Smugglivus 2013 Holiday Giveaway: Samsung Galaxy Tablet

Andrea K

Oh, and Happy Smugglivus! [I really have remembered to do that in the first post…]

Lexi

Probably Frost Burned, but this event has made my to be read pile grow.

Gen

My favorite was Ocean at the end of the Lane. Lovely and magical and bittersweet look back at childhood.

Katrina T.

My favorite book of 2013 is The Last Hour of Gann by R.L. Smith

Merry Christmas!

Carl

I don’t know if very many people read it but I really liked Night Film by Marisha Pessl. Happy Holidays and all the best in 2014!

Brenda C

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black.

Katie

My favorite book of 2013 is Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

mary anne

So I can never list a favorite, but I just found a new author that I really liked, and she has very affordable ebooks on Amazon! Kind of how I found Andrea Host and Lindsay Buroker. Her name is Intisar Khanani and the book I read was Thorn. A retelling of The Goose Girl. Can’t wait to read more of her stuff.

Anja

I read some very good books, but the first of the best that comes to my mind is Nation by Terry Pratchett

Anonymous

Happy Holidays book smugglers =]

My favourite read of 2013 so far is The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

Elaine Willis

I have to pick one!!?? According to Goodreads, I have read 242 books so far this year and yes, I am bragging.

I have to say The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie by Jennifer Ashley is the one I have been telling everyone about.

Stuart Blakeley

Favorite book of 2013 would have to be:
The Final Descent (The Monstrumologist book 4) by Rick Yancey

Gerd D.

Picking favourites, always difficult:

I’d say “Gut gegen Nordwind” (Love virtually), by Daniel Glattauer.
An epistolary novel, an eMail romance to exact, which turned out to be unexpectedly charming – I’m glad I gave that one a chance.

Alex B

Probably Alif the Unseen. But then maybe the Fault in Our stars because I was unable to put it down.

ediFanoB

Happy Holidays!!
I can’t decide between “Hounds of Autumn” by Heather Blackwood – an excellent Steampunk novel – and “Shadow of the Serpent” by David Ashton – a crime mystery set in Edinburgh of 1860.

Ginny

All Our Pretty Songs took me by surprise. I wasn’t sure what to expect and ended up being blown away by the beautiful writing.

Mischo

The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson. Very captivating and inventive story not only for younger readers.

jon lewis

The Book Thief

Bibliotropic

Geez, you mean I have to choose just one? :p I read so many good books this past year that it’s really hard to narrow down the list. Though if I had to, I’d say it would be a 3-way tie between Courtney Schafer’s “The Tainted City,” Scott Lynch’s “The Lies of Locke Lamora,” and Nnedi Okorafor’s “Who Fears Death.”

Growly Cub

Luckiest Lady in London by Sherry Thomas. My only A read of 2013.

Paul Weimer (@PrinceJvstin)

My favorite read is hard. Ancillary Justice still holds up, though.

beth

Fiery Heart by Richelle Mead.

Serena

I couldn’t reach much this year, but my fave was definitely The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin 🙂

Antonia

The Scorpio Races and Shatter me!! Happy Holidays!!! 🙂

elaing8

Favorite adult book is Reckless by Skye Jordan. Favorite YA – Daylighters by Rachel Caine.

RuthG

One of the best things I read this year was the spiritwalker trilogy by Kate Elliott.

Sara

It’s hard to pick only one favourite read of this year! But I’m going to go with Ghost Flower by Michele Jaffe, which I adored.

sandyg265

It’s hard to pick a favorite but I finally read Eragon and enjoyed that.

Margaret

Definitely Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell.

Erin L

A Kiss forMid-Winter by Courtney Milan. The hero Jonas is fantastic.

Keish

My favorite is The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

Katie

Out of the Easy was amazing. But Seraphina tops them all. Best best best. And thank you for all your recommendations. I’m never an early adopter, but when I have good guidance, I can then pick & choose the best things possible.

Vanilla

Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan.

Ella Zegarra

Allegiant! That makes my heart ?

jenna

under the light by laura whitcomb

Michelle

Karen Lord’s The Best of All Possible Worlds is my favorite read of 2013. I was excited to see she will be having a new book out 2014.

