3 Favorite Books You Have Read Within the Last Year

[Donna]

The Shack
The Invisible Thread
The Pact

[Aaryan]

I did not read much during the last year (and I'm trying to start this year) but my top 3 favorite books would be:

1. Ender's Game. My review
2. The Metamorphosis. My review (warning, contains tagged spoilers)
3. Tie between Old Yeller (no review) and Fahrenheit 451. My review (warning, contains tagged spoilers)

I kind of ranked them like a 123 list but in fact I don't know which one was my favorite, so those are the 4 books that I liked the most the past year.

P.S. I'm a new reader so my reviews probably aren't very... good? I hope with experience, I can become a better critic.

[Zeljka]

3 favorite for the last year:
-Winter Garden
-The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
-White Oleander

If I had to make top 5 I would add:
-Room and
-Siddhartha

[Irene]

I read it years ago but I also loved White Oleander.

[Han]

Top 3 in 2018
The Coldest Winter Ever
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Glass Castle

[STEPHEN]

Last Call, Daniel Okrent; American Rose, Karen Abbott; The Butchering Art, Lindsey Fitzsimmons. I stuck to books I have not read before- there are others that I re-read that would be on this list: Zorba the Greek, Burr, Nobody's Fool, etc

[Rachel]

[Renee]

I am a cat
Little Fires Every where
Educated

[Stephanie]

Hard to pick just 3.
- A Ladder to the Sky - John Boyne
- Killing Commendatore- Hauki Murakami
-Educated- Tara Westerover
- An AmericanMarriage/ Tayari Jones
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine- Gail Honeyman
-A Gentleman in Moscow- Amor Towes

Ok I know that’s six but I loved them all

[Lensey]

[Kamatchi]

[Becca]

From Sand and Ash
All the ugly and wonderful things
The Nightingale

[Foxed]

My three favourite reads in 2018

Fiction:


Non-fiction:


Audiobook (also a non-fiction /memoir pick):

[Shelley]

How about the best 3 by category? (I can't just stop at 3!)

Adult Fiction:
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
The Restorer Series by Sharon Hinck
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

Adult Non-Fiction:
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
The Vanishing American Adult: Our Coming-of-Age Crisis—and How to Rebuild a Culture of Self-Reliance by Ben Sasse
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

Young Adult:
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Rebel of the Sands Trilogy by Alwyn Hamilton

Juvenile (Elementary School):
Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
The Last by Katherine Applegate

Children's Picture Books:
If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson
Toys Meet Snow: Being the Wintertime Adventures of a Curious Stuffed Buffalo, a Sensitive Plush Stingray, and a Book-loving Rubber Ball by Emily Jenkins
The Book with No Pictures by B. J. Novak

[NancyJ]

January 2019

A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey

[Jennifer]

Speak No Evil
Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance
Setting Free the Kites

(also loved Bad Blood...)

[Amory]

I love this question!
1. So Sad Today by Melissa Broder
2. Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
3. Come Closer by Sara Gran

[Hayley]

1) One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
2) All the Rage by Courtney Summers
3) Map of Days by Ransom Riggs (bk. 4 in Miss Peregrines series)

[Rendi]

1) Children of Blood and Bone
2) A Very Large Expanse of Sea
3) The Kite Runner

[Melinda]

I’m a Jane Austen book lover! I’ve read and reread her novels so many times and have watched the movie adaptations over and over.
1) Pride and Prejudice
2) Persuasion
3) Emma

[Michelle]

1. Where the Crawdads Sing
2. Ready Player One
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

[Lorna]

[Chrysa]

The Wicked King

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Circe

[Grant]

On the Road

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The Godfather

[Betty]

The Great Alone

The Far Pavilions

Sarah's Key

[Shanna]

What to Do When I’m Gone: A Mother’s Advice to Her Daughter. For the life of me, I can’t remember the author’s name, but it was good!

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

Front Desk by Kelly Yang

[STEPHEN]

Jailbait by Kurt Vonnegut

[R]

1. When Breath Becomes Air

2. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

3. The Great Gatsby

[Monica]

Here are my three favorites from the last year:
* It
* Lean in
* A prince of Mars

[Vicky]

Three favourite reads from the last year are:

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
Roughing It by Mark Twain
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

Thanks for asking-I am also enjoying other people's answers!

[Betsy]

Oh, cool. I've just started The Mill on the Floss.

My three favourite reads from the last year are:

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell

[Kathi]

Best books read in the past year? Hmmm... I’m going with

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

I was going to say The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, but I’m pretty sure it’s been more than a year since I’ve read that...

[Jonathan]

1Q84

The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards

Mississippi Blood

The reality though is I've read many others that I enjoyed equally as much. So I'd like to add the following:

Cemetery Road

The Sellout

Straight Man

Killing Commendatore

[STEPHEN]

The Summer of Beer & Whiskey by Edward Achorn
Jailbait by Kurt Vonnegut
The World according to Fannie Davis by Bridgett Davis

[Jennifer]

The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek
A Man Called Ove
Where the Crawdads Sing

[[deleted user]]

MY 3 FAV BOOK OF 2018

This is a third book in the lockwood and co series

[Irina]

my faves are:
1. the book thief my markus zusak
2. the night circus by erin morgenstern
3. romeo and juliet by william shakespeare

[Nancy from NJ]

My three favorite books were:

The Rent Collector
Olive, Again
The Pecan Man

[Monique]

My favourites for 2019:

Fiction
A Gentleman in Moscow
I Saw Her That Night
Angel of Oblivion

Non-fiction
Educated
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Becoming

[Adam]

This is a tough one... I think I have to settle on:
1) Ghost Story by Peter Straub
2) Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
3) Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

[Amelina]

My three favourite books were:

In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
The Heaviness of Things That Float by Jennifer Manuel
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

[STEPHEN]

Ghosts of Eden Park- Karen Abbott
Bourbon Empire- Reid Mitenbuler
The World According to Fannie Davis- Bridgett Davis

[Smrfett76]

After (and the rest of the series)

Small Great Things

Pride and Prejudice

[Tony]

The Call of the Wild

Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

Not Dead Yet: The Memoir

[Cristina]

1) Rebecca
2) American Gods
3) Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

[[deleted user]]

Fifth Business by Robertson Davies

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank

Defending Jacob by William Landay

[Alex]

1. A Man Called Ove
2. City of Thieves
3. Charlotte's Web

[Ryan]

1. The Trial by Franz Kafka
2. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
3. Stoner by John Williams

[Zeljka]

3 favourites in 2019:
-Wuthering Heights
-Where the Crawdads Sing
-Animal Farm

Additional two, to make top 5:
-The Name of the Wind
-Salt to the Sea

[Nancy from NJ]

The three books I read in the past which I really enjoyed were:

The Life That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

Dear Edward by Ann Napitalano

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Robinson