What are your top three favorite books from 2019 so far? Mine are: Beartown Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine The breakdown
What are your top three favorite books from 2019 so far?
Mine are:
Beartown
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine
The breakdown
Note I read The nightingale in 2018 or it would be on the list.
The Girl He Used to Know (comes out this Tuesday! If you like Eleanor it’s definitely worth the read!)
5,331 Miles
The Bookshop on the Corner
@Lauren I have the bookshop on the corner thanks to my pen pal @Emily ? I will have to put “The girl he used to know” on my list
I just finished Rooms by Lauren Oliver and I thought it was pretty good
@Emily what is that about?
@Beth interested in that one as well!
Adds another book to the tbr pile ?
I’m not good at explaining so I’ll let Goodreads do it for me
@Emily ooh looks pretty cool
Verity, Where the Crawdads Sing, Becoming
@Dana I need to buy Crawdadsz I have a verity in my kindle but I haven’t felt prepared yet to read it ?
@Beth it’s a quick read because you won’t be able to put it down!!!!
@Elizabeth I quit Watching You. I assume it got moving?
American Fire, Who Killed These Girls, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian for nonfiction
@Irram loved The Absolutely True Diary….
I rad it for my book club many years ago. It might be worth a re-read.
Of what is on my reading challenge for the year so far:
Crawdads
Bird Box
Last Mrs Parrish
Grateful American, Verity, Born a Crime
@Elizabeth loved class mom too
Yep! It picked up quickly. Reminded me a lot of The Husband’s Secret which I loved. How far did you get?
Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Nightingale for fiction
Daisy Jones, The Last Romantics, The Girl with Seven Names
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, Dumplin by Julie Murphy, This Will Only Hurt A Little by Busy Phillips
@Molly I just ordered dumplin from thriftbooks! Got tired of waiting for my hold
I want to read all these!!!
Bear Town
Song of Achilles
The Extraordinary Life if Sam Hell
November 9
Eleanor Oliphant
Radium Girls
Bad Men and Wicked Women
If Beale Street Could Talk
Odd One Out
@R i just found a copy of if beale st could talk- how was it?
@Skye I like how James Baldwin writes, it’s a distinct style so I enjoyed the book.
The great alone
Where the crawdads sing
Becoming
Homegoing
On the Come Up
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
@Lillian I cant wait to read The hate U give and on the come up. Thinking about stopping my half price books on Monday and getting those and crawdads
Daisy Jones and the Six
The Gown
You’ve Been Volunteered
@Debbie loves daisy and you’ve been volunteered
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Circe
Daisy Jones & The Six
@Jennifer loved daisy jones
@Beth I did too. As soon as I finished it I gave it to my husband to read. He is in a band and I thought he would enjoy it. He usually reads non fiction and I told him I felt like this was a real story by time I was done I wanted to listen to the album or look for old concert footage.
@Jennifer I liked the way it was written for sure. One of these days I need to give Evelyn Hardcastle another shot. I got confused ??♀️
The Hate U Give
The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn hardcastle
And Then There Were None
@Emma-MayAnd then there were none is one of my fave of all time. I really want to read The Hate U give
@Beth i was so hooked! I put that on my tbr in 2014 so I was glad I finally picked it up.
THUG is a super quick read and it will stay with me forever. I watched the movie yesterday and I don’t say this often but the movie lived up to the book ?
@Emma-May I may treat myself at half price books on Monday (though it won’t be half price ?)
Where the crawdads sing
Verity
Winter garden
You’ve got 2 of my 3. Swap out Verity for Daisy Jones and the Six for me. 🙂
@Jill i didnt read daisy so I don’t know yet ?
The Undomestic Goddess
Instant Mom
Memory Keeper’s Daughter
@Jacqueline I have the undomestic goddess on my kindle I think. Instant mom sounds cool!
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why it Still Matters
Furiously Happy
American Gods
@Felicia oh my gosh! I definitely need to read the Little Women one. That’s how I got my name
I love that! It was a great look at how the book has influenced culture and the way reactions have varied to the story over the years.
@Felicia it sounds amazing
@Beth I’m named after Little Women too.
yes! We just need a Meg and a Jo now!
@Felicia Furiously Happy was hysterical! I totally embarrassed by children by reading it at the pool and laughing hysterically.
