I started reading again after a long hiatus. I've blown through quite a few so fare this year, and I'm looking for suggestions based on the list below.
My favorite of all time is Rabbit, Run – John Updike. I manage to read it every year and love it more and more each time. A Death in the Family – James Agee is also top tier in my opinion.
But the books I've read this year…
Thoroughly enjoyed:
- The Vegetarian – Han Kang
- The Lost Weekend – Charles Jackson
- Im Thinking of Ending Things – Iain Reid
- Tender is the Flesh – Augustina Bazterrica
- Exquisite Corpse – Poppy Z. Brite
- I Who Have Never Known Man – Jaqueline Harpman
- We Used to Live Here – Daniel Hurst
- Song of Achilles – Madeline Miller
- Circe – Madeline Miller
- Lonesome Dove- Larry McMurtry
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Best Stories – O. Henry
- Eileen – Ottessa Moshfegh
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- A Short Stay in Hell – Steven. L. Peck
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- Night – Elie Wiesel
- She's Come Undone- Wally Lamb
- Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
- Brokeback Mountain – Annie Proulx
Mid:
- Consent – Vanessa Springora
- Lapvona – Ottessa Moshfegh
- Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
- Year of The Flood- Margaret Atwood
- MaddAddam – Margaret Atwood
- Stories of Your Life – Ted Chiang
- Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Selby Jr.
- Comfort Me With Apples -Catherynne M. Valente
- Little Life – Tanya Yanagihara
- The Deep- Nick Cutter
- The Troop – Nick Cutter
- Tampa – Alissa Nutting
- The Road – Cormac McCarthy
- Behind Her Eyes – Sarah Pinborough
- On the Beach – Nevil Shute
- Foe – Iain Reid
Mostly a slog:
- Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Earthlings – Sayaka Murata
- Convenience Store Woman – Sahara Murata
- Local Woman Missing -Mary Kubica
- None of this is True – Lisa Jewell
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Cows – Matthew Stokoe
- Gone to See the River Man – Kristopher Triana
- A Quiet Place – Seicho Matsumoto
- End of Men – Christina Sweeney-Baird
- Story of the Eye- Georges Bataille
- We Spread – Iain Reid
- This Thing Between Us – Gus Moreno
Hated but finished:
- The Silent Patient – Alex Michaelides
- The Last Affair – Margot Hunt
- The Kind Worth Killing – Peter Swanson
- Local Woman Missing – Mary Kubica
Could not bring myself to finish:
- The Cellar – Richard Laymon
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – VE Schwab
- The Indifferent Stars Above – Daniel James Brown
- Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
- Never Let Me Go – Kazoo Ishiguro
- A Room of One's Own – Virginia Woolf
- Human Acts – Han Kong
by Gnash_ville