This survey comes from the wonderful Jamie at The Perpetual Page Turner and you can find more information here.
1. Best Book You Read In 2013? (If you have to cheat —
you can break it down by genre if you want or 2013 release vs. backlist)
Contemporary YA – Crash Into You by Katie McGarry, The Sea of Tranquility by Katja
Millay, Just One Day / Just One Year by Gayle Forman, Wait for You by J. Lynn
Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic – Angelfall
by Susan Ee and Into the Still Blue by Veronica
Rossi
Historical Fiction – The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Paranormal — The Dream Thieves by Maggie
Stiefvater
Fantasy — The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson
and Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
Days of Blood & Starlight by
Laini Taylor, part fantasy, part paranormal , part romance
2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were
Going To Love More But Didn’t?
Crash by Lisa McMann, such a
good premise and a beautiful cover.
3. Most surprising (in a good way!) book of
2013?
I would say The
Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it
is so different, so good and the feels were amazing. Another surprising book was Viral
Nation by Shaunta Grimes, I
didn’t think I would love it because the protagonist is autistic and it sounded
like another dystopian, it isn’t though.
4. Book you read in 2013 that you recommended to
people most in 2013?
Probably the Girl of Fire
and Thorns series by Rae
Carson, such an amazing story! I read
the last two books this year.
5. Best series you discovered in 2013?
Angelfall
by Susan Ee, even though I just
started the second book, I have great hope for the series. Also, The
Collector (book two is
The
Liberator) by Victoria
Scott. How can anyone help not fall in
love with Dante?
6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2013?
Katja Millay (see
#1 above), her writing is just amazing, I will read anything she writes. Makus
Zusak, or course.
7. Best book that was out of your comfort zone or
was a new genre for you?
I don’t think I read any new genres and the only book I can
think of that was out of my comfort zone was The Book Thief, because the setting is Nazi Germany.