@Kelly I had to move her to my “don’t read in public” list after I almost snarfed my lunch in the break room at work while reading ?
Cold Comfort Farm
What the Wind Knows
The Wind Through the Keyhole
@Tamara I need to look these up. I haven’t read any of them!
@Beth Cold Comfort Farm was written in the ’30s and is a sendup of all those 1800s British pastoral novels. It’s hysterical. A young London woman is forced by circumstance to go live with relatives in Sussex and says her greatest fear is that there will be a Reuben or a Seth amongst the cousins she’s never met. When she arrives, she telegrams her best friend: “Worse than feared. There’s Reuben AND a Seth.” Then she gets very busy molding these people into shape. Very wry, very dry, makes me love all those stories like Tess of the d’Urbervilles even more.
What the Wind Knows is by Amy Hardin. It’s new. A time travel romance in Ireland. Each chapter starts with a bit of Yeats, so I was sold. I don’t think she’s the very best writer, although lots of people think she writes beautifully. I loved the story, I especially loved the Yeats. I think the author was doing more than she realized because she really captured Yeats’ entire philosophy of life and poetry within the story, and I don’t think she was aware that she had that layer at all. If she had been, she would’ve had to write differently. It’s fun and worth reading, but it could’ve been a classic.
The Wind Through the Keyhole is the last book of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. It can be read as a standalone book. In fact, the Dark Tower was finished for some time when King suddenly realized he had one more story to tell. In terms of writing, it’s Book VIII, in placement of the story timeline, it falls as 4.5. I wouldn’t want to enter the universe here, but the story is encapsulated enough that I do think it’s possible to read only this book without reading the series. It’s probably my favorite book of the 8 because it’s a story within a story within a story, which is hard to pull off, and the boy on the quest in one of the story lines really resonated with me for some reason.
A Man Called Ove
Behind Closed Doors
Class Mom
@Jonessa loved all of these!
@Beth all very different but soooo good
All the Light We Cannot See (finally read it), The Rent Collector, and The Great Alone
I loved All the Light we Cannot See!
The dad and grandad were just so ????. I have such a hard time with these WWII novels. They are so realistic and the reality is WWII was so very awful. But I end up devastated after ever one.
I know! I read Beneath the Scarlet Sky shortly after. It was also really good and interesting to see the parallels. WWII is a popular story setting. I feel like I have to consciously take a break after reading a certain number of them.
@Leah me too!!
Daisy Jones & The Six
Verity
Confess
@Amy oh confess sounds cool!
After I read Verity, I started reading all her books. They’re all really good stories.
Eleanor Oliphant, Then She Was Gone, The Crown (3rd book in the Selection series)
Omg that Selection series had me hooked embarrassed to say ?? it’s like
Hunger games and the bachelor all rolled into one. I can’t believe the CW hasn’t adapted it yet
I actually refer to it as that exact mix when I tell people to read it!
@Elizabeth omg. Now I must read these.
Kiera Cass is the author?
@Beth they’re not the best written or the smartest but I couldn’t stop reading. Definitely a fun, breezy read.
@Elizabeth I don’t think too far. She noticed the neighbor but then it kept talking about her husband and living with her brother and I was bored.
Yeah she’s not a super sympathetic character I get it. I loved the teens POV. Give it another couple of chapters and see if it doesn’t pick up
The Huntress, The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion, Summoned to the Thirteenth Grave
I love Fannie Flagg!
Daisy Jones & the Six, Not our Kind and Becoming
The Hate U Give
Becoming
Defending Jacob
@Landry Defending Jacob is my top 10 of all time. I read it a few years ago
@Beth I’m so glad it was suggested to me, now I’m suggesting it to everyone ?
@Landry it was absolutely amazing. I’m
Going to reread one day
“Daisy Jones and the Six”
“Promise Me, Dad”
“Wonderful Tonight”
All Your Perfects
My Oxford Year
Verity
@Breanna I have verity and my Oxford year on my kindle. Yay!
@Beth you’re in for a treat with both!
Where the crawdads sing, becoming, and the hate u give are my favorites of the ones I’ve read this year.
Where The Crawdads Sing, Elinor Oliphant, and Verity!
