2013 Favorites

There was no possible way to limit this post to a top ten. I read over 500 books this year and so this is more like my top 10%. Since joining Rich in Color, I have been reading a lot more young adult titles and have been trying to choose more diverse literature. I want to continue that trend next year - more about that tomorrow. Here are some of the best of the best for me this year. -- Cover images are from Goodreads.

Young Adult

Dream Thieves

The Living

Openly Straight

Two Boys Kissing

Boxers & Saints

If I Ever Get Out of Here

Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass

Unravel Me

Bitter Kingdom

Rogue

Since You Asked

Proxy

Hattie Ever After

Winger

Middle Grade

Counting By 7s

True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp

The Garden of My Imaan

Flora & Ulysses

Doll Bones

Runaway King

The Real Boy

Bluffton

Poetry

Words with Wings

Gone Fishing

Lightning Dreamer

Follow Follow

What the Heart Knows

Non-fiction

The Great American Dust Bowl by Dan Brown

Frog Song

Locomotive

The Tree Lady

A Little Book of Sloth

Barbed Wire Baseball

Building Our House

The Boy Who Loved Math

Where on Earth?

When I Was Eight

A Splash of Red

Parrots Over Puerto Rico

The Animal Book

Tito Puente, Mambo King

Picture Books

Deep in the Sahara

Niño Wrestles the World

If You Want to See a Whale

Journey

Odd Duck

Tea Rex

Knock Knock, My Dad's Dream for Me

Battle Bunny

Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash

What were some of your favorites?