Happy Tuesday and welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday, a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish! This week's topic is Throwback Freebie, for example you could do Ten Books I Loved During The First Year I Started My Blog, Favorite Books Published 5 or 10 or 15 Years Ago, Ten Older Books I Forgot How Much I Loved, etc. This one gives me so many options! Anyway, I've decided that I'm going to share some of my favorite books that were released in 2014, the same year that I started blogging (although I may not have read them until much later). Here we go, in alphabetical order by author with my reviews attached:
City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare
Half Bad by Sally Green
This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
You by Caroline Kepnes
The Young Elites by Marie Lu
Cress by Marissa Meyer
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
Have you tried any of these favorites? As always, thanks for visiting my blog and perhaps even commenting down below!
OH my goodness, I'm ashamed to say that I've yet to read any of the book on your list!
ReplyDeleteKim @ Divergent Gryffindor
Well, you've got a good place to start! :)
DeleteThanks for sharing, Kim!
Great list! I loved Cress, definitely my favourite book in the series and I can't believe it was publishing three years ago now. I really need to read some Cat Winters, I think I'd like her work a lot.
ReplyDeleteSame here - Cress is the best! I have a feeling you'd love Cat Winters, Cat!
DeleteI read 5 of these, and all were fabulous! I need to read Midnight Star and want to continue the Jackaby books, because I really enjoyed the first one. Great list!
ReplyDeleteThe Jackaby series is so awesome - I can't wait to get my hands on the newest!
DeleteI've only read the first two Shadowhunter books, I need to finish it to I can read the next series that everyone is all hyped about!
ReplyDeleteIt'll be worth it! :)
DeleteYou have many of my favorite authors and books on the list, especially Maggie Stiefvater and her amazing Ravel Cycle books. Sigh. I wish I could read them again for the first time.
ReplyDeleteSo do I - that would just be wonderful! :)
DeleteI think that Caroline Kepnes "You" has proubably been on my TBR list since 2014, and somehow I have STILL not read it. Glad to hear it was one of your favorites from that yer- I hope to get to it soon!
ReplyDeleteI particularly loved it on audiobook - the production is totally chilling!
DeleteFlashback to a bunch of old lovelies oh my goodness! So many on here I love to death. One I never got around to, but really wanted to, was Half Bad. I still want to pick it up but I worry that I never will.
ReplyDeleteYou really should try it! I was absolutely hooked right off the bat!
DeleteWow, what a great year to start blogging. So many amazing titles!
ReplyDeleteA favourite from your list is definitely Blue Lily, Lily Blue. The Raven Boys is one of my favourite series', and the cover of Blue Lily is my favourite book cover of all time. And I only got around to reading the series last year!
You can check out my Top Ten Books Published 10 Years Ago HERE
I know right!
DeleteYou just can't go wrong with Stiefvater at all! :D
Whenever I see Cat Winters my interest is immediately piqued. I loved the one book by her I've read. This is a great list, Lauren. I can always count on you to add to my wish list. :-) Have a great rest of the week!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I hope you do as well!
DeleteOoh The Young Elites. Never read 'em but just picked up Warcross- my first Marie Lu- and if it goes well I may go back and get her older stuff also.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to try Warcross - it looks like it will be awesome! If you're into audiobooks, you have to try The Young Elites in that format!
DeleteAwesome list! I LOVED the Lunar Chronicles :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! I really want to reread it from the very beginning. :)
DeleteGreat list! I really want to read Cress someday since I've enjoyed Cinder and Scarlet!
ReplyDeleteHere’s my TTT!
Ronyell @ Rabbit Ears Book Blog
Thanks, Ronyell! The whole series is wonderful, but I think Cress is actually my favorite of the group! :)
DeleteCress is such a good book ! I love the romance sooooo much !
ReplyDeleteI liked Jackaby too but the rest of the serie is a little meh.
Thorne and Cress are just the best together! :)
DeleteOoh another fellow '14'er, I started blogging in 2014 too!
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/12/top-ten-tuesday-124/
Woot! :)
DeleteI haven't read any of the books in your TTT post, but the book covers look very inviting!
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to my TTT post this week:
http://captivatedreader.blogspot.com/2017/09/top-ten-tuesday-ten-books-i-loved.html
You can say that again! :)
DeleteThanks for sharing!
I haven't read any of theses, but several are on my TBR. And I think I'll be adding the Cure for Dreaming.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: http://books.thetechchef.net/top-ten-tuesday-32/
I'd love to know what you think of it, Arwen! Thanks for sharing. :)
DeleteLove the direction you went for with this list. I loved Blue Lily and The Cure for Dreaming from your list.
ReplyDeleteCat Winters is just so underrated, isn't she!
DeleteEvery time I see Sally Green's books around, I'm reminded that's a series that once piqued my interest. Same with Jackaby. (THAT ONE CAME OUT IN 2014!? #TimeFlies)
ReplyDeleteGood to be reminded of some books I did have every good intention of reading. :)
Time definitely flies!
DeleteI should look for The Bone Clocks. I liked David Mitchell's other novel I read. I liked Shattered World, too!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing these older titles.
I should definitely read more from Mitchell myself.
DeleteThanks for coming over, Deb!
Oooh The Cure for Dreaming, one of my all-time faves! It's funny because I *still* haven't read half of these, though they've been on my TBR since 2014 probably haha. Great list!
ReplyDeleteYes! I know that feeling! :)
DeleteThanks for coming over, Shannon.