What’s the best book you’ve read so far this year?
What’s the best book you’ve read so far this year?
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A Man Called Ove.
Tie between The Thirteenth Tale (Diane Setterfiedl) and The Book of Esther (Emily Barton)
The invention of wings- Sue Monk Kidd
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
The Bear and the Nightingale
The Bees
The Hare with Amber Eyes
QB VII by Leon Uris
Secret life of bees
One of my all time favorites!
Can you keep a secret by Sophie Kinsella
I read the Harry Potter series in January.. it will take something super special to beat that ?
The Savage.Altar by Isa Larsson
The Night by Elie Wiesel
Throne of glass.
Cealana is amazing haha
Hopeless – colleen hoover
Obsession by Nora Roberts
The girl with the lower back tattoo by Amy Schumer. Ladies check it out. I can imagine some might not want to read it based on her comedy stuff, but she writes on some real topics, domestic abuse, rape, alcoholism, MS!
Fobidden !!!
This one?: https://www.amazon.ca/Forbidden-Matthew-Freake-ebook/dp/B00W8HZ0F8
No dear this one sorry
@Justine but thanks for this it sounds very intressting!!!
Thank u???
You’re welcome, lol.
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Before I fall
ACOTAR
The never list
Before I Fall?
The Breakdown
Golden son and Morning star by Pierce Brown
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All Souls Trilogy
Good Me, Bad Me by Ali Land
The Education of Little Tree.
The Stand uncut by Stephen King
It’s one of my new favorites
I finished it last month
I have it on my kindle ?
Outlander.
Invisible Ellen, although inferno by Dan Brown may dethrone it
One of them is Windy City Blues by Renee Rosen
Caraval
Rapture in death by JD Robb
Sweep series…. For the 4th time
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
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Behind close door
The Martian!! <3
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Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes
Ender’s Game
The Family Plot, by
Cherie Priest
It ends with us . Colleen Hoover
I loved it . It was my first by Colleen, then read two more by her and bought all the rest of her books for my kindle.
It was my first time too , reading for Hoover . PS : i’m planning to read Hopeless .
Thirukkural&sivakamiyin sabatham.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28364923?
I don’t know if it was the best book exactly, but it definitely affected me.
Hidden Figures
“Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” by Mark Twain
Life after Life
current Jodi Picoult book – SMALL GREAT THINGS – half way through at the moment.
Falling Kingdoms series
The raw shark texts!
king solomons mines
Fallen series by lauren kate
999, a horror short story collection edited by Al Sarrantonio (1999).
Dance Hall of the Dead by Tony Hillerman
That’s great! I just recently reread it.
Fifty shades trilogy
Small great things by Jodi Picoult
Paper princess from the royal series by erin Watt
Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny
Michael Wicker I have her Beautiful Mystery on my Kindle. Haven’t read it yet. Have you ?
@Sonya No, I have not read that one yet. I must say I have truly loved her Three Pines, Quebec mysteries.
I just looked it up on Amazon and The Beautiful Mystery is the 8th one in the series and I just finished I think the fifth one. I would highly recommend that you start with the first book, “Still Life.” I have gotten quite attached to those people.
The Winter People.
Empire Falls by Russo
The Sweet Magnolias Series bySherryl Woods.
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
Hannah Robin Boni Loved loved Donna Tart’s Secret History . highly recommended !
George Orwell’s 1984
And then there were none…Agatha Christie.
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I read it in 5 hours
I read that book when I was 14 and it’s still one of my favorites to this day (13 years later)
I read it in my early teens and reread it this past summer, when I was 67. Ms. Christie really had the touch.
@Christy My firsr Agatha Christie !!! amazing ! @Kelsie I was around 13 too …still remember the tattered copy and reading into the night as one person after the other kept getting killed !!
So far, The Girl on the Train. Kept me guessing til the end. I love psychological thrillers with unreliable narratives….anyone have any more recommendations? Lol
Gillian Flynn”s thrillers are good. Also Joy Fielding’s.
I’ve read all of Gillian Flynn’s novels. I’ll look into Joy Fielding as I haven’t heard of her. Thank you!
Sara Barnard’s A Quiet Kind of Thunder 🙂
End of Watch by Stephen King. Honestly, though, I read quite a few books I thoroughly enjoyed so I’ll probably change my mind.
A Shadow Bright and Burning
The best book this year was Leota’s Garden by Frances River. I’m also reading The Dressmaker by Kate Alcott right now that is very good.
Final crisis.
It ends with us
Gosh…. how many boxes of tissues did you use?
Around 1 packet. But I’m still not over the heartbreak.
A Court Of Mist and Fury
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Faithful by Alice Hoffman
Loved it
What was this book like. I love her books
Right now….. Behind Her Eyes
A Man Called Ove.
I’m reading that one at the moment and enjoying it.
@Michele he’s written another book titled “My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry”. I have that one from the library just now and plan to start it soon. I hope it’s as good.
@Shirley Please keep me posted on how you enjoy it. I’ve missed Ove and am having a bit of a problem diving into a new book.
Persepolis
Harry potter
Girl with the dragon tattoo. Stieg Larsen
Aww my all time fave. I miss you Lisbeth Salander
Loved that book
Excellent and sequels too
@Sheila the 3rd one was rough read but I did finish it. Did you read the new one I believe his wife wrote its supposed to be a continuation?
Wizard and Glass by Stephen King
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philipa Gregory
Either Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Guarden, or Murder on the Orient Express.
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier or The nothing Girl by Jodi Taylor
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Jane eyre
Til Death Do Us Part Tammy Capri
Probably Caraval!
The Perks of Being A Wallflower ?
It is a toss up: Rosemunde Pilcher’s Voice’s in the Summer or Mark Haddon’s Curious Incident of the dog in the night time.
The devil and Miss Prym
That one was good!
The Jamestown Project,Nonfiction.
Harry Potter ???
I found this book in the bargain bin… now I’m excited to read it!
Difficult daughters by Manju Kapoor or Azadi by Chaman Nahal
All quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque
I have just found the Junkyard Druid series by M D Massey. Seems decent so far.
Nonfiction: I Have Lived 1,000 Years by Livie Britton-Jackson.
Diana’s story by deric longden. Laugh and cry… a true story. A must read in my book.
The night sister by Jennifer McMahon
The Host by Stephne Meyer .??
Toss up between Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca & The Magdalen Girls by V. S. Alexander. ?
Too many
I didn’t read many. I liked Everything everything by Nicola Yoon.
I loved that book and I believe there is a movie being made about it.
The Martian closely followed by Neverwhere.
This is how it always is by Laurie Frankel and Say Goodbye for Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde.
Language of hoofbeats is her best book!
I haven’t read that one yet but I believe it is on my wish list.
@Denise it’s a Pulitzer Prize winning book.
OK just moved up the list. LOL!
Thank you, @Jennifer
I have been making my reading list according to months and I’ve been making them theme, and I think may might be that I only read Pulitzer Prize winning novels. This month is all ya novels, and next month is finished reading the novels I’ve put down throughout the last year.
Have you read the Breath series by Rebecca Donovan? It’s a YA series 3 books. It was pretty good.
I am not a ya reader but for the teen that calls me mom, I read them to keep connected with her!
But I will check them out. She says she can never have enough books!
I hear you there! Yes, please do check them out first. The books are well written but the subject matter is a bit tough in the first two books.
loving the bear and the nightingale but also loved sweetbitter and winter people
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka.
A dog called Hope
One 14th of an Elephant.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes