Simply the Best 2016: Carrie’s Top Reads of the Year – and a Giveaway!

As we continue to roll on towards 2017, we’ve got another great set of Top Picks of the Year, this time from our own fabulous Carrie.

And don’t forget, you can enter for the chance to win two e-titles from Carrie’s list, so be sure to check out the Rafflecopter widget below.

Now, here they are, Carrie’s Best of 2016!

Cold-Hearted Concept by Whitley Gray

The Heart As He Hears It by AM Arthur

Five-Sided Heart by Max MacGowan

Victory Portrait by Tali Spencer

The Final Round by Jane Davitt and Alexa Snow

The Copper by Bonnie Dee

How to Wish Upon A Star by Eli Easton

Dinner at Jack’s by Rick R. Reed

The Boyfriend Makeover by River Jaymes

A Kind of Honesty by Lane Hayes


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28 thoughts on “Simply the Best 2016: Carrie’s Top Reads of the Year – and a Giveaway!

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  1. Thanks for all the wondeful reviews this year.
    My top picks: Protector series by Sloane Kennedy, Homerun series by Sloan Johnson and Scoring Chances series by Avon Gale.

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  2. Looking through my Read list, I have read a ton of great books this year. Here are some of the highlights:
    Fallow by Jordan L .Hawk
    A Family for Christmas by Jay Northcote
    Symptoms of Being Human by Jeff Garvin
    Golden Boy by Abigail Tarttelin
    Heworld series by Jordan L. Hawk
    The Weight of It All by NR Walker
    A Place Called Winter by Patrick Gale
    Wolfsong by TJ Klune
    The Mermaid Murders by Josh Lanyon
    Trailer Trash by Marie Sexton
    Strong Signal by Megan Ericsson & Santino Hassell
    Inversion Point by Jenn Burke & Kelly Jensen
    Phase Shift by Jenn Burke & Kelly Jensen
    Dirty Heart by Rhys Ford
    Foxes by Suki Fleet
    King’s Rising by C.S. Pacat
    Dancer of Death by Jordan L. Hawk
    Nightingale by Aleksandr Voinov
    Cold Fusion by Harper Fox

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  3. I’ve read so many awesome books this year.
    Enemy of My Enemy, Tal Bauer
    Tied Up in Knots, Mary Calmes
    Bad Judgment, Sidney Bell
    A Solitary Man, Aisling Mancy & Shira Anthony

    Just to name a few!

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  4. Great list Carrie! Some of my favorites from this year as well – with a lot of my auto-buy authors (Eli Easton, AM Arthur, River Jaymes, Lane Hayes, etc. etc.). I also see some I haven’t had time to read yet so they need to move up my TBR list. LOL!

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  5. There have been a lot of good books this year! Some of my faves, the Gaymers series by Annabeth Albert, The Spencer Cohen series by NR Walker, The Queen and the Homo Jock King by TJ Klune and Simple Things by Kade Boehme.

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  6. Happy Holidays to everyone! Some of my favorites (i read) this year are:
    The Law of Attraction by Jay Northcote, Strong Signal by Megan Ericsson & Santino Hassell, Believing Rory by SC Wynne, One Step Forward by Tia Fielding and Morning my Angel by Sue Brown.

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    1. Morning my Angel was on the honorable mention list for me…. I could only pick 10 but that one was soooo close to making it!

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  7. Great list, many I havent read yet. Soem of my favs from this year: Bitter Legacy, The Soldier’s Scoundrel,Into the Blue, Ollie Always, Shut your face, Anthony Pace, The Photographer’s Truth

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  8. I loved Avon Gale’s POWER PLAY and EMPTY NET, Arthur Griffin’s THE LUSTY ADVENTURES OF THESEUS, and Ann Gallagher’s ALL THE WRONG PLACES.

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  9. I can hardly think of how many incredible books I’ve read this year. Only a couple of them are in the list above, so that gives me the opportunity to read more!!! I think I’m going to get a second job to support my Kindle habit…LOL
    Thank you for all the wonderful reviews. Wishing you all a Wonderful Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Solstice and an even better New Year!!

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  10. I’ve only got 3 of these so plenty of inspiration!
    Some of my top reads:
    Enlightenment series by Joanne Chambers
    Society of Gentlemen series by KJ Charles
    Continuation of Whyborne and Griffin series by Jordan L Hawk
    Amish series by Keira Andrews
    Home is a Fire by Jordan Nasser
    For Never and Always by Ana J Phoenix
    Thicker Than Bone by Matthew Metzger
    Third Solstice by harper Fox

    I’m sure there are many more!!

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  11. These were my honorable mentions…. realize my lists are from books that I have reviewed this year (as with all of our TNA top 10 lists are) not just generic great reads.

    Dom of Ages by KC Wells & Parker Williams
    Son of Money by Brandon Witt
    Dinner for One by Meg Harding
    Morning My Angel by Sue Brown
    Cold Hearted Concept by Whitley Gray
    Under the Knife by Laurin Kelly
    Bare by Lynn Kelling
    Jury of One by Charlie Cochrane
    ENJOY!

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  12. So many books… the society of gentlemen by KJ Charles, The new Griffin and Whyborne by Jordan L. Hawk, all the books published by Harper Fox, The new instalment in the Plumber’s Mate series by JL Merrow… So many good books I can’t count them all!

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  13. Gosh, I had only read two of these on the list so I would LOVe to win! M/M has become my favorite reading genre this past year and love Amy Lane and Rhys Ford.

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  14. Read so many great books this year! Some highlights that stand out would be:
    Dyeing to be Loved Aimee Nicole Walker
    The Cowboy Gangster series CJ Bishop
    The Weight of It All N.R. Walker
    Vengeance Sloane Kennedy
    Cuff & Collars series

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  15. I read so many books each year it’s hard to pin some down, however ones that stand out are everything Rhys Ford, Strong Signal, Anna Zabo’s Takeover series.

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  16. There were so many great books out last year these are a few of my favourites. “Wolfsong” and “Immemorial Year Book series” by TJ Klune “Hexworld” by Jordan L Hawk “The Spencer Cohen Series” N R Walker.

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  17. My favorites this year tended to be mysteries. I liked Dirty Heart by Rhys Ford, the Vanished trilogy by Carter Quinn, Bitter Legacy by Dal Maclean, and Tied Up in Knots by Mary Calmes.

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  18. Just a few of my favorite, the list is long so I’ll just list what popped up in my head.
    A Kind of Romance by Lane Hayes
    A Kind of Honesty by Lane Hayes
    Soaring Hearts by AL Boyd
    several of Amelita Rae stories
    The Weight of it All by NR Walker
    several of TJ Klune’s books
    Perkatory by Lisa Worrall
    The Cattle Baron’s Bogus Boyfriend by Nicki Bennet
    Marriage of Inconvenience by M.J. O’shea
    Charlie Cochet THIRDs books.

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  19. I read so many great books this year! A few I loved are A Gentleman’s Position by KJ Charles, Fallow by Jordan L Hawk, the Scoring Chances series by Avon Gale and Overexposed by Megan Erickson.

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  20. I haven’t read any of these yet! Thanks for the heads up on your top reads, Carrie. Some of my favorites this year were the Scoring Chances series by Avon Gale, Interborough by Santino Hassell, Strong Signal by SH and Megan Erickson, Pansies by Alexis Hall, and Rag and Bone by KJ Charles.

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  21. SJ Himes Wolfkin and Beacon Hill Sorcerer series’
    Meraki P Lyhne Cubi and Chronicles of an Earned series’
    Charlie Cochet THIRDS
    Sandrine Gasq-Dion Assassin/Shifter and 12 Olympians series’
    heaps more that I loved!

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  22. Enemy of My Enemy, Tal Bauer was the most favored book that I read this year. Others come to mind, Aimee Nicole Walker, Avon Gale, Rick R. Reed, Sue Brown’s Morning My Angel to just name a few!

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  23. Some of my favourites already mentioned, but one of those I was most happy about was Glenn’s story from the Timing series ‘When The Dust Settles’ and those covers… (especially Rand and Glenn’s sigh!)

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