Write down the great 5 books on the comment, I should read this year.
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Write down the great 5 books on the comment, I should read this year.
Gone with the wind. To kill a mockingbird. The thorn birds. A tree grows in Brooklyn. Nightengale.
All great books
Gone With the Wind, The Great Gatsby, Outlander, The Joy Luck Club and Lord of the Rings. There are lots more.
Jane Eyre; Tarzan of the Apes; Far From the Madding Crowd; Hatchet; The Night Circus
@Margaret Hatchet!! Yes! ??
@Amelia it changed the way I think about books when I was 9 or 10.
I didn’t read it until adulthood, but it had an effect on me, too. Have you read the whole series?
I read The River and maybe Brian’s Winter, but it was so long ago, I don’t remember.
A Suitable Boy.
It’s big enough to be 5 books but worth the time.
@Zaina so worth the time! A beautiful book!
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver
Ann of Green Gables
Gone With The Wind
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Outsiders
Where The Red Fee Grows
To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Pillars of the Earth to start!
One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Kite Runner, Animal Farm, Pillars of the Earth, Brave New World.
The giver. Room. All the Jack Reacher by Lee Child. That should keep you busy for a while. Happy reading.
Angela’s Ashes, Where The Red Fern Grows, 11/22/63, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Song of Ice and Fire. These are my top five novels of all time.
@Matthew, have you read all of Frank McCourt’s books? My fav of his is Teacher Man.
@Amelia, no I have not. Angela’s Ashes is the only book I have read by McCourt. I’ve been wanting to read his other novels, but I have so much books to read. Lol
Ah, the struggle! Too many great books, too little time (and jobs that interfere with our reading) lol
Santanu: Since you said “books” and not novels, I’ll include two non-fictions – Leonardo DaVinci, by Isaacson, and The Conquerors, by Crowley. Novels? one old – Ivanhoe; one modern – Lonesome Dove; and one current – NY Times “best book” of 2018 – Asymmetry. Enjoy!
1)Gone With the Wind
2)Pillars of the Earth
The 3)Notebook
4)Joy Luck Club
5)Hawaii by James Michener
@Katy I’ll add The Kiterunner.
Shadow of the Wind
Ender’s Game
Pride and Prejudice
Harry Potter Series
Pillars of Earth
Where the Crawdads Sing, Memoirs of a Geisha, Outlander, The Hazelwood, Circe
1.- The count of Montecristo
2.- 100 years of solitude.
3.- Moby Dick
4.- The Godfather
5.- Perfum; the story of a murderer
Wuthering Heights
Far From the Madding Crowd
Anna Karenina
War and Peace
Frankenstein
The Giver
Secret Life of Bees
Anne of Green Gables
Little Women
Things they carried
The Kite Runner
The Atlas of Love
Watership Down
Fahrenheit 451
The Night Circus
I could add so many more, but you said five. I try to follow directions. ??
Happy reading!
The Kite Runner is a great selection.
@Amelia so happy to see Watership Down show up.
@Felice , yes!! It’s my all-time favorite!
Cutting for Stone, The Poisonwood Bible, The One and Only Ivan, The War That Saved My Life, The Art of Racing in the Rain
Love The Poisonwood Bible
Harry Potter series
Outlander
The night circus
What Alice forgot
The Outsiders
Where the Crawdads Sing
To kill a mockingbird/ a tree grows in Brooklyn/ the joy luck club/ tales of the city/the glass castle
Things Fall Apart
Curious Incident of a Dog in the Nighttime
Rebecca
The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Book Thief
Since I don’t know what you have read, or your likes and dislikes, and I’m an “older” Chickie, and so I’ve read a “few” books in my time… I’m sure the number is in the thousands. I will always tell someone to read “Little Women” and “And Then There Were None”. After those, there are so very many I could tell you that are worth your time and effort. “Les Miserables”… is a difficult read, but so very well worth the time and effort- I always recommend reading it in stages, so as not to become overwhelmed. I’d like to suggest reading at least one “important” book…. one which has an historical nature, of which you can gain some insigt to another time period. Any of the Charles Todd novels would be wonderful. Anything by Dickens or Poe. Have fun, and maybe when you get to be my age, you’ll have read a few thousand books also. 😉
The Awakening by Kate Chopin, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit by Tolkien, Harry Potter series, Washington’s Secret Six by Brian Kilmead.
Rebecca, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Gone with the Wind, Call of the Wild, To Kill a Mockingbird. All classics that have stood the test of time.
Gone With The Wind
The Posionwood Bible
1984
Sense and Sensibility
All The Light We Cannot See
Following…and thinking of my 5….
Eleanor Olephant is completely fine. Beartown. Us Against Them. All the Light I Can Not See. Shadow of the Wind.
Following
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Berrybender Narratives, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, The Cider House Rules and The Shipping News.
The Truest Pleasure by Robert Morgan. Where the Crawdads Sing. She Walks These Hills (all of the Appalachian ballads by Sharyn McCrumb) Tom Sawyer. The Good Earth.
Secret Life of Bees, The Poisonwood Bible, Water for Elephants, Pride & Prejudice, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Plus, anything by Charles Dickens. I my opinion he is the greatest author ever.
The Poisonwood Bible is on my list. It’s a great read.
Nightingale, A Fall of Merigolds, A Man Called Ove, The Art of Racing in the Rain, and finally Looking for Alaska.
@Sue YES TO THE NIGHTINGALE! Loved that book!
To Kill A Mockingbird
Americanah
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Belong Finding Your People
All @Cozy:
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman
Delivered From Evil by Robert Leckie
I just checked out Bryson’s on audio. It’s great so far!
Bekah Page He’s great. I’ve read six or seven of his books.
The Bible
Downbelow Station
The Silmarillion
Treasure Island
The Idiot
Bleak House. Charles Dickens
Pillars of the Earth. Ken Follett
The Stand Stephen King
War and Peace. Leo Tolstoy
Astrid and Veronika. Linda Olsson
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On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
One Thousand White Women
The Outsiders
The Woman in the Window
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
And a book that was really fun to read: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Loved on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
on my TBR list
@Shelley – I hope you enjoy it. It has the sweetest ending I have ever read. ❤
oh good
@Karen
1. Frankenstein,
2. The Poisonwood Bible,
3. The Grapes of Wrath,
4. All the King’s Men, and
5. Slaughterhouse Five
1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 2. A Fall of Marigolds 3. The War that Saved My Life 4. Naked by David Sedaris 5. The Nightingale
Following
Great Expectations, Secret Life of Bees,
All the Light You Cannot See,
The Help,
The Nightingale
The Outsiders
East of Eden, Gone with the Wind, Memoirs of a Geisha, Rebecca, Wuthering Heights
Before We Were Yours, Educated, Little ?Fires Everywhere, Born A Crime, Pachinko
An American Marriage, White Chrysanthemum, Medicine Walk, Educated, The Heart’s Invisible Furies (I picked books I read in 2018.)
Count of Monte Cristo, East of Eden, Pillars of the Earth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Rebecca and Educated (sorry it’s 6)
The Sparrow (Russell)
A Fine Balance (Mistry)
Cider House Rules (Irving)
Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving)
@Debbie oh indeed, A Fine Balance was the best!. I’m still crying!
Oh yes, the Sparrow!
Follow
Beartown, Harry Potter, The Hate U Give, Unbroken, Me Before You
1.Lord of the Rings
2. Dune
3.Jane Eyre
4.Count of Monte Cristo
5. Hound of the Baskervilles
NON-FICTION
1. Team of Rivals by Doris Goodwin
2. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
3. Argo by A. Mendez
4. Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by E. Morris
5. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke
The Stand, Gone With the Wind, Lonesome Dove, Beach Music, Winds of War
A Man Called Ove, The Overstory,
The Old Man and the Sea, All the Light She Cannot See and The Grapes of Wrath. Have fun!
Love the Grapes of Wrath
Kenneth Roberts Chronicles of Arundel (3 book series)
@Desaree I read all the Kenneth Roberts books I could find when I was young. I discovered more American history there than anything taught at school
@Darlene I just finished doing the same thing. I was hooked after reading Arundel.
I’m currently reading Three Harbours by F. Van Wyck Mason. His writing style isn’t as smooth and descriptive as Roberts but still very good. Similar in staying true to history of American Revolution Era.
