books read in 2018
List created by Southernmaw on Jan 24, 2018
List Votes: 1 Books: 48 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 1 List Type: Closed
List created by Southernmaw on Jan 24, 2018
List Votes: 1 Books: 48 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 1 List Type: Closed
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Willing Sacrifice (Sentinel Wars, Bk 8) by Shannon K. Butcher
They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now a warrior weighs the price he will pay for love....
Theronai warrior Torr has never forgotten... more
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Falling Blind (Sentinel Wars, Bk 7) by Shannon K. Butcher
They are the Sentinels. Three races descended from ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities in their battle to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now a warrior must protect a strong-minded woman from an incredible evil....
A beautiful,... more
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The Bees by Laline Paull
Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive’s survival, her curiosity is... more
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Model: A Memoir by Cheryl Diamond
Every year, hundreds of the most beautiful people in the world come to New York to become models. At age fourteen, Cheryl Diamond was one of them. Living on her own in a run-down apartment, Cheryl spent her days on go-sees, runways, and shoots, surviving hand-to-mouth, while taking in everything... more
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Taken by Edward Bloor
BY 2035 THE RICH have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and kidnapping has become a major growth industry in the United States. The children of privilege live in secure, gated communities and are escorted to and from school by armed guards.
But the security around Charity Meyers has... more
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Into the Dreaming (Highlander, Bk 8) by Karen Marie Moning
IT WASN'T ALL JUST A DREAM...
Aspiring romance novelist Jane Sillee was completely in love with her fantasy man -- the hot and strapping dark-haired Highlander who'd been coming to her in her dreams for years and inspired her sensual flights of literary fantasy.
But it was more... more
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The Selection (Selection, Bk 1) by Kiera Cass
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.
But for America... more
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The Elite (Selection, Bk 2) by Kiera Cass
Thirty-five girls came to the palace to compete in the Selection. All but six have been sent home. And only one will get to marry Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of Illea.
America still isn’t sure where her heart lies. When she’s with Maxon, she’s swept up in their... more
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The One (Selection, Bk 3) by Kiera Cass
The time has come for one winner to be crowned.
When she was chosen to compete in the Selection, America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown -- or to Prince Maxon's heart. But as the end of the competition approaches, and the threats outside the palace walls... more
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The Heir (Selection, Bk 4) by Kiera Cass
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story... but as the competition begins,... more
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The Selection Stories: The Prince and The Guard by Kiera Cass
The two novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series are now available in print for the first time. The Prince and The Guard both offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer's love. This collection... more
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The Crown (The Selection) by Kiera Cass
Kiera Cass?s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series has captured the hearts of readers from its very first page. Now the end of the journey is here. Prepare to be swept off your feet by The Crown?the eagerly awaited, wonderfully romantic fifth and final book in the Selection series.In... more
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Happily Ever After: Companion to the Selection Series (The Selection Novella) by Kier...
Meet Prince Maxon before he fell in love with America, and a girl named Amberly before she became queen. See the Selection through the eyes of a guard who watched his first love drift away and a girl who fell for a boy who wasn?t the prince. This gorgeous collection features four novellas from... more
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Delirium (Delirium, Bk 1) by Lauren Oliver
Lena Haloway is content in her safe, government-managed society. She feels pretty relaxed about the future in which her husband and career will be decided, and looks forward to turning 18, when she’ll be cured of deliria, a.k.a. love. She tries not to think about her mother’s suicide... more
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Requiem (Delirum, Bk 3) by Lauren Oliver
This exciting finale to Lauren Oliver's New York Times bestselling Delirium trilogy is a riveting blend of nonstop action and forbidden romance in a dystopian United States.
Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has transformed. The nascent rebellion that was underway... more
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Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven by Lauren Oliver
For the first time, Lauren Oliver's short stories about characters in the Delirium world appear in print. Originally published as digital novellas, Hana,Annabel, and Raven each center around a fascinating and complex character who adds important information to the series and... more
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Pandemonium (Delirium, Bk 2) by Lauren Oliver
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence, behind a wall of smoke and flame.
