OCT2024 Hours 9 and 10: Favorite books

[Jamie]

Hour 9: What are your 10 favorite fiction books?

AND

Hour 10: In honor of Non-Fiction November, coming up very soon, what are your 5-10 favorite non-fiction books?

[Ann A]

Oh wow, so many. My five-stars just from this year are:
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, and Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. Others that come to mind are Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, and The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.

ETA: Whoops, I forgot the fiction.

A few top picks are:
Midnight’s Children, The Cellist of Sarajevo, Pride and Prejudice, Corelli’s Mandolin, and The Poisonwood Bible

[Vicki Willis]

Hour 9
Fiction
Fav book I have read this year
The Last House on the Street

Fav series
anything by Michael Connelly, Harlan Coban, Tess Gerritsen, Lisa Gardner, Janet Evanovich


Hour 10
Nonfiction
True Crime
Right now I am reading Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions and it is literally the worst thing anyone could ever imagine happening.

[Cathy]

Non-fiction:
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
Food in History by Reay Tannahill

[Cathy]

Fiction:
You know that this is impossible to answer, right? So, here are some of my 5-stars for 2024…

Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
The Black Coast by Mike Brooks
Ship of Destiny by Robin Hobb
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard
The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Red Rabbit by Alex Grecian
Ghostdrift by Suzanne Palmer
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
The Mercy of Gods by James S.A. Corey

[Vanessa]

10 favorite fictional ? Good one . (Hour 9 )
1) FLUTE AND STONE , Hans Bemmen
2) THE ELF QUEEN OF SHANNARA , Terry Brooks
3) THE THREE MUSKETEERS , Alexandre Dumas
4) THE VIRGINIAN , Owrn Wister
5) LORD OF THE RINGS , J.R.R Tolkien
6) JAMES POTTER AND THE HALL OF ELDERS CROSSING , Norman Lippert
7) BATS OF THE REPUBLIC , Zachary Dodson
8) SHANE , Jack Schaeffer
9) ZORRO , Johnston McCulley
10 ) THE ART FORGER , B.A. Shapiro

DONE

[Vanessa]

This is toughie because I generally skip this genre . ( Hour 10 )
1) THE LIBRARY , Stuart Kells
2) YUL , Rock Brunner
3) WORD AND OBJECT , W.V.O. QUINE
4) I HOPE , Raisa Gorbachev
5) LADYBIRD , Jan Jarboe Russell
6) AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING , John Locke
7) MY TURN , Nancy Reagan
8) LIFE IS SO GOOD , George Dawson
9) HOME , Witold Rybczynski
10) MILLIES BOOK , Barbara Bush

And I want to give honorable mention to : ON THE HOUSE , John Boehner . FATHER GOOSE , William Lishman .

[Vanessa]

Cathy wrote: "Fiction:
You know that this is impossible to answer, right? So, here are some of my 5-stars for 2024…

Penric’s Demon by Lois McMaster Bujold
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SHIP OF DESTINY has good reviews . Hmmmm. . .

[Cathy]

Vanessa wrote: "SHIP OF DESTINY has good reviews . Hmmmm ..."

It‘s the third in a trilogy, you should definitely start with Ship of Magic. Or, better still, start with Assassin's Apprentice…

[Vanessa]

Cathy wrote: "Vanessa wrote: "SHIP OF DESTINY has good reviews . Hmmmm ..."

It‘s the third in a trilogy, you should definitely start with Ship of Magic. Or, better still, start with [book:Assassin'..."

ASSASIN'S APPRENTICE . I'll look up the reviews .