Best of the Year Post!
All of these are in no particular order. As always, I can't limit myself to just 3 or 5 or 10 either so the numbers will be what they are. Books: New to me: This category is specifically why I can't make myself rank this stuff. Is Code Name Verity the best because it was so powerful? How about crying through the end of Ocean ? or laughing and crying during Looking for Alaska ? Should it go by how I felt when I read them or how much I've thought about them since? See, it is way better just to list them! Mr. Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Looking for Alaska by John Green The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson YA heavy I know but I read a bunch of YA this year for scho