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If you could recommend one amazing 10/10 book that you have read this year what would it be?

I got some book vouchers for christmas so will be hitting the bookshop hard in the next few days. If you could recommend one amazing 10/10 book that you have read this year what would it be? Thanks in advance and may I wish all my fellow book lovers a wonderful, peaceful, happy and book filled new year! XXX

Linda #recommend

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Laura

I really loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you….have heard many wonderful things about this book.

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Joanne

You won’t be disappointed xxxx

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Alexandra

Before I was yours

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Elaine

Before we were yours by Lisa Wingate

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Patricia

This is on my wish list, but I didn’t get any Amazon gift cards this year.

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Alexandra

Elaine Day Neal it’s Before I Was Yours by Virgina Macgregor

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Elaine

These similar titles are killers, lol. I loved Magpie Murders but have heard A Murder of Magpies isn’t so good. Not to be confused. ?

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Mary

Gentlemen in Moscow

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you Mary but have just finished that and loved it!

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Leslie

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a wonderful book.

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you Leslie….on my list!

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Donna

A Gentleman in Moscow

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you Donna but just finished that one and really enjoyed it.

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Holly

Lilac Girls

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you. On the list!

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Nancy

I second Lilac Girls! Just finished it and it was amazing!

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Shana

The Song of Achilles

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you Shana. Have read that one and I loved it. She has a new one out soon called Circe so may splurge on that one.

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Rachel

Throne of Glass saga ?

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Lesley

Anything by Anthony Mara— A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena or The Tsar of Love and Techno

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Diane

A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner. Really have several

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Penelope

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. For ‘true’ WWII fiction (it all happened but was fictionalised for better reading) We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter. Loved it.

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Kristi

I second Little Fires Everywhere!

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Linda

Third for Little Fires…

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LindaQuestion author

On my list!

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Renee

Hart’s Boardwalk by Samantha Young

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Robin

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

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Wendy

Prairie Fires

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Joanne

Two stand out books got me were ‘Elizabeth Oliphant is Fine’ and ‘The One’ both from BBC 2 book club. Passed them in to numerous friends who agree xxxx

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Linda

The One by John Marrs?

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Joanne

@Linda yes that one, couldn’t put it down xxxx

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Carolyn

News of the World and Magpie Murders…

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you all for your wonderful suggestions. Some of them I have read and some I have never heard of so will be looking into those. You are such a lovely group!

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Marie

Following

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Karla

I have become very serious about my Goodreads ratings, with 3 stars meaning a book was good, 4 very good and 5 fantastic. I give 5 stars very sparingly. The only books I gave 5 stars to this year were Born to Run, Springsteen’s memoir, and The Trespasser, Tana French’s last mystery. I also adored Less by Andrew Sean Greer, a light, very fun book.

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Susanne

John Marrs and its called The One xxx

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Joanne

Couldn’t put that one down. All the friends I passed it onto agreed xxx

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Susanne

I was the same. I couldn’t put it down and when id finished it I didnt pick up another book for 2 weeks because none of them were as good as The One. Ive bought this other books too!! Xx

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Joanne

@Susanne post and let us know how they are xxx

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Rosemary

If you like biographies, Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson.

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Margaret

I have GOT to get this book!

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Rosemary

David McCullough called it magnificent and spellbinding. It’s better than most biographies because it reads like a story, and avoids things such as “church records show a birth that year of…blah, blah.” The thing about Leonardo is that so much of his doodling and sketching remains, along with letters and, of course, his art. One of the best biographies I’ve read, though I wouldn’t say spellbinding. Magnificent, yes!

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you….on my list!

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Clare

any Kate Morton and if you haven’t yet read The Nightingale, it is a must

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LindaQuestion author

Have read all Kate Morton’s books but have put The Nightingale on my list…..Thanks. X

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Kelly

Norwegian by Night by Derek B Miller

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Robyn

Frozen Charlotte

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Debbi

Hunger by Roxanne Gay

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Divya

Homegoing by Yaa Gyaasi – the best book I read this year, and probably one of the best in the last few years

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Mikah

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende and Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich. Both in very different settings (South America vs a Native American reservation in South Dakota), but both featured great writing and complex intertwining stories.

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LindaQuestion author

Have read Eva Luna but will check out Love Medicine…..Thanks. X

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Krista

Love Louise Erdrich! Try The Round House

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Beckie

Wonder by RJ Palacio or glitter and glue by Kelly Corrigan

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Elaine

Both good reads.

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Beckie

I can’t wait for Kelly’s new book in January. I love her writing style. Glitter and glue was by far in my top ten books I would read again. My mom unfortunately passed away but I was able to pass it on to my boyfriend’s aunt and she passed it on to her daughter. I love it and the story behind it. It’s for sure a book you share.

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Elaine

I did a book review presentation for our Books4Lunch group at my job and others really liked it and wanted to read it. I have a copy of the Middle Place but haven’t read it yet. Maybe 2018, lol.

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Beckie

It was my first book I read by her but now I’m hooked

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Jenny

I just bought Wonder ?

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Beckie

It’s so amazing. ?

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Becca

The Magpie Murders

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Becca

By Anthony Horowitz

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LindaQuestion author

On my list….Thanks!

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Sg

The Dry by Jane Harper

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you Sg…I recently downloaded this to my Kindle as it was on sale.

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Susan

Many of my favorites from the past year will be recommended by other members, so I’m going for one that will probably not be mentioned…The Lost Book of the Grail.

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you Susan, sounds fascinating.

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Johanna

Faithful by Alice Hoffman

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Jenny

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

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Susan

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See.

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LindaQuestion author

Thank you….am putting it on my mile long list!!!

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Nick

The Punch Escrow – Tal M Klein

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Krista

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos

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Joan

A gentleman in Moscow

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Mary

I am in love with A Gentleman in Moscow. What a delightful read!

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Guinevere

The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti

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Elizabeth

I and everyone in my bookclub really loved this book…so nice to see you post this…don’t see it being mentioned much but I listed in the top spot of what I read this year..

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Guinevere

I agree! There were a lot of good books this year but the same titles get mentioned over and over. This one definitely needs to be bumped up on everyone’s list.

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Angela

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

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Veena

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

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Emily

American War, by Omar El Akkad.

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Nicola

Triptych by Karin Slaughter

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Kristie

Following ?

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