Top Ten Tuesday #3 - Ten Books I Recommend The Most

 

First, I'd like to thank the wonderful girls over at The Broke And The Bookish for hosting this highly addictive weekly meme.

Top ten books I recommend the most?  This is the TTT I've been waiting for since I jumped on this meme's bandwagon!  Mwahahahaha!!! *cue low-budget maniacal laughter*

Ahem.  Okay.  So I should probably get to the actual list, then....  For this one, I'm going to work backward, 10 - 1.  A true countdown, fanfare supplied by your imaginative minds.

10.) "Mistborn" by Brandon Sanderson - Mistborn won't appeal to everyone, but it's one of my top-recommended epic fantasy novels.  A must-read for fans of the genre.

 

9.) "Warm Bodies" by Isaac Marion - This one probably won't appeal to everyone either, but if you're willing to overlook a cheesy premise for fantastic writing that truly has the power to change your way of thinking, read Warm Bodies.

 

8.) "Interview With The Vampire" by Anne Rice - Every Twilight fan needs to read this.  Learn your roots.  Lestat was the sexy, sensual vampire I grew up with, and he'll always be number 1 in my heart.  His best feature; he doesn't sparkle.

 

7.) "Fever" Series by Karen Marie Moning - Okay, okay, this isn't technically a book. It's five.  This is the problem I'm faced with whenever I'm recommending the Fever series, because the first book, Darkfever,...it wasn't that great.  So I can't recommend it by itself.   But the pure awesomeness of every other book in this series more than makes up for it.  Jericho Barrons.  That name should be trademarked to mean "One sexy expletive."

 

6.)"The Sky Is Everywhere" by Jandy Nelson - The writing is beautiful, the angst is real, and the pain is raw.  The romance is a bit too good to be true, but hey, that's why I'll always love my fictional crushes more.

 

5.) "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson - If you want to feel your worst emotions well to the surface, ride this roller-coaster.  It lets you off in a place of hope and reminds you what it means to be fragile, to be human, and to be alive.

 

4.) "Anna And The French Kiss" by Stephanie Perkins -  This book is just so much fun!  It isn't super profound or emotional, but damned if you can find a better way to spend an afternoon.

 

3.) "The Fault In Our Stars" by John Green - If everyone had the same outlook on life as Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters, the world would be a better place.  Sad and ironic, funny and romantic, The Fault In Our Stars hits every note on the spectrum of emotion at least once.

 

2.) "The Eye Of The World" by Robert Jordan - Another that won't appeal to everyone, but was one of the building-block books of my youth.  This is the book that showed me a different kind of fantasy than Harry Potter.  I can pinpoint the exact moment I started to stray out of the YA genre to when I picked this book off of a shelf at Target.

 

Aaaaand, the one we've all been waiting for, the creme de la creme of books, the one whose identity is burning a hole of curiosity through you, the one you want me to just shut up and reveal already;
 

 

 

Okay, for real now 

 

1.) "Daughter Of Smoke And Bone" by Laini Taylor - As soon as I saw this week's list, Daughter Of Smoke And Bone popped into my head like a blazing beacon.  I can't possibly say enough about this book, so I won't even try.  Just...read it.  Shut up and read it.  Now.  And have the sequel, Days Of Blood And Starlight, ready, 'cuz you're gonna need it.

 

 

 

Now, there are the obvious two that I left out; Harry Potter and The Hunger Games.  Everyone reading this list has probably already read both series', so I didn't waste a spot on them.  But yeah, of course.  If for some crazy reason you need my voice added to the gigantic roar of love for these two, I highly recommend them to the four people left in the world who hasn't read them.



So, which elite books make your Top Ten cut?  Share in the comments!