Favorite books of 2013

  I read amazing books in the year 2013. It was so difficult to pick my favorite so I decided on my top 3. Looking For Alaska By John green, The vampire academy by Richelle Mead, and The Fault in Our Stars also by John green. Although these books are all different, with different plots and different messages, they all left me viewing the world in a different perspective.
  In the book Looking For Alaska, Miles, encounters a journey (just a boarding school really) and finds out who he really is a person. He meets and be friends Alaska who introduces him to new and bad ideas. Miles then realizes what he wants to accomplish and portray in life. In The Vampire Academy, Rose is a vampire guardian. She's been looked down upon because of her age and gender. She goes through the book embarking love and adventure and proves herself wrong to everyone who doubted her. Finally in the book The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel Grace has a terminal illness and doesn't know what to do with the remainder of her life. She then goes to a support group and meets Gus who has cancer. Gus and Hazel go on dates and adventures and make the most of what little time they have left.
  All there of these books have something in common but the one thing that stuck out for me was the characters finding who they are as a person. Although each of their journeys were different, the protagonists each had someone (typically a friend) to guide them into solving their internal problems not just external.