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Goodreads Staffers' Top Three Books of the Year
Every December, as we wrap up our annual Goodreads Reading Challenge, we ask our well-read colleagues a simple yet incredibly tough question:
What were your three favorite books you read this year?
Oh, the angst we caused our coworkers as they whittled down their lists to just their top few books! Hopefully our carefully considered staff picks will inspire additions to your Want to Read Shelf.
You'll notice that our reading habits run the gamut. But if you look carefully, you can see some office favorites emerge, including multiple picks of the Odyssey-inspired fantasy Circe.
Now it's your turn! What are your top three books of the year? Please share them with us in the comments!
Oh, the angst we caused our coworkers as they whittled down their lists to just their top few books! Hopefully our carefully considered staff picks will inspire additions to your Want to Read Shelf.
You'll notice that our reading habits run the gamut. But if you look carefully, you can see some office favorites emerge, including multiple picks of the Odyssey-inspired fantasy Circe.
Now it's your turn! What are your top three books of the year? Please share them with us in the comments!
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Your turn! What are your top three reads of 2019? Share them with us in the comments!
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The Top 40 Book Club Picks of 2019
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Wow.. thats a lot of recommended reading. Ill add my own:1. Americanah - Chimmanda Ngozi Adichie
2. Charlotte - David Foenkinos
3. Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead
My top 3:1. Narnia the lion the witch and the wardrobe - C.S Lewis
2. Lord of the rings triology - J.R.R Tolkien
3. Circe - Madeline Miller
Just three books is hard, but mine would be:1. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
2. Milkman - Anna Burns
3. The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
My top 3 of this yearHard to pick the other two but I know the best one hands down is
1. No-one writes back - Eun-Jin Jang
For the other 2 I'll pick
2. Recursion - Blame Crouch
3. Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami
Extra points for Ajahn Brahm, my favorite monk
- Kindfulness
- Don't worry be grumpy
To be read again and again
Oof...difficult choice but I'd have to say...1. The Silk Roads
2. 1793
3. Lampje
My top 3 for 2019 (in no particular order)The Cradle of Humanity - Mark Maslin
Elinor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
My top three books of the year are probably:1. The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Charlie Mackesy
2. This is going to hurt by Adam Kay
3. The Forth bear by Jasper Fforde
My top 3:Harlan Coben - Gone for Good
Blake Crouch - Wayward Pines Trilogy
Terry Hayes - I Am Pilgrim
Mine were:Born a Crime - Trevor Noah
Winter of the Witch - Katherine Arden
Birthday - Meredith Russo
1. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami2. The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
3. Inferno by Dante Alighieri
-The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben-Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
-Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
In no order, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, and The Murmur of Bees!
Memory of Love. Aminata FornaThe Architect’s Apprentice. Elif Shafak
Catch 22. Joseph Heller
Also excellent
Stuff Matters. Mark A Miodownik
The Secret Barrister
My top three books in English:1. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford
2. The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the Rise of Cyberculture by Brian Dear
3. How Customers Buy…And Why They Don’t: Mapping and Managing the Buying Journey DNA by Martyn R. Lewis
1. The song of Achilles- Madeline Miller2. The Wicked King- Holly Black
3. Bloodfever- Karen Marie Moning
I hope to still read a couple more but so far I think my favorite three of the year areThe Lake House by Kate Morton
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
Aurora wrote: "My top 3 of this yearHard to pick the other two but I know the best one hands down is
1. No-one writes back - Eun-Jin Jang
For the other 2 I'll pick
2. Recursion - Blame Crouch
3. Kafka on the..."
really cool to see someone mention No one writes back here! I read it a couple of years ago and absolutely adored it as well
That was interesting. I found a few new books to add to the ever-increasing Want To Read list.I only joined Goodreads this year to try and get back into the habit of reading, and these are the books that particularly stood out for me, from those I have marked as read on Goodreads this year.
