Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is a Top Ten Freebie — we choose whatever topic we want to write about. Since I’ll be traveling for the next couple of weeks and will miss out on a few TTTs, I figured the simplest approach for my “freebie” topic is to do one of the June topics a bit early! So here goes… my favorite books so far in 2014:
(Note: Click on the links to read my reviews if you want to know more!)
1) I Shall Be Near To You by Erin Lindsay McCabe
2) The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
3) Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
4) Archetype by M. D. Waters
5) Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
6) Harrowgate by Kate Maruyama
7) The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
8) The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty
9) The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore
10) Re-reads of A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, and the novella The Space Between by Diana Gabaldon… in preparation for the release of Written In My Own Heart’s Blood on June 10th! (You didn’t actually expect me to write a top 10 list without an Outlander reference, did you?)
Can’t wait to check out everyone else’s freebie lists!
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Bookshelf Fantasies 
Great to see The Husband’s Secret made your top ten of the year so far. Great choices, here’s to more good reading!
Thanks! The Husband’s Secret really was good (I’m making my husband read it right now!)
A man on Goodreads asked me if I thought he’d like it. He was worried it was aimed at women but he loved it too!
I’m looking forward to doing that list in a couple of weeks’ time. I went back a couple of weeks and did the book covers as art list: http://deliabattie.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/top-ten-tuesday-freebie-topic-book-covers/
Well, I wasn’t feeling terribly creative about topics this week… and since I’ll be away… I look forward to seeing your “best of 2014” list in a couple of weeks!
I loved The Husband’s Secret. Such a brilliant book! 🙂
Wasn’t it great? I just picked up another book by her, maybe to take on vacation…
My friend has been begging me to read Diana Gabaldon. Maybe it’s time to give it a shot! Great list! Here’s mine: http://bftreviews.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/top-ten-heroes-to-replace/
Oh, you’ve got to give Outlander a try! Magnificent… and you’ll be just in time for the TV show this summer!
I really enjoyed The Husband’s Secret! And I need to read Archetype – I’ve heard great things about it!
Archetype was great… and the good thing is that the sequel is due out in July, I think, so no endless waiting for the story to wrap up!
Any list with the Outlander books is a list I can agree with 😉
I’ve also been wanting to read I Shall Be Near To You – I’ve heard fantastic things about it, so you’ve convinced me to request it from the library!
Jac @ Two Moms Reading
Hey, I believe Outlander belongs on ALL the lists! 🙂 I hope you get your hands on I Shall Be Near To You! It’s really brilliant, and so moving. Thanks for stopping by!
Midwinter Blood was great! I’m really dying to read I Shall Be Near to You now — so many stellar reviews floating around for that one 🙂
Mindwinterblood was one of those books that I picked up and then had floating around my house for months before I finally read it… and then couldn’t believe I’d let myself wait so long. I thought it was just so beautifully written. I hope you read I Shall Be Near to You! Wonderful book. Thanks for stopping by!
I really, really, really want to read The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, I’ve been hearing so many good things about the book 🙂 Great list!
My TTT
It’s so good! I read the ARC for it, then turned around and bought myself a copy because I just had to have it. I hope you enjoy!
AJ Fikry!! I work in a bookstore, and all the booksellers are in love with this book. Mostly because it’s filled with bookseller/publisher/sales rep jargon, and we wonder if readers will fully understand the struggle…haha.
My TTT
You work in a bookstore??? I wish, I wish, I wish! I loved the bookstore setting, and how people’s lives could revolve around books, and … well, just everything about it!
My husband is a huge Christopher Moore fan, but he couldn’t get through Serpent of Venice. He said it was too different from the last and he ended up giving up on it. I hate when books disappoint him. Did you like it from the beginning, or did it get better? I’ve never read any so I’m not sure what it was that he didn’t like.
Well, I liked it all, but I also enjoyed Fool — but this one and Fool are pretty different in tone than his other books, so I can see how someone might love the rest and not be into these. I’m a big Christopher Moore fan, but definitely love some of his books more than others. (My husband loved Lamb, and couldn’t get past the first chapter of Fool. It helps to love Shakespeare, which my husband does not…)
I haven’t read any of these yet but am really loving the covers of Archetype and Harrowgate. Their authors lucked out!!
Aren’t those cool covers? Harrowgate looks so eerie — it’s really perfect! Thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Oh, what a nice list! I’ve got MIDWINTERBLOOD out from the library right now, and I’ve been meaning to pick up Zevin’s book. Glad to hear that you liked them!
Thanks! Midwinterblood is so special — I hope you enjoy it! And the Zevin book just made me fall in love. 🙂
I’ve been meaning to read Archetypes for a while now. Sigh, this TBR though. Otherwise, yesssss to Fikry! I tried to find a loophole somewhere to include him into my post for this week but just wasn’t able to haha.
Cheers,
joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts
Ugh, the curse of the ever-growing TBR pile! I swear I’m not buying a lot of books, but every time I turn around, there are more and more of them lurking in the corners of my house. 🙂
I heard so much about Archetype, wish I’d request when I had the chance. :L
I don’t think I could muster 10 books for 2014 :X It’s been a bit of a disaster lately.
Oo, sorry to hear that 2014 hasn’t had too many hits for you! I hate when I get into a rut of only so-so books, one after another. If you get a chance to read Archetype, I’d really recommend it… plus the sequel is coming out this summer!
Haha, so no top 10 list is complete without something Outlanderish, huh? I haven’t read any of the other books on your list, some sound quite interesting though.
Weeeeellll, you might say I’m obsessing just a bit (ha, a bit?) over everything Outlander at the moment. (Hyperventilating, counting the days, re-reading all the previous books…)
I am relistening to all of the Outlander audio books before reading MOBY, how is THAT for obsessing??? lol
Excellent! I’m in the midst of relistening to one of the Lord John books right now while I finish my reread of Echo in the Bone!
Nice topic. Grasshopper Jungle and The Husband’s Secret are both on my bookshelf waiting to be read so I am very pleased to see them on your list. Here’s my post, I decided to go with my favourite mind-blowing book endings.
Thanks! I hope you enjoy these two books when you get to them. 🙂
Hi Lisa,
I loves The Husbands Secret. I couldn’t believe how much of a whirlwind that was. I just discovered Outlander this year. I am almost finished with book 6. Wow, I am going to meet DG in San Francisco on June 12th. So excited. I am def. going to look at some of these other books you like. Thanks for the list.
I am SO jealous that you’ll be at the SF event for Diana Gabaldon!! I live in SF, but will be away that week — so I’m desperately working on plans to catch her somewhere else on the book tour. I’m glad to hear you enjoyed The Husband’s Secret too! My husband is just finishing it, and he can’t stop talking about it!
So many of these are on my TBR but I haven’t read a single one! Well, except Outlander of course. 😀
I can’t even say the word Outlander without hyperventilating at this point! Can it just be next week already?