2017 - Your Best Five Reads of Q4 (Oct - Dec)
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1PaperbackPirate
Once again, it's time to look over your reading from the previous 3 months and share your five favorites, fiction or non-fiction. Then we'll look at your list and our tbr piles will grow!
Happy list making!
Happy list making!
2CarolynSchroeder
I had a so-so reading year, but ended on a high note with a phenomenal December! All were hard copies or Kindle (growing into audio books and feel part of a five-star listen/read is the reader/performer, so like to know when one is particularly awesome). My top five, in no particular order:
1. Signals by Tim Gautreaux (fiction ~ short stories);
2. Birds, Art, Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear (non fiction);
3. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (YA fiction);
4. Behold, the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (fiction); and
5. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (fiction).
1. Signals by Tim Gautreaux (fiction ~ short stories);
2. Birds, Art, Life: A Year of Observation by Kyo Maclear (non fiction);
3. Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys (YA fiction);
4. Behold, the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (fiction); and
5. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee (fiction).
3mollygrace
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Earthly Remains by Donna Leon
I'm still working on two books that may be finished by the end of the quarter, but I think these five will remain at the top of my list. The Saunders and Adebayo books are still working on me -- quite wonderful books, the wrutung so confident and bold and oh, so subtle. McDermott is always a treasure -- I loved this story of two families and the nursing nuns who are so much a part of their lives. Tallent is a new author for me and I'm still thinking a lot about his book. Troubling, disturbing, but beautiful, too -- and I think important. Leon's latest in her Brunetti series takes the reader in a different direction than usual -- we learn a lot about Brunetti just as he is learning a lot about himself and his beloved Venice (and its lagoon).
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent
Earthly Remains by Donna Leon
I'm still working on two books that may be finished by the end of the quarter, but I think these five will remain at the top of my list. The Saunders and Adebayo books are still working on me -- quite wonderful books, the wrutung so confident and bold and oh, so subtle. McDermott is always a treasure -- I loved this story of two families and the nursing nuns who are so much a part of their lives. Tallent is a new author for me and I'm still thinking a lot about his book. Troubling, disturbing, but beautiful, too -- and I think important. Leon's latest in her Brunetti series takes the reader in a different direction than usual -- we learn a lot about Brunetti just as he is learning a lot about himself and his beloved Venice (and its lagoon).
4PaperbackPirate
Thank you for sharing your lists!
In the order I read them, my favorites were:
Creepshow by Stephen King
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West by Lesley Poling-Kempes
In the order I read them, my favorites were:
Creepshow by Stephen King
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
A Long Way Home: A Memoir by Saroo Brierley
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West by Lesley Poling-Kempes
