What have been some of your favorite books you’ve read this year?
I’m looking for books to read, any genre. What have been your highlights this year? Two of my favorites have been “Homegoing” by Yaa Gyasi and “The Exiles” by Christina Baker Kline
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes blew me away. Definitely my best book of the year.
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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, all of Clarice Lispector that I’ve read, Don Quixote by Cervantes, Lonesome Dove and others by Larry McMurtry, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, a bunch of Elias Canetti books, Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu, Miss Macintosh, My Darling by Margarete Young, Bruno Shultz stories, all things Søren Kierkegaard, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Favorite read of the year was one I just finished actually. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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My favorite read this year would probably be House in the Cerulean Sea. Charming but entertaining
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Top 5:
If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
Charlotte Illes is Not a Detective by Katie Siegel
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
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A Walk In The Woods – Bill Bryson. Some humor, some natural history, some introspection, some adventure.
The Many Deaths of Jew Suss – Yair Mintzker. A famous trial of a Court Jew in the days of the Holy Roman Empire. Told from a number of perspectives, it’s not only about what happened, but how we talk about and understand and conduct history. Sort of a blend of true crime and historiography. Not dry at all. Insightful and sarcastic at times.
The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert. About climate and nature, but also about the history of humans and how we understand concepts like extinction and preservation. Often funny, sometimes poignant, always easily approachable, the book is broken down into chapters about different species of interest.
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I checked off a good number of works I had often heard described as must-reads and was not disappointed.
East of Eden
Lonesome Dove
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Pachinko
Additionally, one that I haven’t seen recommended much at all was The Mountains Sing. Excruciating and incredible – right up there with those other heavy hitters I’ve enjoyed this year.
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A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes blew me away. Definitely my best book of the year.
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, all of Clarice Lispector that I’ve read, Don Quixote by Cervantes, Lonesome Dove and others by Larry McMurtry, The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil, a bunch of Elias Canetti books, Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu, Miss Macintosh, My Darling by Margarete Young, Bruno Shultz stories, all things Søren Kierkegaard, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Favorite read of the year was one I just finished actually. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
My favorite read this year would probably be House in the Cerulean Sea. Charming but entertaining
Top 5:
If We Were Villians by M.L. Rio
Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
Charlotte Illes is Not a Detective by Katie Siegel
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
A Walk In The Woods – Bill Bryson. Some humor, some natural history, some introspection, some adventure.
The Many Deaths of Jew Suss – Yair Mintzker. A famous trial of a Court Jew in the days of the Holy Roman Empire. Told from a number of perspectives, it’s not only about what happened, but how we talk about and understand and conduct history. Sort of a blend of true crime and historiography. Not dry at all. Insightful and sarcastic at times.
The Sixth Extinction – Elizabeth Kolbert. About climate and nature, but also about the history of humans and how we understand concepts like extinction and preservation. Often funny, sometimes poignant, always easily approachable, the book is broken down into chapters about different species of interest.
I checked off a good number of works I had often heard described as must-reads and was not disappointed.
East of Eden
Lonesome Dove
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Pachinko
Additionally, one that I haven’t seen recommended much at all was The Mountains Sing. Excruciating and incredible – right up there with those other heavy hitters I’ve enjoyed this year.