My favourite read was actually Me before You. I normally read thriller/ mystery regularly or non-fiction but my mom really recommended it to me. It really touched me and actually helped me cope with a friend who committed suicide this year. It helped me come to terms with walking in someone else’s shoes. I fell in love with the characters. It’s become one of my favourite books !
@Jenn I am reading the Ocean At The End Of The Lane right now, my first Neil Gaiman book and though I just started it, I am already in love with his writing style.
First I was going to say Pachinko and then saw Nikki Adams’ tie comment. So mine would also be a tie – Pachinko and Homegoing. Both family generation stories in different parts of the world and my favorite genre, historical fiction. Now I must do research on all these favorites.
Did you have any trouble with it? I had to put it down to try and complete my reading challenge. I want to go back to it soon. I just can’t get into it
I loved every stinking second of it. I think the trick is this… try not to be too clever in trying to figure out the “puzzles”, and googling any word that seems really out of place might yield interesting results. There’s also an excellent forum (but you have to search it as the links are broken… LOL house of leaves.)
I think though that you kind of need to be willing to do some research to enjoy it fully. And willing to not read it linearly. And willing to write in a book. And willing to use insane amounts of post its. LOL 😉
Ok cool. I was thinking about reading the House parts and then going back and reading the other guy’s parts, instead of reading them both at the same time. Would that work or make it worse?
I think you should read it however it’ll make most sense to you. I read it how it was suggested… i.e. if a footnote jumped me ahead 6 chapters, I’d read ahead, and then go back. It made sense this way. But it is by no means the *right* way.
‘The Fifth Season’ by N. K. Jemisin (loved the second in the series also, 3rd yet to read) and to cheat slightly in non fiction it would be ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ by Yuval Noah Harari
I’m cheating, sorry but I can’t pick just one! The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I have to include this book also because it helped me come back to life after a very difficult beginning to my 2017.
Ulysses by James Joyce, mostly because it’s such a victory to get through it, plus it was for my 1st Grad school class, so I had some help understanding all of the nuances that go along with it.
Project Whores by AE Thomas hands down!!! Book II of the series, Revelation just released on the 15th and it is everything.these series are books with deep rootrd messages. The title is sketchy but what’s behind the cover is phenomenal
One… ONE? I can’t. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, You by Caroline Kepnes, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Sorry I can’t pick one because they are all amazing for different reasons, and I will never forget any of them.
My favourite read was actually Me before You.
I normally read thriller/ mystery regularly or non-fiction but my mom really recommended it to me. It really touched me and actually helped me cope with a friend who committed suicide this year. It helped me come to terms with walking in someone else’s shoes. I fell in love with the characters. It’s become one of my favourite books !
Ove.
Clan of the Cave Bear series
Just about to start those 🙂
@Ger They are so good
Ooooh thinking of buying them.
It’s a big undertaking as they are big books and a good few in the series..I’ve had them for a while just not got around to them 🙂
Great series. Needed pen and paper to keep track of everyone but well worth it…
Born A Crime – Trevor Noah
Me too! I read it last January and it stayed my favorite!
It’s hilarious and heart warming and made me cry all at once. He’s a beautiful man.
This is my runner up!
Listened to it, so good!
It is such a good book.
A man called Ove
Road to Jonestown
The nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Hate U Give
Mine too
Me too.
Now We Are Dead by Stuart MacBride
the Hearts Invisible Furies by John Boyne
This is mine too. ❤
I’m reading this now , I love it
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter.
A Man Called Ove
A Court of Mist and Fury ♥️ Hands down. My new favorite book.
Author please Kahlie ?
@Ilze Sarah J Maas
American Gods for me 🙂
I became obsessed with Neil Gaiman this year (thanks to this group)!
I’ve only read three of his books and I’m completely hooked! 🙂
Read Norse Mythology, his latest. Or better yet, listen to it as an audiobook. Amazing.