Cristina

This is so hard! But I think I’m going to have to go with Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas! I absolutely LOVE that series!!

Lesley D

One of the best books I read in 2013 was World War Z.

Ringo the Cat

Favorite read of 2013? I have a few…

Of the books *not* published in 2013 it’s definitely Adam Rapp’s 33 Snowfish.
Of the books that were published in 2013, it’s a tie between Winger and Reality Boy, with Two Boys Kissing a close 2nd.

JamesP

Tenth of December:Stories by George Saunders

Constance V.

My favorite book for 2013 was/is the Holy Bible!

Kristen

I finally read Code Name: Verity this year. Once I started it, I couldn’t put it down – ended up staying up on a work night until 2:00 in the morning (and cried basically from 12:30 til 2:00) and spent the next day recommending it to everyone I came across…

Biblibio

Kalpa Imperial was without a doubt the best book I read this year. As for recently published… honestly not sure. There were a few I liked quite a bit, but my year was very dry when it came to jaw-dropping good books. Really, it was only Kalpa Imperial that blew me away… and Lean In, I suppose, but that was a very different sort of reading experience and my appreciation for it isn’t quite the same as labeling a book as “the best book I read in 2013″…

Becca

Oh geez, you’re making me pick???

It’s a tough call, but out of the books I rated 5 stars I have to go with The Runaway King by Jennifer Nielsen. Sage is such a compelling character and the writing always has me on the edge of my seat. I’m really excited for book three!

Michael Carter

‘The Flamethrowers’ by Rachel Kushner

Jing

This year it was definitely The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. I was so reluctant to pick it up as I was afraid it’s going to be another cliché vampire book but OMG. Mind blown! As a fan of horror, this book is gripping, suspenseful and made me a tad more alert at night. Waiting so long to read it was my bad…

Paige

I can’t quite decide, but it was either Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, or The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker. Happy Smugglivus!

Kerri

Happy Holidays! My favourite book of the year was Written in Red by Anne Bishop. I don’t want to think about how many times I’ve read it. I love her Black Jewels stuff but not anything else so I wasn’t expecting to like it quite so much.

Nancy

I really liked The Hunger Games! I know they been out forever but I’ve recently read it!

Jennifer

My favourite book of the year is The Rithmatist by Sanderson.

Trey

Nexus and Crux were two I enjoyed this year.

MarieC

I would have to say that it’s a toss up among ‘Archangel’s Legion’, ‘Heart of Obsidian’, ‘Magic Rises’, and ‘Guardian Demon’, and ‘Without a Summer’.

Bob Wilkins

Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars by Cody Goodfellow

MK

Kinked by Thea Harrison

Emily

Eleanor and Park

Victoria Hoyle

My favourite book of 2013 was probably The Charioteer by Mary Renault, a 1953 novel about a young gay man falling in love after being wounded during WWII. It was reprinted by Virago and I was surprised by how straightforward Renault was about her characters sexuality, and also by how tenderly she wrote gay romance. She was a lesbian herself and lived in South Africa with her partner, who she met while nursing in the 1920s. A really lovely book that deserves a wider audience.

Tünde

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Maggie O.

It’s a tie between Fangirl and The School for Good and Evil.

Kelly D

I liked Stephen King’s Joyland.

Raina Zheng

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller!

A'ishah Rose

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein!

Melanie_2006

I’m about halfway through The Snow Child and judging by what I’ve read so far I think it will end up being one of my favorites this year. I also really enjoyed A Northern Light and Gone Girl.

DebraG

There were so many I enjoyed. The Ballad of Emma comes to mind.

Rose L.

I think Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo is my 2013 favorite!

Anonymous

If I can pick a series instead of just one book, then the Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima is definitely my favorite from this year.

Linda Knight

Stephen King’s Joyland

M Myers

Keeper of the Lost Cities by Shannon Messenger. Favorite MG series since Fablehaven.

Foz Meadows

Toss up between Alaya Dawn Johnson’s The Summer Prince and Eleanor Arnasson’s A Woman of the Iron People.

Gaby Metivier

Days of Blood & Starlight, by Laini Taylor 😀

Margay Roberge

Left Drowning by Jessica Park

Jessy

I still love The Selection.

