Another countdown survey seemed to fit my mood today, so when I found out that Novel Ink is hosting this one, I wanted to participate as well đ It’s fairly simple, with ten questions about books and bookish things to share and also a way to reflect on what I read during 2015.
Countdown Survey – What Happened in 2015
10- 2016 Books Youâre Excited About
Morning Star (Red Rising Trilogy #3) by Pierce Brown
Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry
Fighting Dirty (Ultimate #4) by Lori Foster
He Will Be My Ruin by K. A. Tucker
Invision (Chronicles of Nick #7) by Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Glittering Court by Richelle Mead
The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz
This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp
Allegiance of Honor (Psy-Changeling #15) by Nalini Singh
Sweet Little Lies (Heartbreaker’s Bay #1) by Jill Shalvis
9- Favorite Covers of 2015
8- Books That Surprised You (Either in a good or bad way)
Heartbreaker’s Bet by Donna Cummings – a great surprise because for a short novella, I got completely invested in the characters and felt like I got a complete story!
Anarchy Found by J.A Huss was another great surprise, because she managed to flawlessly mix her romantic suspense with superheroes, and I loved it!
The Queen by Tiffany Reisz was a wonderful surprise, too. I think the main reason was that I loved how The Original Sinners series ended, and while I was (and am!) sad it is over, I still felt like the story had come full circle.
The Canterbury Sisters by Kim Wright took me completely by surprise, too. I don’t read much ‘chick lit’ and this book just made me want to walk to Canterbury myself – it was a beautiful pilgrimage.
The whole Boys of Summer series by Katie Rose was a wonderful surprise as well, because while I love sports romances, I have no idea about baseball, and didn’t really expect to enjoy reading about baseball-players.
The Piano Man Project by Kat French was great, because it was a very different take on contemporary romances, and I loved how the girls worked together to try to find their best friend the perfect man.
The Sweet Salvation Brewery series by Avery Flynn is another that got better and better with each instalment, and it was a fun buddy read with my friend Brandee @ Bookworm Brandee
The Strongest Steel by Scarlett Cole was a great surprise, too, because I expected an angsty NA romance (which I got) but it was so much more!
7- Books You Didnât Get To in 2015
Bound by Flames by Jeaniene Frost
The Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Black-Eyed Susans by Julia Haeberlin
The Shadows by J.R. Ward
Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine
The Cage by Megan Shepherd
6- Books That Gave You All the Feels/Made You Cry
The Ruby Circle by Richelle Mead
Happily Ever After by J.A. Huss
Relentless Rhythm by Michelle Mankin
Walk Through Fire by Kristen Ashley
The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
Wasted Lust by J.A. Huss
5- Golden Finds (Unpopular Books You Loved)
Monday’s Lie by Jamie Mason
Everything You And I Could Have Been If We Weren’t You And I by Albert Espinosa
If You Wrong Us by Dawn Klehr
Unwritten by Chelsea Cameron
Material Girls by Elaine Dimopoulos
4- Books You Wish Were Movies/TV Shows
Their Fractured Light – that whole series could definitely work as either movies or TV shows, there is a lot going on that I would love to watch.
The Golden Son – this whole series as well – I think there’s enough material for a TV show there, as there are many characters to follow and quite complex world building.
Anarchy Found would work great as a movie, the action, the romance, the superheroes… yeah, I would definitely go see that!
The Rest of Us Just Live Here could be a movie as well, I loved the book, and I think it could work on the big screen.
3 â Series You Started
SuperAlpha  by J.A. Huss
Thunder Road by Katie McGarry
The Original Sinners by Tiffany Reisz – I read the whole series in 2015, and I loved it!