In this electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller Delirium, Lauren Oliver sets Lena on a dangerous course that hurtles through... more
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The Memory of After (Memory Chronicles, Bk 1) by Lenore Appelhans
Ever since she was killed in a car accident just before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward has been trapped in the afterlife. She spends the endless hours uploading and re-watching memories from her time on Earth, missing the people she left behind -- especially her boyfriend, Neil.
That... more
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The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
Though it was written in 1972, when the Women's Liberation Movement was at its height, it is unclear just which side THE STEPFORD WIVES takes in the battle, as this classic thriller takes aim at both feminism and traditional patriarchal mores. The inspiration for two films (the 1975 original... more
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Wool (Silo, Bk 1) by Hugh Howey
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo’s rules for years, unexpectedly... more
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Dust (Silo, Bk 3) by Hugh Howey
Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall.
Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn't trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white --... more
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Shift by Hugh Howey
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the... more
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The Farm (Farm, Bk 1) by Emily McKay
Life was different in the Before: before vampires began devouring humans in a swarm across America; before the surviving young people were rounded up and quarantined. These days, we know what those quarantines are -- holding pens where human blood is turned into more food for the undead... more
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The Lair (The Farm, Bk 2) by Emily McKay
In the battle against the vampiric Ticks, humanity was slowly but certainly headed for extinction. For months, twin sisters Lily and Mel had been “quarantined” with thousands of other young people being harvested for their blood—food for the Ticks. Finally escaping with a few... more
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The Vault (A Farm Novel) by Emily McKay
There is no rest for the damned in this thrilling follow-up to Emily McKay's The Lair and The Farm, in a series New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill calls, "Equal parts Resident Evil and Hunger Games."
In a world where vampires rule and teenaged humans are quarantined... more
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One Second After (After, Bk 1) by William R. Forstchen
A story in which one man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war that sends our nation back to the Dark Ages.
A war lost because of a terrifying weapon, an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) .. . that may already be in the hands of our... more
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Neferet's Curse (House of Night, Bk 3) by P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast
The White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century Chicago, with the World’s Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city, sixteen-year-old Emily Wheiler should be reveling in her youthful beauty and the excitement around her. But her whole life changed when... more
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Lenobia's Vow (House of Night, Bk 2) by P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast
A great journey…
A new love….
A dark secret revealed.
Evreux, France, 1788: Before she is Zoey’s favorite professor and the House of Night’s powerful horse mistress… Lenobia is just a normal 16-year-old girl – with enough problems to last a... more
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Redeemed (House of Night, Bk 12) by P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast
In the final electrifying novel in the House of Night series, Neferet has finally made herself known to mortals. A Dark Goddess is loose on Tulsa and the world. No single vampyre is strong enough to vanquish her -- unless that creature has the power to summon the elements as well as... more
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Kalona's Fall (House of Night, Bk 4) by P. C. Cast & Kristin Cast
The excitement continues as the Cast mother-daughter duo shares the back stories of a few of the House of Night's most important -- and mysterious -- characters.
In Kalona's Fall, the shadows in Kalonas past ffinally come to light. We learn about the winged immortal's secret... more
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The Dirt on Ninth Grave (Charley Davidson, Bk 9) by Darynda Jones
In a small village in New York Charley Davidson is living as Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback.
Stranger still are the people... more
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The Curse of Tenth Grave (Charley Davidson, Bk 10) by Darynda Jones
If one door closes and another one opens,
your house is probably haunted.