@Desaree thanks! I will look for his books
1. Bel Canto
2. Me Before You
3. The Great Gatsby
4. The Perfume Collector
5. Little Bee
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
1. The Bible
2. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
3. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
4. The Irish Country series( Patrick Taylor has written 7 books in this series: Irish Country Girl, Irish Country Courtship, Irish Country Christmas, A DublinStudent Doctor, Irish Country Doctor, Irish Country Village and Irish Country Wedding
5. Murder at the Opera by Margaret Truman
Classics: East of Eden and To Kill A Mockingbird. Really enjoyable relatively recents: Secret Life of Bees, The Book Thief and The Art of Racing in the Rain.
Here’s my 5, the 1st 2 are nonfiction: Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity – Andrew Solomon; Brain on Fire – Susannah Cahalan; The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey – Walter Mosely; The White Hotel – D.M. Thomas; Life After Life – Kate Atkinson.
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The wife between us, lies, the woman in the window, the girl before, small great things
I keep forgetting about The Help and Unbroken. Both are so good. Unbroken is beautiful. Another book that I really enjoyed reading this year is First Women by Kate Andersen Brower. It’s a fun and engaging look at the First Ladies focussing on Jackie-Michelle.
@Karen unbroken is very good some parts of it are hard to read.
1) gentleman from Moscow
2) cutting for stone
3) where the crawdads sing
4)book thief
5) everyday
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Book Thief, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Rings…hard to narrow down that fifth pick!
and the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
@Katherine love love love this book
Memoirs of a Gesha
The Kite Runner
The Book Thief
The Joy Luck Club
The World According to Garp
The world according to Garp! Read it so many years ago, I think I need to re-read it:)
I’m a big John Irving fan, Garp was my fav.
@Kathie great list
Following
F @Cheryl
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Molokaii
Year of Wonders
Girl with the Pearl Earing
Island of the Blue Dolphins was one of my very favorite books growing up, and is worthy of being on a short list!
Following
Following
The Great Alone, The Hate U Give, Before We Were Yours, Educated…
Gentleman in Moscow, The Boys in the Boat, Cutting for Stone, Team of Rivals, The Life We Bury
A Little Life, Gentleman in Moscow, The Shadow of the Wind, Cider House Rules and The English Patient.
So hard to pick 5. Dune was first Si Fi book I read and from there I kept going. Salem’s Lot was first Stephen King book and from there I kept going. Lonesome Dove was one I wished would never end. Almost anything by Steinbeck.
Disgrace
Life of Pi
Severed head
East of Eden
Prince of Tides
Anything by John Steinbeck
And Ladies of the Club…. Helen Hoover Santmyer
One For The Money Janet Evanovich (just for fun)
One Thousand White Women James Ferguson
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
@Kathy I love Steinbeck and really like The Poisonwood Bible. I also read Evanovich for fun.
@Kathy I think I must be the only female in America who did not like And Ladies of the Club. Tried to get into it when it first came out. Maybe I should give it another go.
I loved And Ladies of the Club but Herbs and Apples, not so much.
@Lynette same here
@Kathy omg. And ladies of the club is my favorite book of all time. So many people won’t read it because of its length, but I didn’t want it to end.
The great alone by Kristin Hannah, 11/22/63 by Stephen king, in the midst of winter by Isabel Allende, Educated by Tara Westover, hellhound on his trial by Hampton sides
Gentleman In Moscow, Jane Eyre, To Kill A Mockingbird, Gone With The Wind .
My 5th choice……..All The Light You Cannot See.
The nightingale
Cutting for Stone
All the light we cannot see
Olive Kitterage
A little life
The Great Alone
(Too many great ones to choose just 5)
Rebecca
Push
The kite runner
Boys in stripped pajamas
Norwegian wood
The Kite Runner is a great read.
@Karen ofcourse
1. The Alice Network
2. The GreatAlone
3. The Light Between Oceans
4. Everything I Never Told You
5. Finding Rebecca
I just finished A Gentleman in Moscow and have major book hangover from this–just loved it! Other 5 star ratings I have are The Nightengale, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, The Invisible Bridge, Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in US Naval History, Cutting for Stone, The Overstory and Little Fires Everywhere. Happy reading!
@Allison Another vote for A Gentleman in Moscow. It is an incredible book! I recommend the Audible version as the narrator is an excellent voice actor and truly brings the story to life.
