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Best Books of the Month Challenge | 2010
β� April
β� β� ββ½ The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O'Connor McNees
β� β� ββ½ I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells °Ϊβ]
β� β� ββ½ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
β� β� ββ½ Solar by Ian McEwan
β� β� ββ½ Lift by Kelly Corrigan
β� β� ββ½ Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan
β� May
β� β� ββ½ The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton
β� β� ββ½ Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost °Ϊβ]
β� β� ββ½ Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth
β� β� ββ½ The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
β� β� ββ½ Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky
β� β� ββ½ White Cat by Holly Black °Ϊβ]
β� June
β� β� ββ½ The Passage by Justin Cronin °Ϊβ]
β� β� ββ½ The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas °Ϊβ]
β� β� ββ½ The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender °Ϊβ]
β� β� ββ½ How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
β� β� ββ½ Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
β� β� ββ½ Sea by Heidi R. Kling
β� July
β� β� ββ½ The Blind Contessa's New Machine by Carey Wallace
β� β� ββ½ Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor
β� β� ββ½ Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch
β� β� ββ½ The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements by Sam Kean °Ϊβ]
β� β� ββ½ Kraken by China MiΓ©ville
β� β� ββ½ Shadow Hills by Anastasia Hopcus
β� August
β� β� ββ½ Juliet by Anne Fortier
β� β� ββ½ Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
β� β� ββ½ The Vanishing of Katharina Linden by Helen Grant °Ϊβ]
β� β� ββ½ Everything Is Going to Be Great: An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour by Rachel Shukert
β� β� ββ½ I Curse the River of Time by Per Petterson
β� β� ββ½ Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
β� September
β� β� ββ½ Room by Emma Donoghue {
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β� October
β� β� ββ½ The Bells by Richard Harvell
β� β� ββ½ At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
β� β� ββ½ The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart
β� β� ββ½ Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg
β� β� ββ½ By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
β� β� ββ½ Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King °Ϊβ]
β� November
β� β� ββ½ The Distant Hours by Kate Morton
β� β� ββ½ Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
β� β� ββ½ The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey by Walter Mosley
β� β� ββ½ The Autobiography of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
β� β� ββ½ The Instructions by Adam Levin
β� β� ββ½ The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
β� December
β� β� ββ½ The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
β� β� ββ½ As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto: Food, Friendship, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Joan Reardon °Ϊβ]
β� β� ββ½ An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
β� β� ββ½ Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
β� β� ββ½ How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown
β� β� ββ½ Matched by Ally Condie °Ϊβ]
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Best Books of the Month Challenge | 2011
β� January
β� ββ½ You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
β� ββ½ Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man's Best Friend by John Woestendiek
β� ββ½ Left Neglected by Lisa Genova
β� ββ½ The October Killings by Wessel Ebersohn °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
β� ββ½ Across the Universe by Beth Revis
β� February
β� ββ½ The Fates Will Find Their Way by Hannah Pittard °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Reading Women: How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life by Stephanie Staal °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore by Benjamin Hale
β� ββ½ Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan
β� ββ½ Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution by Michelle Moran °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Delirium by Lauren Oliver °Ϊβ]
β� March
β� ββ½ The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
β� ββ½ Townie by Andre Dubus III
β� ββ½ So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
β� ββ½ Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
β� ββ½ Moondogs by Alexander Yates °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys °Ϊβ]
β� April
β� ββ½ The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
β� ββ½ The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie by Wendy McClure
β� ββ½ Elizabeth I by Margaret George °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker
β� ββ½ Friendship Bread by Darien Gee
β� ββ½ Enclave by Ann Aguirre
β� May
β� ββ½ The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
β� ββ½ The White Devil by Justin Evans
β� ββ½ Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
β� ββ½ The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon
β� ββ½ Faith by Jennifer Haigh
β� ββ½ What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
β� June
β� ββ½ Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins
β� ββ½ Jamrach's Menagerie by Carol Birch
