Rather than listing the “best books of 2011” list most publications have, I am going to list the “best books of 2011” that I have read myself.
The obvious books are:
-The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
-The City of Bones series by Cassandra Clare
-The Help by Kathryn Stockett
These two series are “a given” in the referral list. These well known books were widely blogged about and discussed in many book forums and have quite a following. The Hunger Games series is currently being made into a movie coming out around summer of 2012. Aside from listing the obvious, I prefer to list the more nondescript books.
The books you might not have heard of yet:
The Promises of Dr. Sigmundus series by Brian Keany
-The Hollow People
-The Cracked Mirror
-The Resurrection Fields
The Chronicles of Faerie by O.R. Melling
-The Hunters Moon
-The Summer King
-The Light-Bearer’s Daughter
The Guardians of Time trilogy by Marianne Curley
-The Dark
-The Named
-The Key
The Darkness Rising series by Kelly Armstrong
-The Gathering
The Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa
-The Iron King
-The Iron Daughter
-The Iron Queen
-The Iron Knight
(Two mini novellas that go along with this series)
-Winter’s Passage
-Summer’s Crossing
The Aurora Tea Garden series by Charlaine Harris
-Real Murders
-A Bone to Pick
-Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
-The Julius House
-Dead Over Heels
-A Fool and His Honey
-Last Scene Alive
-Poppy Done to Death
All of these books are worth reading but if I were to pick one series from this list to recommend, it would be The Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa. If you liked Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, this series is definitely for you. If you are not a Twilight fan or have not/will not read that series, The Iron Fey is still a must read. It’s an easy YA read with a fairly fast flowing story.
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