@Jenn I am reading the Ocean At The End Of The Lane right now, my first Neil Gaiman book and though I just started it, I am already in love with his writing style.
I highly recommend Neverwhere, Graveyard Book, Anansi Boys and Coraline (I’m far too obsessed with NG. All time favourite author)
I’ve read Anansi Boys and Ocean at the End of The Lane. And American Gods. All fabulous.
Tie between “The Alice Network” and “Homegoing.”
You by Caroline Kepnes
Deep fathom. By James rollins
Lonesome Dove by Larry Mcmurtry.
Brilliant book I’ve read most of the series.
Loved the book and continue to watch the movie again and again. Robert Duvall’s best role ever!
The Streets of Laredo is excellent too
Read the series, then listened to them too. Will Patton is such a good narrator. Need to watch the show again! Fell in love with Tommy Lee Jones…
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
My favorite too!
Mine too!
I have to concur. I loved it so much that I bought it for my daughter as a Christmas present, too.
That’s on my TBR list.
Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn by John Maxwell
“Aging as a Spiritual Practice”. If I get a second “hillbilly elegy”
Big little lies – liane moriarty
The Temptation of Adam
All the Light We Cannot See
A Man Called Ove
Outlander series
Brief Gaudy Hour by Margaret Campbell Barnes
Gentleman in Moscow
Babylon’s Ashes. by James S.A. Corey.
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Man Called Ove
Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo
❤️❤️
Miss You by Kate Eberlen
Lilac Girls
I second this.
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
I second this!
I third this! Great book!
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
@Sonja, almost done. Have read it in 2 days! Love it.
Awesome! I knew you’d enjoy it!!!
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye View of the World–Michael Pollan
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman!
I had to buy the kindle yesterday because I was 18 in line at my library! I love it so far!
@Sara it made me laugh constantly! I relate to Eleanor so much ♥️ love what a straight shooter she is!
Good book!
Grant, by Ron Chernow
Yes, I am reading this now.
It is excellant.
I’m a Grant scholars and probably have 60 volumes on him alone. This Christmas I had to tell everyone…I already have it. Lol.
First I was going to say Pachinko and then saw Nikki Adams’ tie comment. So mine would also be a tie – Pachinko and Homegoing. Both family generation stories in different parts of the world and my favorite genre, historical fiction. Now I must do research on all these favorites.
Really liked Pachinko.
Loved Homegoing.
following
The Handmaid’s Tale.
The Sea of Tranquility
“She Rides Shotgun” by Jordan Harper
Palm Tree in the Snow by Luz Gabas
The unattractive vampire
Homegoing by Yaa Gaasi
Marley and Me.
And the Mountains Echoed.
Anything this author writes I will read! Loved this one too!
@Barbara , me, too, he’s one of the very best.
The Nix
Or A Man Called Ove
Both amazing books
The Summer That Melted Everything
Love this title. Will have to look it up.
I will pick a series, if allowed. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. 2017 would definitely be remembered as a year I discovered Pullman
My top three are:
~Milk & Honey, by Rupi Kaur
~The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas
~The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah
Hard to choose just one, but if I had to probably Milk & Honey.
The Dry
One Hundred nights of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
Winter by Ali Smith
“You” and “Hidden Bodies” by Kepnes
1Q84
A gentleman in moscow
The Bear and the Nightengale and The Sleepwalker
A Court of Mist and Fury
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford.
The mountain between us
The Goldfinch
The Changling by Victor Lavalle
A Man called Ove
One in a million boy
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Loved this!
LOVED this one!
I read it many years ago, and it still remains one of my favorites.
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
I just bought this one! I’m excited to read it.
Great book. Disturbing
The Secret History ?
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Did you have any trouble with it? I had to put it down to try and complete my reading challenge. I want to go back to it soon. I just can’t get into it
I loved every stinking second of it. I think the trick is this… try not to be too clever in trying to figure out the “puzzles”, and googling any word that seems really out of place might yield interesting results. There’s also an excellent forum (but you have to search it as the links are broken… LOL house of leaves.)
