Five Star Books

The Best of 2016

• First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
• Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen
• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
• Captain Marvel: Higher, Further, Faster, More by Kelly Sue DeConnick & David Lopez
• The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
• They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
• Diving Belles by Lucy Wood
• I Call Myself a Feminist
• Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E Schwab
• A Gathering of Shadows by V.E Schwab
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau - Banks by E. Lockhart
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman
• True Notebooks: A Writer's Year in Juvenile Hall by Mark Salzman
• Dead Clever by Scarlett Thomas
• Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

The Best of 2015

These are all the books that I've read and immediately put onto my keeper shelf, because I know I'll want to re-read them or have them available for immediate lending to all the people who just must read it, now. 

• Fables: Witches by Bill Willingham
• The Winter of Our Disconnect by Susan Maushart
• Blankets by Craig Thompson
• Eric by Terry Pratchett
• Truckers by Terry Pratchett
• Diggers by Terry Pratchett
• Wings by Terry Pratchett
• Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome
• It's What I Do: A Photographers Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
• If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie
• I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb
• Finding Home: Real Stories of Migrant Britain by Emily Dugan
• Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley
• Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
• Hands Free Mama by Rachel Macy Stafford

The Best of 2014

• At Large and At Small: Confessions of a Literary Hedonist by Anne Fadiman
• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
• Swallowdale by Arthur Ransome
• The Outsiders by S.E Hinton
• Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck
• Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
• The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
• The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell

The Best of 2013

• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Wild: a Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
• Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti
• Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales by Melissa Marr & Tim Pratt
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Levithan 
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
• The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
• Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

The Best of 2012

•  Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen
•  The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings
• The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen 
• Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
• Fables Volume 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers by Bill Willingham 
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 
• Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
• Maine by Courtney Sullivan
• The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
• The Taste of Sorrow by Jude Morgan
• 1602 by Neil Gaiman & Andy Kubert
• Let's Pretend This Never Happened  by Jenny Lawson
• Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure by Joanne Harris

  The Best of 2011

• A River in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
• Apple Bough by Noel Streatfeild (re-read)
• Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris (re-read)
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
• Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
• Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon
• Going Out by Scarlett Thomas
• How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
• Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (re-read)
• Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
• Saplings by Noel Streatfeild
• Still Alice by Lisa Genova
• Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Annotated Peter Pan: The Centenary Edition by J.M Barrie & Maria Tatar
• The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
• The Growing Summer by Noel Streatfeild (re-read)
• The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien (re-read)
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
• The Painted Garden by Noel Streatfeild (re-read)
• The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• White Boots by Noel Streatfeild (re-read)

If you want to see the full list of things I've read this year, come and find me on Goodreads, where there's a shelf of everything I've read in 2011!