This is always one of the most challenging posts of the entire year! How to narrow down an entire year of great reads into just one post featuring the best of the besties? We’ll do our best (see what we did there?) to highlight our favorite reads from 2016. Be sure to scroll to the bottom and enter our 2016 Besties, Rafflecopter Giveaway!
BFF K’s 2016 Besties
I just couldn’t narrow the list any further, so I present the Top 16 in 2016!
#1 – Maybe In Another Life & One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Unique, smart, emotional, fantastic!
#2 – The Lost Codex by Heather Lyons
A wonderful end to one of my most favorite series of all time!
#3 – A Love Letter to Whiskey by Kandi Steiner
Kandi Steiner blew me away, an absolute page-turner!
#4 – The Royals Series by Erin Watt
Paper Princess Broken Prince Twisted Palace
My guilty pleasure of 2016 – way crazy and crazy good!
#5 – Beard Science by Penny Reid
Anyone who can turn a quirky, odd-ball character named Cletus into a love interest deserves to be on this list!
#6 – The Year of Meghan March
In 2016, I read or listened to nearly every book that Meghan March has written and I LOVE them all! She is a go-to, always one-click author for me now. She writes great stories, steamy scenes, strong heroines and the best alpha males EVER! If you want to check out my reviews, just enter Meghan March in the search tab on the right side of this page.
#7 – Endurance by Georgia Cates
I loved this book so much, the entire Sin series too! In addition to Endurance, Georgia Cates also brought us the Lovibond Series in 2016!
#8 – Franco by Kim Holden
My final book boyfriend of 2016 and he was worth the wait!
#9 – Better Love by Daisy Prescott
This silver fox was everything! I LOVE this book and this entire series!
#10 – Whiskey & Honey by Andrea Johnston
#TeamBiper #TeamAndreaJohnston #SmartGirlsWriteRomance
#11 – First & Goal: Queen of the League by Laura Chapman
LOL-funny and one of my most fun reads of the year.
#12 – Royally Screwed by Emma Chase
I loved this world and these characters. Royally Matched is one of my most anticipated reads for 2017!
#13 – A Place in the Sun by R.S. Grey
This book will make you want to travel to Italy and eat Gelato with Gianluca.
#14 – Moonshot & Hollywood Dirt by Alessandra Torre
Moonshot introduced me to Alessandra Torre and her terrific writing style. And, I adored the audio for Hollywood Dirt. GREAT books!
#15 – Managed by Kristen Callihan
Witty dialogue and great characters, just an all ’round great read!
#16 – Reilly O’Brien & Co. Series by Jenna Sutton
I read every book in this series in 2016 and I can’t wait for more in 2017. Good stories and great characters!
BFF A’s 2016 Besties
#1 – It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover
#2 – F*uck Love by Tarryn Fisher
#3 – So Much More by Kim Holden
#4 – Franco by Kim Holden
#5 – Cunning, Deception, Entrapment (Infidelity Series books 2, 3 and 4) by Aleatha Romig
#6 – Into the Light and Away from the Dark (The Light Series) by Aleatha Romig
#7 – The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
#8 – Whiskey and Honey by Andrea Johnston
#9 – Hidden Bodies by Caroline Kepnes
#10 – The Angels’ Share by J.R. Ward
#11 – Too Late by Colleen Hoover
All of the images above are buy links for Amazon.com. And, you can click on many of the headings to find our reviews. We are so grateful to all of you for joining us on our incredible book journey in 2016! We’re looking forward to all that’s in store for 2017!
What a list! I’ve not read or heard of a lot of these on the list, that must change for 2017! ❤️❤️
Let me know what you think if you read any of them! Happy New Year!
Moonshot, It Ends With us, and F*ck Love were a couple of my favorites as well 😉 My favorite was All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood!
I just got All the Ugly and Wonderful Things on audio! Can’t wait to read it!
After We Fall, Some Sort of Love, all of Meghan March, Punk 57, F*ck Love. Too Late were some of my favorites. I still have yet to read Franco and Bad Mommy! Happy New Year to you guys!!
Happy New Year to you! Happy Reading!
Great lists! Really enjoyed A Love Letter to Whiskey!
only Too late is on my list, but cant wait to read Franco, and a lot more!
I loved Punk 57 by Penelope Douglas and Bossman by Vi Keeland! There are quite a few on your list that I havent read yet! Thanks! Happy New Year!!!
Great lists! I’ve read or have most of these books on my TBR lists. You guys have awesome taste in books 🙂 <3
A few of my top favorites of the year are From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon, In This Life by Christine Brae, Swear On This Life by Renee Carlino, One Day Soon by A Meredith Walters, and Ink & Lies by SL Jennings!! I also fell in love with Meghan March this year!! Thanks for sharing your great lists and for the generous giveaway!!! Happy New Year’s!!!
So many great books this year!
I think my top two were Dark Matter and A Court of Mist and Fury. Both were so compelling.
Wow great lists! I haven’t read many of them, except for The Collectors Society series, which I am *patiently* waiting to read the Lost Codex…. I’m adding many of your choices to my ever expanding TBR list! Am always surprised to see Girl on A Train on peoples best lists, I must be one of the very few who did NOT like this books at all! Oh well,thanks for sharing your bestows with us! Happy New Year!!
Great list!
Fuck love was my favorite read!
Lots of these where on my my read list and to be read list!
It Ends With Us and One True Loves!! I have so many favorite reads 2016. Awesome list!
there were so many great reads from 2016. 2 i did read of your picks, A love letter to Whiskey & A Place in the sun …
i found Scarlett Cole’s 2nd Circle Tattoo series, Sybil Bartel “Neil”, Alana Albertson “Beast”, Robert Dugoni (The Tracey Crosswhite series), L.A. Fiore, Nora Flite “Peacock”, Dakota Gray “Perv”, Ramona Gray “The Assistant”, Staci Hart “Tonic”, Helena Hunting “Pucked series”, Scott Hildreth “The Gun Runner”, Ilsa Madden-Mills “Filthy English”
this is just a few, i read all the time. enjoy!! ( ;
Wow ! That’s a long UST I trecognize a lot f the names!!! Some of these are on my tbr list!
My favorite reads for 2016 would be one of your picks, Paper Princess by Erin Watt & P.S. I Like You by Kasie West 🙂
I have some of these books,but haven’t read yet 😀
My favorite of 2016 are Marriage Games by CD Reiss and Hard Compromise by Samanthe Beck 🙂
Thanks for the chance to win! 🙂
I haven’t read any of these, but a lot are on my list.