β� ββ½ Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading by Nina Sankovitch
β� ββ½ Joy for Beginners by Erica Bauermeister
β� ββ½ Hourglass by Myra McEntire
β� July
β� ββ½ The Map of Time by FΓ©lix J. Palma
β� ββ½ Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life by Sandra Beasley
β� ββ½ The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
β� ββ½ Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore
β� August
β� ββ½ Rules of Civility by Amor Towles °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier by Jim Davidson
β� ββ½ The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb by Melanie Benjamin
β� ββ½ The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation by Elizabeth Letts
β� ββ½ The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab
β� September
β� ββ½ The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King
β� ββ½ Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
β� ββ½ The Orchard by Theresa Weir
β� ββ½ We the Animals by Justin Torres °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake °Ϊβ]
β� October
β� ββ½ 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
β� ββ½ A Thousand Lives by Julia Scheeres
β� ββ½ When She Woke by Hillary Jordan °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Moonlight on Linoleum: A Daughter's Memoir by Terry Helwig
β� ββ½ The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
β� ββ½ The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson °Ϊβ]
β� November
β� ββ½ The Time in Between by MarΓa DueΓ±as
β� ββ½ 11/22/63 by Stephen King °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Blue Nights by Joan Didion
β� ββ½ The Boy in the Suitcase by Lene KaaberbΓΈl °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
β� ββ½ The Sharp Time by Mary O'Connell °Ϊβ]
β� December
β� ββ½ MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search For A New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche
β� ββ½ 420 Characters by Lou Beach
β� ββ½ The Thirteen Hallows by Michael Scott & Colette Freedman °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City - Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages by Catharine Arnold
β� ββ½ Scars by Juan JosΓ© Saer
β� ββ½ Legend by Marie Lu °Ϊβ]
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Best Books of the Month Challenge | 2012
β� January
β� ββ½ American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar
β� ββ½ Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World by Sam Sommers
β� ββ½ The Crown by Nancy Bilyeau
β� ββ½ The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Fault in Our Stars by John Green °Ϊβ]
β� February
β� ββ½ No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Conundrum by Jan Morris
β� ββ½ Defending Jacob by William Landay
β� ββ½ Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile by Julia Fox °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ A Good American by Alex George
β� ββ½ Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
β� March
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β� ββ½ Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed {
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β� April
β� ββ½ Strange Flesh by Michael Olson °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
β� ββ½ Two Rings: A Story of Love and War by Millie Werber
β� ββ½ The Good Father by Diane Chamberlain
β� ββ½ Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris
β� May
β� ββ½ Home by Toni Morrison
β� ββ½ Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China by Paul French
β� ββ½ In One Person by John Irving
β� ββ½ This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike. by Augusten Burroughs °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Solitary House by Lynn Shepherd
β� ββ½ Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
β� June
β� ββ½ The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
β� ββ½ Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate Summerscale
β� ββ½ Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson
β� ββ½ The World Without You by Joshua Henkin
β� ββ½ Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo °Ϊβ]
β� July
β� ββ½ Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann
β� ββ½ Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures by Lawrence Anthony
β� ββ½ The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows by Brian Castner
β� ββ½ The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Insignia by S.J. Kincaid
β� August
β� ββ½ Dare Me by Megan Abbott
β� ββ½ Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted by Eric Nuzum
β� ββ½ The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
β� ββ½ Winter Journal by Paul Auster
β� ββ½ The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
β� ββ½ Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas °Ϊβ]
β� September
β� ββ½ The Cutting Season by Attica Locke
β� ββ½ My Berlin Kitchen: A Love Story (with Recipes) by Luisa Weiss
β� ββ½ The White Forest by Adam McOmber °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss
β� ββ½ The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu/topic/show/...#
β� ββ½ Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff °Ϊβ]
β� October
β� ββ½ Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan {
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β� November
β� ββ½ Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
