3 Favorite Books You Have Read Within the Last Year

[Nancy]

A Man Called Ove
The Glass Castle
The Girl Before

[Savannah]

East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler
The Magic Toyshop - Angela Carter

[Rachelnyc]

So difficult to narrow to three but I'll go with:

[Kelly_Hunsaker_reads]

The Grapes of Wrath

Far from the Madding Crowd

Rebecca

[Shelley]

Reply #1: I'm going to cheat and not stop 3. I've read some excellent YA and J Fic this year.
The Beyonders Trilogy by Brandon Mull
Books 1 & 2 of The Rebel of the Sands Trilogy by Alwyn Hamilton (book 3 comes out this year - can't wait)
Malcolm at Midnight by W. H. Beck

[Shelley]

Reply #2:
Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper by Phaedra Patrick

[Betty]

People of the Book
A Sudden Country
Me Before You

[Katie]

1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
2. Under the Dome by Stephen King
Under the Dome
3. The Republic by Plato
The Republic

[A.Roma 🇵🇸]

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They're all awsome!

[NancyJ]

Small Great Things

The Nightingale

A Great Reckoning Really, the whole series by Louise Penny

[Alyssa]

I’m excluding any Harry Potter stuff from here, and I’m listing two books as one since they are the same author and I can’t decide between them.

1. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
2. Norse Mythology/ A View From the Cheap Sets by Neil Gaiman
3. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

[Mariko]

That might not count, I didn't read it with y'all.

[Floriane]

1. Kafka on the Shore, Murakami
2. Pride and Prejudice, Austen
3. The Hobbit, Tolkien

[Lady Poppy]

Six of Crows duology
Illuminae
A Court of Mist and Fury
and
Frankenstein

[Sylvia]

HOT HOUSE FLOWER AND NINE PLANTS IF DESIRE
11/22/63 Stephen King
TATTOOIST OF AUCHWITZ
I narrowed it down to 3

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze


March Violets by Philip Kerr


Provinces of Night by William Gay

Honorable mention:

Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Nexus by Ramez Naam

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

[Pat the Book Goblin]

I've loved a lot of books this year, but if I have to pick only three they have to be:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

If graphic novels count my three favorites would be:
Invincible by Robert Kirkman
Fables by Bill Willingham
Locke and Key by Joe Hill

[NancyJ]

This was a Great (American Read) year, and there are many good choices.


Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston - I'll want to read this again.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith
A Breath of Snow and Ashes, by Diana Gabaldan
Lonesome Dove

[Maria]

I mostly read self-development book this year, next year I will challenge myself to read other books too.
books which I have truly enjoyed are:
The book of Joy by Dalai Lama
Tantra - Osho
The Universe Has Your Back - Gabrielle Bernstein

[Irene]

Wees onzichtbaar
The Hate U Give
Americanah

[Monique]

Never Let Me Go
The Hate U Give
The Travelling Cat Chronicles

[E.R.]

1. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomad
2. Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
3. Becoming by Michelle Obama
*why 3?*

[E.R.]

I read my first Stephen King book and yes was not the typical King book .....I loved the play on words...it was great to listen to (The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Audible is my new best friend and I loved Turtles All the Way Down my John Green.

[E.R.]

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake and The Nightengale.....Beartown and Us Against You

[E.R.]

A Man Called Ove

[Karen]

Burn Bright

Trail of Lightning

The Bride Wore Constant White

[Karen]

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Educated

The Nightingale

Honorable mention goes to Neil Gaiman: Anansi Boys and American Gods

[Amy]

Scorpio Races
Fawkes
The Hate U Give

[Jess]

Middlesex
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Book Thief

[Kirsten]

Scarpia
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Return of the Native

[Tori]

It's so hard to pick just 3!
Rebecca
The Hate U Give
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

I didn't include The Complete Maus because it is a graphic novel, but it is the best book about the holocaust I've ever read!

*edited because other people have included honorable mentions, and I feel bad leaving out The Kite Runner It was so good!

[Danielle's Books]

1. Kingdom Of Ash
2. A Reaper at the Gates
3.A Conjuring of Light
4. The Cruel Prince
5. The Last Magician
I've read 141 books so far this year and these are the ones that have stood out!

[M]

1. A Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ❤️
2. A Man Called Ove ❤️
3. The Hate U Give, Diary Of Anne Frank, & Rebecca all tie for 3rd! ❤️❤️❤️

Best book outside of this group this year:
EDUCATED by Tara Westover (excellent!)

Happy New Year to all!

[Danielle's Books]

1. Kingdom Of Ash by Sarah J. Maas
2.The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
3. The Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa
😍😍😍😍

[[deleted user]]

1. Tender Is the Night
2. All the Light We Cannot See
3. All Quiet on the Western Front

[Satrina]

I'll do a Top Ten in no particular order:
1. The Hate U Give
2. Legend
3. Ready Player One
4. Kindred
5. Little Fires Everywhere
6. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
7. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
8. A Man Called Ove
9. Dark Harvest
10. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[Elizabeth]

List 3 of the best books you have read within the last year....

1.Sing, Unburied, Sing
2.The Last Ballad
3.Tess of the D'Urbervilles

[Erin]

1. The Setting Sun - Osamu Dazai
2. No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai
3. Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima

[Fannie]

For 2018:

The Remains of the Day
The Orange Girl
The Way of Kings

[[deleted user]]

My top 3 for 2018 are:

The Joy Luck Club
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Girl With All the Gifts

[Kaz]

My top 3 for 2018:

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Little Fires Everywhere
Lilac Girls

[Stuti]

My top 5 reads from 2018 in no particular order:

1. Conversations with Friends
2. Call Me By Your Name
3. Educated
4. Homegoing
5. Arab of the Future: Vol1

[Lori]

Hand maidens tale, The good earth,

[Nora]

[Megan]

It’s hard to narrow it down to three, but I’ll try. 1. Strange the Dreamer 2. Les Miserables 3. The Hummingbird’s Daughter

[Claire]

[Colin]

1) Gone to Dust
2) The Impossible Fortress
3) Beartown -will finish today and makes top 3.

[Betty]

Three of my favorites read in 2018 were
1. These is My Words by Nancy Turner
2. Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman
3. Years of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks

[Colleen]

The Invisible Bridge
The Interestings
Love Warrior

[KelB]

Homegoing
The Changeling
My Soul to Keep

Runner-Ups:
The Ballad of Black Tom
Broken Clocks
Pride
Everything Here Is Beautiful