December Top Five

Happy (almost) New Year! I'm so grateful for another great year of reading and blogging and just bookish things in general. I've read 118-119 books this year - that I've tracked. It's even more if you count the books for school and the books I've read for work. But before I go into the best of December, here are some of my favorite moments on the blog this year.

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Best Books of 2013 

It's been a weird reading year - I feel a little like I read a lot of mediocre books, but maybe that's because the books that were amazing were so amazing that all else paled in comparison. I've read two books this year that immediately entered into my favorite books ever and I know I'll always hold them dear to me - so Just One Day by Gayle Forman and Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell tie for my favorite book this year. The rest of my top reads of 2013 can be found here.

Also this was a great year for NA! Here are my top 10 NA of the year. Although, hands down, Sweet Thing by Renee Carlino was my top NA book this year.

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Best Posts of 2013

 Honestly, I don't know that anything can beat Jackie's post: When My Boyfriend Read Divergent by Veronica Roth.

Also, I love the Vote for Garrick post I put together for the NA Crush Tourney. I had so much fun advocating for Garrick from Losing It by Cora Carmack. There's just so much awesome British and hot guys with cats goodness to fawn over.

And of course, Jackie and I have had a few discussions on NA. Jackie talks brilliantly about why NA is relevant here and I muse on the new trend of writing the same novel from a different point of view here.

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And now on to my top five reads in December.

1. These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

This is the kind of science fiction I want to read. A beautiful world, compelling characters and intense situations all make for a fabulous novel. This made my top ten of the year. 

2. Foreplay by Sophie Jordan

I resisted this book because of the title, but I had it recommended to me so many times I picked it up. And I'm convinced that Sophie Jordan wants me to stop breathing because she seems to know exactly how to write characters and situations that take my breath away. This was one of my top ten NA novels this year. 

3. Rush Me by Allison Parr

I was totally surprised by how much I liked this book. It's bursting with personality and it's quite charming, actually. I found this one made it onto my top ten NA of the year as well. 

4. Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi

I am so in love with the characters in this series, it was quite bittersweet to see their story come to a close. All I have to say is - Roar is real, right? We can be friends, right? 

5. Jet by Jay Crownover

I put this one off because I loved Rule so much - which is something that totally makes sense if you're in my head. As it turns out, Jet is just as intense and awesome as Rule is and I may like Ayden even more than Shaw. 

What were your top reads this month?