I love to read! There’s nothing that relaxes me more than getting lost in a great story. Over the last year, I have begun reading even more and exchanging books with my daughter, husband, in-laws, and friends. It’s give us new things to talk about and opened up shared interests. I often am asked what I am reading now. Here’s a list of what I have read and what I am reading. Please leave comments about what you are reading as well because I tend to get new books based on the recommendations of others.
2013
Succubus Blues (Richelle Mead)
Love Unscripted (Tina Reber)
2012 (Most recent at top)
Gabriel’s Rapture (Sylvain Reynard)
Gabriel’s Inferno (Sylvain Reynard)
In Flight (R.K. Lilley)
Good For You (Tammara Webber)
Where You Are (Tammara Webber)
The Marriage Trap (Jennifer Probst)
The Marriage Mistake (Jennifer Probst)
The Marriage Bargain (Jennifer Probst)
Between the Lines (Tammara Webber)
Thoughtless (Thoughtless #1) (S.C. Stephens)
Easy (Tammara Webber)
Finale (Hush, Hush #4) (Becca Fitzpatrick)
Hidden (House of Night #10) (P.C. Cast)
Beautiful Disaster (Jamie McGuire)
Point of Retreat (Slammed #2) (Sylvia Day)
Reflected in You (Crossfire #2) (Sylvia Day)
Slammed (Slammed #1) (Colleen Hover)
Masque of the Read Death (Book #1) (Bethany Griffin)
The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden #1) (Julie Kagawa)
Whispers at Moonrise (Shadow Falls #4) (C.C. Hunter)
The Crown of Embers (Fire and Thorns #2) (Rae Carson)
The Goddess Legacy (Goddess Test #2.5) (Aimee Carter)
The Golden Lily (Bloodlines #2) (Richelle Mead)
Outpost (Razorland #2) (Ann Aguirre)
Blood Bound (Unbound #1) (Rachel Vincent)
The Pagan Stone (Sign of Seven #3) (Nora Roberts)
The Hollow (Sign of Seven #2) (Nora Roberts)
Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven #1) (Nora Roberts)
Bared to You (Crossfire #1) (Sylvia Day)
Shadow and Bone (The Grisha #1) (Leigh Bardugo)
Before I Wake (Soul Screamers #6) (Rachel Vincent)
Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy #2) (Deborah Harkness)
The Body Finder (Body Finder 1) (Kimberly Derting)
Dreamless (Starcrossed 2) (Josephine Angelini)
Underworld (Abandon 2) (Meg Cabot)
86 Hours in England (Andrew Mason)
Starcrossed (Starcrossed 1) (Josephone Angelini)**
Spell Bound (Hell Hall 3) (Rachel Hawkins)
Deadlocked (Sookie Stackhouse 12) (Charlaine Harris)
City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments 5) (Cassandra Clare)**
Demonglass (Hex Hall 2) (Rachel Hawkins)
Hex Hall (Rachel Hawkins)
Insurgent (Divergent 2) (Veronica Roth)
Wicked Burn (Beth Kery)
Until I Die (Revenants 2) (Amy Plum)
Goddess Interrupted (Aimee Carter)
The Goddess Test (Aimee Carter)
50 Shades Freed (E.L. James)
50 Shades Darker (E.L James)
50 Shades of Grey (E.L James)
If I Die (Soul Screamers 5) (Rachel Vincent)
Taken at Dusk (Shadow Falls 3) (C.C. Hunger)
My Soul to Keep (Soul Screamers 3) (Rachel Vincent)
My Soul to Save (Soul Screamers 2) (Rachel Vincent)
Pandemonium (Delirium 2) (Lauren Oliver)
My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers 1) (Rachel Vincent)
Under the Never Sky (Veronica Rossi)
Fever (Lauren DeStefano)
Wither (Lauren DeStefano)
Hallowed (Cynthia Hand)
Awake at Dawn (C.C. Hunter)
Legend (Marie Lu)
Born at Midnight (C.C. Hunter)
Bloodrose (Andrea Cremer) (Nightshade #3)
2011
A Need So Beautiful (Suzanne Young)
The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Rae Carson)
The Future of Us (Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler)
Clockwork Prince (Cassandra Clare) (Infernal Devices #2)
Iron King (Julie Kagawa) (Iron Fey #4)
Iron Queen (Julie Kagawa) (Iron Fey #3)
Iron Daughter (Julie Kagawa) (Iron Fey #2)
Iron King (Julie Kagawa) (Iron Fey #1)
Crossed (Matched Trilogy #2) (Ally Condie)
Hourglass (Myra McEntire)
Unearthly (Cynthia Hand)
Silence (Becca Fitzpatrick)
Iron Witch (Karen Mahoney)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone (Laini Taylor)
Die for Me (Revenants) (Amy Plum)
Sookie Stackhouse Companion (Charlaine Harris)
City of Fallen Angels (Cassandra Clare) (Mortal Instruments)*
City of Glass (Cassandra Clare) (Mortal Instruments)*
City of Ashes (Cassandra Clare) (Mortal Instruments)*
City of Bones (Cassandra Clare) (Mortal Instruments)*
Bloodlines (Richelle Mead)
Delirium (Lauren Oliver)
Wolfsbane (Andrea Cremer)
Forever (Maggie Stiefvater)
Matched (Ally Condie)
Enclave (Ann Aguirre)
Where She Went (Gayle Forman, Sequel to If I Stay)
Nightshade (Andrea Cremer) *
Passion (Fallen 3) (Lauren Kate)
Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops?: The Lost Toys, Tastes, and Trends of the 70s and 80s (Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and Brian Bellmont)
Divergent (Veronica Roth) * (Divergent Book Review)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Ransom Riggs)
If I Stay (Gayle Forman)
Across the Universe (Beth Revis)
Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices, Book 1)
Crescendo (Becca Fitzpatrick)
Hush, Hush (Becca Fitzpatrick)
Dead Reckoning (Sookie Stackhouse, Book 11) (Charlaine Harris)
Abandon (Meg Cabot)
Discovery of Witches (Deborah E. Harkness) *
Torment (Lauren Kate)*
Fallen (Lauren Kate) *
The Lincoln Lawyer (Michael Connelly) (audiobook)
When You Were Mine (Elizabeth Noble)
The Vault of Walt (Jim Korkis)
Girls in Trucks (Katie Crouch)
Safe Haven (Nicholas Sparks)
One Day (David Nicholls)
Water for Elephants (Sara Gruen)*
The Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Hero (Rick Riordan)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot)