@Nina I might have to listen to the book just to get to enjoy it again!
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight, Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific, Book Thief, Game of Thrones, Odds Against by Dick Francis.
The book thief and all the light we can not see.
Lost City of The Monkey God.
Pachinko, The Heart’s Invisible Furies, The Wife Between Us, The Music Shop, Educated:A Memoir.
Beartown and Us Against You
Loved Beartown
@Karen, ditto!
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
One coming of age tale, one dystopian future novel, one classic horror, one fairy tale, and one suspense thriller. Bonus book for non fiction… Indianapolis: the true story… by Sara Vladic and Lynn (can’t remember last name).
11/23/63 By Stephen King, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown.
Poisonwood bible. Fine balance. Olive kitteredge. Dickens. Into thin air. Accidental tourist. Elegance of the hedgehog. Oscar wao
I can’t count
@Kathy, I really liked The Elegance Of The Hedgehog.
Yes Olive Kitteredge and Accidental Tourist
@Cindy movie good too
Carneige’s Maid by MarieBenedict , Mem by Bethany C. Morrow, Meet Me at the Museum,Alternate Side by Anna Quindlan
2 more: Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea and Mothers and Daughters by Rae Meadows
1. Angela’s Ashes
2. The Grapes of Wrath
3. The Great Alone
4. 11/23/63
5. Anything by Charles Dickens!
1. Night by Elie Wiesel
2. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
3. The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
4. I Shall Be Near to You by Erin Lindsay McCabe
5. Lila by Marilynne Robinson
And…
.A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
..The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
…NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (Stephen King’s son)
….The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer
…..Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
@Angela Love, love, love A Walk in the Woods.
@Lynda he makes me laugh out loud, in public!
The Book Thief, The Color of Water, The Invisible Bridge, The Nightingale
1. A time to kill
2. Great Expectations
3. Mice of men
4. Grapes of wrath
5. The Christmas Carol
1. A Prayer for Owen Meeny 2. A Gentleman in Moscow 3. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay 4. Rebecca 5. Still Life by Louise @Penny
@Barbara A Prayer For Owen Meaney: an all-time favorite of mine.
Love this book ❤️
@Barbara I loved Still Life, and Kavalier and Clay. Have you ever read The Yiddish Policeman’s Union?
@Mary ?♥️❤️best.list.ever!
If you are like me and time can be an issue, here are five short enjoyable reads: The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, 84 Charring Cross Road, The Storied Life of AJ Fikry, and The Curious Incident of Dog In The Night Time
@Tina if you’ve never seen it, I highly recommend the film adaption of 84 Charring Cross Road.
@Felice I have seen the film, it was wonderful!
My favorite books that I read this year (most not published this year): Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett); We Were The Lucky Ones (Georgia Hunter); The Woman in the Window (A.J. Finn); The Great Alone (Kristin Hannah); The Storied Life of AJ Fikry (Gabrielle Zevin)
The Music Shop
Eleven Hours
1)Mrs. Mike 2) The Hiding Place 3) The Crowing Glory of Cally Lilly Ponder 4)Haddie Big Sky 5) A Long Way From Chicago
@Rayna Mrs.Mike is an oldie but a goodie.
I agreed
All the Light You Cannot See
The Life she was given
I Heard You Paint Houses
Te Good Earth
To Kill a Mocking bird
There There, The Alice Network, The House of Unexpected Sisters, Leonardo da Vinci and An Irish Country Practice
@Trish I will soon read There, There.
1) Edgar Sawtell by David Wrobewski, 2) News of the World by Paulette Jiles, 3) Abraham by Bruce Fieler, 4) Point of Direction by Rachel Weaver, 5) Contrition by Maura Weiler * The last two books are written by local authors in Denver area – I classify them as great first books.
News of the World is so good!!
Edgar Sawtell is such a good book!!!
The Alice network, All the Light You Cannot See, The Husband’s Secret. Great Small Things,
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede …Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin…The Florist’s Daughter by Patricia Hampl…Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith…A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley…
The Great Alone/ Looking For Salvation At The Dairy Queen/ Finding Langston/ The Book Thief
@Jd that’s only 4 ??♀️
@Stephanie, ?. That’s what I could come up without thinking.
@Jd lol! But I always add your recs to my list!
