Books That Kept Me 'Up All Night' In 2016...

It's been a pretty awful year this year, to put it mildly! Life on the blog hasn't exactly been wonderful but 2017 promises to be better. I won't be gallivanting about as much next year, hopefully, so posting will be a lot more regular than this year. Before I post my 'Best Of...' lists I wanted to put together a list of my 'five clocks' books, and there's been a few! It may have been a bad blogging year but it certainly hasn't been a bad reading year. The list includes my top re-reads (marked with a *) and is in alphabetical order, mostly...

13 Minutes - Sarah Pinborough

A Child of Books - Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston

A Fever Of The Blood - Oscar de Muriel

A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms - George R R Martin

A Perilous Beginning - Deanna Raybourn

A Portable Shelter  - Kirsty Logan

Alice - Christina Henry

All About Pumpkin - Natasha Farrant

*And Then There Were None

The Apprentice Witch - James Nicol

Barefoot On The Wind - Zoe Marriott

Becoming Unbecoming - Una 

Behind Closed Doors - B A Paris

Blackfin Sky - Kat Ellis

Blue Lily Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater

*Cinder - Marissa Meyer

The Creeper Man - Dawn Kurtagich

Cress - Marissa Meyer

*Crown of Midnight - Sarah J Maas

The Damage Done - James Oswald

The Darkest Part Of The Forest - Holly Black 

The Day The Crayons Came Home - Drew Daywalt & Oliver Jeffers

The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater

Fables: Arabian Nights (And Days)

Fables: Homeland

Fables: March Of The Wooden Soldiers

Fables: The Mean Seasons

Fables: Wolves

Golden Son - Pierce Brown

The Hawley Book Of The Dead - Chrysler Szarlan

The Imaginary - A. F. Harrold  & Emily Gravett

In The Woods - Tana French

Lockwood & Co. - The Screaming Staircase - Jonathan Stroud

Luna: New Moon - Ian McDonald

The Marriage Lie - Kimberley Belle

*The Mysterious Affair At Styles

*The Mysterious Mr. Quin

Natural Causes - James Oswald
*The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern

Orbiting Jupiter - Gary D Schmidt

*The Owl Service - Alan Garner 

Painkiller - N J Fountain

Phoenix - S F Said

Poppy Pym & The Double Jinx - Laura Wood

Prayer For The Dead - James Oswald

Rat Queens Vol. I

*Red Rising - Pierce Brown

Saga Vol. I

Saga Vol. II

Saga Vol. III

Saga Vol. IV

Saga Vol. V 

Shadow Magic - Joshua Khan

Shadows On The Moon - Zoe Marriott

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying Of The Light - Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of The Wicked - Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant: The Last Stand Of Dead Men - Derek Landy

Tadpole's Promise (picture book)

Things The Grandchildren Should Know

Time For Jas - Natasha Farrant

The Unquiet House - Alison Littlewood

The Whispers Of Wilderwood Hall - Karen McCombie

Top Ten Tuesday #110 - Books I Love Even More Now!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous girls cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Ten Books I Feel Differently About After Time Has Passed

Wow, I hadn't realised I hadn't done a TTT post for quite so long! Ooops? Anyway, here are the books that I love more now than when I originally read them. I'm pretty sure most of them, if not all, will be familiar to long-time readers...

The Court Of The Midnight King

The Dark Is Rising Sequence

Fly By Night

I Capture The Castle

The Little Country

The Raven Boys 

The Owl Service

The Raven Boys

When Marnie Was There

The Wood Wife

Top Ten Tuesday #107 - Characters Who Irritate Me!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous girls cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Nine Characters Everyone Loves But I Just Don't Get or Ten Characters I LOVE But Others Seem To Dislike

I've adjusted it slightly and gone with characters who irritate me! It doesn't mean I don't like them, although in some cases I really don't, *cough* Bella Swan *cough* but these particular characters get on my nerves without even trying...

Top Ten Tuesday #100 - Books On My Fall TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the wonderful gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is a freebie so I'm going to do one that I missed earlier this year.

Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR

My favorite topic! I don't know why I don't skip the TBR topics as I never end up reading any of the books on the lists I put together. Maybe this one will be different... I do really want to read these books as well, and soon! There are nine on my list this week as I'm still searching for books to go along with my R.I.P. reading. Any suggestions gratefully accepted!

Top Ten Tuesday #99 - Favorite Books So Far This Year

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the wonderful gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is a freebie so I'm going to do one that I missed earlier this year.

Top Ten Favorite Books So Far This Year

This is a selection of some of my favorite books this year, not necessarily some of the best but definitely books that will make it on to my 'reread' list in years to come. All fiction apart from one!

Top Ten #91 - Books On My TBR For Summer 2015!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Twelve Books On My TBR For Summer 2015

As I have such an excellent track record of actually reading the books I put on these lists (Spring 2015 - read one title, Fall 2014 - read one title, and so on...) I thought it would be fun to put together my Summer TBR list if only to have a slightly hysterical laugh later over what books you can probably guarantee I won't read!

Top Ten Tuesday #90 - Books I Plan To Have In My Book Bag On Vacation!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books I Plan To Have In My Beach Bag This Summer

I've changed this slightly as I'm on vacation right now, hopefully with a bag of really great books, some great weather and getting some quality reading time in! This is pretty much what I'm going to try and squeeze in my bag, whether I get to read them all is another matter! I've picked a mix of new and old with a few re-reads thrown in and a couple of titles to finish off too.

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.

Book Haul #22

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews, In My Mailbox is a weekly event hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren and/or The Mod Podge Bookshelf and Letterbox Love is a UK edition hosted by Narratively Speaking. Here we can share what new books we've picked up this past week. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

Another great week for me, I got some good books this week, including a couple of review books which I can't wait to start. One day though, I'll have a book haul post which will be empty... one day!

Bought

Zenn Scarlett - Christian Schoon

The Crimson Shard - Teresa Flavin

The Curiosities - Maggie Stiefvater

Mayhem - Sarah Pinborough

Of Poseidon - Anna Banks

Kindle Buys

Wolves & Witches - Amanda Davies & Megan Engelhardt

Kindle Freebies

Everblue - Brenda Pandos

For Review

Pack Of Lies - Sara Dailey & Staci Weber

Circle Of Lies - Sara Dailey & Staci Weber

Viral Nation - Shaunta Grimes

Pack Of Lies and Circle Of Lies were kindly sent to me by the the publisher and Shaunta Grimes was kind enough to send me a copy of Viral Nation which I'm so excited about as it's been on my wishlist!

What did you get this week?