Best Reads of the Month - February

I really enjoyed the January thread, so here is one for February! What were your best reads this month?

For me, February was more about comfort reads than great books, and I had a few rereads. That said, the one new book that makes my list is:

Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood

Thanks for starting this thread!

February was a month wherein a read many books, and most of them were very special.

The top of the list is Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (4-1/2 stars)
Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad (4-1/2 stars)
Travelling with Djinns by Jamal Mahjoub (5 stars)
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy (4-1/2 stars)
A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy (I'm bumping this up to 4-1/2 stars)

My best book this month is Winter in Madrid by C. J. Sansom. A great read.

The Book Thief. One of the best narrative voices I've read in a long time.

For me two good books:
- Persepolis byMarjane Satrapi
- Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami

Mine are,
Austenland by Shannon Hale, Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Snow Goons by Bill Watterson, On What Grounds by Cleo Coyle and She Said Yes by Misty Bernall.

That's all my 5 star reads for February. :)

But here are my 4.5's
The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill and Shadowland by Meg Cabot

I had a good February. My three best reads were:

The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
The Zookeeper's Wife - Diane Ackerman
A Thread of Grace - Mary Doria Russell

Drood - Dan Simmons
John Adams - David McCullough
Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn

And if I finish today, Blindness - Jose Saramago

February was very very good to me!

The Autobiography of Henry VIII
The Book Thief - tiffin, I agree with you about the narrative

and I have to include a few romances

Wedding the Highlander
The Spymaster's Lady

With no hesitation at all, I say Hummingbird's Daughter.

It is a keeper, a reread, and will go on my gift book list. I loved it.

I confess to averaging over a book a day in February, but these were the highlights:

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde (4)
Dark Fire - CJ Sansom (4½)
Marrying the Captain - Carla Kelly (4½)
Stranded with a Spy - Merline Lovelace (4½)
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer (4½)
Slightly Married - Mary Balogh (5)
44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith (5)

the best reads, 5 star ratings, were:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Het kleine meisje van meneer Linh by Philippe Claudel

and 4 1/2 stars:
The view from Saturday by E.L. Koningsburg
Don Quixote book 2 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

For me, these were the key reads in Feb:

The Plague - Albert Camus (5)
A Wild Duck - Henrik Ibsen (4)

Fam
I was able to obtain a copy of The View from Saturday from my local library and hope to read it this week. Your recommendations are usually spot on for me!

The best book I have read in February I haven't finished! But I will argue that of the 700 pages I have completed 600 so far and that February is a short month. If I had an extra day or two I would have completed it on time.

The book is The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb. My only criticism is that nothing good ever happens to the narrator, in fact quite a lot of bad things happen. But the book has held my attention, it has been really interesting to read, and in spite of the bad things hasn't been depressing to read either.

I read exactly 20 books in February, and my top five (in order) are:

1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (review)
2. Blindness by Jose Saramago (review)
3. Graceling by Kristin Cashore (review)
4. Sabriel/Lirael by Garth Nix (review and review)
5. Magyk by Angie Sage (review)

February was a slow reading month for me, but Fingersmith and Into the Wild were my favorites, with The Sum of Our Days in third.

My best reads for the month were:

Silent Thunder: In the Presence of Elephants - Katy Payne
Skellig - David Almond
Hood - Stephen R. Lawhead

(The first two I just finished yesterday, so I haven't reviewed them on my thread yet... but check tomorrow or Monday if you're interested!)

My best read for February was

This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun

2nd best was

The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

Gotta go with the reread classics:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Richard III by William Shakespeare

My best reads in February:
The girl with the dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson and
The girl who played with fire by Stieg Larsson

a close third
The white tiger by Aravind Adiga

I did not have any memorable reads for February until this past week:

The Girls by Lori Lansens
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I had a great February! My 5 star reads were:
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam

And my 4.5 star reads:
Like Life by Lorrie Moore
A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner
Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn

February was a slow month, but definitely The Road
by Cormac McCarthy was the best.

I read/am reading some long books, so I don't have a lot to choose from this month.

2666 by Roberto Bolano
The Snows of Yesteryear by Gregor von Rezzori
The Book of the Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa

The book I'm still reading will be a best for next month:

Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy

For February my top four books were:

The girl who played with fire by Steig Larsson
Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess
The good thief by Hannah Tinti
Shadow of the wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My reads in February were pretty eclectic. In no particular order, the top three were:

Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Le Petit Prince by Antoine De Saint-Expury
and Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt

I didn't manage to finish The Eyre Affair in February, but I'm expecting it will make the list in March.

Two stand out for me in Feb (and so far for the year!)

Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six by Brian Francis Slattery
Musical Illusionist By Alex Rose

Mine was definitely Temeraire, followed closely by Silent in the Sanctuary and Blink.

My February favourite was Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope

From my meager list of February reads I'd place The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman top of the list. A very well written short story.
I also enjoyed The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer.

I really got my reading for this year started in February. I finished the Narnia series, The Last Battle was my favorite.

My favorite book for the month would probably be Matrimony by Joshua Henkin.

Great books in Feb:

Proust and the Squid - Maryanne Wolf: the science and history of reading, just brilliant
My Antonia - Willa Cather: totally different pace from my usual sort of thing, beautiful, calm, reflective stuff.
Cassandra at the Wedding - Dorothy Baker: wrenching portrait of the sibling relationship
Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson and Oliver Relin: didn't like the style but what an incredible story
The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman: didn't want this to end

Ooh. That was quite a good month, wasn't it?

Flossie
A good month indeed. All of the books you listed as your favorites for February are already on my TBR list.
Thanks for your great recommendations.

Here's my February Top 5:
The best of the month was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Crocodile on the sandbank
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Dead Heat
The Summer of 1787

I can't figure out what to read next wif mi bookclub could you help meh out??? =