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Top 10 Books I Read in 2019
01
Dry
By Neil Shusterman, author of Scythe, Dry is a powerful book about the California Drought in its most drastic moment, still yet to happen. The book is written in a stunning and powerful present-tense.
02
Counting by 7s
By Holly Sloan, Counting by 7s is an emotional book about how Willow deals with a devastating loss, and made cry what felt like a billion times. Highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone!
03
King of Scars
By Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars follows the characters from her Grishaverse series. Nikolai, the beloved king with a demon, Zoya, the Squaller with a hard past, and Nina, the broken Grisha with a broken heart. In this book, Nikolai and Zoya are off to banish his demon, and Nina's on a special mission to recruit Grisha and find peace with her devastating loss.
04
By Maureen Johnson, Truly Devious is about Stevie Bell, a true-crime aficionado, who is accepted to the famous Ellingham Academy. Ellingham is the home of one of the most famous cold cases. Stevie is determined to solve it, but when someone dies in a supposed accident, will she be able to solve both?
05
The Vanishing Stair
By Maureen Johnson, and the second book in the Truly Devious series, The Vanishing Stair is about Stevie's experience with her return to the academy.
06
Legendary
By Stephanie Garber, the second book in the Caraval series, is about the second Caraval that Donatella and Scarlette experience, and it is as dangerous as ever.
07
Prisoner B-3087
By Alan Gratz, a well known author of many war and tragedy related books such as Refuge, is about a boy who gets stuck in concentration camps due to him being Jewish during the reign of the Nazi party, and deals with the hardships that were brought upon him.
08
By Iain Lawrence, the book follows the survival of Chris, a young boy who is stranded with another boy, Frank, on an island, seeming to have no hope of survival, and no one to keep them company except for a aggressive bear and a compassionate raven.
09
Projekt 1065
By Alan Gratz, author of Prisoner B-3087 (see above), is about an Irish boy who deeply disagrees with the Nazi party, but is forced to become one anyway. It's about his actions that could potentially save the Allies chance at winning the war.
10
The Train to Impossible Places
By P. G. Bell, the book follows a girl's journey through the Impossible Places, and her struggle to avoid capture after saving a snow globe, claiming to be a prince and essential to saving the world she had just begun to experience.