β� ββ½ Heads in Beds: A Reckless Memoir of Hotels, Hustles, and So-Called Hospitality by Jacob Tomsky
β� ββ½ The Confidant by HΓ©lΓ¨ne GrΓ©millon
β� ββ½ A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi by Aman Sethi
β� ββ½ The Shortest Way Home by Juliette Fay
β� ββ½ Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill
β� December
β� ββ½ A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts by Sebastian Faulks
β� ββ½ Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
β� ββ½ The Emperor's Conspiracy by Michelle Diener
β� ββ½ Mastery by Robert Greene
β� ββ½ The Valley of Unknowing by Philip Sington
β� ββ½ The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken °Ϊβ]
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Best Books of the Month Challenge | 2013
β� January
β� ββ½ Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey
β� ββ½ The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower
β� ββ½ The Death of Bees by Lisa O'Donnell °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Chanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless
β� ββ½ The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon
β� ββ½ The Archived by Victoria Schwab °Ϊβ]
β� February
β� ββ½ The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by Teddy Wayne
β� ββ½ Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre
β� ββ½ The House Girl by Tara Conklin
β� ββ½ Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman
β� ββ½ Man in the Empty Suit by Sean Ferrell °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Madmanβs Daughter by Megan Shepherd
β� March
β� ββ½ A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Lessons in French by Hilary Reyl
β� ββ½ Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel
β� ββ½ by William Kent Krueger
β� ββ½ If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch
β� April
β� ββ½ The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius by Kristine Barnett
β� ββ½ The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer
β� ββ½ Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff
β� ββ½ The Perfect Ghost by Linda Barnes
β� ββ½ The Collector by Victoria Scott
β� May
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β� ββ½ The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey {
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β� ββ½ The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville by Clare Mulley
β� ββ½ The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
β� ββ½ Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm by Mardi Jo Link
β� ββ½ We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
β� ββ½ When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney
β� July
β� ββ½ The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian
β� ββ½ The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese by Michael Paterniti
β� ββ½ & Sons by David Gilbert
β� ββ½ Mother Daughter Me by Katie Hafner
β� ββ½ The Curiosity by Stephen P. Kiernan
β� ββ½ The Distance Between Us by Kasie West
β� August
β� ββ½ The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker
β� ββ½ The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
β� ββ½ The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
β� ββ½ The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman
β� ββ½ The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider
β� September
β� ββ½ Rivers by Michael Farris Smith
β� ββ½ Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones
β� ββ½ Help for the Haunted by John Searles
β� ββ½ Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman
β� ββ½ Nine Inches: Stories by Tom Perrotta
β� ββ½ Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell °Ϊβ]
β� October
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β� November
β� ββ½ Hild by Nicola Griffith
β� ββ½ Anything That Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture by Dana Goodyear °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson
β� ββ½ The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend by Bob Drury
β� ββ½ Where the Moon Isn't by Nathan Filer °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
β� December
β� ββ½ Morning Glory by Sarah Jio
β� ββ½ Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World by Alison Weir
β� ββ½ The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi
β� ββ½ The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran by Hooman Majd
β� ββ½ The Housemaid's Daughter by Barbara Mutch
β� ββ½ These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
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Best YA Books of the Month Challenge | 2013
β� June
β� ββ½ When You Were Here by Daisy Whitney
β� ββ½ Belle Epoque by Elizabeth Ross
β� ββ½ Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn
β� ββ½ Linked by Imogen Howson
β� ββ½ Ashes on the Waves by Mary Lindsey
β� ββ½ In the After by Demitria Lunetta
β� July
β� ββ½ Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike
β� ββ½ Prep School Confidential by Kara Taylor
β� ββ½ Viral Nation by Shaunta Grimes
β� ββ½ 45 Pounds by K.A. Barson °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ SYLO by D.J. MacHale
β� August
β� ββ½ Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea April Genevieve Tucholke
β� ββ½ Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
β� ββ½ Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick
β� ββ½ Out of Play by Nyrae Dawn
β� ββ½ Gated Amy Christine Parker
β� September
β� ββ½ All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ More Than This by Patrick Ness
β� ββ½ Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell °Ϊβ]
β� October
β� ββ½ Red by Alison Cherry °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Reality Boy by A.S. King °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Tandem by Anna Jarzab °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ How to Love by Katie Cotugno
β� November
β� ββ½ The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
β� ββ½ After Eden by Helen Douglas
β� ββ½ The F- It List by Julie Halpern
β� ββ½ This Wicked Game by Michelle Zink °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Hostage Three by Nick Lake °Ϊβ]
β� December
β� ββ½ These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Racing Savannah by Miranda Kenneally
β� ββ½ Pawn by Aimee Carter
β� ββ½ Roomies by Sara Zarr
β� ββ½ Fireblood by Trisha Wolfe
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Best Books of the Month Challenge | 2014
β� January
β� ββ½ I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby by Sarah Churchwell °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Ascendant by Drew Chapman
β� ββ½ Ham: Slices of a Life: Essays and Stories by Sam Harris
β� ββ½ This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Red Rising by Pierce Brown °Ϊβ]
β� February
β� ββ½ The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick
β� ββ½ Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness by Neil Swidey
β� ββ½ Archetype by M.D. Waters
β� ββ½ Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
β� ββ½ A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger
β� ββ½ Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott
β� March
β� ββ½ The Lost Sisterhood by Anne Fortier
β� ββ½ Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Michael Gibney
β� ββ½ The Enchanted by Rene Denfeld
β� ββ½ The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris by Tilar J. Mazzeo
β� ββ½ The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh
β� ββ½ The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski °Ϊβ]
β� April
β� ββ½ The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Year of No Sugar by Eve O. Schaub °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis by Thomas Goetz
β� ββ½ The Intern's Handbook by Shane Kuhn °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira
β� May
β� ββ½ All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
β� ββ½ The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames by Kai Bird
β� ββ½ The Three by Sarah Lotz
β� ββ½ Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg
β� ββ½ An Untamed State by Roxane Gay °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ We Were Liars by E. Lockhart °Ϊβ]
β� June
β� ββ½ Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
β� ββ½ The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra by Helen Rappaport °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
β� ββ½ The Truth About Alice by Jennifer Mathieu
β� July
β� ββ½ The Hundred-Year House by Rebecca Makkai °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
β� ββ½ California by Edan Lepucki
β� ββ½ Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by Robert L. O'Connell
β� ββ½ The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob
β� ββ½ Midnight Thief by Livia Blackburne
β� August
β� ββ½ The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton Sides
β� ββ½ The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
β� ββ½ Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: A Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family by Kathleen Flinn
β� ββ½ We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas
β� ββ½ The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan
β� September
β� ββ½ Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
β� ββ½ The Children Act by Ian McEwan
β� ββ½ The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
β� ββ½ Wolf in White Van by John Darnielle °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson °Ϊβ]
β� October
β� ββ½ Some Luck by Jane Smiley
β� ββ½ The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
β� ββ½ You by Caroline Kepnes °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans by Gary Krist
β� ββ½ Nora Webster by Colm TΓ³ibΓn
β� ββ½ The Fall by Bethany Griffin °Ϊβ]
β� November
β� ββ½ The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Mermaids in Paradise by Lydia Millet
β� ββ½ Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
β� ββ½ My Sister's Grave by Robert Dugoni
β� ββ½ Compulsion by Martina Boone °Ϊβ]
β� December
β� ββ½ How to Be Both by Ali Smith
β� ββ½ Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder
β� ββ½ Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter
β� ββ½ The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
β� ββ½ No Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown
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Best YA Books of the Month Challenge | 2014
β� January
β� ββ½ Red Rising by Pierce Brown °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller
β� ββ½ Uninvited by Sophie Jordan °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
β� ββ½ Afterparty by Ann Redisch Stampler
β� February
