I know it’s not the end of December yet BUT I would love to hear your top 5 favorite books you’ve read this year! I think mine are solid, but I might try out some of the suggestions here and see if my lineup changes 🙂
1. Our Wives under the Sea
2. Into the Drowning Deep
3. Ready Player One
4. Scythe
5. Hellbent
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1 – Beartown by Fredrik Backman
2 – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
3 – Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
4 – Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
5 – Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
(in no particular order):
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
Open Throat by Henry Hoke
George: A Magpie Memoir by Freida Hughes
Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Really tough to narrow down, probably a three-, maybe four- way tie for number five but I’ll go with this:
1. *Birds Aren’t Real* by DT Robbins
2. *Betty* by Tiffany McDaniel
3. *Salmon* by Sebastian Castillo
4. *Couplets* by Maggie Millner
5. *Whale* by Cheon Myeong-Kwan
I swear I read a ton of books that weren’t one word titles but for some reason, most of the books I loved this year were.
In random order:
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
A Fever in the Heartland: The KKK’s Plot to Take Over America and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell
The House of Eve Sadeqa Johnson
The Lite Pirate Lily Brooks-Dalton
Know My Name Chanel Miller
All the Sinners Bleed S.A. Cosby