The Accidental Billionaires (Ben Mezrich) (The Founding of Facebook)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
Incarceron (Catherine Fisher)
Awakened (House of Night Series by P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast)
The Apothecary’s Daughter (Julie Klassen)*
2010
The Shack (William P. Young)
Grave Secret (Harper Connelly Mysteries 4) (Charlaine Harris)
The Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy #6) (Richelle Mead)
Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly Mysteries 3) (Charlaine Harris)
Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly Mysteries 2) (Charlaine Harris)
House Rules (Jodi Picoult)
Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Mysteries 1) (Charlaine Harris)
Beautiful Darkness (Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl)*
Go Ask Alice (Anonymous)
Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer (John Grisham)
Little Bee (Chris Cleave)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
Size 14 Isn’t Fat Either (Meg Cabot)
Size 12 Isn’t Fat (Meg Cabot)
Mockingjay (Suzanne Collins)*
Linger (Maggie Stiefvater)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Stieg Larsson)*
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson) *
Charlie St. Cloud (Ben Sherwood)
The Reader (Bernhard Schlink) (ironically, the audiobook)
Book of the Dead (Patricia Cornwell)
Undead and Unpopular (MaryJanice Davidson)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson and Reg Keeland) *
Kingdom Keepers II: Disney at Dawn (Ridley Pearson and Tristan Elwell)
The Hidden Magic of Walt Disney World: Over 600 Secrets of the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom (Susan Veness)
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: A Eclipse Novella (Stephenie Meyer)
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon)
Spirit Bound (Vampire Academy #5) (Richelle Mead)
Gone (Lisa McMann)
The Help (Kathryn Stockett)
Dead in the Family (Charlaine Harris)
Burned (House of Night Novel) (Kristin Cast and P.C. Cast)
Undead and Underappreciated (Mary Janice Davidson)
The Last Song (Nicholas Sparks)
Shiver (Maggie Stiefvater)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows)
Undead and Unemployed (Mary Janice Davidson)
Fade (Lisa McMann)*
Undead and Unwed (Mary Janice Davidson)
Tainted (Brooke Morgan)
Bare Necessity (Carole Matthews)
Wake (Lisa McMann) *
Twenties Girl (Sophie Kinsella)
Blood Promise (Richelle Mead) *
Shadow Kiss (Richelle Mead) *
Frostbite (Richelle Mead) *
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian (Rick Riordan)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth (Rick Riordan)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse (Rick Riordan)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters (Rick Riordan)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Rick Riordan) (read this series with 9-yr-old daughter)
Vampire Academy (Richelle Mead) *
2009
Walt Disney: An American Original (Bob Thomas)
*Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (J.K. Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (J.K. Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (J.K. Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J.K. Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (J.K. Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (J.K. Rowling)
*Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J.K. Rowling)
The Tales of Beetle the Bard (J.K. Rowling)
A Walk to Remember (Nicholas Sparks)
Message in a Bottle (Nicholas Sparks)
-Losing It (Valerie Bertinelli)
Change of Heart (Jodi Picoult)
There’s No Place Like Here (Cecelia Ahern)
Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (Helen Fielding)
Julie & Julie (Julie Powell)
-Tale of Edward Sawtelle (until I gave up)
*Dead Until Dark (Charlaine Harris)
*Living Dead in Dallas (Charlaine Harris)
*Club Dead (Charlaine Harris)
*Dead to the World (Charlaine Harris)
*Dead as a Doornail (Charlaine Harris)
*Definitely Dead (Charlaine Harris)
*All Together Dead (Charlaine Harris)
*From Dead to Worse (Charlaine Harris)
*Dead and Gone (Charlaine Harris)
The Undomestic Goddess (Sophie Kinsella)
Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married (Marian Keyes)
-A Minor Indiscretion (Carole Matthews)
A Touch of Dead (Charlaine Harris)
Trust Agents (Chris Brogan and Julien Smith)
Remember Me? (Sophie Kinsella)
The Kingdom Keepers (Ridley Pearson)
*Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
*Catching Fire (Suzanne Collins)
*Marked (P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast)
*Betrayed (P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast)
*Chosen (P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast)
*Untamed (P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast)
*Hunted (P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast)
*Tempted (P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast)
*Burned (P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast)
Vampire Diaries I (L.J. Smith)
Vampire Diaries II (L.J. Smith)
The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
*Beautiful Creatures (Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl)
Stars denote the books that you couldn’t pry out of my hands while I was reading them. I would recommend pretty much everything else that I read this year as well except for the ones with minus signs. If you are a fan of books similar to the ones I read this year, I would be anxious to hear what else you recommend for me.