The Likeness by Tana French

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

I completely ignored this book for years, letting it languish on my shelf, looking at it and wincing, figuring it was one of those books: self-help; self-discovery; travelogue; my-life-is-great-now-yours-can-be-too!; you know, the books that I loathe.

It is, in many ways, all those things, but more incidentally than specifically. Gilbert's voice on this travel is compelling, funny, sincere and most of all real. Honestly, I loved every page of this book.

In the Woods by Tana French

Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Mystery of Storyville, New Orleans by David Fulmer

Artemis Fowl: Atlantic Complex by Eoin Colfer

What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy by Gregory Maguire