Time to Vote for the Top 10 PBT Books for 2019 . . .and the Decade!

[Joi]

Let's start with my 2019 list, and we'll see if later on I can come up with a decade list.

Top 5 off the top of my Head:
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Silent Patient y Alex Michaelides
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DeFede

#6-10 after consulting my GR Account:
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
You by Caroline Kepnes
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara

[Karin]

I disliked Cloud Atlas and it was a dnf, as was Wolf Hall! But that's part of what I enjoy about this group--we don't all have to like the same books but often there is still an overlap in tastes.

[LibraryCin]

KateNZ wrote: "It was ‘Wolf Hall’ I meant (or ‘Wolf Snore’ as it got christened round here!) Nearly everyone in PBT hates it, with Theresa and Anita at the head of the pack! But I’d forgotten that ‘Cloud Atlas’ i..."

I've actually not read "Cloud Atlas", but I was one who hated "Wolf Hall"! :-)

[Theresa]

KateNZ wrote: "It was ‘Wolf Hall’ I meant (or ‘Wolf Snore’ as it got christened round here!) Nearly everyone in PBT hates it, with Theresa and Anita at the head of the pack! But I’d forgotten that ‘Cloud Atlas’ i..."

And proud to be at the head of that pack with Anita! I just shook my head in dismay when I saw it on your decade list...

So when sre we posting the 10 worst reads of the decade? You all know what will be at the top of mine, ROFL.

[Shelly]

I am also a Wolf Hall hater. I finished it only because I thought I must be missing something its going to get better.
Loved Cloud Atlas.

[Mindy aka serenity]

2019:

Harry Potter and the Curse Child - J.K. Rowling
Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia
The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
Four - Veronica Roth
Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century - Gregory Colon Semenza
Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen - Kathryn Warner
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Silencing the Past - Michel Trouillot
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women - Caroline Walker Bynum

Decade:
Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Austenland - Shannon Hale
The Magicians - Lev Grossman
A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

[Anita]

Joi wrote: "Let's start with my 2019 list, and we'll see if later on I can come up with a decade list.

Top 5 off the top of my Head:
-Becoming by Michelle Obama
-[book:Daisy J..."

Joi,

Could you please remove the little dashes in front of each title? Unfortunately, that makes them hard for me to deal with when sorting alphabetically.

[Joi]

Anita wrote: "Joi,

Could you please remove the little dashes in front of each title? ."

Sorry! Edited, let me know if there is anything else I need to change :)

[Anita]

Joi wrote: "Anita wrote: "Joi,

Could you please remove the little dashes in front of each title? ."

Sorry! Edited, let me know if there is anything else I need to change :)"

Thanks so much!!!

[Tracy]

This was hard to whittle down this year. In no particular order:

The Grass is Singing- Lessing
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem-Conde
Bottled Goods- vanLlewlyn
Spring- Ali Smith
Olive, Again- Strout
The Man Who Saw Everything- Levy
The Houseguest and other stories- Davila
Year of the Monkey- Patti Smith
How It Is- Beckett
Dutch House- Patchett

Honorable Mentions: The Tenth Muse- Chung; The Other Americans- Lalami; Little- Carey; Memories of the Future- Hustvedt

Worst of the Year: a tie between Justine by the Marquis de Sade and The Wall by John Lanchester. Both terrible. (sorry Nicole!)

Decade- this was HARD to do!

East of Eden- Steinbeck
Half of a Yellow Sun- Adichie
Infinite Jest- Wallace
A Ballad for Georg Heinig- Paskov
Giovanni's Room- Baldwin
Kristin Lavransdattar- Undset
Midnight's Children- Rushdie
Seasons Quartet- Ali Smith
My Favorite Thing is Monsters- Ferris
Don't Call Us Dead- Danez Smith

I know the Ali Smith choice is cheating, but choosing one of those is like choosing a favorite child.

[Yvonne]

2019 favorites:
Where the Crawdads Sing - Owens
Song of Solomon - Morrison
Memoirs of a Geisha - Golden
The Road - McCarthy
84,Charing Cross Road - Hanff
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Ogawa
The Overstory - Powers
The Light Between Oceans - Stedman
We Love Anderson Cooper - Maizes
Becoming - Obama

Favorites from past decade:
A Man Called Ove - Backman
Rules of Civility - Towles
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End - Gawande
The Kite Runner - Hosseini
Life of Pi - Martel
The Road - McCarthy
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - See
The Help - Stockett
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Shaffer

It was difficult for me to pick favorites from past decade, even when I have far fewer books than many of you. Also, when they flipped us over from Shelfari to Goodreads, I lost all the dates I had set, so limiting to past decade is a guess. But these were some faves.

