List Of Awesome: Top Six 2013 YA Reads + Giveaway

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I can’t believe we’re already at the last month of the year. Time flies so freaking fast! Today is the 12th of December which means I’ve been blogging for six months already. Six whole months. Anyway, today, I’m going to look back on all the amazing Young Adult books I’ve read the past months I’ve been blogging. Some I’ve reviewed and raved about on the blog, some I have yet to write about. Ultimately, all of these were stunning reads:

top 2013 ya reads

1. The Sea Of Tranquility by Katja Millay (Review)

2. How To Love by Katie Cotugno (Review + Story Soundtrack)

3. Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley (Review)

4. If I Stay by Gayle Forman

5. This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

6. The Beginning Of Everything by Robyn Schneider (Review)

And because I REALLY loved these books and want to share them with everyone, I have an international giveaway for you guys!

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A short thank you: Thank you to all my readers and fellow bloggers for supporting Stay Bookish! It’s only been six months and while that’s a small feat for some, I consider it a pretty great success! I cannot express how grateful I am to you guys for inspiring me to embrace my bookish-ness! Thank you! *blows kisses to fans*

Now tell me- have you read any of the books on this list? What did you think of them? If you haven’t read any/most of them, which of these books are you planning to read?
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82 Responses

  1. Congratulations on hitting the half-a-year mark! And how can I even choose my favourite book from this year? & This Song Will Save Your Life and The Beginning of Everything were really good! Thanks for sharing and congratulations! :)

  2. I have been dying to buy This Song Will Save You Life! xD
    Anyhow, I loved The Fault in Our Stars, Shadow and Bone and The Raven Boys. These are the few from the many this year! :D

  3. This year? Awesome. :’)

    I finally read my long-awaited copies of John Green’s works. I’ve been introduced to a dystopian society in Chicago. I get to know a genderless soul, and a wanderer. I learned more about zombies and blogging and politics all in one. The list goes on…

    I’m currently on a slump with Allegiant due to school works and stuff. Yet, this year’s debuts like Madman’s Daughter and Beginning of Everything, are still waiting to be devoured on.

    If I Stay is usually recommended by my friends, but TSWSYL and, most especially, How to Love seem enticing. Judging, yes, by the cover. But if I were to choose between these two, I’d prefer myself the latter. :’)

    This year in books felt so feel-y for me. I wonder what’s in [book]store for me by 2014.

  4. How To Love and The Beginning of Everything are on my must-have list. They have such pretty but simple cover. I don’t even care if I like them (okay,maybe I do..) I just want these pretties on my shelf :D

  5. Happy Half-Year Blogoversary, Hazel! =D Sooo happy for you.

    I’ve yet to read all the books on your list except This Song Will Save Your Life.

    So wow, I read a lot of awesome books this year so expect a long list. ;) The Rules by Stacey Kade is a great book about a girl Pivot Point and The Distance Between Us by Kasie West are unforgettable awesomes. Parallel by Lauren Miller, The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness and Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis are such emotional punches of reads.

    Golden, Divergent and All our Yesterdays are all SO good.

    You know I loved Just One Day by Gayle Forman (have yet to read Just One Year, though). The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin is all sorts of creepy awesomeness and there’s Noah Shaw! =D Vicious by V E Schwab is a genius book with a villain that is to die for so much love for this book, I can’t even. Cinder by Marissa Meyer is a great story! The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater is so, so good good magical fantasy. LOVE all the Raven boys. =D

  6. Some of my favourite books from this year include: The Tree in Changing Light by Roger McDonald, Isn’t it Pretty to Think So? by Nick Miller, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Bride’s Farewell by Meg Rosoff, More Than This by Patrick Ness and The Ill Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. There are so many other books that I’ve read this year and absolutely loved, but if I listed them all I’d just be re-writing over half of my read-list from this year!

  7. I haven’t read any books on your list… YET! I saw your review of ‘The Sea Of Tranquility’ by Katja Millay, which made me add it to my TBR/Wishlist. I am so excited to read that one.

    The other book I am planning of reading is ‘This Song Will Save Your Life’ by Leila Sales. I remember seeing that on, oh I forget the blog, but they do weekly posts on upcoming book releases for the week and it was on there. I knew I wanted to get it, but just never had the chance to. Soon! It will happen!