Nightingale, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and a tie between Bossypants and Born a Crime
On the Come Up
Spoiled Brats
The Chaperone
Lost Roses
The Island of Sea Women
The Beantown Girls
@Aga loved Beantown Girls!
@Dana Such a great book!
The Great Alone, Hidden Bodies, The President is Missing. But now I’m reading Before we were yours, and I think that could easily be top 3.
Becoming, Little Beach Street Bakery and The Wife Between Us.
@Nicole loved the wife between us
@Beth yes it was sooo good!
Did you read this one?
@Beth no, haven’t heard of it. Adding to my library list!
@Nicole it was a little odd but really liked it and I think you would like it too
@Beth thanks for the suggestion!
@Nicole I remember Little Beach Street Bakery, that was a great book. I’d forgotten about it.
@R it was really good. Can’t wait to read the sequels
* The Hate You Give
* This is How it Always Is
* The Farm
@Skye The Hate U Give
Doing Justice
Still Me
Before We Were Yours
@Jessica Im on the fence with keeping Before We Were Yours on my TBR. Tell me why you loved it!
@Skye it is told in a multiple POV way which I love. I had no previous knowledge of the Tennessee Children Home Society Before this book, so it was so sad and so interesting. I loved all the characters. I could go forever. It’s sooo good!!!
@Jessica I loved it as well!
@Romina it was so good and so heartbreaking but heartwarming. It was well written
@Jessica before we were yours …for for one of my favorites this year so far
The Lonliest Girl in the Universe
My Sister, the Serial Killer
The Princess and the Fangirl
Throne of Glass,
My Favorite Half-Night Stand, and
One Day in December
*This is how it always is
*Becoming
*The Great Alone
Just finished Eleanor Oliphant – loved it!
– Of Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon
– The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
– The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
@Stacy oh the storyteller is so great
Following.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Kingdom of Copper
Circe (good but not sure it’ll stay in my top 3)
Maid
Firefly Lane
Are You Sleeping
@Sara loved firefly lane
The Rules of Magic
Beoming
Where the Crawdads Sing
This Is How It Always Is
Finding Dorothy
I loved This is How it Always Is.
Beartown, Daisy Jones and the Six, one day in December
Moloka’i
A Man Called Ove
Beartown/Us Against You
The Lies of Locke Lamora
The Winter of the Witch
Circe
Haven’t had one that I loved yet this year.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Where the Crawdads Sing, and Every Note Played, but I am starting Daisy Jones and the Six tomorrow, so it might sneak in.
Confessions of a Domestic Failure
Class Mom
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Broken Girls
Sorry, I know that’s four, but they were SO amazing!!
Loved the breakdown, the escape room, and The Silent Patient!!
Ghosted. Where the Crawdads Sing. Eleanor Oliphant.
I also LOVED The Alice Network
I’ve read a lot of good books so far this year, it’s hard to narrow it down, so I’m giving you my top 1/3;
Where the Crawdads Sing, Beartown, The Women in the Castle, Evelyn Hugo, The Alice Network, Orphan Train, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, One Day in December, and The Kitchen House
The top 3 I’ve read so far this year are: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told (Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally), A Man Called Ove, One Day in December
Cutting for Stone, Before We Were Yours. The Exceptional Life of Sam Hell.
Extraordinary Life Of Sam Hell. Sorry.
One Day in December, Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Book Store. The Versions of Us (meh)
Becoming; The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo; Puddin’
Halsey Street and The Graveyard Book
A Little Life, I’ve read others so far this year, but this one……
I am reading the Breakdown and liking it a lot.
Needed a break from Eleanor….
How to Walk Away, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, Run Away (currently reading).
Love is Blind
A Man Called Ove, The Kitchen House
Killers of the Flower Moon, Retta, Pachinko
Pachinko,Crawdads,American Marriage
Verity, the wife between us, and girl wash your face
Enarmored by Jen Dunst
Enchanted by Jen Dunst
Enraptured by Jen dunst
@Jen local author
The Book Thief, Where the Crawdad’s Sing, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
I ugly cried when I read The Book Thief.
Oh, me too!
Verity and Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the crawdads sing
The storytellers secret
The silent patient
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Verity
The Last Mrs. Parrish
But, my current read might just sweep all of these: The Butterfly Garden. Holy crap. It’s the first of a trilogy, although there may be a 4th out now.