[Anita]

Yvonne wrote: "2019 favorites:
Where the Crawdads Sing - Owens
Song of Solomon - Morrison
Memoirs of a Geisha - Golden
The Road - McCarthy
84,Charing Cross Road - Hanff
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Ogawa
T..."

I love your lists! A few of my all time faves are on them . . .

[Susie]

Tracy, my (mostly) book twin, I love your list. I’ve taken a screen shot so I can add the ones I haven’t read. Thanks!

[Tracy]

Susie wrote: "Tracy, my (mostly) book twin, I love your list. I’ve taken a screen shot so I can add the ones I haven’t read. Thanks!"

I’m excited to hear how you like them- there are some that I think you’ll love.

[Nicole D.]

Tracy wrote: "The Wall by John Lanchester. Both terrible. (sorry Nicole!)."

I cannot explain my love for The Wall!

[Cora]

My 2019 Favorites:

Challenger Deep - Shusterman
An Unkindness of Ghosts - Solomon
Nimona - Stevenson
Exit Strategy - Wells
The Poet X - Acevedo
The Forgotten Garden - Morton
The Drowned Cities - Bacigalupi
The Golem and the Jinni - Wecker
I'm Not Scared - Ammaniti
American Like Me - Ferrera



My least favorite read of 2019 was: Naphtalene: A Novel of Baghdad - Mamdouh (2 1/2 stars)

My Best of the Decade:

The Fifth Season - Jemisin
Born a Crime - Noah
Lock In - Scalzi
The Final Empire - Sanderson
Ready Player One - Cline
In the Night Garden - Valente
The Way of Kings - Sanderson
Shutter Island - Lehane
Let the Right One In - Lindqvist
Paladin of Souls - McMaster

[Anita]

Nicole D. wrote: "Tracy wrote: "The Wall by John Lanchester. Both terrible. (sorry Nicole!)."

I cannot explain my love for The Wall!"

I liked it too if it is any consolation!

[Rachel N.]

My 2019 list:
Recursion – Blake Crouch
Ordinary Grace – William Kent Krueger
Daisy Jones & the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Whisper Man – Alex North
The Lost Girls – Heather Young
The Coincidence Makers – Yoav Blum
Kill the Next One – Federico Axat
Death Masks – Jim Butcher
The Dry – Jane Harper
Ninth House – Leigh Bardugo

I'm not quite finished with Ninth House but I'm so close to the end that I'm sure it deserves to be on the list.
Worst book of 2019 The Net which I read for trim. At least it's out of my house now.

Best books of the decade
A Tree grows in brooklyn - Betty Smith
The shining - Stephen King
The Time traveler's wife -Audrey Niffenegger
Hearts invisible furies - John Boyne
Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet - Jamie Ford
The Immortal Life of Henrietta lacks - Rebecca Skloot
Room - Emma Donoghue
A Constellation of vital phenomenon - Anthony Marra
A Man called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Ordinary grace - William Kent Krueger

[LibraryCin]

Rachel N. wrote: "My 2019 list:
..."

Wow, I don't think I've read any of your 2019 top ten!

I have, however, read 8 of your decade top 10, and 4 of those made my favourites the years I read them. For one of them (The Shining), I wasn't keeping track at the time.

I am hoping to finish 2 more books this year (just finished one today, and one is an audio (almost finished), so I hope to start and finish one more). I will do my top 10 after that (it may not get done till Jan 1!)

[Nikki]

The Overstory - Richard Powers
American Rust - Philipp Meyer
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
Big Sky - Kate Atkinson
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman
The Ghost Map - Stephen Johnson
These Truths - Jill Lepore
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - David Treuer
We Crossed a Bridge and it Trembled - Wendy Pearlman

These aren't in order - it was hard enough to choose a list without ranking it too! This took me ages to decide as I kept changing my mind, but if I don't post it soon I'll forget and miss the deadline... This has been probably my best ever reading year, due in large part to joining this group last December - several of these were tag reads and several others I picked up after seeing them recommended here.

My most disappointing read of the year was Freakonomics - Steven Levitt

Decade top 10: (I don't have enough perspective yet to see which of this year's will hold up against long-term favourites, so I just excluded my 2019 reads from consideration...)