@Stephanie, I’m flattered!
Red Notice, Becoming, On Desperate Ground, American Wolf, Night Soldiers
A Man Called Ove, Dopesick, Vox, Night of Miracles, The Heart’s Invisible Furies
People of the Book, Anything by Louise Penny, although I would begin with the 1st Inspector Gamache series., anything by JD Robb., The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, The Shack.
@Suzie People Of The Book Was Good.
Love People of the Book! Have read it three times!
Firefly lane by Kristin @Hannah
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pie Peel Society, I Claudius by Robert Graves, Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley, the last book by Jane Austen SENDITON, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, Beartown by Fredrick Backman, Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Art of Racing in the Rain, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell you She’s Sorry
@Kathy good ones!
@Jolene yes!
Crime and Punisment. Dostoevsky…so amazing
The Red Pyramid, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Long Way Gone, Diary of Anne Frank, and Harry Potter
I can recommend the best books I’ve read THIS year – these are what I’m recommending to my friends to read!
1. Small Great Things – Jodi Picoult (best book I’ve read this year)
2. The Heart’s Invisible Furies – John Boyne (an epic story – such rich character development)
3. Fruit of the Drunken Tree – Ingrid Rojas Contreras (the life of a family living in Columbia during Pablo Escobar’s reign)
4. This is How it Always Is – Laurie Frankel (she’s a local author for me here in Seattle – gripping coming of age story)
5. Little Fires Everywhere – Celeste Ng (heartbreaking story with amazing character development)
Happy reading!!
Educated would be 1♥️
Orphan’s Tale
Valiant Ambition, In the Heart of the Sea, Ordinary Grace, The Hate U Give, Beneath a Scarlet Sky.
@Mary The Book Thief is Outstanding!
1. Educated – Tara Westover
2. The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah
3. The Outsider – Stephen King
4. NOS4A2 – Joe Hill
5 Magic Hour – Kristin Hannah
If you want to laugh so hard that your eyes close and then when you open them and try to pick up where you left off only to snort laugh this time then read Marley and Me. I know it’s sad but that is a small part
Michelle Obama’s “Becoming”
Educated
The Great Alone
This is How it Always Is
Becoming
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Passage to India, and In search of Lost Time.
To Kill a Mockingbird (H. Lee), Chesapeake (J. Michener), John Brown’s Body (Stephen V. Benet), Little Women (L.M. Alcott), One Hundred Years of Solitude (G. G. Marquez).
Since all the novels I was going to suggest have already been suggested I going to do a graphic novel version:
Harlem Hellfighters
DayTripper
Blazer Rebel ladies who rocked the world
The Prince and the dressmaker
Trashed
Americah, The World According to Mr. Rogers,The Lakota Way,The Christmas Train, & The Couple Next Door
@Yvette How was Mr Rodgers book? Was it a bio? I really need a feel good book.
@Donna-Marie Hi The book is a collection of his words of wisdom on love, friendship, respect and individuality. The Fred Rogers way .Foreword is written by Joanne Rogers. Its a great holiday gift. Enjoy. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Captain Hornblower, Owls in the family, The Source, Grey wolf, Ivanhoe, The Lincoln Myth
There are an endless amount of books when one gets to thinking
The Great Alone.
Gods Without Men, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, Flashman, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet.
@Colleen I really liked The Ocean At The End Of The Lane.
Where the Crawdads Sing
The life she wanted
March
River of Doubt
Pillars of the Earth, The Giver, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Great Alone
Unsheltered. It is new. The others are all great too, but older
Where the Crawdads Sing
Educated
The Boys in the Boat
The Source
Unbroken
The end of your life book club
The Great Alone, The Nightingale, All The Light We Cannot See. The Expatriates by Janice Y.K Lee.and Lonesome Dove..
Born a Crime
Did I read that?
I did like Where the Crawdads Sing
The War that Saved My Life
Americanah, Jitterbug Perfume, Pachinko, Stranger in a Strange Land, Practical Magic
Jitterbug Perfume is epic.
@Mayda One of my all-time favorite books. ?
Same here. And “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” was awesome.
@Mayda I’m slowly reading all Tom Robbins’ books. They’re not always easy reading, but they are all good books.