1 The Silence of the Girls
2 Born a Crime: Stories From a South African
Childhood
3 Lies Sleeping
So hard to decide, I need a top 10!1- Anand Giridharadas Winners Take All.
2 - Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders.
3 - Annie Ernaux The Years.
Birçok güzel kitap okumuşum, seçmesi zor ama sanırım içlerinden en sevdiğim üçü şunlar:
Bir de iyi ki başlamışım dediğim, Gereon Rath (Babylon Berlin) serisi var.
My top 3 books this year:1. Killing Comendatore- Haruki Murakami
2. The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon
3. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
Andrea Levy - Small IslandCharlie Mackesy - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
1. The Universal Tone:My Life by Carlos Santana2. Tarzan The Magnificent by Edgar Rice Burroughs
3. The Bhagavad Gita by Eknath Eswaran.
My top three that I've read this year...-The World that We Knew-Alice Hoffman
-The Starless Sea-Erin Morgenstern
-The Testaments-Margaret Atwood
I'm glad that I read circe.. as it has appeared many times...My three favorite books of this year are
1. 1984 by George Orwell
2. Prabhupad lilamrita by satsvarupa das gosvami
3. Circe by Madeline Miller
The best books I've read this year:
1. We Need to Talk About Kevin
2. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
3. Bird Box
1. We Need to Talk About Kevin
2. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
3. Bird Box
My top three for books for 20191. Olive Again, Elizabeth Strout
2.The Dutch House, Anne Patchett
3. Clock Dance, Anne Tyler
My Top Picks for 2019:1. The Shadow Sister, Lucinda Riley
2. The Choice, Nicholas Sparks
3. Unexpectedly Hers, Jamie Beck
Very challenging to just pick 3, but I'd say:1. The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
2. Kindred - Octavia Butler
3. Bad Bloods: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start Up - John Carreyrou
Mine are, in no particular order:1) Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here
2) David Treuer - The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
3) Gretchen McCullough - Because Internet
But a completely separate list could be:
1) Frans deWaal - Mama’s Last Hug
2) Kevin Barry - Night Boat to Tangier
2) The Mountains and the Fathers - Joe Wilkins
My Top 3:Dark Matter - Blake Crouch
Recusion - Blake Crouch
Dark Water - Robert Bryndza
This year's favorites:Finding Dorothy, by Elizabeth Letts
The Orchardist, by Amanda Collin
The Mirage Factory, by Gary Krist
My top 3:
1. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
2. The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
3. Time's Convert - Deborah Harkness
1. The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
2. The Silence of the Girls - Pat Barker
3. Time's Convert - Deborah Harkness
My top three this year:-One Day In December by Josie Silver
-Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman
-Zoya by Danielle Steel
I love reading everyone's lists!I loved:
"The Overstory" by Richard Powers
"Red, White and Royal Blue" by Casey McQuiston
"Normal People" by Sally Rooney
P.S. THIS IS HARD
Top three for 2019:1) Becoming by Michelle Obama
2) Beartown by Fredrik Backman
3) This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins ReidThe Huntress - Kate Quinn
The Lost Man - Jane Harper
So hard to choose out of the 100+ books I’ve read this year but....in no particular order:- Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer
- Me by Elton John
- The Winemakers Wife by Kristin Hamel
I’m currently reading The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer....and it’s also a top contender.
Also everyone should read Red Notice by Bill Browder - a true story re what really goes on in Russia.
very difficult since I read a lot of books every year. But I narrowed it down to the top three this year. 1. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
2. Heartless By Marissa Meyer
3. Stars Above by Marissa Meyer
Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power; A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles; Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner. This was such a good year for reading, this is really hard to do!
In no particular order:Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
Top titles read in 2019 for me were......City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
Normal People by Sally Rooney
Educated by Tara Westover (not actually published in 2019)
Great stories, all of them.
Nice to see a good showing for Gaiman and Sci-Fi in general (SciFi fans come join us!)
I didn't realise how difficult this is until I tried to do it myself... oof. My top 3:
1) Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
2) Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
3) Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen