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
I really loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Thank you….have heard many wonderful things about this book.
You won’t be disappointed xxxx
Before I was yours
Before we were yours by Lisa Wingate
This is on my wish list, but I didn’t get any Amazon gift cards this year.
Elaine Day Neal it’s Before I Was Yours by Virgina Macgregor
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. ?
Gentlemen in Moscow
Thank you Mary but have just finished that and loved it!
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is a wonderful book.
Thank you Leslie….on my list!
A Gentleman in Moscow
Thank you Donna but just finished that one and really enjoyed it.
Lilac Girls
Thank you. On the list!
I second Lilac Girls! Just finished it and it was amazing!
The Song of Achilles
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.
Throne of Glass saga ?
Anything by Anthony Mara— A Constellation Of Vital Phenomena or The Tsar of Love and Techno
A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner. Really have several
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.
I second Little Fires Everywhere!
Third for Little Fires…
On my list!
Hart’s Boardwalk by Samantha Young
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Prairie Fires
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
The One by John Marrs?
@Linda yes that one, couldn’t put it down xxxx
News of the World and Magpie Murders…
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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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.
John Marrs and its called The One xxx
Couldn’t put that one down. All the friends I passed it onto agreed xxx
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
@Susanne post and let us know how they are xxx
If you like biographies, Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson.
I have GOT to get this book!
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!
Thank you….on my list!
any Kate Morton and if you haven’t yet read The Nightingale, it is a must
Have read all Kate Morton’s books but have put The Nightingale on my list…..Thanks. X
Norwegian by Night by Derek B Miller
Frozen Charlotte
Hunger by Roxanne Gay
Homegoing by Yaa Gyaasi – the best book I read this year, and probably one of the best in the last few years
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.
Have read Eva Luna but will check out Love Medicine…..Thanks. X
Love Louise Erdrich! Try The Round House
Wonder by RJ Palacio or glitter and glue by Kelly Corrigan
Both good reads.
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.
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.
It was my first book I read by her but now I’m hooked
I just bought Wonder ?
It’s so amazing. ?
The Magpie Murders
By Anthony Horowitz
On my list….Thanks!
The Dry by Jane Harper
Thank you Sg…I recently downloaded this to my Kindle as it was on sale.
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.
Thank you Susan, sounds fascinating.
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See.
Thank you….am putting it on my mile long list!!!
The Punch Escrow – Tal M Klein
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
Language Arts by Stephanie Kallos
A gentleman in Moscow
I am in love with A Gentleman in Moscow. What a delightful read!
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti
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..
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.
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
American War, by Omar El Akkad.
Triptych by Karin Slaughter
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