Pachinko -Nightingale-Lilac Girls- The Red Bandana-Snow Child
@Johanna I’ve read 2 of the five, and really loved The Snow Child.
@Kelly I did too. It was beautiful.
The diplomats daughter a gentleman in Moscow the news of the world the kings curse the hate u give
‘The Battle for Social Security’ by Nancy Altman.
There There by Tommy Orange, Scythe by Neal Shusterman, A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza, Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adeji-Brenyah
The Nightingale and Firefly Lane
The Alice Network
Where The Crawdads
Sing
11/22/63
Beach Music and South of Broad
Secrets of a Charmed Life
The Gold Coast (and sequel- The Gatehouse)
Before We Were Yours
My favorite book ever
The Paying Guests
Winter Sisters
The Hearts Invisible Furies
The Count Of Monte Cristo
My Brilliant Friend
@Nichole thanks, Nicole. ?
@Sandy The Alice Network!
@Nichole loved that one.
1. The Nightingale
2. All the Light We Cannot See
3.. The Dressmaker by Kate Alcot
4. The Expatriates by Janice Y.K Lee
5. The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro
1.And The Mountains Echoed
2..Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghes
3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
4. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
5. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
1. To Kill a Mockingbird, 2. The Great Alone, 3. Born a Crime, 4. And Then There Were None, 5. A Man Called Ove
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Nightingale, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Lady Cop Makes Trouble, Before We Were Yours.
1. Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend and Rich People Problems by Kevin Kwan.
2. Discovery of Witches, Shadow of the Night and Book of Life by Deborah Harkness. Also Time’s Convert.
3. The Heaven Tree Trilogy by Edith Pargeter.
4. The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan.
5. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset.
I went above and beyond, and listed trilogies.?
@Kelly love the witches trilogy.
@Janet it’s really great isn’t it. I like how the relationship between Diana and Matthew develops.
Rebecca , gone with the wind, the thorn birds, Sarah’s key, Roots
Cellist of Sarajevo
Bel Canto
People of the Book
Those Who Saved Us
Rules of Civility
Loved Bel Canto
@Erin I loved the Cellist of Sarajevo and Those Who Save Us
Me too!
@Erin The Cellist was vivid, thought provoking and engaging. Excellent read.
Rebecca, Lonesome Dove, The Stand, Swan Song, and Memoirs of a Geisha ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Little Women, People of the Book, Outlander, Irish Country Doctor series.
Following… great idea thread THANKS!!!
The Nightingale, Behind Closed Doors, Once We Were Brothers, The Couple Next Door, Hunting Eichmann
An American Marriage, Blink, The Wife Between Us, Little Fires Everywhere, Small Great Things
Loved An American Marriage and Small Great Things!
These were my favorite books this year.
The Book Thief, All But My Life, The Count of Monte Cristo, Illuminae, The Little Prince
Thank you for the suggestions everyone!
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer, The Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett, Inside the O’Briens by Lisa Genova, A Cinfederacy of Dunes by John Kennedy Toole, Cutting for Stone by Abraham Toole, The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian
I read like crazy and have never heard of any of them
A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding, Rules of Civility, The Nightingale , People of the Book, Rebecca.
Code Talkers, The Alice Network, Confederacy of Dunces, The Best Yes and The Wizard of Oz
Pachinko, Where the Crawdads Sing, A Prayer for Owen Moony, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell, The Great Alone, The Lambs:My Father, a Farm, and the Gift of a Flock of Sheep
Owen Meany..
@Shauna, I really like Pachinko.
Pride and Prejudice
Harry Potter
The Circle
Wind in the Willows
The Counte of Monte Cristo
I love this group! I will never be without a book to read!
The Nightingale , All the Light I Cannot See, The Miniaturist, Garden Spells, A Prayer for Owen Meany. And one extra The Light Between the Oceans . ♥️
@Darby loved Garden Spells.
The Dressmaker, The Good Soldier, The Book Thief, Orphan Train, Go Tell it on the Mountain
All the Light We Cannot See
A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Man Called Ove
A Gentleman in Moscow
Little Fires Everywhere
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1. Rebecca, 2. Pride and Prejudice, 3. Little Women, 4. All the light we cannot see. 5. Her Royal Spyness (series) by Rhys Bowen
Educated
The Devil in the White City
The Muse
The Girl Who Wrote in Silk
The Other Einstein
@Rosari loved The Other Einstein
Devil in the White City is one of my favorites!
