Question 24 - Your reads so far!

[Faye, The Dickens Junkie]

We're just about halfway through the year! What have been your favourites of the books you've read so far in 2014?

[Amber]

I enjoyed Ready Player One, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... , Elixir, and all the others I've read that have been pretty good reads. The Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past manga was pretty good too.

[Michael]

My favorites this year so far:
1999: A Novel of the CelticTiger and the Search for Peace

High Plains Tango

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE

[A]

I read some awesome books this year...choosing favorites is really difficult, but anyway, here they are :

[Gavin]

Not an easy question:
The Return of the King
The Wind Through the Keyhole
The Kite Runner
Crime and Punishment
To Kill a Mockingbird

[Kassandra]

There have been so many great books that I've read this year...it's really hard to narrow it down. Here are those that are still top of mind:

Looking for Alaska
The Bear
A Field Guide to Burying Your Parents
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Dark Places
An Abundance of Katherines
Jack of Diamonds
Sycamore Row
The Perks of Being a Wallflower

[dely]

Iasa wrote: "Uncle Silas
Lady Audley's Secret
The Grifters
Something Fresh
The Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote"

Some interesting books! I loved Don Quixote too. Have you read Carlotto's book in Italian?


Till now my favourite books of the year:

The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
The Life Before Us: "Madame Rosa" by Romain Gary
Embers by Sándor Márai
Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

[Camille]

My favourite books so far have been:

- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- The Bronze Horseman
- Tsubaki
- Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
- Sapphire Skies
- The Help

[Tracey]

My top 5 so far:

We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The Thirteenth Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
Rebecca
The Book Thief

[Cindy (BKind2Books)]

Most favorite book so far:

Skin Game by Jim Butcher

Absolutely blown away by this series - just keeps getting better!

#2 was:

Joyland byStephen King

Uncle Stevie is in prime form with this little novel (you can drop it on your foot and not risk a fracture) - please don't write it off if you're not a fan of horror. There's very little here, it's more a coming-of-age tale.

[Roseanne]

This is tough. I think I just love them all! My favorites so far in no particular order:

The Storyteller
Unhinged
Cruel Beauty
Eleanor & Park
Cinder
The Color Purple
A Game of Thrones

[Renee, Mistress of the Mini-Challenge]

Sandy-
Eleanor & Park was my favorite from last year! :D

[Renee, Mistress of the Mini-Challenge]

This year so far it's Dune, The Count of Monte Cristo, No Name, and Post Captain. But, all four were rereads of old favorites. (3 are stories of revenge. Don't judge!)

For new-to-me faves, I'd have to say...
My Life in France
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Martian Chronicles

But my favorite audio was Matilda read by Kate Winslet. It is the best reading I've ever heard!

[dely]

Iasa wrote: "dely, I did read it in Italian but I had the help of my Italian friends, my Italian is pretty poor. I was given an Italian copy for my birthday one year, I've been waiting ages to be able to read it."

That's very good and don't stop reading in Italian! I have improved my English a lot reading and chatting in English, it is very important in order to not forget a language.

[Faye, The Dickens Junkie]

My list -

Vanity Fair
Time and Again
My Cousin Rachel
Heart of Darkness
The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxset
The Help
The Eyre Affair
Rebecca

[Renee, Mistress of the Mini-Challenge]

The Eyre Affair certainly looks interesting!

[Karen]

My favorites thus far:
The Lies of Locke Lamora
1984
The Golem and the Jinni
Lord of Light

Plus I am really enjoying some graphic novel series, starting with Saga, Volume 1, The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes and Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile. I'm completely hooked on them!

[Overbooked ✎]

My favourites so far are:

The Handmaid's Tale
Wonder
God Never Blinks: 50 Lessons for Life's Little Detours
The Wise Man's Fear
These Is My Words

special mention (as unexpected happy surprise/ serendipity books):

The Pig Scrolls by Gryllus the Pig
Osbert the Avenger
The Rosie Project
Cinder
Gone Girl

[Susan]

Wool,
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown,
The Silkworm,
Life After Life

[Faye, The Dickens Junkie]

Renee wrote: "The Eyre Affair certainly looks interesting!"

It's hilarious! Humourous science fiction for book nerds. :D

[Heather]

My favourite so far:

The Book Thief
The First Phone Call from Heaven

[Sarah. B]

So far I think :-
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
and
'Salem's Lot

[LadyElena]

Definately The book Thief and Paper Towns. ;)

[Mayme]

Ooh ooh! Such a good question - I definitely did a spot of chair dancing just then. I keep a separate shelf for my favourites of the year (:

These are some stand-outs:
Bel Canto
Ella Minnow Pea
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I Capture the Castle
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
A Scanner Darkly
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Maybe even, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

[Faye, The Dickens Junkie]

Mayme wrote: "Ooh ooh! Such a good question - I definitely did a spot of chair dancing just then. I keep a separate shelf for my favourites of the year (:

These are some stand-outs:
Bel Canto
Ella Minnow Pea"

Ella Minnow Pea! Love that one. :D

[Srividya]

This year has been great reading wise as I have read quite a few books that I have totally enjoyed. Along with reading several new authors :) Here's my list of all time favourites for this year

The Shining
The Green Mile
Wonder
The Rosie Project
The Fall
The Fault in Our Stars
Orange Is the New Black

And my recent ones

David Copperfield
The Shadow of the Wind

[Brenda (aka Grandma)]

Wow, nice to see several of my all-time favorites here! And a few I've been wanting to get to.

some favorites this year
Man of La Mancha
The Time Machine
The Curse of Chalion
and some authors I discovered I want more of
Death With Interruptions José Saramago
The Coroner's Lunch Colin Cotterill
Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks
The Man in the High Castle Philip K. Dick

[Lindsay]

Sisterhood, Fault in Our Stars, just to name a few. I've picked some good ones this year.

[Stephanie]

My favorites so far have been:

[Raquel]

The Adults
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Prozac Nation
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Fingersmith

Haven't been able to read much this year but out of what I did read those are the best ones.

[Happy]

and

I think Hild is my favourite of the two, but just barely. Americanah is quite lovely, and just barely made the 2014 list, as I finished it yesterday!

[Deborah]

Manda Scott's Boudica and Rome series'.

Hild

[Cindy]

The Black Tulip
The Moonstone
One of Ours

[Gavin]

Favorites so far:
1-The Grapes of Wrath
2-Doctor Zhivago
3-The Decameron
4-The Magic Mountain
5-The Passage

[beth]

1. The Rest of Us Just Live Here
2. Binge
3. The Selection Series Box Set: The Selection / The Elite / The One
4. The Indigo Spell
5. Their Fractured Light