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
The Humans - Matt Haig
Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann
Prairie Fires - Caroline Fraser
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction - Rebecca Goldstein
Our Tragic Universe - Scarlett Thomas
The Sixth Extinction - Elizabeth Kolbert
The Hours - Michael Cunningham

[Book Concierge]

I read exactly ten books in 2019 which I rated 5 stars. Here they are ... in chronological order of reading

Book Concierge's Top Ten Books Read in 2019
Inside Out and Back Again - Thanhha Lai
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree - Okinyan Braithwaite
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
In the Distance - Hernan Diaz
Evicted - Matthew Desmond
Becoming - Michelle Obama
The Fact of a Body - Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E Frankl
The Milagro Beanfield War - John Nichols
The Story Hour - Thrity Umrigar


The only re-read in this group was Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. But I'd read it in college and had no record of any review.
I also think it's interesting that 4 of these titles are non-fiction.

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ANITA ... you'll note that always put the leading article last, so my alpha sort ignores A, An, The. If you want me to put those articles at the beginning, I can easily do so for you.


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It'll take me a couple of days to go through the decade and decide.

[Jeremiah]

For 2019 and these are in order, not that anyone really cares if they are or not, but here we go.

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
Orchestra of Minorities - Chigozie Obioma
Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
Becoming - Michelle Obama
The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead
The Outsider - Stephen King
Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah
Educated - Tara Westover

While the number of audio books outpaced the number of print books for 2019, my top ten was evenly split between the two formats.

For the decade, and these are not in any order, and are a mixture of fiction and non-fiction:

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
An Orchestra of Minorities - Chigozie Obioma
The Fisherman - Chigozie Obioma
The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success - Andy Andrews
The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - John Grisham
The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs is a Little Perspective - Andy Andrews
Have a Little Faith: a True Story - Mitch Albom
Adventures with the Primitive Baptist - David J. Montgomery
A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
Coming Apart: The State of White America - Charles Murray

[Book Concierge]

Okay ... Best of the Decade, 2010-2019. Once again, these are in chronological order based on date read.

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
City of Thieves - David Benioff
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa
True Grit - Charles Portis
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
Our Souls at Night - Kent Haruf


Only one non-fiction title made the cut. And NO books from 2017, 2018 or 2019 made it to this list.

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This was REALLY a challenge, and ultimately I decided to leave off re-reads of books I'd first read before the decade. As a result, these ABSOLUTE FAVORITE reads did NOT make my 2010s decade list.
To Kill A Mockingbird
A Christmas Memory
Like Water for Chocolate
Of Mice and Men
Gone With the Wind

[Anita]

Book Concierge wrote: "I read exactly ten books in 2019 which I rated 5 stars. Here they are ... in chronological order of reading

Book Concierge's Top Ten Books Read in 2019
Inside Out and Back Again - Thanhha Lai
Buri..."

Thanks for pointing out the articles situation. I need them in front, but it's just a few so I can move them myself!

[Kimber]

Book Concierge wrote: "Okay ... Best of the Decade, 2010-2019. Once again, these are in chronological order based on date read.

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
City of Thieves - David Benioff
House of Mirth, The - Edith ..."

BC there are 4 on your decades list that are all time favorites of mine:

City of Thieves - David Benioff
Still Alice - Lisa Genova
The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell

And I'm hoping to read Lonesome Dove in 2020.

[LibraryCin]

I will have to come back for the decade one, probably tomorrow. But for now, for 2019:

My top 10 for 2019
Inside the O’Briens - Lisa Genova
To Sleep With the Angels - David Cowan, John Kuenster
Blackout - Connie Willis
The Long Winter - Laura Ingalls Wilder
What the Night Knows - Dean Koontz
The Other Mrs - Mary Kubica
In a Dark Dark Wood - Ruth Ware
The True Tales of Baker and Taylor - Jan Louch
The Day the World Stood Still - Jim DeFede
Babylon’s Ark - Lawrence Anthony

I did not rate anything 5 stars this year (I guess this was a really tough rating year for me, as I read 173 books, overall), so my top 10 are books rated 4.5 and 4.25 stars. And that amounted to these 10.

No hounourable mentions this year, as I have a lot of 4 star books. I usually put anything rated above 4 stars that didn't make my top 10 into an honourable mention, but there were none this year.

Least favourite:
The Cat and Shakespeare / Raja Rao (1.5 stars)

Other Dishonourable mentions (1.5-2 stars):
Kim / Rudyard Kipling
All the Light We Cannot See / Anthony Doerr
The Devil’s Queen / Jeanne Kalogridis
Tracks / Louise Erdrich

[Sara]

My top 10 books of 2019:

The River - Peter Heller
They Called Us Enemy - George Takei
Fever Dream - Samantha Schweblin
Lanny - Max Porter
A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum
The Hour of Land - Terry Tempest Williams
Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern
Christmas Days - Jeanette Winterson

I had a really good reading year. I only rated one book below three stars, and it wasn't because it was a bad book. It just wasn't a book for me. That book was A Head Full of Ghosts.