Chenise Jones

I absolutely loved The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas! Great YA debut and I can`t wait to read her future books!

noering

Count me in..

harleen

My favorite read this year was The Golem and the Jinni!

Natasha

My favourite book of 2013 was These Broken Stars and The Iron Knight!!!
Thanks so much for the AMAZING giveaway and I’m so glad that it’s open for everyone!

Dovile

I haven’t read any published in 2013, but my favorites this year were At Home by Bill Bryson, Veneficas Americana series by M. K. Hobson and The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin.

Darryl Lee

I’m waaay behind on my reading. But this year I enjoyed Canticle for Leibowitz, A Visit from the Goon Squad, and Zone One.

Joni Patterson

How can you ask me to choose ONE BOOK! *Sigh* But if I must… ONE OF my favorite reads of 2013 is FANGIRL By Rowell. A couple months later and I’m still thinking about it, still wanting to turn it’s pages again… Thanks so much for the giveaway! – and for an awesome blog to read! ^^

April V.

You cannot actually expect a bunch of rabid book lovers to actually choose only ONE BOOK can you? Impossible. I’m going to list a few of the most recent highlights of my 2013 reading.
The Tell-Tale Con by Aimee Gilchrist – this was a surprise, a really good and funny and interesting YA mystery without loads of silliness that often gets squeezed into YA books.
The Palace Job by Patrick Weekes – a very fun fantasy heist story as if Ocean’s Eleven had a love child with Pratchet’s Discworld.
Cry Baby Hollow by Aimee Love – an urban fantasy in rural Tennessee. I think that about says it all.

I left off most of the bigger ones, those don’t need the exposure but these underapreciated ones do. Also, no, I don’t know why there are so many Aimees on my list.

Jonathan Baker

So far it’s been CLAN by Realm Lovejoy. Great read!

Patrick Samphire

That’s almost mean to have to choose just one, but okay. I’d have to choose The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud. Great story in a fantastic world, and his best book I think.

Ashley

My favorite read this year was The Fault in our Stars…. I think. 🙂

MarchRose

my favorite reading was Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassin series, I loved all the series but if I have to pick one, I chose the first one in the series, Spider’s bite.

Kristen H.

My favorite book this year was The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud!

Carolyn

Impossible to choose just one!! I think my favorite reads of the year were These Broken Stars, Untold, The Dream Thieves, In The After, Across A Star-Swept Sky, Fangirl, The Secret Society Girl Series, My Most Excellent Year, The Rosie Project, and Love Irresistibly by Julie James.. It’s been an excellent year for books! Thanks for the giveaway!

Emily C.

I know it’s super popular but I loved Fangirl. Thanks for the chance!

Lillian

That’s a big question, but I’d say my favorite book read during 2013 was Ender’s Game. Can’t wait to see the movie and see if they did it justice.

Stephanie Burgis

Ohhh, that is a hard question! If I have to pick just one, though, I guess today it will be Susanna Kearsley’s The Firebird.

Danny

One of my favorites in 2013 was John Scalzi’s Redshirts. Hilarious!

Corinne Duyvis

This is a really hard choice–I recently finished ILLUSIVE by Emily Lloyd-Jones which I loved, though it’s not out until 2014. THE BRIDES OF ROLLROCK ISLAND by Margo Lanagan also blew my mind. Oh, and I loved THE NIGHT CIRCUS and A FACE LIKE GLASS and… I’m bad at choosing favorites, apparently!

Carol M

How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny

Breana M.

My favorite book of 2013 was Double Vision: Code Name 711 by F.T. Bradley. 😀

Angela Y

My all time favorite book is Dear John.

Sharli M

My favorite book of 2013 was Divergent. I don’t know why it took me this long to read it but I loved it 🙂

Rebecca I

The dream thieves!

Taylor Allen

Colin Cowherd’s “You Heard Me”. It’s an excellent read! Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Amanda Lee

Picking a favorite read feels nearly impossible- but there are two that I just can’t get out of my mind. And they happen to be by the same author. Eleanor & Park and Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell kind of blew my mind this year- prior to reading Fangirl, I had never before encountered that part of my life in fiction where it wasn’t made fun of and put down- and she captured every bit so wonderfully and gave the whole genre of fanfiction and fan interaction a love letter that I completely adored. And Eleanor & Park was just so heart-wrenchingly lovely.