The nightingale
A man called ova
Tuesday w morie
A thousand splendid sons
Sarahs key
Sarah’s key! Great book!
The Late Homecommer; Heft; The news of the world; A gentleman in Moscow;
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
The question is how can one stop listing great books?
All souls trilogy
American gods
Something in the water
Woman in the window
Handmaid’s tale
Ready Player one by Ernest Cline
Warcross and Wildcard by Marie Lu
Children of blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
The witching hour (the Mayfair Witches Chronicles) by Anne Rice
I’m reading Warcross now, and really enjoying it!
@Tracy wait until you read the second book. OMG!!! You’re going to love it
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The Alchemist, A Knife In The Fog, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lincoln In The Bardo, and my book, when it finally comes out, What Death Taught Terrence. Watch for it!
@Derek, I liked The Alchemist.
@Cindy It’s one of my favorites. Besides that, it showed me, as a writer, that books weren’t just for telling simple stories. Sure, you could tell a simple story with a book, but that seemingly simple story could also contain something the author wanted to communicate to the reader. In The Alchemist, this is done so effectively!
On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Color Purple, A Town like Alice, Night by Elia Wiesel, The Sun also Rises
@Susie, ‘ love The Color Purple.
The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
Beneath A Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee ( suggest Audiobook read by Sissy Spacek)
Cry of the Peacock
The Bronze Horseman
Kaffir Boy
Sex at Dawn
The Gift of Fear
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, Still Life With Woodpecker by Tom Robbins, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Rain Of Gold by Victor Villasenor, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.
@Chris, Never Let Me Go was good.
@Cindy, One of my absolute favorites, I always have two or three copies to hand out or put in one of those little free librarys.
The Hate U Give
Ghost Boys
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Bookstore
Vox
A Man Called Ove
This is simple.. anything or all by: Thomas Wolfe, Jodi Picoult, Wally Lamb, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Kingsolver, Stephen King, Mario Puzo,
The Art Of Racing in the Rain, The Name of the Wind, The Stand, Beartown, Watchers.
All the Light you cannot see, Lincoln in the Bardo, Quiet-The secret power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking; astrophysics for peoplen in a hurry, the giving tree
I have Lincoln in the Bardo on my kindle. Is it good. I didn’t like his book of short stories but I love anything about Lincoln.
I liked that it was so unique compared to most other books. I listened to it on audiobook and they had different folks for each voice. Very fun.
@Lisa Quiet-The Secret Power of Introverts is a great suggestion! I need to give it a reread.
Loved Quiet and light not Bardo
@Johanna I enjoyed Quiet also.
A Man Called Ove
The Miniaturist
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Pillars of the Earth (and subsequent books in the trilogy)
Barrel Fever
The Immortalists, Pachinko, An American Marriage, Heart’s Invisible Furies, A Little Life
Educated and Middlesex
@Lynn, Middlesex was good.
@Lynn I thought so, also.
Two non-fiction:
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (John Carreyrou)
On Living (Kerry Egan)
Three novels:
Euphoria (Lily King)
A Whole Life (Robert Seethaler)
Hermine: An Animal Life (Maria Beig)
Dean Koontz’s Ashley Bell, The City, One door away from Heaven; James Rollins MAP OF BONES. Michener’s THE SOURCE, CENTENNIAL. To name but a few that have influenced me much oever time.
The shadow of the wind/American Gods/ stardust-also Neil Gaiman/ a trip to the stars-Nicholas Christopher/ anything by Guy Gavriel Kay.
Just 5: that’s hard but here goes from my reads over the past year!
Last Bus to Wisdom
By Ivan Doug, News of the World by Paulette Jiles, Advise and Consent by Allen Drury, Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks and one nonfiction Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides.
Wendy Wright, I enjoyed Year Of Wonders.
@Cindy I have liked all that I read by her!
I loved News of the World.
@Sue, so good!
@Wendy Advise and Consent is a favorite that has stuck with me over the years. I liked Allen Drury’s books.
The Assassin’ Apprentice by Robin Hobb
I know This Much is True by Wally Lamb; Beautiful Boy by David Sheff; Tweak by Nic Sheff (I have read both twice and found it more impactful to read Tweak first, followed by Beautiful Boy); The Stand by Stephen King; anything by David Sedaris.
