There are a lot of end of the year book lists going around (I've been honored to be on a few myself), but I've decided to do something a bit different this year. Usually I put out my "spectacular, amazing, add a few more adjectives to just how fantastic it is end of the year book list," but this has been a strange year, to say the least, so it seems fitting to change it up a bit. Perhaps because of all the stress (both in the world and in my own life), nostalgia has been creeping around the fringes of everything I've read this year. From starting the year out by re-reading the entire Harry Potter series, to spending months buried in Victorian and Edwardian literature, 2017 was about so much more than catching up on the next hot debut. Over at my "31 Days of Bookmas" post, I've been calling out fantastic books published in 2017, but on this list I'd like to showcase my "Best of the Best": the books that, regardless of whether they came out this year or five years ago, dug their hooks into me and refused to let go. Enjoy... and Happy Reading.


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