Alaine

Joshua’s Tree by NW Harris

LaurieF

So many. Archangel’s Legion, Magic Rises, Touch of the Demon, No Good Duke Goes Unpunished, Chimes at Midnight, etc…:) And the Rosie Project!

Natalia

I’m going to go with Holly Black’s “Coldest Girl in Coldtown.”

Kit

It’s a toss-up between She Is Not Invisible and Ancillary Justice, but Ancillary Justice wins by a hair.

Jay

I enjoyed reading the Hunger Games trilogy.

Danielle

I enjoyed reading the newest Chelsea Cain novel in the Archie Sheridan/Gretchen Lowell series, titled ‘Let Me Go.’

heather

The hunger games is my fav.

Darlynne

Ready Player One. I was completely captivated and surprised, listening to it once and then buying the digital edition and reading it twice.

jillheather

Maybe The Golem and The Jinni, by Helene Wecker.

Conor S.

Mine is Stephen King Dr. Sleep!

Rosario

Guardian Demon, by Meljean Brook. It was my most anticipated read of the year, and I was terrified she’d drop the ball at the last minute, but she really didn’t.

Sovan Mandal

I liked reading Steve Jobs, the biography.

Chona Gomba

INFERNO by Dan Brown

Stephanie Quinn

My favorite book this year was Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo. I love the setting and the characters.

RaveAir

The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie

Beverly

It’s not an easy choice, because there were several, but if I exclude clients, then I’d have to go with a toss-up between Mountain Home by Bracken MacLeod and North American Lake Monsters, by Nathan Ballingrud. 🙂

Richard Auffrey

Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan

Greg

Its a damn tough choice but it has to be NOS4A2 because of how much Joe Hill forshadowed things and still made me cry….

Shay

I managed not to finish many books this year — too busy packing and moving — but my absolute favourite of the ones I did read is Ink by Sabrina Vourvoulias.

Katrina

Birthing a Mother: The Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self, by Elly Teman. Fascinating!

rayray cartucci

The Homeschoolers is my new favorite book!

Ruu

Dark Matter by Michelle Paver

Lisa

Tough call, I seem to have read tons of great books this year! But at this particular moment, I will go with Blood Song by Anthony Ryan

chuck bolster

i am just starting to read again after many many years of not but the one book that has my interest is hunger games

Lesley M

I would have to say Pie Town was my favorite!

Judy Thomas

My fave is Dr Sleep by Stephen King

Karen Leonard

I really like the hunger games it’s the best

June Minard

I absolutely loved reading The Game of Thrones series. It was a thrilling adventure and i cant wait for the next book.

Tammy Dalley

I love the crossfire series!

jay

The Jesus Discovery – it is interesting to explore fact/myth/evidence/history/truth/bullshit.

Daniela

I looooved Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell 😀

Josh S

Inferno

Clarence Lau

Loved Ender’s Game

zahra premji

Its not new, but I just read it in 2013 – The Book Thief

ghassan alsaleh

I haven’t had time to read a book

Malika Baker

My favourite book of 2013 must have been S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst – and by extension, The Ship of Theseus by V.M Straka (The fictional book within a book of S.!)

steve weber

Doctor Sleep- Stephen King.

Alexandru Rusu

The Game of Thrones because is interesting to read!

Marilyn

Ender’s Game

lana

no time to read books like to read the Bible when I have time

sara rai

Hunger Games trilogy

Lisa

Yesss!!!

Maria

I really enjoyed Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Sunshine G

My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish. Awesome.

Kenia

My favorite book for 2013 is Jenny Rivera “Inquebrantable”.

Gareth

To be honest there’s been so many that I’ve loved but I think my favourite this year after a long hard think (and book fisticuffs) have had to pick:
Steelheart – Brandon Sanderson

As it was something completely different from my normal choice and was a book that I had a lot of fun reading.

David Smith

I haven’t read any books released in 2013 other than some technical manuals. Mostly I am still reading some paperbacks from when I bought 20-25 boxes of books at a garage sale some years ago.

Youssef Azza

Indeed i didn’t read books so much coz i’ve not enough time but My favorite book i read latey is “game of thrones” .

matt

i like inferno by dan brown

ej

i am challenged with inferno by dan brown:))

Theis Bregnballe

My favourite book that i read this year was probably Reapers Gale, book seven of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.

Amy stonger

I enjoyed doctor sleep by Stephen king.

Becky C.

The Bitter Kingdom by Rae Carson

Andrew P

Ender’s Game

Kristi

United We Spy by Ally Carter, definitely. Also, fantastic giveaway!!
XO

Barbara

The Book Thief

carol roberts clark

Game of Thrones 5th book

Leigh-Ann Murphy

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Bonnie

The Bible 😉

Jessica

With The Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge

Dawn Monzu

LOVE “The Giver”!!

Noreen Tibor

The book thief

Marilyn B.

I would absolutely love to win the Samsun Galaxy! The book I loved most this year was The Story Teller by Jodi Picault.

Elisa Tammela

The Help, by Kathryn Stockett

Linda Trinklein

I read so many wonderful books it is just to hard for me to pick a favorite!!

Theresa A.

I loved Bone Season. That was my favorite read of 2013.

Charlize

earthbound by aprilynne pike 😀

Ann

I loved the clockwork princess.

Aple

I love ethe Hobbit

Kai Agito

Robyn Schneider’s The Beginning of Everything! It’s definitely one of my fave YA contemps I’ve ever read.

Ann-Christin Brinkmann

I really loved Ender’s Game and all the Hunger Games books (yes, I’m late…)

Megan Rogers

“Written in Red” by Anne Bishop or “The Best of All Possible Worlds” by Karen Lord…I can’t pick just one!

Birdiebee

I didn’t get a chance to read a book in 2013. I am so looking forward to start reading some good reads now that it is winter and very cold.

Brian Kautz

The Book Thief

mysweetiepiepie

The Book Thief.

twebb

I love helen fielding’s mad about a boy

Chelsea W

Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Elena

The Book Thief

kitblu

The book I loved best in 2013 was non-fiction – not my usual read – that took me several months to get through. Far from the Tree, by Andrew Solomon, investigated children who were NOT like their parents – children who were deaf, autistic, prodigies, criminal, born of rape, severely disabled, born with Down’s syndrome, et al. Well researched and well written.
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Cori Westphal

I’m a big Stephen King fan, and I loved Doctor Sleep! Spooky!

coriwestphal at msn dot com

Shannon

Read the Harry Potter series this year for the first time. Wow.

hapax

Oh, goomers, how can I possibly pick ONE favorite?

Okay, if I hafta, I think I’ll go with SAGA by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples. It’s beautiful and witty and nasty and inspiring, and it offers clever social commentary and celebrates True Love.

Ife

My favorite book of 2013 would have to be the Maximum Ride Series.

Amanda Arsenic

Oh and my my answer because I was so excited I forgot lol the White Princess by Phillipa Gregory came out this year I think and it was phenomenal!!

Danny

Best read was, I dunno I didn’t do much book reading this year >_<

eric

i like the book house of hades by rick riordan:)

septi

I loved the book September Girls

Sophie S

I loved Havisham because it was a new spin on one of my faves– without messing it up!

Shannon H

It is hard to pick out just one book, but I would have to go with the Captive Prince series by S. U. Pacat

Taryn

I Liked I am Number 4. I know it didn’t just come out this year, but I just read it this year. 🙂

Jeremiah Bray

Game of thrones

Joydeb Debnath

Hope to win Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8inch version!

Travis Faulkner

I read Enders Game this year, that was fun but not really of this year but I really liked it.

Nataly Carbonell

the ? was supposed to be a heart :p <3

Roxana Z.

Favorite read this year was Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. Thank you for the giveaway!

Stacy Gratz

i need a new phone, this would be better than a flip phone 🙂

Sarah

I liked The Hunger Games. I found it to be an entertaining read.

Leslie

My favorite book was Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain. It was actually interesting to read.

Yick tan

Anything and everything by Abigail Reynolds

antony bosch

Doctor Sleep, I have a huge King collection.

Will

From the new world~

Marjorie R.

Tell Me by Lisa Jackson, I could not put it down.

Gabriel Kirk

The Hunger Games series.

joseph gersch

I like life after life

Becca Fowler

All our yesterdays

Suzinzski

I will have to say The Mortal Instruments.

elden

The Mortal Instruments.

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