[Sara]

Top Ten of the Decade:

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
There, There - Tommy Orange
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Hot Milk - Deborah Levy
Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng
A Constellation of Vital Phenomenon - Anthony Marra
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes - Eleanor Coerr
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

To select my top of the decade I decided to just choose my best book of each year. This was hard, sometimes I really didn't want to just select one book, but it was what made the most sense to me. That said, I did not select a book from 2017. I only had one five star rating that year (Ready Player One), and there was no way it was better than several books I read in 2016. So I chose two books from 2016 instead.

[Raine]

Here are my lists in no particular order!

top 10 2019:

The Escape Room - Goldin
You, Me and the Sea - Donohus
My Lovely Wife - Downing
Beautiful Bad - Ward
The Night Olivia Fell - McDonald
Where the Crawdads Sing - Owens
The Last Romantics - Conklin
Visitation Street - Pochoda
The Dreamers - Walker
Summer of '69 - Hilderbrand

Worst Book of 2019 - It's a tie - Au Pair - Rous (dreadful) and Only Ever Her - Whalen (most depressing)

I was reading THE NIGHT OLIVIA FELL during the time when my Mom passed on June 29, and the ending of that book really made me understand the connection between mothers and daughters. I even wrote to the author about it and she responded to me - she was writing the book during the time her Dad passed.

Top 10 of Decade (I too think I lost some in the move from Shelfari to Goodreads):

The Immortalists - Benjamin
A Man Called Ove - Backman
The Good Father - Hawley
Zoo - Patterson
Life of Pi - Martel
The Awakening - Chopin
Silver Linings Playbook - Quick
The Color of Law - Giminez
Gone So Long - Dubus III
The Black Book - Patterson

[LibraryCin]

Raine wrote: " Silver Linings Playbook - Quick ..."

Ooooohhhh, I like seeing this one there. I haven't read it yet, though I've had it a while now!

[Hilde]

My top 10 for 2019:

Rebecca - du Marier
Song of Solomon - Morrison
My Brilliant Friend - Ferrante
A Man Called Ove - Backman
Born A Crime - Noah
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Ogawa
A Visit From The Goon Squad - Egan
They Came Like Swallows - Maxwell
This Way For the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen - Borowksi
1Q84 - Murakami

[Raine]

LibraryCin wrote: "Raine wrote: " Silver Linings Playbook - Quick ..."

Ooooohhhh, I like seeing this one there. I haven't read it yet, though I've had it a while now!"

Matthew Quick was a teacher in the high school the next town over from where I raised my kids in New Jersey. A lot of the scenes in the book were places I visited all the time (the diner, the park) AND the Philadelphia Eagles (fans) had a good part in this book. It's very good - so much better than the movie!

[LibraryCin]

Top 10 for the decade:

Room - Emma Donoghue
In the Woods - Tana French
A Time to Kill - John Grisham
Endurance - Alfred Lansing
Isaac's Storm - Erik Larson
The Radium Girls - Kate Moore
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Still Missing - Chevy Stevens
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks / Rebecca Skloot

And I have two honourable mentions for the decade that I really wanted to include:

No Time for Goodbye - Linwood Barclay
The Forgotten Garden - Kate Morton

[LibraryCin]

Raine wrote: "Matthew Quick was a teacher in the high school the next town over from where I raised my kids in New Jersey. A lot of the scenes in the book were places I visited ..."

Oh, that's always fun!

[Kimber]

Hilde wrote: "My top 10 for 2019:

Rebecca - du Marier
Song of Solomon - Morrison
My Brilliant Friend - Ferrante
A Man Called Ove - Backman
Born A Crime - Noah
The Housekeeper and the Professor - Ogawa
A Visit ..."

A Visit from the Goon Squad was in my top 10 the year I read it too! Great book. And I loved Born a Crime as well - it was in my top 10 this year.

[Kimber]

LibraryCin wrote: "Top 10 for the decade:

Room - Emma Donoghue
In the Woods - Tana French
A Time to Kill - John Grisham
Endurance - Alfred Lansing
Isaac's Storm - Erik Larson
The Radium Girls - Kate Moore
Gone Wit..."

In The Woods and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks were top scorers for me too.

[Jgrace]

Randomly chosen from about 30 books. These are 10 of my best for the decade.

A Gentleman in Moscow - Towles
Birds Without Wings - de Bernieres
Night Circus - Morgenstern
Under Heaven - Kay
The Garden of Evening Mists - Eng
Station Eleven - Mandel
All the Light We Cannot See - Doerr
Days Without End - Barry
The Weight of Ink - Kadish
Flight Portfolio - Oringger

[Booknblues]

Jgrace wrote: "Randomly chosen from about 30 books. These are 10 of my best for the decade.

A Gentleman in Moscow - Towles
Birds Without Wings - de Bernieres
Night Circus - Morgenstern
Under Heaven - Kay
Th..."
It is tough to narrow it down Days Without End, The Weight of Ink, and The Garden of Evening Mists were all on my list before the forced narrowing. If I did it again they very well could make it.

So hard to do.

[NancyJ]

Favorite books of 2019
Top 10 of 2019
When All Is Said - Anne Griffin
Gilead - Marilynne Robinson
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II - Sonia Purnell
*White Chrysanthemum - Mary Lynn Bracht
The Heart's Invisible Furies - John Boyne
Educated - Tara Westover
Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens
**This Is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar
Olive, Again - Elizabeth Strout
What the Wind Knows - Amy Harmon

I read more books in 2019 than in any other year (132), so it was very hard to pick my favorites. I loved so many for very different reasons.

*I read dozens of books about different cultures this year, but White Crysanthemum is the one that taught me the deepest lesson about culture - encapsulated in the concept of Han.

** The most delicious and playful prose

Honorable Mentions 2019
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - Katherine Boo
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 - Nancy E Turner
Beartown - Fredrik Backman
Us Against You - Fredrik Backman
Sing, Unburied, Sing - Jesmyn Ward
Kindred - Octavia Butler
A Ladder to the Sky - John Boyne
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love - Dani Shapiro
This is How It Always Is -Laurie Frankel
The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides


Favorite books of 2010-2019 (I joined goodreads in 2017, so I'm missing dates on many of the books I read before this.)

The Language of Flowers - Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Educated - Tara Westover
The Help - Katherine Stockett
Circe - Madeline Miller
The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
Outlander -Diana Gabaldon
A Man Called Ove
The Color Purple
The Heart's Invisible Furies John boyne

[Anita]

**LAST CALL**

Today is the last day to submit your choices!!

I can't wait to announce our winners.

[Nicole R]

Anita wrote: "**LAST CALL**

Today is the last day to submit your choices!!

I can't wait to announce our winners."

The books on my TBR are waiting for a slew of new books to join them after the list is announced! lol

[Anita]

Well, don't hold your breathe, Nicole, because I've read every single book on the decade list already ;).

[Nicole R]

Anita wrote: "Well, don't hold your breathe, Nicole, because I've read every single book on the decade list already ;)."

Hmmmm, very interesting! I can't wait to see the final lists!

[LibraryCin]

Anita wrote: "Well, don't hold your breathe, Nicole, because I've read every single book on the decade list already ;)."

WOW!

[Book Concierge]

Anita wrote: "Book Concierge wrote: "I read exactly ten books in 2019 which I rated 5 stars. Here they are ... in chronological order of reading

Book Concierge's Top Ten Books Read in 2019
Inside Out and Back A..."

I edited post # 124 to put the leading articles at the front. This is for my Best of the Decade list.

[Anita]

Book Concierge wrote: "Anita wrote: "Book Concierge wrote: "I read exactly ten books in 2019 which I rated 5 stars. Here they are ... in chronological order of reading

Book Concierge's Top Ten Books Read in 2019
Inside ..."

Thanks so much!

[LibraryCin]

So... since I simply eyeball my excel sheet with my ratings to find my top rated books, and I had 173 to look at, I missed my one 5-star rated book. Came across it this morning!

That being said, it was a reread, so I likely wouldn't have put it in my top 10, anyway, except as an honourable mention. It did make my top 10 the year I first read it.

Kindred by Octavia Butler.

I rated it 4.5 stars the first time I read it (and that was enough for my top 10 that year). I gave it 5 stars on this year's reread.

It was my only 5 star book this year.

[Tessa (FutureAuthor23)]

Did I miss it or where's the final list at?

[Anita]

It was at the top of the posts for a few days, but now you can find it in the folder entitled " Annual Top 10". Let me know if you can't locate it!

[Anita]

Tessa (FutureAuthor23) wrote: "Did I miss it or where's the final list at?"

Now that I'm at my desktop, here's the link:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...