA... I'm not always entirely sure where the line goes. I'm trying to stick with straight YA rather than YA-fantasy/YA-dystopian etc. or the list would have looked very different.

In no particular order...


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The 10 (*cough*11*cough*) best books I've read in 2019.

In no particular order....

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(Sooo.... I wrote this 20 days ago and then forgot to post it! Go figure :-P Though I'm a bit late in posting this, I'll still limit myself to books read the first 6 months of the year (so no Audrey Faye... yet ( Read more... )

It's been a good year, reading-wise, and I had a real hard time limiting myself to just 10 books.

But these are the best of the best, the books that moved me the most, and the books I'm most likely to reread and recommend to others.


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This week That Artsy Reader Girl asks us about bookish items we'd like to own.

Compiling this list was LOTS of fun (couldn't limit myself to 10 this time!) and definitely gave me some ideas of things I might have to add to my wishlist this Christmas! :-D

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