Shadow of the wind. Zafon.
Angels Game. Zafon.
Prisoner of Heaven. Zafon.
Labyrinth of Spirits. Also by Zafon.
All 4 books are in the series called the cemetery of lost books.
And midnight palace is a stand alone young adult novel by the same author. Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
@Robin I love Zafon…need to start over and read all
Kathy M Grandy me too he’s amazing
@Robin yes..read first ..
@Kathy also there is the watcher in the shadows. Marina also. Those are ya genre. But very good
Oh good ..Will look. Thanks for recommend.
@Kathy the order I put the cemetery of lost books is 1-4 but the 4th book is a prequel per say
@Robin got it..thank you
@Robin prisoner of the mist too!
Great trilogy! I am rereading the first 3 now that there is a 4th! Enjoying it even more second time around. Highly recommend!
I wish I could screen copy this for my list……
@Kathy you can save the post and go through it when you have time
@Aleksandra thank u! I forgot about that… Done!
@Aleksandra then where can you find it after you save it?
@Deborah it’s in your menu where the 3 lines are
@Aleksandra looks be Learning new stuff. Thank you so much!
The Great Alone, All the Light you Cannot See, The Book Thief, The Goldfinch, The Red Tent
Life of Pi, Bel Canto, The Book Thief, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth, The Fall of the Sparrow. Honorable Mention: All the Light We Cannot See, The Lucuna, A Prayer for Owen Meany.
@Nancy forgot some of those. Especially bel canto
Cider House Rules, anything by Ian Rankin or Ruth Rendell, Margaret Atwood, John Steinbeck.
@Jean, ‘ love Cider House Rules.
@Cindy One of the best books ever!
What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell
Paris Trout
We Need to talk about Kevin
The Book of Ruth
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
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Feral
Book by George Monbiot
I also loved
Defending Jacob
Reconstructing Amelia
If I stay
Boy on the box
Behind closed doors
@Nicole Defending Jacob really good.
Steven Kings the dome. Feral (unsure of author). Wayward pines series by Blake Crouch. Extinction point series by Paul Antony Jones. Decent. Unsure of author but it just came out in 2018. Good reads. All of them.
Thanks
Feral
Book by George Monbiot
@Santanu I think it was a female author. Maybe it’s ferals. With an ‘s’. It’s about a virus that wipes out the make population and turns them into these creatures that’s only objection is to kill the females. It was a good read.
The book thief, The Husband’s Secret, Water for Elephants, The Tipping Point, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
The Good Earth, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Call of the Wild, Jane Eyre, and The Stand
Nice variety of books. Have read them all and concur with your choices.
Lucky Boy, Long Way Down, Circe, The Feather Thief, & The Bear & The Nightingale, plus others mentioned already 🙂
What Alice Forgot, Anomaly, There There, The Woman in the Window, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. These are some good ones no one else named.
Big Little Lies, The Masterpiece, The Aviators Wife, Dopesick,Circe
Of all time?
Anything written by Wally Lamb
Survivor | Tabitha King
Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz
Of Mice and Men | Steinbeck
Flowers in the Attic | VC Andrews
I am not saying these are my top 5 favorites, or even that they are “good” books. But until you read them, there’s a lot you will never know about the world, life, writing, people and just where you really fit on the spectrum.
Huckleberry Finn, The Brothers Karamazov, All Quiet on the Western Front, To Kill a Mockingbird, and 1984.
The goldfinch.
The Goldfinch & Secret History by Donna Tart, A Prayer for Owen Meany & The World According to Garp by John Irving, Grapes of Wrath.
Gone with the Wind, War and Peace, A Tale of Two Cities, Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan
A Gentleman In Moscow, Jane Eyre, All The Light We Cannot See, Unbroken, A Man Called Ove. And I have to list To Kill A Mockingbird. So many more.
All the Light We Cannot See, Call of the Wild, Hatchet, The Winds of War/War and Remembrance, and A Wrinkle in Time.
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A little life. An American marriage. The immortalists. Pachinko. The hearts invisible furies
Yes. Cider good. Movie too.
Beartown, Us Against You, A Man Called Ove, Sea Runners, Any Human Heart.