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β� ββ½ To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Pointe by Brandy Colbert °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. Jensen
β� ββ½ Noggin by John Corey Whaley
β� May
β� ββ½ Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Free to Fall by Lauren Miller
β� ββ½ After the End by Amy Plum °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Dark World by Cara Lynn Shultz
β� ββ½ The Art of Lainey by Paula Stokes
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β� January
β� ββ½ The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy
β� ββ½ The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton
β� ββ½ A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France by Miranda Richmond Mouillot
β� ββ½ The Same Sky by Amanda Eyre Ward
β� ββ½ All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven °Ϊβ]
β� February
β� ββ½ The Marauders by Tom Cooper
β� ββ½ The Bird Market of Paris: A Memoir by Nikki Moustaki
β� ββ½ A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power by Paul Fischer
β� ββ½ Rodin's Lover by Heather Webb
β� ββ½ My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga °Ϊβ]
β� March
β� ββ½ Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
β� ββ½ Life from Scratch: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Forgiveness by Sasha Martin
β� ββ½ Life or Death by Michael Robotham
β� ββ½ Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives by Gretchen Rubin
β� ββ½ A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
β� ββ½ Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee °Ϊβ]
β� April
β� ββ½ Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian
β� ββ½ The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year by Matt McCarthy
β� ββ½ Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn
β� ββ½ Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Day We Met by Rowan Coleman
β� ββ½ An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir °Ϊβ]
β� May
β� ββ½ Girl at War by Sara NoviΔ
β� ββ½ The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
β� ββ½ Little Black Lies by Sharon J. Bolton
β� ββ½ The Ingenious Mr Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy by Henry Hemming
β� ββ½ The Mapmaker's Children by Sarah McCoy
β� ββ½ A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas °Ϊβ]
β� June
β� ββ½ The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
β� ββ½ The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey by Rinker Buck
β� ββ½ A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
β� ββ½ Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado
β� ββ½ Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
β� ββ½ More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera °Ϊβ]
β� July
β� ββ½ Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
β� ββ½ Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
β� ββ½ Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
β� ββ½ Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
β� ββ½ The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Paperweight by Meg Haston °Ϊβ]
β� August
β� ββ½ Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
β� ββ½ Rising Strong by BrenΓ© Brown
β� ββ½ Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Heaberlin
β� ββ½ Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro on the Brink by Juliana Barbassa
β� ββ½ Orphan Number Eight by Kim van Alkemade
β� ββ½ Legacy of Kings by Eleanor Herman °Ϊβ]
β� September
β� ββ½ Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt
β� ββ½ Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
β� ββ½ Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
β� ββ½ Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President, and the Rise of the Drone by Scott Shane
β� ββ½ Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo °Ϊβ]
β� October
β� ββ½ The Tears of Dark Water by Corban Addison
β� ββ½ The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Marie Eatwell
β� ββ½ The Hours Count by Jillian Cantor
β� ββ½ Home is Burning by Dan Marshall
β� ββ½ Smoke by Catherine McKenzie
β� ββ½ Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin °Ϊβ]
β� November
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β� ββ½ Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Leah Remini
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β� December
β� ββ½ The Age of Reinvention by Karine Tuil
β� ββ½ The Short Drop by Matthew FitzSimmons
β� ββ½ MΓ©dicis Daughter: A Novel of Marguerite de Valois by Sophie Perinot
β� ββ½ Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History by Saul David
β� ββ½ Bandersnatch: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings by Diana Pavlac Glyer
β� ββ½The Anatomical Shape of a Heart by Jenn Bennett °Ϊβ]
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β� February
β� ββ½ This Side of Home by RenΓ©e Watson
β� ββ½ Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Last Leaves Falling by Fox Benwell
β� ββ½ City of Savages by Lee Kelly °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga °Ϊβ]
β� April
β� ββ½ An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Secrets We Keep by Trisha Leaver
β� ββ½ The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey
β� ββ½ In a World Just Right by Jen Brooks
β� November
β� ββ½ The Anatomical Shape of a Heart by Jenn Bennett °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Until We Meet Again by Renee Collins
β� ββ½ For the Record by Charlotte Huang
