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Top Books for the Cozy Season

Time to curl up with a great book

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As it is getting colder out, you are more likely to sit in front of the fire or under a thousand blankets, cuddled up with a great book. If you need help with finding a good read then this list is bound to help you.

1. Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter

Zombies are real. Alice Bell could not believe her father's crazy sightings and tendencies when he was alive. Now Ali is stuck with no family besides her adoring grandparents and she can not shake the sight of a rotting corpse bride and her groom outside of her window. She has established one thing though. All monsters must die. The white rabbit will lead the way to Zombieland.

2. Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Past the fourth world war and through a hundred years of peace, Cinder Linh is a cyborg working in her shop as the most skilled mechanic in New Beijing. People have lived on the moon and have evolved to control the thoughts and minds of weakly earthens with the tyrannical Queen Levana threatening years of peace to come to an end. A deadly disease is ravaging through the world with no cure in sight. Can an outcast who has a thing for a prince even begin hoping to fix the slowly shattering world?

3. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

The world has been separated by color of blood. The red blooded are lowlifes and are sent off to war for the high mystical Silver blooded elite. Mare Barrow is not expecting a great life. She has no job, and will be drafted for the war the day she turns 18. But then she meets a leaving a tavern. She's attempting to pick his pocket when he ends up just giving her most of it. Little does she know that he is the crown prince who gets her a job in the palace to support her family. Suddenly Mare is faced with a life she never expected, and everything changes when she has something she should not have. She breaks all the rules, and tempts to break the entire structure of life in the world she's been living in.

4. Any Harry Potter Book by J. K. Rowling

You know the story. A young boy becomes the chosen one after the death of his two parents by he who shall not be named. There are 7 books in the original series, and J.K. Rowling has written several more such as, The Cursed Child, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and other companion books to the first novels. With a new movie coming out in a few short days, it is about time to prepare for this new blockbuster.

5. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Jacob Portman's dealing with the sudden ghastly death of his grandfather who told him mystical stories about a home for children, when Jacob decides to find where the home is. The boy is met with a girl who can float, freaky clown twins, and a boy who can conjure life. Was Jacob's Grandfather's death an accident? Events start to become unclear in a world where the same story happens everyday for decades...

6. The Rook by Daniel O'Malley

Myfanwy Thomas awakens in the middle of a street during a rainstorm. She can not recall any events, or how she got to be soaking on a road at night. All she possesses is a letter from someone who claims to have been in her body before. Myfanwy adventures into an unknown life where fairy tales are real, and she has has tremendous powers one can not even imagine as she takes on the position as the Rook.

7. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Abby Abernathy is a good girl, or at least she wants to be. But when she meets the ultimate bad boy Travis Maddox, her old life is wrapped up as an irresistible tattooed fighter package before her. Will she be able to find a guy who can get her into a world of luxury and joy, or will she chose the one who reminds her too much of the life she's running away from?

Disclaimer: FOR MATURE READERS

8. The F- It List by Julie Halpern

Alex is dead inside after her father's funeral, and needs time away from her best friend Becca, who does not pay respect to Alex's father the way he deserved during the ceremonies. When Alex decides she is ready to forgive Becca's mishaps after a long summer, she is hit by a ton of bricks. Becca has cancer. Unsure if she is able to complete her bucket list, Becca entrusts her best friend to finish the list for her either before she recovers, or before she dies.

9. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor is the outcast. She has a rough family life, wears mismatched clothes, and keeps to herself during school. Park is popular, cute, and into comics and music. After sitting next to each other on the bus one day, nobody ever though the strange redhead and the half Korean boy would ever find themselves falling for each other. As Eleanor's family life threatens the safety of her life, the two struggle to get comfortable to each other, and begin to learn what love is supposed to be like.

10. Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare

Angels, demons, vampires, and werewolves. Clary did not believe any of these were real as she's struggling to go get into an art school for college. When she sees a strange boy kill somebody in a club while nobody else seems to have witnessed, Clary is brought into a life she was supposed to have lived, but a dark force prevented her from living it. Clary embarks on a six part adventure, where she learns about magic and the power of love and care.

11. The Selection by Ciera Cass

It is time for the prince to find his queen. In a caste system, one out of every 35 girls is to become a future, One, the highest caste, the caste of royalty. America never thought she was one to get chosen for the reality show competition or the heart of the prince. She despised the upper castes, and already had a plan laid out for the rest of her life with a boy she believed she was meant for. Through heartbreak and heartache, Mer will have to choose between the prince who might choose her and the boy who she may never forgive.

12. The Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

Evangeline Greene has just spent the summer in a mental rehabilitation center. She has been having strange dreams and visions where she can manipulate nature and the apocalypse is approaching. Her life appears as perfect and with the hottest jock boyfriend in school no one would suspect this girl might be going crazy, but she isn't. The apocalypse is here and a game of death and immortality has arrived with it. The only chance of Evie surviving is to befriend a pas bon named Jack, to embark on a cross-country adventure to find her Grandmother who might have the answers to all of her questions. Part of the Arcana Chronicles.

13. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

This twisted novel is not for the faint of heart. Amy Dunne is missing and the world is searching to find the perfect woman. Jack Dunne, her husband is being framed as her murderer, and he knows Amy for as she is, the opposite of perfect and a terror. This dark novel will keep you on the edge of your seat and craving for more as you embark on a journey to finding out who Amy and Jack really are. You will never forget this one.

14. The Cellar by Natasha Preston

Summer Robinson is gone. Without a trace she is missing. She is trapped, and is now Lily. Time is running out, for flowers can not survive long without sunlight.

Disclaimer: DISTURBING AND FOR MATURE READERS

15. Looking for Alaska by John Green

Miles "Pudge" Halter has left from Florida to attend the rest of high school in Alabama where he meets Chip "The Colonel" Martin, Takumi Hikohito and Alaska Young. Alaska teaches Pudge a quote which if he discovers the meaning of, she will set him up on a date with a girl. The band of misfits center around an imbalanced Alaska who takes Pugde on the adventure of a lifetime, until it is over. Discover the downside of the teenage years in this emotional book that John Green has created as a classic.





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