I think though that you kind of need to be willing to do some research to enjoy it fully. And willing to not read it linearly. And willing to write in a book. And willing to use insane amounts of post its. LOL 😉
Ok cool. I was thinking about reading the House parts and then going back and reading the other guy’s parts, instead of reading them both at the same time. Would that work or make it worse?
I think you should read it however it’ll make most sense to you. I read it how it was suggested… i.e. if a footnote jumped me ahead 6 chapters, I’d read ahead, and then go back. It made sense this way. But it is by no means the *right* way.
I actually wanna reread it all sorts of different ways to see if anything sticks out. ?
Haha awesome, thanks for the advice ?
such a difficult choice! Gentleman in Moscow
Ghostland
Man Called Ove
Forty Autumns
Remains of the Day
A Gentleman in Moscow
Lincoln in the bardo by George Saunders
I enjoyed this too. Very different!
Yes it was quite an experience
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Helter skelter.
Gentleman in Moscow
Version Control
Radium Girls, hands down.
Bear Town
This was my favorite also
Rich People Problem
My Grandmother Asks Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Frédéric Backman. Phenomenal.
The Vegetarian
Evicted by Matthew Desmond.
Dandelion wine by Ray Bradbury
11-22-63 by Stephen King
One of his best!
Final Girls by Riley Sager.
Has anyone read The Skeleton Tree by Ray Bradbury?
Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater – he talks about food the way I think about food
I’ll choose a different ones tomorrow
Love this one!
The Invention of Wings
The Silent Corner by Dean Koontz
The Nightingale
Peshwari nans – beyond the bucket list
By Stephen haughan
The Lost Book of the Grail
War Flower
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (sorry to be very obvious)
The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
A Man Called Ove
The Nightingale
I read 78 books both Classics and new. But I Hadnt read Anne Rice’s Blackwood Farm and Merrick and it is a close tie between them
A Gentleman In Moscow
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi
Left me a little broken inside
@Joss very heartbreaking but made me appreciate to live life to the fullest while we can x
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
How To Stop Time by Matt Haig. (He’s wonderful. Everything he has written is excellent.)
The Greedy Queen by Annie Gray. Very interesting book about Queen Victoria.
The girl in cabin 10 Ruth Ware
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
fic:I am Pilgrim
Humor: Food by Jim Gaffigan
Non Fic: Political Order by Fukuyama
Thank you everybody! So much reading to catch up on!
The Trees by Ali Shaw
Pachinko, reading it now and Brian Doyle’s Chicago since we lost him this year…
The Paris Architect.
The Warmth of Other Suns
A Gentleman in Moscow
Wonder
LaRose Louise Erdich
Loved that book!
@Susan loved Round house too !
Hillbilly Elegy
I have this on my kindle. I should start reading it.
Iron king Julie kagawa
Great series ?
If You Find Me
Great book!
Ever the Hunted by Erin Summerill
A Little Life
If you loved A Little Life….have you read Cutting for Stone? Home going? The Hearts Invisible Furies?
A Gentleman in Moscow
+1
Me, too!
The Bear And The Nightingale by Katherine Arden
Vanishing girls
The Fog Seller
The Son – Philipp @Jennifer
Pachinko ❤️❤️❤️
on my short-term list!
Hope to be reading Pachinko very soon. ?
The River by Beverly Lewis
Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks.
Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by Bianca Marais
A Man Called Ove
Me too!!
Radium Girls
A Gentleman in Moscow
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Mountain Between Us
Somewhere in France
The last days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp.
A Gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Eleanor Oliphant is fine
Can’t wait to read this!!
‘The Fifth Season’ by N. K. Jemisin (loved the second in the series also, 3rd yet to read) and to cheat slightly in non fiction it would be ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ by Yuval Noah Harari
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
John Boyne
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Sorry but it’s hard for me to choose between these two:
Penance by Kanae Minato
Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama?
