I’m just curious to see what everyone read this year, doesn’t have to be from this year, just have to have enjoyed it this year. I don’t read a lot (but I’m trying to read more) and bestseller lists are usually filled with books I have very little interest in (looking at you Fourth Wing). I want to know what books people loved, not just what people bought the most of.
I’ll start, I just recently started reading Mammoth (2020) by Chris Flynn and am loving it. It’s witty, its weird, and it’s unique, kind of my trifecta for a good read.
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For me definitely the Red Rising Series by Pierce Brown.. Loved every single one of those books!
A thousand brains by Jeff Hawkins
Comfort Me With Apples by Katherynne M Valenti
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman
Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead
Sea of Rust by C Robert Cargill
Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Julia by Sandra Newman (a retelling of 1984 from the POV of Julia)
Bill, The Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
Vurt by Jeff Noon
Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
True Grit by Charles Portis
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
American Psycho
Earthlings
Shogun (I’m not done with it yet because it’s really long but it’s fantastic)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Black River Orchard
Geek Love
Ender’s Game
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre
The Last Day of a Condemned Man
I really liked The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Learned a lot about Sri Lanka at the same time
I read Satellite Love by Genki Ferguson recently which I absolutely loved. It takes place in Japan and is about a girl a boy and a satellite. it is very interesting. I also re read Perks of being a Wallflower, which is my favourite book of all time.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Hello Beautiful
Tom Lake
I Have Some Questions for You
I posted this on a different post but these are all books I read this year that I rated 5 stars.
1. Say Nothing: a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland – Patrick Radden Keefe
2. The Four Winds – Kristin Hannah
3. Kala – Colin Walsh
4. All My Rage – Sabaa Tahir
5. Station Eleven – Emily St John Mandel
6. Into The Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph and Love
7. A Long Petal of the Sea – Isabel Allende
8. Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family – Robert Kolker
9. Beasts of a Little Land – Juhea Kim
10. Pachinko – Min Jin Lee
11. All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
12. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
13. Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult