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This week is top ten books that lived up to the hype.
![A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327885335l/10664113.jpg)
My favorite book of A Song of Ice and Fire.
![The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1435140741l/25786523.jpg)
![The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1447303603l/2767052.jpg)
This one definitely lived up to all the hype, although Catching Fire is my favorite of the series. And I finally read these recently thanks to Shannon at It Starts At Midnight!
![Big Little Lies](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1492239430l/19486412.jpg)
I heard a lot of hype about this book and when I finally read it I was blown away- definitely lived up!
![City of the Lost (Casey Duncan, #1)](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1446288296l/25362841.jpg)
Same here- see above
Ditto.
This is the only Rainbow Rowell book I've read, oddly, but it totally lived up to the hype.
My favorite of the series hands down.
![One of Us is Lying](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1485770678l/32887579.jpg)
If anything this more than lived up to the hype- I was expecting a fairly pedestrian YA mystery and got very compelling characters.
![Radio Silence](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1467051579l/30653843.jpg)
I'd heard some great things about this one but it surprised me how great it was!
![The Shark Club](https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1496162096l/32970438.jpg)
I saw a little pre- release buzz for this one, not a lot, but I was blown away by it and how it juggled several different balls without dropping them.
![Summer Days & Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories](https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1443125284l/25063781.jpg)
While not every story in this anthology worked for me, I still look back fondly on several of the stories- and would love to see more like this!