β� ββ½ Hello? by Liza M. Wiemer °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Forget Tomorrow by Pintip Dunn
β� December
β� ββ½ This Raging Light by Estelle Laure °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Blood, Ink & Fire by Ashley Mansour °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Inherit the Stars by Tessa Elwood °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Thicker Than Water by Brigid Kemmerer
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β� January
β� ββ½ The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth
β� ββ½ The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir by Ruth Wariner °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Fallen Land by Taylor Brown °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ In a Different Key: The Story of Autism by John Donvan
β� ββ½ The Good Goodbye by Carla Buckley
β� ββ½ The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry °Ϊβ]
β� February
β� ββ½ Sudden Death by Γlvaro Enrigue
β� ββ½ My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir by Chris Offutt
β� ββ½ A Criminal Magic by Lee Kelly °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness by Eli Sanders °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Try Not to Breathe by Holly Seddon
β� ββ½ Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
β� March
β� ββ½ The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman
β� ββ½ Adulthood Is a Myth by Sarah Andersen °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Shelter by Jung Yun
β� ββ½ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
β� ββ½ The North Water by Ian McGuire
β� ββ½ Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton °Ϊβ]
β� April
β� ββ½ The Regional Office Is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales
β� ββ½ Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
β� ββ½ Dodgers by Bill Beverly
β� ββ½ The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
β� ββ½ The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi °Ϊβ]
β� May
β� ββ½ The Mirror Thief by Martin Seay
β� ββ½ Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride by Lucy Knisley
β� ββ½ The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
β� ββ½ Morgue: A Life in Death by Vincent DiMaio
β� ββ½ The Defense by Steve Cavanagh
β� ββ½ The Crown's Game by Evelyn Skye °Ϊβ]
β� June
β� ββ½ The Girls by Emma Cline °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
β� ββ½ Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Chancers: Addiction, Prison, Recovery, Love: One Couple's Memoir by Susan Stellin
β� ββ½ Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
β� ββ½ My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand °Ϊβ]
β� July
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β� ββ½ Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
β� ββ½ The Nix by Nathan Hill
β� ββ½ The Hike by Drew Magary
β� ββ½ Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets by Luke Dittrich
β� ββ½ The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
β� ββ½ The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
β� September
β� ββ½ Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
β� ββ½ A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
β� ββ½ The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti
β� ββ½ The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood by Belle Boggs
β� ββ½ The Reader by Traci Chee °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Where Am I Now? by Mara Wilson °Ϊβ]
β� October
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β� ββ½ Swing Time by Zadie Smith
β� ββ½ Game of Queens: The Women Who Made Sixteenth-Century Europe by Sarah Gristwood
β� ββ½ Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Conclave by Robert Harris
β� ββ½ The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds by Selina Siak Chin Yoke
β� ββ½ Scythe by Neal Shusterman °Ϊβ]
β� December
β� ββ½ Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? by Kathleen Collins
β� ββ½ The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds by Michael Lewis
β� ββ½ The Ice Beneath Her by Camilla Grebe
β� ββ½ George Lucas: A Life by Brian Jay Jones
β� ββ½ The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
β� ββ½ The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane
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β� January
β� ββ½ Truthwitch by Susan Dennard {
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β� ββ½ The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
β� ββ½ Blackhearts by Nicole Castroman °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Unhooked by Lisa Maxwell
β� ββ½ These Vicious Masks by Tarun Shanker
β� March
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β� ββ½ The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ When We Collided by Emery Lord
β� ββ½ Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Down with the Shine by Kate Karyus Quinn °Ϊβ]
β� May
β� ββ½ The Crown's Game by Evelyn Skye °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
β� ββ½ Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
β� ββ½ Jerkbait by Mia Siegert
β� ββ½ Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Suffer Love by Ashley Herring Blake
β� June
β� ββ½ My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Ivory and Bone°Ϊβ] by Julie Eshbaugh
β� ββ½ The Museum of Heartbreak by Meg Leder
