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The topic this week is: favorite books released in the last ten years (one for each year). I love this idea, and may appropriate it for my 50th birthday this summer, choosing one for each year of my life. I'll be able to do that without repeating any of the books I chose this week because there is definitely more than one book I've loved in each of the last ten years!
It was SO HARD to choose just one, and I could easily make five alternate lists that are equally wonderful. But without overthinking it, here's my list. I'm using the publication date, not my read date.
2010 A Visit from the Goon Squad
2011 The Scorpio Races
2012 The Steel Seraglio
2013 Vicious
2014 How It Went Down
2015 You can't make me choose. Six of Crows. Orbiting Jupiter. Darker Shade of Magic. The War that Saved My Life. Challenger Deep. Drowned City. Made You Up. Every Last Word. Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Symphony for the City of the Dead. All American Boys. Most Dangerous. It was a banner year. And that's not even counting the picture books!
2016 The Serpent King
2017 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
2018 The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
2019 The Paragon Hotel
As hard as it was to choose, I feel good about the list overall. We've got middle grade, YA, and adult. Fantasy, historical fiction, realistic fiction. Graphic novels. Multiple narrators. Wildly popular books and a few odd ducks. It's a good representation of what I read.
It was SO HARD to choose just one, and I could easily make five alternate lists that are equally wonderful. But without overthinking it, here's my list. I'm using the publication date, not my read date.
2010 A Visit from the Goon Squad
2011 The Scorpio Races
2012 The Steel Seraglio
2013 Vicious
2014 How It Went Down
2015 You can't make me choose. Six of Crows. Orbiting Jupiter. Darker Shade of Magic. The War that Saved My Life. Challenger Deep. Drowned City. Made You Up. Every Last Word. Simon Vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Symphony for the City of the Dead. All American Boys. Most Dangerous. It was a banner year. And that's not even counting the picture books!
2016 The Serpent King
2017 Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
2018 The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
2019 The Paragon Hotel
As hard as it was to choose, I feel good about the list overall. We've got middle grade, YA, and adult. Fantasy, historical fiction, realistic fiction. Graphic novels. Multiple narrators. Wildly popular books and a few odd ducks. It's a good representation of what I read.