And go.
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The Book Thief
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The Bronze Horseman. Didn't just come out, but wooo, what a doozy.
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Tie between Far from the Tree and The Goldfinch.
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I read Stephen King's The Shining and it was fantastic. Couldn't put it down.
Right now I'm reading A Feast For Crows - Game of Thrones Series by George R. R. Martin. A lot of people said this was their least favourite in the series, but I am actually really enjoying it.
I haven't read half the books this year as I normally would in a year, but babies and stuff.
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If you like non-fiction I read "Elephant Company: the inspiring story of an unlikely hero and the animals who helped him save lives in World War II" by Vicki Croke earlier this year and it was excellent!
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East of Eden. I sacrificed some much needed sleep because I couldn't put it down.
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I loved Gone Girl.
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@Little Misters Mom: That is my favorite book of all-time!! I am due for a re-read!!
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I read almost all of the Sigma Force series by James Rollins this year. Those books are all awesome!
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs and The Passage by Justin Cronin were also really good.
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@MediaNaranja: It's one of the few books I've read as adult that I just felt altered by. I keep returning to it in my mind. Definitely a book to reread every few years.
Also loved Freedom by Jonathan Franzen,
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An Untamed State by Roxane Gay.
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I second An Untamed State. I read it on high recommendation from @mrsjazz: and she was absolutely right
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I'm gonna just do this by month (and some months will have more than one, sorry!) because I'm up to 146 books this year & its impossible to pick just one.
January: The Rosie Project, A Marker to Measure Drift, Scorpio Races, The Raven Boys & The Dream Thieves.
February: Sea Creatures, Cress, Grave Mercy, Under the Never Sky, Through the Ever Night, Into the Still Blue.
March: Dark Triumph, Lost Lake, Angelfall, World After, The Book Thief.
April: Tell the Wolves I'm Home, Eleanor & Park.
May: This is Where I Leave You, Dreams of Gods & Monsters.
June: If Jacks in Love, Ruin & Rising
July: A Thousand Splendid Suns
August: Wonder, Midwives, Two Boys Kissing, Born of Illusion, Conversion, Partials
September: Fragments, Ruins, The Art of Fielding, And the Mountains Echoed, Pivot Point, Out of the Easy,
October: Code Name Verity, A House in the Sky, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
November: --So far -- Astonish Me, Unraveling, Unbreakable, Ignite Me. -
The art of racing in the rain
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@sera_87: Holy crap! I thought I read a lot with 32 books so far this year and 45 books last year! 146 books is impressive!
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I loved The Book Thief and watched the movie and was so disappointed in some of the really important parts they left off. But, I just read Wild by Cheryl Strayed and it was so good because it was a memoir about something I could never in a million years do.
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I love love loved Eleanor & Park. A quick and super easy read but it was amazing.
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I loved And the Mountains Echoed, but I'm in the middle of Goldfinch and thoroughly enjoying it too!
@Little Misters Mom: @MediaNaranja: East of Eden is also one of my favorite books of all time, and John Steinbeck is one of my favorite authors!! SO GOOD.
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Another non-fiction recommendation - Toms River. It's not a complete surprise to me because it's in my line of work, but it's still a rather shocking read. It also made me resolve to really do my homework on the neighborhood if we ever decide to buy a house, and to waste less because I never know what innocent little thing I'm using is having horrible environmental consequences somewhere.
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This year, I've really liked:
The Discovery of Witches/All Souls trilogy
Unbroken
Gone Girl
Orphan Train
The Glass Castle
Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis memoir)
Conversion
Saving Max
The Pact: A Love Story
The Boy Who Could See Demons
Dark Places
Sharp Objects
We Need to Talk About Kevin -
@youboots: I'm reading Gone Girl now and it's great! I keep thinking could there be two more unlikable people?!
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I loved (and am currently finishing the last book of) the Madd Addam trilogy by Margaret Atwood!
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"What Alice forgot" it is AH-mazing.
It's about a chick who loses her memory, she wakes up and thinks she's pregnant with her first child, but it is 10 years later. It made me so reflective on my marriage, who I want to be i want to be in 10 years, what my children will be like in ten years
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@woodentulip: i loved it, too!!! So well done.
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Beautiful Ruins
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@youboots: me too! I haven't seen the movie yet.
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All non fiction picks: Life Animated (about a young boy who gets autism and then becomes obsessed with Disney cartoons), Flash Boys (by the author of The Blind Side about electronic stock markets), and Make it Stick (about learning/studying).
I also really loved The Sports Gene (a Malcolm Gladwell style book about sports that kind of slams on Malcolm's previous books too). The author did a great job telling stories while grounding his whole book in rigorous science.
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L'Incolore Tsukuru Tazaki et ses années de pèlerinage - by Haruki Murakami
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Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel
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@Ra: I LOVED We Need to Talk About Kevin. Picked it up a couple of years ago on a recommendation knowing absolutely nothing about it.... completely wrecked me.
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Where'd you go, Bernadette?
The Rosie project & the Rosie effect -
The husbands secret was really good. Couldn't put it down!
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@Mama Bird: I read Toms River last year and really enjoyed it!
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@MediaNaranja: the last book I read about elephants swore me off reading about animals for some time. This book sounds interesting. If you tell me it doesn't talk about animal abuse, I'll read it. I love WWII books.
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@Little Misters Mom: @MediaNaranja: interesting. I don't think I've ever read East of Eden. I need to add that to my list.
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@Mrs. Champagne: I'm in the middle of this now! So good!
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@mediagirl: I'd be lying if I said there weren't a few sad bits, but overall it talks about the immense respect that one man had for the elephants he worked with in Burma, and how they worked together. I found it more uplifting than I found it sad, if that makes sense. And nothing that outright horrified me.
And yes, add East of Eden to your list! It looks like a beast but it reads so quickly because it is just incredibly interesting and well-written, and the story so good.
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@Little Misters Mom: I have Freedom sitting on my shelf at home. I need to try picking it up again. I couldn't get through it the first time I tried.
@mrsjazz: @loopedd: that book sounds really interesting. I may be curious enough to pick it up. I just hope I can get through it...
@sera_87: good for you! I haven't read nearly as much as I had hoped I would this year. I go in spurts. I'll read 5 books a month and then none for 2 months.
@bpcmarj: Wild sounds great! I'm going to pick that up, too.
@Mama Bird: @Mrs.KMM: there are a couple of Toms River books out there. Who's the author?
@Anya: sob fest!!
@MamaBehr: yeah! I just finished that one, I really enjoyed it.
@mrbee: Life Animated sounds interesting. Any other non-fiction reads you have enjoyed?
@shortcake: Beautiful Ruins has been on my list for a while now. I'm not sure why I haven't requested it yet. I'll have to do that. It looks so good.
@MsMiranda: I just picked up Station Eleven! I'm excited to read it.
@Mrs. Champagne: I agree!
@ScarletBegonia: thanks for the reminder about the Rosie books. I read the first one but want to read the second one, too. -
Adding these to my list!
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