We are officially half way through the year and I'd like to hear everyone's top favorite reads. Does not necessarily have to be a book published this year and can be listed in any particular order.
Mine are:
- Hamnet – Maggie O'Farrell
- The Safekeep – Yael van der Wouden
- If We Were Villains – M.L. Rio
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Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes.
How to Survive History by Cody Cassidy
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
1. North Woods by Daniel Mason
2. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
3. A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck
Honorable mentions: Demon Copperhead; I Who Have Never Known Men; Chain-Gang All-Stars.
The godfather reread
The hobbit reread
No country for old men cormac mccarthy. Have been meaning to get this one done, and it’s awesome. Just the border trilogy to do, then I’ve read all his books.
She’s Come Undone, by Wally Lamb
Invisible Monsters, by Chuck Palahniuk
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore
American Gods by Neils Gaiman, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, Neverwhere by Nail Gaiman
1. Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
2. The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
3. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
I’ve read a handful of books this year, but I only seem to have two that stand out to me:
A day no pigs would die – peck robert newton &
12 years a slave – Solomon Northup
1. Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke
2. The Elementals by Michael McDowell
3. Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtry
1. divine rivals
2. what you are looking for is in the library
3. the ‘a good girls guide to murder’ trilogy
have all blown me away and been very surprising 5 star reads. agggtm weren’t 5 star books, but 5 stars a series. i’m not very well versed in the murder mystery genre, so this was such a delight and in my novice opinion, very well done. didn’t expect to love a YA series so much!
Due to the way things are. I read very few standalones these days. Just 2 in the last 60 books. Everything seems to be a trilogy or series.
With that in mind, the following series:
1) Trader’s Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper- Nathan Lowell
2) The Ottoman Cycle – S.J.A. Turney
3) Terms of Enlistment – Marko Kloos
1. Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
2. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
3. She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
1. The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
2. If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
3. Salt and Broom by Sharon Lynn Fisher ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️