Okay so I have a confession to make. I'm actually a terrible person. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned before my personal battle with need for popularity and I really do hate myself for trying to fit in for all those years. I gave up on things that I enjoyed and did things I didn't like doing just so that people that didn't like me very much would accept me. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and there's no point reminiscing on what I should or shouldn't have done. Instead, I have to look forward.

One of the things I gave up because it wasn't "cool" was reading. When I was a little girl, I would sit for hours on end, reading book after book. I used to get lost in the lives of all the characters, dreaming my life away on a fairy-tale. That's where my passion for writing came from. I read all these books and heard other people telling me their stories and I wanted to do the same thing.

I haven't picked up a book in a long time. But, like I said, things are going to change. I have no-one holding me back anymore. I can do whatever I like and the first plan I have for this year is to start reading again.

1. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
2. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
3. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson
4. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
5. The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick
6. A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
7. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
8. 1984 by George Orwell
9. Mythology by Edith Hamilton
10. The Original Folk and Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
11. The Ocean at the End of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
12. The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
13. The House on Cold Hill by Peter James
14. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
17. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
18. The Bees by Laline Paull
19. How To Ruin Everything by George Watsky
20. The Age of Zeus by James Lovegrove
21. The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker
22. The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick
23. The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
24. Room by Emma Donoghue
25. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien