Best of the Winter 2010-2011 Challenge

[Dlmrose]

What were your favorite books of the Winter Challenge?

[JC]

Here are my 5 star reads:

The Poisonwood Bible
The entire Outlander series (all 5 stars except for The Fiery Cross, which got 4 stars)
The Book Thief
The Bronze Horseman
White Oleander
In the Company of the Courtesan

I'm also about 3/4 through Jane Eyre and will probably give it 5 stars as well.

[Jayme]

I read:
Queen of Camelot
Lemon Meringue Pie Murder
The Titan's Curse

[chucklesthescot]

Favourites were...

One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost
Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil
Uneasy Lies the Head by Jean Plaidy
The Devil Inside by Jenna Black
My Love Lies Bleeding by Alyxandra Harvey
The Quilter's Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini

[Dlmrose]

Mine were
The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
The Distance Between Us by Masha Hamilton

[Kim]

I loved...
Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok
Backseat Saints by Joshilyn Jackson
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Witch Child by Celia Rees
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
...and right now I'm reading Kitchen House & really, really liking it!

This was my first challenge ever, didn't even know these things existed. I had the MOST FUN

[Mrs.soule]

My five-star books:

Hostage to Pleasure by Nalini Singh (go romance!)
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House by Cheryl Mendelson
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Love and Honor in the Himalayas: Coming to Know Another Culture by Ernestine McHugh
Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman (should be 6 stars!)
The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery & Rebecca by Daphne DeMaurier (both re-reads)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson

[Kristina Simon]

Great suggestions, everyone! I've added even more books to my TBR list *sigh* ;o)...

My favorites this season were:
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien -- a BIG surprise for me as I hate war books
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts
Homicide In Hardcover by Kate Carlisle

[Gayla]

My five-star books:

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories
The Autobiography of an Execution
The Invention of Air
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Half of a Yellow Sun
The Hand That First Held Mine
The Graveyard Book

[Fran]

My favorites-

Simply Irresistible
All the Broken Pieces
The Road
Darkfever
Garden Spells
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Wintergirls
Breathing Room

[N.]

My top five of the winter season were:

[Anna]

I had only one 5 star reads during the winter challenge which was:

Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple

I guess my favourites after that were:

Jewish London: An Illustrated History by Gerry Black
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Viceroy's Daughters The Lives of the Curzon Sisters by Anne de Courcy
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

[Joy Marie]

My Top 5 for the winter challenge were:

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
Agents of Light and Darkness by Simon R. Green
Nightingale's Lament by Simon R. Green