year's best
Everybody’s doing a “Year’s Best” – here’s mine, in completely random order:
- best romance novel to re-read: The Windflower by Laura London (aka Tom and Sharon Curtis)
- second-best re-read: Hummingbird by LaVyrle Spencer
- best best-of list to feature a book by my favorite author (aka, me)
- funniest YA novel: Saving Juliet by Suzanne Selfors (there is some big upcoming news on this book and I can’t wait for Suz to spill the beans!)
- coolest Nora Roberts book: The Hollow
- novel most likely to send you into therapy: Cost by Roxana Robinson
- best sobfest: Last Kiss by Luanne Rice
- funniest: Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips
- most inspiring fiction: Twenty Wishes by Debbie Macomber
- best love-your-body women’s fiction: Bikini Season by Sheila Roberts
- best category romance novel: a tie–The Princess and the Cowboy by Lois Faye Dyer, It’s That Time of Year by Christine Wenger
- best reissued novel for kids: Looking for Bapu by Anjali Banerjee
- most overused device in literary fiction: a dead or missing child
- best serial thriller: Tailspin by Catherine Coulter
- best book you probably haven’t read but should: People of the Book
- stranger-than-fiction nonfiction: Identical Strangers by Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein
- best photographs: Life: The Classic Collection
- biggest slog but worth the effort: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
- cutest photographs with coolest story: The Daily Coyote by Shreve Stockton
- best ending: Run by Ann Patchett
- best holiday themed novel: The Letters by Luanne Rice, tied with A Virgin River Christmas by Robyn Carr
- best escape: Still Summer by Jacquelyn Mitchard
- beach read most likely to make you forget you’re at the beach: The Secret Between Us by Barbara Delinsky
- book that’s making all the “best-of” lists that people only pretend to have read: A Mercy by Toni Morrison
- favorite best-of list
- best-of list of books you probably won’t read
- best first novel: Oxygen by Carol Cassella
- best not-yet-published novel: Dog Days by Elsa Watson
- best book about books: Book Lust and More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl
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January 2, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Susan
i love your blog! there i said it. i first picked up your work at the gorcery store because i was attracted to the cover art. beach chairs, beach grass, a dock, get me everytime. i’m thinking an author would like to know these things. keep writing, keep appreciating your world, and keep the beach settings coming! happy new year!
December 31, 2008 at 10:46 pm
april
Wow, I have a lot of reading to do! I have read Hummingbird (as well as almost all – if not all – of LaVyrle Spencer’s books). I also have the Sheila Roberts book on my shelf, but I haven’t gotten there yet. The summer flew too quickly!
Right now, I’m reading The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon for my book club. So far, I like it, but I’m always a little distracted with present tense in books. I’ll have to check out some on your best of list.