2 â Books Everyone Loved But You Didnât
This one is actually the most difficult to me – I didn’t really read many books I didn’t enjoy, but I will go with these two:
The Iron Hunt by Marjorie M. Liu
The Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen
1 â Best Book of 2015
Really? Do you even know how hard it was to make a top ten favorite books for me for this year? And now I’m supposed to choose one and only one? OK, because I haven’t mentioned it anywhere else in this post, I’ll go with
November 9 by Colleen Hoover
I really hope 2016 will be as awesome when it comes to books, blogging and blogger friends as 2015 has been! Thanks for hanging out with me, commenting, and sharing the book love! Happy 2016! May the new year bring joy, love, happiness, a little naughtiness, fun, friendship, good health, success and amazing books!
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Cool countdown, I only knew a few books you favored. đ
It’s always funny to me that we don’t really read the same books, Stormi, even if we enjoy the same genres đ
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I think it’s cause you read a lot of contemporary where as I prefer the historical romance and read more of those. Then we are just hit and miss on the others…lol. The of the books on your didn’t get to in 2015 list are books I didn’t get to either. đ
I read HR, too, but not as much as you đ
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Great list. I would’ve had a hard time with books that everyone loved that you didn’t too. I really enjoyed the vast majority of the books I read. For my, “unpopular books” Stripped series by Skye Warren, Kit Colbana series by J.C. Daniels and Gifted series by Jena Black.
I’m glad we’ve both been able to pick really good books lately, Melanie đ Hopefully, that will continue in 2016 đ
I hope I’ll finish Original Sinners in 2016. I just downloaded a sample of Super Alpha thanks for the recommendation Lex! Happy New Year
Oh, I hope you’ll enjoy Super Alpha, Daniela!! Happy New Year.
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I love this wrap up post! It’s cruel and unusual to have to choose just one best book… but I’m happy you chose November 9 as its on my TBR for (and will actually be read in) 2016.
Happy Reading and a Happy New Year’s!
I know đ Just one book? that’s just not possible!!
Happy new year đ Godt nytt Ă„r til deg og dine, hĂ„per 2016 blir et flott leseĂ„r for bĂ„de deg og meg đ
Takk, Anette đ Godt nytt Ă„r til dere og đ
Some great books here and ideas for other reads. Happy reading for 2016 and happy New year.
Thanks, Alicia đ I hope you’ll be able to pick up some of my favorite books in 2016. Happy reading.
Such a fun survey!!! Good for you for getting it down to one favorite book!! November 9 was great. I hope you get to and love He Wil Be My Ruin. It was amazing!
Eh… I think all the books I mentioned in the survey were favorites đ And since I hadn’t mentioned November 9, and it needed to be on there!
I hope I’ll get to He Will Be My Ruin very soon, and I’m so happy you loved it, Grace.
Nice post! I really need to read some Colleen Hoover in 2016. I keep meaning to read her work but just never seem to get around to it. It seems like everyone is loving November 9.
I love Colleen Hoover’s books, Carole. They always make me emotional, and the characters touch me in many ways.
I need to read Ink and Bone and Black-Eyed Susans as well, not to mention lots of other older titles! I hope 2016 is a great year.
There are just so many books I want to read, Lauren, I really hope I’ll get to both Ink and Bone and Black-Eyed Susans. Happy 2016 to you, too.
I’m ridiculously excited about Allegiance of Honor too. (Even though I still need to read Shards of Hope). I didn’t get around to reading Illuminae either, even though I’ve been hearing a lot of really positive things about it.
I’ve read Shards of Hope, and it was awesome! I have a beautiful copy of Illuminae sitting on my shelf, but it’s just so gorgeous I don’t want to break the spine or make it look any less pristine than it is now đ
Great countdow you have here!! I really enjoyed Jeffries book. I do need to read November 9 soon.
Thanks, Renee đ Jeffries is great! And I hope you’ll enjoy November 9 when you get to it.
Ooh, I loved reading this and reminiscing over your year (and mine) in books, Lexxie. I’d kinda forgotten Wasted Lust was a ‘snot-fest’ but I now remember the ugly cry. đ Thanks for sharing the year that was and the year to look forward to! I look forward to more buddy reads in 2016! <3
The Last Time We Say Goodbye definitely made me cry, too! Such an emotionally beautiful book!
Yes, very well done, and I cried for a while just thinking about it afterwards.