    The others on the list I have heard of, but haven’t really looked into them. I must do that :)

  8. I actually only read If I Stay and I’m going to read Where She Went in few days, which I’ve heard is even better. And How To Love is deffo on my reading list, especially since Katie gave some writing advice on my blog and she’s a lovely person so how could I not? All of those seem to be the books that I have somehow missed in 2013 because of lack of money (and because I tried to concentrate on the books that have been published at least a year back but shhhhhh). Anyways I trust your opinion that they’re awesome ;)

    Ohhhhh and congrats on six months of blogging! I thought you had your blog for waaay longer! And I can’t believe it’s almost four months since I started blogging myself!

  9. THIS SONG WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE is my favorite read this year — and possibly my favorite contemporary ever. And running close in second is — wait for it — THE HOUSE OF HADES!! <3

    And congratz Hazel! In six months I think you have achieved so much I can't wait to see what you'll come up with in the future :D

  10. Happy 6-month blogoversary, Hazel!!! :D One of my favorite books this year is actually up there in your list – This Song Will Save Your Life. So amazing!! Off the top of my head, I also loved These Broken Stars (I see you’re reading that – yay!), The Art of Wishing, and The Archived. <3

  11. One of my favorite reads from this past year was The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. i also really enjoyed reading the Lost Hero by Rick Riordan.

  12. I have a lot of favorite books read this year. The best probably is the Last Olympian from the Percy Jackson series :)

  13. I absolutely adored The Beginning of Everything as well (love your review btw)! I also enjoyed reading The Infernal Devices this year, AND I STILL CAN’T GET OVER THE ENDING. Anyway, congratulations on your sixth month of blogging! Cheers! :)

  14. I have read Sea of Tranquility and it’s like the awesomest book I have read this year.. it was a perfect mix of a heartbreaking and a beautiful love story. :)

  15. It’s so hard to pick favorites! For contemporary, I have to say This Song Will Save Your Life, Where the Stars Still Shine, and Fangirl were all instant favorites. Then my favorite science fiction books were All Our Yesterdays and Scarlet!

  16. I so loved How To Love!! I know a lot of bloggers hated it because of Sawyer. I’m so glad you loved it as much as I do. Yay!! I am not alone. :D

    I also loved The Sea of Tranquility. I liked the ending it was unexpected.

    xx

  17. Some of my favorite reads of this year are…. Everyday by David levithan, fallen by Lauren Kate, 13 reasons why by Jay Asher, I am no. Four series by pittacus lore, the selection & the elite by kiera cass :))

  18. Congrats of getting halfway to your blogaversary. This year I read so many awesome books its really hard to choose but I think my favourites were Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson and My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

  19. I have a lot of eBooks which are 2013 release but I haven’t read all of them. Maybe Greed by Fisher Amelie. It was so good! I’d make a review next week after exams!

  20. Congrats on the halfway mark! :)

    I’ve read so many amazing books this year! Some of my favorites include Hopeless and Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover, The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare, and the Under the Never Sky series by Veronica Roth.

  21. Sooo many amazing books this year, here’re some of them – Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo, Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken, Beautiful Bastard series by Christina Lauren, Boundless by Cynthia Hand, Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi, Pivot Point by Kasie West..
    Thanks for a giveaway! :)

  22. I finished reading Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi a few days ago and I can definitely say that it’s one of my fave reads this year! It’s a 2014 release but whatevs ;) Thanks for the giveaway, Hazel!

  23. I’ve only read If I Stay and This Song Will Save Your Life from your list, but they were both amazing!! Though I have to admit that I liked This Song Will Save Your Life much more. I’ve been wanting to read The Sea of Tranquilty for such a long time. Graffiti Moon and The Beginning of Everything sound great, too!

  24. Yay, this is a very sweet giveaway for the Holidays, Hazel! My favorites are Charade by Nyrae Dawn, If I Stay by Gayle Forman and Play With Me by Piper Shelly! :)

  25. Happy happy six months, my dear! It has been a pleasure reading your blog, and I look forward to another six months! Thank you for hosting this giveaway — I haven’t read any of the books you chose, which is great because I’m always up for more books :) I think my favourite 2013 book was Me Before You. It’s not YA, but it’s a must-read for sure. I recommend it to anyone and everyone and no one has been disappointed!

