The Rebellious Readers discussion

What were some of the best books you read in 2020? Discuss them here! This is a thread idea that Jaye created, so if she/he/they could elaborate, that would be super!

Also, check out the other topics in the 2020 Year in Review!

I LOVED reading Six of Crows and Spin the Dawn this year!

i still have to look through all the books i read this year to decide which are actually my favourites so i'll be back when i know which those books are lol

A few of my favorites were Tweet Cute, Cinder, and Howls Moving Castle

these violent delights was AMAZING

I want to read The Guinevere Deception, These Violent Delights, Tweet Cute and Cinder in 2021! I actually got Renegades from my school library yesterday XD And Emma you should definitely read Crooked Kingdom ASAP! It's so good.

read tvd as soon as possible. it blew me away!

nearly every book i read was good i cant pick lol

i have a top favourite 14 books that i read this year (i actually taught there will be more lol). all these books were amazing!

14. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
13. A heart so Fierce and Broken by Brigit Kemmerer
12. Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
11. Eliza and her monsters by Francesca Zappia
10. Skyward by Brandon Sanderson
9. A Reaper at the Gates/A Sky Beyon the Storm by Sabaa Tahir - I just read the last book and I couldn't not put this series on my favourites of the year list
8. House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas - the friendship between Danika and Bryce got to me
7. Solitaire by Alice Oseman
6. The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab - I actually thought this will be higher in my favourites list, but the top 6 books are all really close together so it was soo hard for me to actually decide which at what number goes.
5. Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo - I loved this book this characters, it was just a perfect book that I read at the perfect time
4. Vicious by V.E. Schwab - this was one of the first books that I read this year and from the first chapter I knew this will be on my favourites list
3. Radio Silence by Alice Oseman - this was such a good book and I related with it on so many levels. Please read it if you haven't yet, just do it, trust me, it's amazing.
2. Keeper of the Lost Cities (series) by Shannon Messenger - my favourite in the series (so far) was Neverseen. I read book 1 to 8 this year and I loved every second of these books. (p.s. I'm team Keefe)
1. Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare - this was my most anticipated book of this year and it did not disappoint. it was so good, I loved it so much and I cannot wait for Chain of Iron to be released!!

Yaassss there are so many great books there! I loved A Heart so Fierce and Broken too!

Here’s my top 15 as of now:

1. A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder
2. Six of Crows
3. Crooked Kingdom
4. The Lightning Thief (reread)
5. One of Us is Lying
6. Our Dark Duet
7. King of Scars
8. The House in the Cerulean Sea
9. Good Girl, Bad Blood
10. Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow
11. A Tale of Witchcraft
12. A Tale of Magic
13. The Moonlight Dreamers
14. The Cruel Prince
15. The Wicked King

a good girls guide to murder is good.

Reading accomplishments of the year:
- Finished the original Skulduggery Pleasant series (books 1-9 plus Tanith Low) and thus concluded a huge chapter of my teenage years, will pick up the new series likely in 2021
- Finished the original I Am Not a Serial Killer trilogy, am not going to continue to further books though
- Reread Sklaven und Herren ("slaves and lords", no English release), a book that wildly disturbed me in middle school and you know what? Still does
- Read a book by Brandon Sanderson, which I'd been meaning for for so long. Sadly wasn't into the series.

A sort of top list, but a hard to make one, since honestly a lot of this I can't compare (max. 1 per series):
1. The Dying of the Light (I read from 5 onwards, my second favourite being book 6: Death Bringer)
2. Spellslinger (I read 1-3)
3. Comet in Moominland (I read none of the others, but man do I want to)
4. The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan
5. Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 1 Volume 1 (I read none of the others either because they're a bit hard to get)
6. The Monstrumologist (not planning to read the sequel, but will go down in history as the most disgusting book I have read in my life)
7. Sklaven Und Herren (apparently is also part of a series? I never knew)
8. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (slightly preferred it over Alice in Wonderland)
9. Cinder (didn't have options to read the rest yet)
10. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (I read one volume per year. this was the 2020 volume. fittingly, as it features the end of the universe.)

I haven't read as much as I think most people here this year since this was only the year where I really started getting back into reading anyway (also explaining why I have such a different list from everyone else) but I think it was a good year!

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Twilight

New Moon

Human Enough

The Sound of Stars