β� ββ½ How It Feels to Fly by Kathryn Holmes
β� ββ½ How to Disappear by Ann Redisch Stampler
β� ββ½ Cure for the Common Universe by Christian McKay Heidicker °Ϊβ]
β� July
β� ββ½ P.S. I Like You by Kasie West
β� ββ½ Learning to Swear in America by Katie Kennedy °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Memory Book by Lara Avery
β� ββ½ The Killer in Me by Margot Harrison °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Gemini by Sonya Mukherjee
β� August
β� ββ½ The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
β� ββ½ Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
β� ββ½ Vicarious by Paula Stokes
β� ββ½ Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown
β� ββ½ Enter Title Here by Rahul Kanakia °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Wax by Gina Damico
β� September
β� ββ½ The Reader by Traci Chee
β� ββ½ Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea by Sungju Lee °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ A Shadow Bright and Burning by Jessica Cluess °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Memory of Things by Gae Polisner
β� ββ½ As I Descended by Robin Talley °Ϊβ]
β� October
β� ββ½ Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven
β� ββ½ Iron Cast by Destiny Soria °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
β� ββ½ Still Life with Tornado by A.S. King
β� ββ½ Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Nemesis by Anna Banks °Ϊβ]
β� November
β� ββ½ Scythe by Neal Shusterman °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ We Are Still Tornadoes by Michael Kun °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Flashfall by Jenny Moyer
β� ββ½ The Amateurs by Sara Shepard
β� ββ½ Girls in the Moon by Janet McNally
β� ββ½ Saving Hamlet by Molly Booth
β� December
β� ββ½ Ever the Hunted by Erin Summerill °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Did I Mention I Miss You? by Estelle Maskame
β� ββ½ Teach Me to Forget by Erica M. Chapman
β� ββ½ The Odds of Loving Grover Cleveland by Rebekah Crane
β� ββ½ The Burning Page by Genevieve Cogman
β� ββ½ Take the Key and Lock Her Up by Ally Carter
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β� January
β� ββ½ The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
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β� ββ½ Swimming Lessons by Claire Fuller
β� ββ½ The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen
β� ββ½ The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schutt
β� ββ½ All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey °Ϊβ]
β� March
β� ββ½ The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
β� ββ½ The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck
β� ββ½ The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire SΓ‘enz
β� ββ½ The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel
β� ββ½ Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper
β� April
β� ββ½ Marlena by Julie Buntin
β� ββ½ The Perfect Stranger by Megan Miranda
β� ββ½ Red Sister by Mark Lawrence °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
β� ββ½ Sunshine State by Sarah Gerard
β� ββ½ The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep Is Broken and How to Fix It by W. Chris Winter °Ϊβ]
β� May
β� ββ½ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
β� ββ½ Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan
β� ββ½ No One Can Pronounce My Name by Rakesh Satyal
β� ββ½ Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris
β� ββ½ The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
β� June
β� ββ½ Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
β� ββ½ The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee
β� ββ½ He Said/She Said by Erin Kelly
β� ββ½ The Confusion of Languages by Siobhan Fallon
β� ββ½ You Don't Have to Say You Love Me by Sherman Alexie
β� July
β� ββ½ Final Girls by Riley Sager
β� ββ½ Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong
β� ββ½ The Life She Was Given by Ellen Marie Wiseman °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship by Michelle Kuo
β� ββ½ Sons and Soldiers: The Untold Story of the Jews Who Escaped the Nazis and Returned with the U.S. Army to Fight Hitler by Bruce Henderson °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody °Ϊβ]
β� August
β� ββ½ Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
β� ββ½ Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
β� ββ½ Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Map of the Heart by Susan Wiggs
β� ββ½ The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet by Henry Fountain
β� September
β� ββ½ The Golden House by Salman Rushdie
β� ββ½ The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
β� ββ½ Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King
β� ββ½ They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nationβs Largest Home by Denise Kiernan
β� ββ½ The Best of Us by Joyce Maynard
β� October
β� ββ½ Strange Weather by Joe Hill
β� ββ½ Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
β� ββ½ I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll
β� ββ½ Without Merit by Colleen Hoover
β� ββ½ Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron
β� ββ½ American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee
β� November
β� ββ½ The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Little Broken Things by Nicole Baart
β� ββ½ A Tangled Mercy by Joy Jordan-Lake
