It's time for The Broke and The Bookish's Top Ten Tuesday! This week's subject is Top Ten Books for 2015. This can be overall, by category, releases for this year, whatever you fancy.
I tried to do overall, but... I read so many amazing books this year. The list would've been pushing 50 books. I think I'll just wind up taking the last week of this month and assigning a category for each day to go through my top books, haha.
Taking that into account, I'm going with my top 10 contemporary romances for the year. This is strictly contemporary romance - no dark romance, no erotic romance (even though some have plenty of sex), no romantic suspense. You'll have to wait a bit to find out my picks for those!
This list is mostly in order!
11. Amour Amour by Krista and Becca Ritchie
4.5 "Love is a Circus" Stars! This was such an interesting, sexy, funny and sensual read! If you've never read the Ritchie twins, I highly suggest going with this book. My Review "Every day,” he says lowly, “I hold a person’s life in my hands. The circus is based one-hundred percent off trust. I give it all to someone, and they give it all to me.” The best aerial technique won’t land 21-year-old Thora James her dream role in Amour—a sexy new acrobatic show on the Vegas strip. Thora knows she’s out of her element the second she meets Amour’s leading performer. Confident, charming and devilishly captivating, 26-year-old Nikolai Kotova lives up to his nickname as the “God of Russia.” When Thora unknowingly walks into the crosshairs of Nikolai’s after-show, her audition process begins way too soon. Unprofessional. That’s what Nik calls their “non-existent” relationship. It’s not like Thora can avoid him. For one, they may be partners in the future—acrobaticpartners, that is. But getting closer to Nik means diving deeper into sin city and into his dizzying world. Thora wants to perform with him, but when someone like Nikolai attracts the spotlight wherever he goes—Thora fears that she’s destined to be just background to his spellbinding show. |
10. November 9 by Colleen Hoover
9. The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski
4.5 "All The Fuckin' Feels!" Stars! This one has had one of my favorite endings of this year. My Review Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart. Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind. With a purse, a cell phone and a small bag with a few necessities, Camryn, with absolutely no direction or purpose boards a Greyhound bus alone and sets out to find herself. What she finds is a guy named Andrew Parrish, someone not so very different from her and who harbors his own dark secrets. But Camryn swore never to let down her walls again. And she vowed never to fall in love. But with Andrew, Camryn finds herself doing a lot of things she never thought she’d do. He shows her what it’s really like to live out-of-the-box and to give in to her deepest, darkest desires. On their sporadic road-trip he becomes the center of her exciting and daring new life, pulling love and lust and emotion out of her in ways she never imagined possible. But will Andrew’s dark secret push them inseparably together, or tear them completely apart? |
8. Easy by Tammara Webber
7. Racing The Sun by Karina Halle
5 "Now That's How You Do New Adult!" stars! This novel was gorgeously sexy, full of travel and character development, and had an epic hero and heroine. My Review From the New York Times bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky comes a new adult novel about a young woman who becomes a nanny in Capri and falls for her charges’ bad-boy brother. It’s time for twenty-four-year-old Amber MacLean to face the music. After a frivolous six months of backpacking through New Zealand, Australia, and Southeast Asia, she finds herself broke on the Mediterranean without enough money for a plane ticket home to California. There are worse places to be stuck than the gorgeous coastline of southern Italy, but the only job she manages to secure involves teaching English to two of the brattiest children she’s ever met. It doesn’t help that the children are under the care of their brooding older brother, Italian ex-motorcycle racer Desiderio Larosa. Darkly handsome and oh-so-mysterious, Derio tests Amber’s patience and will at every turn—not to mention her hormones. But when her position as teacher turns into one as full-time nanny at the crumbling old villa, Amber finds herself growing closer to the enigmatic recluse and soon has to choose between the safety of her life back in the States and the uncertainty of Derio’s closely guarded heart. |
6. Archer's Voice by Mia Sheridan
5. Fighting Silence by Aly Martinez
4. Love, In English by Karina Halle
3. The Hooker and The Hermit by L.H. Cosway and Penny Reid
5 "Fuck a Duck and Smack a Rapper" stars! This story was hilarious, heartfelt, sexy, and wildly entertaining. My Review PS: Did anyone else see where the duo is doing another in this series, with a different couple?! Epic fangirling is happening!!! New York’s Finest Blogging as *The Socialmedialite* April 22 LADIES AND GENTS! I have an announcement! You know that guy I featured on my blog a few months ago? The really, really hot Irish rugby player who plays the position of ‘hooker’ in the RLI (Rugby League International)? The one with the anger management issues, the body of a gladiator and the face of a movie star? The one with the questionable fashion choices leading me to ask whether he was the lovechild of a leprechaun and a hobbit? Ronan Fitzpatrick? Yeah, that guy. Well, I have a confession to make… THE HERMIT Annie Catrel, social media expert extraordinaire at Davidson & Croft Media and clandestine celebrity blogger, can make anyone shine in the court of public opinion. She is the Socialmedialite, anonymous creator of New York’s Finest and the internet’s darling. Virtual reality is Annie’s forte, but actual reality? Not so much. THE HOOKER Ronan Fitzpatrick, aka the best hooker the world of rugby has seen in decades, despises the media—social or otherwise. The press has spun a web of lies depicting him as rugby’s wild and reckless bad boy. Suspended from his team, Ronan has come to Manhattan to escape the drama, lay low, fly under the radar. Only, Ronan isn’t easy to overlook, and he can’t escape the notice of the Socialmedialite… THE PLAN When Ronan is sent to Davidson & Croft Media to reshape his public image, he never expects to cross paths with shy but beautiful Annie, nor does he expect his fierce attraction to her. He couldn’t be happier when her boss suggests pairing them together. What lengths will Annie take to keep her virtual identity concealed? And what happens when the hooker discovers who the hermit really is? |
2. Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
1. Sweet Filthy Boy by Christina Lauren
5 "Oh, Ansel!!!" Stars! Another one that will be on my list for best books of the year. I loved every single thing about this book! My Review
One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly persuasive, or regrettable. They aren’t supposed to be with someone like him.
But after a crazy Vegas weekend celebrating her college graduation—and terrified of the future path she knows is a cop-out—Mia Holland makes the wildest decision of her life: follow Ansel Guillaume—her sweet, filthy fling—to France for the summer and just…play. When feelings begin to develop behind the provocative roles they take on, and their temporary masquerade adventures begin to feel real, Mia will have to decide if she belongs in the life she left because it was all wrong, or in the strange new one that seems worlds away. |
That was exceedingly difficult! What about you? What are some of your top contemporaries for 2015?
- The Bibliophile Babe
I really liked November 9 too. I own a couple more on this list so I will have to get to them. Great picks!!
ReplyDeleteSo the only book I've read on this list is EASY and while it was awesome, that's a complete failure on my part! I have Wallbanger so I have no excuse for not reading that yet, and I've heard nothing but outstanding things about Christina Lauren's books. MUST READ!!!!
ReplyDeleteI need to read Karina Halle (I have one boo) and Alice Clayton. I like that you're breaking these lists into genre.
ReplyDeleteAlmost all of these are on my TBR! I've read 1 & 2 and completely agree :D
ReplyDeleteWallbanger was hilarious. I need to try Halle, and of course loved November 9. Great list my friend!
ReplyDeleteOMG. Hooker and the Hermit was hilarious! And oh so much fun. Love, love those two!
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