―Bumper Sticker
As a Part-time PI and full-time grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who is the hot supernatural entity following me? How do... more
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Eleventh Grave in Moonlight (Charley Davidson, Bk 11) by Darynda Jones
A typical day in the life of Charley Davidson involves cheating husbands, missing people, errant wives, philandering business owners, and oh yeah...demons, hell hounds, evil gods, and dead people. Lots and lots of dead people. As a part time Private Investigator and full-time Grim Reaper,... more
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The Trouble with Twelfth Grave (Charley Davidson, Bk 12) by Darynda Jones
Ever since Reyes escaped from a hell dimension in which Charley accidently trapped him, the son of Satan has been brimstone-bent on destroying the world his heavenly Brother created. His volatile tendencies have put Charley in a bit of a pickle. But that’s not the only briny vegetable on... more
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PODs by Michelle Pickett
Seventeen-year-old Eva is a chosen one. Chosen to live, while others meet a swift and painful death from an incurable virus so lethal, a person is dead within days of symptoms emerging. In the POD system, a series of underground habitats built by the government, she waits with the other chosen... more
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Empty by Suzanne Weyn
A dystopic look at what happens to one American town when all the fossil fuels run out...Civilization has just run out.It's the future - the very near future - and the fossil fuels are running out. No gas. No oil. Which means no driving. No heat. Supermarkets are empty. Malls have shut down.... more
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Dualed (Dualed, Bk 1) by Elsie Chapman
Two of you exist. Only one will survive.
West Grayer is ready. She's trained for years to confront her Alternate, a twin raised by another family. Survival means a good job, marriage -- life.
But then a tragic misstep leaves West questioning: Is she the best version of herself, the... more
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Unison Spark by Andy Marino
Everyone is obsessed with Unison, the social network that knows you better than you know yourself. Everyone who can afford it, that is. Living beneath the vast ceiling that separates Eastern Seaboard City into rich topside and poor sub-canopy zones, fifteen-year-old Mistletoe can only dream of... more
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Perfect Ruin (Internment Chronicles, Bk 1) by Lauren DeStefano
Morgan Stockhour knows getting too close to the edge of Internment, the floating city in the clouds where she lives, can lead to madness. Even though her older brother, Lex, was a Jumper, Morgan vows never to end up like him. If she ever wonders about the ground, and why it is forbidden, she... more
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Drought by Pam Bachorz
Ruby dreams of escaping the Congregation. Escape from slaver Darwin West and his cruel Overseers. Escape from the backbreaking work of gathering Water. Escape from living as if it is still 1812, the year they were all enslaved. When Ruby meets Ford, an irresistible, kind, forbidden new... more
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Burning Kingdoms (Internment Chronicles, Bk 2) by Lauren DeStefano
Danger descends in the second book of The Internment Chronicles, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Chemical Garden trilogy.
After escaping Internment, Morgan and her fellow fugitives land on the ground to finally learn about the world beneath their floating island home.
The... more
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Swans & Klons by Nora Olsen
What does it take to survive in a world built on lies?
Sixteen-year-old Rubric loves her pampered life in the Academy dormitory. She?s dating Salmon Jo, a brilliant and unpredictable girl. In their all-female world, non-human slaves called Klons do all the work. But when Rubric and Salmon Jo... more
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The Rules (Project Paper Doll, Bk 1) by Stacey Kade
The Rules: Never trust anyone. -- Remember they are always searching. - Don't get involved. -- Keep your head down. -- Don't fall in love.
Five simple rules. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result... more
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Project Paper Doll The Hunt by Stacey Kade
Ariane Tucker has finally escaped GTX, the research facility that created her. Now that she's on the run, Zane Bradshaw is the only person she can trust. He knows who-and what-she is and still wants to be part of her life.
But accepting Zane's help means putting him in danger.
Dr. Jacobs, head... more
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The Trials (Project Paper Doll, Bk 3) by Stacey Kade
After being on the run, Ariane Tucker finds herself back where she started-under Dr. Jacobs's cruel control. Now she must participate in the upcoming trials: a deadly competition pitting her against other alien hybrids, each representing a rival corporation.
But Ariane is no one's... more
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Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
From an acclaimed horror writer, a chilling tale of blood-hungry children who rise from the dead in this innovative spin on apocalyptic vampire fiction.
Suffer the Children presents a terrifying tale of apocalyptic fiction, as readers are introduced to Herod?s Syndrome, a devastating illness... more