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Best Fiction
The Help
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
Her Fearful Symmetry
Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
Fool
The Magicians (The Magicians #1)
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Juliet, Naked
Cutting for Stone
The Little Stranger
South of Broad
The Story Sisters
Pygmy
Let the Great World Spin
This is Where I Leave You
Little Bee
Brooklyn
Drood
The Children's Book
A Reliable Wife
A Gate at the Stairs
The Weight of Silence
That Old Cape Magic
The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
Await Your Reply
The Little Giant of Aberdeen County
The School of Essential Ingredients
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Authors:
Nick Hornby, Chuck Palahniuk, Dan Simmons, Sarah Waters, Robert Goolrick, Alice Hoffman, Colm Tóibín, Kathryn Stockett, Richard Russo, Dan Chaon, Jonathan Tropper, Lisa See, Christopher Moore, Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Abraham Verghese, Katherine Howe, A.S. Byatt, Tiffany Baker, Jamie Ford, Reif Larsen, Heather Gudenkauf, Dan Brown, Philippa Gregory, Lorrie Moore, Audrey Niffenegger, Erica Bauermeister, Chris Cleave, Alan Bradley, Colum McCann, Lev Grossman
Books:
Nick Hornby, Chuck Palahniuk, Dan Simmons, Sarah Waters, Robert Goolrick, Alice Hoffman, Colm Tóibín, Kathryn Stockett, Richard Russo, Dan Chaon, Jonathan Tropper, Lisa See, Christopher Moore, Margaret Atwood, Pat Conroy, Abraham Verghese, Katherine Howe, A.S. Byatt, Tiffany Baker, Jamie Ford, Reif Larsen, Heather Gudenkauf, Dan Brown, Philippa Gregory, Lorrie Moore, Audrey Niffenegger, Erica Bauermeister, Chris Cleave, Alan Bradley, Colum McCann, Lev Grossman
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Am I the only reader who found the Deliverance Dane book trite and formulaic? Returned it to the library after skimming to the end to find out that, yes, everything I suspected from early on ended up happening.






loved "That Old Cape Magic" and "A Children's Book"








I also can't believe Lisa See's book is on there and that was one of my lowest ranked books on my list for the year. Peony in Love was amazing and I was so disappointed in Shanghai Girls.


I've actually spent most of this past year exploring books by authors unknown to me. As a result I have read a LOT of translated works and they have really expanded my horizons. Will likely continue that trend in the upcoming year.