This post is the first in a new category--the Community Blog! One of the best parts of my job is getting to yap with you, something that I get to do via social media every day. I realized that you don't get as much of a chance to do that with each other and I'd love to change that. I'm bringing more content to a permanent place here on the Meeshmade Community Blog and I hope you'll join me in commenting and chatting here, if you'd like to connect with other earring-, bird-, and silliness-lovers! Cheers! -Meesh

To be totally honest, I'm not big on resolutions, and I very rarely have the foresight to make Grand Plans for the whole year. I think my body is still in winter hibernation mode when it comes to January 1. However, one of my absolute favorite things about a new year is all of the end-of-the-year recapping. Why yes, I do want to know what your top 10 favorite things of the year were. Actually, I would love to hear everything you read all year in extreme detail. PLEASE GIVE IT ME. 

So without further ado, here are the Meeshmade Community's faves of the year. Gathered from social media and compiled in one convenient place for our reading pleasure.

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The Books:

 

A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Arden

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn

Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

Finlay Donovan Digs Her Own Grave (Book 5) by Elle Cosimano 

One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Marianne Cronin

Eddie Winston is Looking For Love by Marianne Cronin

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

James by Percival Everett

Murderland by Caroline Fraser

This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters In the End by Atul Gawande

The Life Impossible by Matt Haig

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall

Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

Heart the Lover by Lily King

Ducks on the Pond by Amy Klinger

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb

 Frozen River by Ariel Lawhorn

The Arctic Fury by Greer Macallister

The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer

  The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door by H.G. Parry *

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Shield of Sparrows by Devney Perry *

The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

• Also a favorite of mine this year.

Stay tuned for a post about my favorite books of 2025 of the year coming next week!

What do you think? Anything to add or expound upon? We'd love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment below!