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What are the best three books you’ve read so far?

What are the best three books you’ve read so far ?

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Emma

The Displaced, Home Fire and The Hate U Give. This year. Of all time is much harder.

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Steve

Les Miserables, Jane Eyre, and The Kite Runner

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Renee

I’m glad you asked for more than one! My three are East of Eden, Jane Eyre, and A Gentleman in Moscow.

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Mary

Five little pigs, One of us is lying, The da Vinci code

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Teresa

I LOVED One of Us is Lying

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Carol

Sarah’s Key; The Forgotten Garden and My Secret Sister

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Teresa

Have you read The Secret Keeper? Also Morton, its phenomenal.

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Carol

No, but I will put it on TBR list – thanks

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Leslie

@Teresa I’m reading The House at Riverton now. I love all of Kate Morton’s books.

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Teresa

@Leslie me too!

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Ashley

The Nightingale, Where the Crawdads Sing, Before We Were Yours and A Man Called Ove are my 2018 faves.

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Karen

Pillars of the Earth, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Shadows of the Wind.

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Kymberley

This is how it always is, Washington Black & Home Fire

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Lauren

This Is How It Always Is is so underrated. Doesn’t get nearly as much attention as it deserves. Love it.

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Jennifer

@Kymberley This is how it always Is – sooo good!

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Daniyal

Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Capital by Thomas Piketty
Communist manifesto by Karl Marx

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Susan

this year= beartown, where the crawdads sing, little fires everywhere

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Debbie

The Bean Trees, The Fall of Giants, The good Luck of Right Now are ones I remember off the top of my head, but because of this group, I have had many good reads. Thanks everyone for that?

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Julie

The Mourning Parade by Dawn Rose Langley, The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable, and all three of Fiona Davis’s books

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Aaron

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
The Martian by Andy Weir

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Judy

I love The Martian! Really fun book!

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Kelly

Anna Karenna, Gone With The Wind, Pride and Prejudice.

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Megan

For 2018: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Ready Player One, Delicious!

Of all time is super hard but probably: The Five People You Meet In Heaven, The Book Thief, Light A Penny Candle/the Harry Potter series because I can’t not.

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Jenny

A Man Called Ove
The Book Thief
Big Little Lies

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Tammy

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Laura

I didn’t have that many 5 stars this year but if I had to choose the best 3 that I read out of 62 books they would be

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Laura

1. Home Front Kristan Hannah, 2. See Jane Run by Joy Fielding and Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier

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MohamedQuestion author

Jar of Hearts is amazing tho!

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Jan

The Heart’s Invisible Furies, A Gentleman in Moscow, The Mars Room.

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Rock

The Accidental Time Machine
Scythe
The Warmth of Other Suns

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Sandra

This year “Educated”, “A Man Called Ove”, and “Glass Castle” .

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Wendi

Wonder was one the meg series and the radium girls

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Jean

Haven’t read Wonder but just watched the movie. Sweet and moving.

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Wendi

@Jean they left Alot out of the movie

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Jean

@Wendi I would guess that – movies generally can’t include everything in the book. I’ll have to read it.

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Rosalie

If you mean read this year: Educated, Homegoing, A Gentleman in Moscow

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Deborah

Educated, House of Echos, The Seance

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Cindy

The Book Thief, The Nightingale, The Secret Keeper

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Sharyn

Gentleman in Moscow, Outlander, Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

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Jennifer

Where the Crawdads Sing
Educated
Home for Unwanted Girls

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Autumn

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

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Martha

Suite Francaise, Stolen Beauty, The Dinner, The Glass Room, Bel Canto.

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Will

Rosiland Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox.

Surprised By Oxford by Carolyn Weber.

The White Album by Joan Didion.

… there’s many more, but was asked to list only 3.

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Louise

Three Men In A Boat by Jerome K..Jerome. 1066 And All That by W.C. Sellar anf R.J. Yeatman. Excellent Women by Barbara Pym.

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