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Top Ten Favorite Books You've Read During The Lifespan Of Your Blog


Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the Broke and the Bookish.

This week's topic: Top Ten Favorite Books You've Read During the Lifespan of Your Blog

Most of these are books that I gave a 5 star rating to.  Others are books that I absolutely loved but for some reason or another, they didn't quite earn a 5 star rating from me.

1.) East of Eden by John Steinbeck
2.) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
3.) Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch
4.) You Know When the Men are Gone by Siobhan Fallon
5.) Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
6.) Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
7.) Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
8.) Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
9.) The Summer Garden by Paullina Simons
10) Dark Lover by J.R. Ward

What are some of your favorite books you've read since you started blogging?  Leave me a link so I can check out your lists!

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  1. AnneAugust 21, 2012 at 8:27 AM

    I love so many on this list- especially East of Eden and The Summer Garden!

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  2. AnonymousAugust 21, 2012 at 9:22 AM

    Wintergirls is such a great book! I almost put that one on my list, too.

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  3. Tanya PatriceAugust 21, 2012 at 10:24 AM

    I read Game of Thrones and loved it. I’ll have to look into some of the others that you mentioned.

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  4. Beth D.August 21, 2012 at 10:53 AM

    A lot of these I have heard of, maybe I should check some of them out. Like East of Eden.

    Beth ^_^
    http://sweetbooksnstuff.blogspot.com/

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