Favorite Covers of 2014

I'll read a book regardless of whether I do or don't like the cover. Occasionally though my cover love takes over and I buy a book purely because it's pretty, I've discovered both great books & truly awful books this way. This list is a sample of my favorite covers of the year, both YA and Adult, read and unread.

Favorite Adult Novels of 2014

It was hard to pick my favorite adult novels from 2014. Although I'd read plenty and gave most four stars I still don't have any clear favorites. This lists the books that stuck in my mind most, that I fell in love with and bought multiple copies of to give to people! As with my YA list I'm pretty sure there are books that were far more obvious but I've somehow skipped over them.

Landline

Ready Player One

Throne of the Crescent Moon

Poison

Smiler's Fair

Jasmyn

Ancillary Justice

The Days of the Deer

Peacemaker

Between Two Thorns

Favorite YA Novels of 2014

These are in no particular order and I'm 99% certain there are several that I've missed out but these are (most) of my favorite YA reads of 2014!

Fangirl

Isla & the Happily Ever After

Aristotle & Dante

Stolen Songbird

Trust Me, I'm Lying

Say Her Name

Compulsion

Court

Killing Sound

The Unhappening of Genesis Lee

Favorite MG Books of 2014

To finish off the year I'd thought I'd share some favorites from the past 12 months of reading and some books that I'm looking forward to in 2015. Today's list is my favorite MG books this year, including a classic and an historical with a ghostly twist!

Honorable mentions go to

Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous day!

Apologies And A Giveaway!

So, I've been an awful blogger over the last few week! I have no excuse except for being exceptionally busy and/or being at home/at my sister's house with no internet. Which has been dreadful... And I can't even say I managed to read more as I didn't have the distraction of the internet.

Anyway, despite my being an absentee blogger I hit a milestone last week. I hit 2000 followers on bloglovin'!!! A huge thank you to everyone who has followed me, you honestly don't know how much it means. In honor of this I've decided to have a giveaway.

Up for grabs is any book mentioned on Bookish Outsider this year (provided it's in print and not over $20) which will come from the Book Depository, check shipping to your country here. The giveaway starts now and is open until midnight on December 27th, simply fill out the rafflecopter to take part!

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A Very Bookish Month - July 2014

• A Dawn Most Wicked - Susan Dennard
• Something Strange & Deadly - Susan Dennard
• A Darkness Strange & Lovely - Susan Dennard
• Death Note Vol 1 - Boredom
• Strange & Ever After - Susan Dennard
• Innocence - Dean Koontz
• Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell
• Second on the Right - Elizabeth Los
• Black Heart Blue - Louisa Reid
• Find Me - Romily Bernard
• Hounded - Kevin Hearne
• The Last Forever - Deb Caletti
• A Place For Us Pt 1 - Harriet Evans
• Far From You - Tess Sharpe
• Dark Heart Surrender - Lee Monroe

YA 11
Childrens 0
Adult 4

Own 6
Kindle 5
Library 4

Grand Total 15

Far From You | Fangirl | The Last Forever

Black Heart Blue | Strange & Ever After

I read fewer books this month but it was a good month, I couldn't decide between five books for Book of the Month so they're all favorites! Black Heart Blue and Far From You both broke my heart, as did The Last Forever and I was sad to see Susan Dennard's Strange & Deadly series come to a close.

• The Illusionists - Laure Eve
• Through the Woods - Emily Carroll
• The Kiss of Deception - Mary E Pearson
• Maskerade Special Edition - Terry Pratchett
• Lords & Ladies Special Edition - Terry Pratchett
• Witches Abroad Special Edition - Terry Pratchett
• The Book of Life - Deborah Harkness
• The Dead of Winter - Lee Collins
• The Six-Gun Tarot - R S Belcher
• Fangirl Limited Edition - Rainbow Rowell
• Half A King - Joe Abercrombie

Everything That Makes You was up first and luckily the wait was short thanks to HarperCollins, Patrick Rothfuss is keeping me waiting for The Doors of Stone so in the meantime I'll console myself with The Slow Regard of Silent Things and meeting him again in London next week!!! Last but not least I'm waiting on the first part of a new fantasy trilogy by Tom Fletcher (the author one, not the McFly singer/author one), Gleam, which is being to one of my favorites, Gormenghast.

In August I'll be reading these fantastic books!

Lock In | Of Metal & Wishes | Gates of Thread & Stone

YALC, LFCC, Rainbow Rowell at Waterstones Piccadilly, Meg Rosoff & Marcus Sedgwick at Waterstones Piccadilly... It was a busy month, all of these were within a week of each other and I still haven't recovered completely!

I had a pretty good time, there were a couple of things that pretty much ruined the 3 days at LFCC/YALC but I'm not going into detail about what they were. I met Joe Abercrombie, got strangled by Darren Shan, nearly knocked over by Lena Headey, spotted Hodor & Ser Loras, Colin Baker, R2D2 and the man inside the Darth Vader suit, walked past Stan Lee & George Romero, tried but failed to get a pic of John Hurt, Anthony Head & Paul McGann :( The panel I most wanted to see was Bring Me My Dragons which was on the Saturday as I've been looking forward to meeting Frances Hardinge for a long time. Unfortunately, although the panel was great, I had to leave before the signings as I was about to either pass out, have a full-blown panic attack or both!

The photos aren't great. There were people in the way, it was too sunny, I need a better camera and a myriad of other things!

I have completely lost track of all my challenge progress. I haven't really updated for Goodreads for nearly 2 months so need to do that and then hopefully I can work out how far behind I am! Proper challenge updates next month, I promise!