From the Bookshelf of 2025 Reading Challenge…

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

Start date: November 1, 2019

Finish date: November 30, 2019

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

No group discussions for this book yet.

What Members Thought

Jan 16, 2019 Eileen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporary, cultural, 2019, historical-fiction, audiobook, 2019genrechallenge, world-war-ii-world-war-i

Oh my goodness! This was such a rollercoaster of a book. I read this not too long after I read The Great Alone, which absolutely blew me away, so there were definitely times when I read this that I wasn't sure if I could love it as much. But the ending was absolutely perfect and pulled all the different threads together.

When I first read the description of this book and then dove into the first few chapters, it reminded me a lot of All the Light You Cannot See, in part because it jumped around p ...more

3 likes · Like · see review

Apr 14, 2018 Mary Pat Lambert rated it it was amazing

This is one of those books that you stay up late and wake up early to read. It's heartbreaking and heartfelt all at once. I absolutely loved every word and will definitely read it again some time. ...more

2 likes · Like · see review

Apr 18, 2020 Crystal Rose rated it really liked it · review of another edition

It takes an awful lot for a book to make me cry, but this one did. It was well written for the most part, however there were some parts that I found unbelievable, which is why I only gave it 4 stars. However, the story was incredible and terribly moving with well rounded characters.

Like · see review