Romance Lovers for the Challenge-Impaired discussion

Tell us your favorite reads of the month -- and the year!

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Oh, those look good, Jenny. I have a couple, but I haven't read them, including on audio.

There were only three 5 stars for me this month and they were:


These were 4 stars but still good:

Books I've read this year and added to shelf "favorites"

Paranormal:

YA/NA:

Bikers:

Contemporary:

Kristen Ashley:

Historical:

With this books my favorite authors this year were Kristen Ashley and Jamie Begley

It was an eh reading month for me. Only two that got 5 stars







These were added to my favorites shelf this year...

Nice year in review, Gea! Some of my favs there.

I read A LOT this month ,my 5star reads weren't romances ¡I don't know what this says about me and my reading preferences!
5 stars

I'll sort out my favs for the year later

My 5*s for the month were &

I just typed a giant comment of my favorites for the year and goodreads ate it! I got the "over capacity" message. How can Amazon servers be over capacity!?!?

Anyway, out of time now. Will retype my yearly list later.

That sucks, KarenF. Anyway... I got from the library, but I have this stupid cold and my reading and audiobook listening has come to a screeching halt.

Here's the "goodreads ate my first post" list of faves of the year. Apologies in advance for the length, I'm bad at picking favorites.

Biggest surprise - I did not expect to love

Historical -

PNR -

UF -

Mystery -

Contemporary -

Novella -

Fantasy - & the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher

Those are mostly pretty big names so some less talked about authors that I loved:

Oh, Judy... you have me adding books to my audible.com wishlist!

Don't apologize, KarenF. More for me to peruse.

BTW, I was surprised I loved , too.

My favorite reads for December

4.5-5 Stars:


My favorite reads for 2013



Apparently I really like UF and men in kilts lol.

Here are my December favs. I'll have to work on my 2013 favorites.


Best Audios
✔ , by Linda Howard ★★★★★ audible.com 12/3 “reread for comfort.” Charmingly narrated by Deborah Hazlett.
✔ , by Jim Butcher ★★★★½ PB 12/7 “buddy read”
✔ , by Lexxie Couper & Mari Carr ★★★★½ audible.com 12/18. Wonderfully narrated by India Plum.
✔ , by M.M. Kaye ★★★★½ audible.com 12/21 Death in... #5 Well narrated by Bahni Turpin

Nice Surprise! - in order
✔ , by Melody Thomas ★★★★☆ SJLibrary-eBookcover
✔ , by Tina Leonard ★★★★☆ Kindle 12/31 P Cowboys by the Dozen #1
✔ , by Cherry Adair ★★★★☆ SJLibrary-PB 12/13
✔ , by Marion Chesney (AKA: M.C. Beaton) ★★★★☆ ODA-SF 12/19 Nicely narrated by Helen Lisanti

Other 4 Stars
✔ , by Robyn Carr ★★★★½ OCD 12/22 Virgin River #2 Nicely narrated by Therese Plummer. “re-read via audio”
✔ , by Mary Jo Putney ★★★★☆ Library PB 12/6
✔ , by Miranda Lee ★★★★☆ SJLibrary-eBookcover 12/12
✔ , by Lilian Jackson Braun ★★★★☆ audio-cassette 12/21 Nicely narrated by George Guidall

You had a good month LK!

I loved these whole series:

The Vorkosigan Books starting with and the rest of them all 5 or 4 stars for me.

The Dresden files starting with and all 4 or 5 stars

Battered Hearts series all 5 stars and more!

In death series by J D Robb

and these books

I only managed to read 8 books this month. None of them got 5 stars, but 4 of them got 4 stars. They are...

For 2014:

I need to do my yearly favs, even if it is just the audios.