β� ββ½ The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin
β� ββ½ Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella
β� ββ½ Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe by Deborah Cadbury
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β� January
β� ββ½ History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
β� ββ½ Frostblood by Elly Blake
β� ββ½ By Your Side by Kasie West
β� ββ½ Wires and Nerve, Volume 1 by Marissa Meyer
β� ββ½ The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ A List of Cages by Robin Roe
β� February
β� ββ½ Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ We Are Okay by Nina LaCour °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ To Catch a Killer by Sheryl Scarborough
β� ββ½ American Street by Ibi Zoboi
β� ββ½ Lessons in Falling by Diana Gallagher
β� ββ½ Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller °Ϊβ]
β� March
β� ββ½ Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner
β� ββ½ Hunted by Meagan Spooner °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire SΓ‘enz
β� ββ½ Shadow Run by AdriAnne Strickland
β� ββ½ Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
β� ββ½ A Psalm for Lost Girls by Katie Bayerl
β� April
β� ββ½ Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Maud by Melanie J. Fishbane
β� ββ½ Geekerella by Ashley Poston
β� ββ½ Given to the Sea by Mindy McGinnis °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Between Two Skies by Joanne O'Sullivan
β� ββ½ The Takedown by Corrie Wang
β� May
β� ββ½ How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake
β� ββ½ Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Royal Bastards by Andrew Shvarts °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ The Love Interest by Cale Dietrich
β� June
β� ββ½ Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
β� ββ½ Song of the Current by Sarah Tolcser
β� ββ½ Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee
β� ββ½ Want by Cindy Pon °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Follow Me Back by A.V. Geiger
β� ββ½ Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
β� July
β� ββ½ Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum
β� ββ½ Little Monsters by Kara Thomas
β� ββ½ Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton
β� ββ½ The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Solo °Ϊβ]
β� August
β� ββ½ Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
β� ββ½ The Wood by Chelsea Bobulski
β� ββ½ The Color Project by Sierra Abrams
β� ββ½ The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee
β� ββ½ The Arsonist by Stephanie Oakes
β� ββ½ Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana PopoviΔ
β� September
β� ββ½ They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ If There's No Tomorrow by Jennifer L. Armentrout
β� ββ½ Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
β� ββ½ Moxie by Jennifer Mathieu
β� ββ½ Invictus by Ryan Graudin
β� ββ½ Black Bird of the Gallows by Meg Kassel °Ϊβ]
β� October
β� ββ½ Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao
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β� ββ½ Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Priemaza
β� ββ½ Insurrection by Sherrilyn Kenyon
β� ββ½ The November Girl by Lydia Kang °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Fragments of the Lost by Megan Miranda
β� ββ½ This Mortal Coil by Emily Suvada
β� ββ½ Now Is Everything by Amy Giles
β� December
β� ββ½ Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills
β� ββ½ The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ Cloaked in Shadow by Ben Alderson
β� ββ½ Love, Life, and the List by Kasie West
β� ββ½ The Truth Beneath the Lies by Amanda Searcy
β� ββ½ Here, There, Everywhere by Julia Durango
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β� January
β� ββ½ Need to Know by Karen Cleveland
β� ββ½ Grist Mill Road by Christopher J. Yates
β� ββ½ Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
β� ββ½ The Cruel Prince by Holly Black °Ϊβ]
β� ββ½ When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
β� ββ½ Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language by Emma Byrne °Ϊβ]
β� February
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Best YA Books of the Month Challenge | 2018
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Around the Year in 52 Books
Books mentioned in this topic
The Tears of Dark Water (other topics)Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings (other topics)
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue (other topics)
Six of Crows (other topics)
The Hours Count (other topics)
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My other side challenges are here.
GoodReads "Best Books of the Month" Challenge
Ε·±¦ΣιΐΦ "YA Best Books of the Month" Challenge
Time Objective: Permanently Ongoing
Challenge Objective: Read a Ε·±¦ΣιΐΦ "Best Books of the Month" book and a Ε·±¦ΣιΐΦ "Best YA Books of the Month" for each month of each year.
Credits: One of the challenge topics from the rejected topics for the 2016 ATY challenge was to read a book from the GoodReads "Best of May." When I saw all the books listed for each month I thought it might be fun to read one of the best books for each month as a challenge. Jody alerted me to the YA version.
Best Books of the Month Challenge
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