  26. Congratulations on six months of blogging!
    I think my favourite reads of this year were The House of Hades, The Fiery Heart, The Lies of Locke Lamora (released ages ago, but only read it this year), Clockwork Princess and ahhhh too many, can’t even mention them all :D

  27. I read a lot of lovely books this year, but I particularly liked the Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins, and the Caster Chronicles by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl.

  28. Hello, Hazel! :) First of all, congratulations on your half-year mark on your new blog! ♥ I’m really happy for you *hugs* *throws confetti*

    Among your top six, If I Stay is the only one I’ve read. In fact, you’re the one who recommended the book to me when you were still super active on Tumblr and of course, like all the books you’ve recommended, I liked it. Wait. No. Scratch that. I LOVED IT!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ Hihihi :”>

    { The Sea of Tranquility, How to Love and The Beginning Of Everything are part of my to-read. :) }

    Anyway, may you have a merry Christmas and a positive 2014, dear! :) Stay safe and (I hope it’s okay if I use it) let’s Stay bookish! ;)

    Hugs,
    Luisa (pepperminted)

  29. Happy six month Blogoversary! Some of my favourite 2013 reads were The Indigo Spell, Clockwork Princess and The Madman’s Daughter! Thanks so much for the giveaway! :D

  30. My favorites this year were At Home by Bill Bryson, Veneficas Americana series by M. K. Hobson and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin.

  31. My favourite reads this year are definitely The Book Thief, The Infernal Devices trilogy, Legend trilogy, The 5th Wave, The Darkest Minds, All our Yesterdays, Eleanor and Park, The Fault in Our Stars and Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour.

    I’ve read some really good ones this year, but the books mentioned above are just the ones that captured my heart and made me shed tears.

  32. I think my favorite has to be Clockwork Princess. But you probably already knew that, haha! Anyway, I’m really hoping for Cassie Clare’s next series to be as good, if not better than TDA (though that sounds impossible to me, because WHAT CAN EVEN TOP TDA? XD), and though a lot of people think she should give the Shadowhunter world a break already, I think I disagree! I’d love to further divulge in the ongoings of that world <3 So yeah!

    And CONGRATS on the semi-blogoversary Hazel! You have come so far and it is amazing!! More power to this amazeballs blog and to you for the coming year <3

  33. I got a lot of favorite books read this year, some of them is:
    Clockwork-princess
    Obsidian
    The Darkest Minds
    The Indigo Spell
    Throne of Glass

  34. Hands-down to Making Faces by Amy Harmon :”> I haven’t read This Song Will Save Your Life *hides in shame* I must read that! And Graffiti Moon :>
    OMG. I loved How to Love, it had so much issues that were relatable!

  35. My favorite reads were american girl on saturn by nikki godwin, between the devil and the deep blue see by april tucholke…they’re many others but it would take me forever to list all the awesome books i’ve read through the year.

  36. Reboot by Amy Tintera, Pivot Point by Kasie West, Altered by Jennifer Rush, Sweet Peril by Wendy Higgins, The Collector & The Liberator by Victoria Scott, Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken, Taken by Erin Bowman, Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi, The Program by Suzanne Young. How to Love by Katie Cotugno. I should probably stop now but this year was good book wise. Thank you so much. I love the theme of this giveaway and all the choices.

  37. Some of my favorite reads of 2013 were the Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, Just One Day by Gayle Forman, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak!

  38. 2013 was quite a great bookish year for me – some of my faves are Golden by Jessi Kirby, These Broken Stars by Meagan Spooner & Amie Kaufman, Inferno by Dan Brown, Nantucket Blue by Laila Howand, Audrey Wait! by Robin Benway, and few others. You can read about it here

    Btw, great lists above, Hazel! I freakin’ love If I Stay and The Sea of Tranquility too <3

  39. I just read Cinder and The Boo Thief last year so I kinda regret that I was late but they were my fave. I also loved All Our Yesterdays and Scarlet.

  40. I love the House of Hades and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Cant wait for the final book of Heroes of Olympus

  41. For my, the best books from 2013 are This is what happy looks like, The statistical probability of love at first sight, the Percy Jackson and the Olympians serie =)

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