The Heart’s Invisible Furies
On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
I’m cheating, sorry but I can’t pick just one!
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
I have to include this book also because it helped me come back to life after a very difficult beginning to my 2017.
The Razor’s Edge — Somerset Maugham
or The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Yes I cheated.)
Ulysses by James Joyce, mostly because it’s such a victory to get through it, plus it was for my 1st Grad school class, so I had some help understanding all of the nuances that go along with it.
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
The Long Walk by Stephen King
Small, Great Things
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Moby dick and elinor oliphant is completely fine
Out of 171 books, A Gentleman in Moscow. Never Look An American in the Eye is a close second.
Goddesses Never Age by Christiane Northrup
Uprooted ?
It’s not a new book but I loved reading The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
End Game
Project Whores by AE Thomas hands down!!! Book II of the series, Revelation just released on the 15th and it is everything.these series are books with deep rootrd messages. The title is sketchy but what’s behind the cover is phenomenal
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Word By Word, by Kory Stamper
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. No question this is my favorite this year.
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The girl who lived by Christopher greyson!
Furiously Happy – Jenny Lawson
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
Elinor Oliphant is completely fine
The book I finished the other day, Friend Request by Laura Marshall was surprisingly good
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25852784
That sounds like something I would like. I just reserved it at the library.
@Marilyn It really stayed with me. I still think about the people in the book. ?
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A gentleman in Moscow
The Handmaid’s by Margaret Atwood
My choice too.
Prince of Tides
Patchinco by Min Jin Lee
Eddie Izzard’s autobiography.
Untethered Soul by Micheal Singer
One… ONE? I can’t. Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, You by Caroline Kepnes, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, and the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Sorry I can’t pick one because they are all amazing for different reasons, and I will never forget any of them.
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Great book!!!
I agree. That was the first one to pop into my head when I read this post.
The Ghost by Danielle Steel. 2nd place the Rain Sparrow by Linda Goodnight.
A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena
Kindred by Octavia E. @Meghan
Discovery of Witches
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Arcadia by Iain Pears. One of the most original books I’ve ever read. I had no idea where it was going, but it was well-worth finding out.
I will check it out!
The bronze horseman
I loved this book!!
The Invention of Wings finally got off my TBR list. It was a great read..
opekkha
A biography of Angela Carter.
Sorry, I can’t pick only one.
You monster!
Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
Difficult to choose – there were a few.
Inferno by Dan Brown
The Testament by John Grisham
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Just finished this one last night and it was a great read!
The Devil’s Daughter
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Days Without End https://twitter.com/maynardlara/status/940592596426133504
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
Barbarian Days a surfing life
The Kite Runner
Middlesex
The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka. I picked in up from one of those little boxes in my neighborhood. What a great find. Beautiful poetic prose
I guess this one will be my all time favourite ❤
Big Little Lies
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari. I learned a lot and it expanded my view of history and human evolution.
Lab Girl
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
We were Liars
The Changeling by Victor lavalle
Black Girl Blue
A Gentleman in Moscow
If I could pick two…..
@Joan I know! My other one would be Lincoln in the Bardo. I haven’t read Lab Girl yet.
And I need to read the Lincoln book.
The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice.
Deception point by dan brown
This is a really good book. Have you read his “Digital Fortress”? that is a great one too.
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Blackman
I am going to have to read this book I keep hearing good things about it.
I loved Bear Town by the same author
Currioddity by Paul Jenkins
I have to ditto A Gentleman from Moscow!!!
Faithful by Alice Hoffman
That’s How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
New world rising
Good Me Bad Me by Ali Land
Angela’s Ashes by: Frank McCourt.
Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinborough
Eliza And Her Monsters
lilac girls
Of Human Bondage
The Moonflower Vine