Best of the Fall 2011 Challenge

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

What were your favorite books of the Fall 2011 Challenge?

[Fran]

My favorites turned out to be mostly YA this Fall for some reason-

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[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

My favorites


I fit in the whole series #1-4

[Fran]

Dlmrose,
I'm on the waiting list for the ebook from my library for Language of Flowers and I have Ready Player One on audiobook waiting for me. Glad to see you loved them both :)

[Dee]

my only 5 star read of the season was which was an ARC I reviewed for the author

4-star reads were:

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

very different books
If you get the 80's references, Ready Player One was fun- I spent WAY too much time on video games

[Dee]

dlmrose - how were the lori armstrong books? I love her erotic romances written under her other name

[★Meghan★]

Favorite books...

5 stars-
(I thought Cindy Ella and Lola and the Boy Next Door were very cutesy books...which are always some of my favorites. Ship Breaker completely caught me by surprise with how well it was written. Rogue was very action packed and had me listening to the audiobook any second that I could.)

[Dlmrose, Moderator Emeritus]

Dee wrote:dlmrose - how were the lori armstrong books?

I really liked the character. I liked No Mercy during the summer challenge and both characters are similar- tough, no apologies, but wounded. 1 & 2 were quite chaste, then in #3 she must have remembered that she wrote erotica and threw in some sex. I liked the South Dakota setting and the Native American lore too.

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

Fran wrote: "Dlmrose,
I'm on the waiting list for the ebook from my library for Language of Flowers and I have Ready Player One on audiobook waiting for me. Glad to see you loved them both :)"

I loved Ready Player One, too - and my husband wound up picking it up and liking it just as much.

[Katrina]

These are a few favourites:

Just realised they are all sequels (or in the case of Lola the follow up book).

[Dee]

i'm hoping to fit Lola into the Winter challenge

[Sandy, Moderator Emeritus]

A few of the books I really enjoyed (in addition to Ready Player One) were Memoirs of a Geisha, The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees. All books that I've been meaning to read for ages, and I was really glad I finally got to them.

[Katrina]

Dee wrote: "i'm hoping to fit Lola into the Winter challenge"

I slotted it into 15.4 (added book to tbr during summer challenge), however there didn't seem to be many other spots to slot it into. Good luck with fitting it in, it's a great book!

[JC]

5 star reads:

The last 3 Harry Potters (reareads)
Beach Music
The Red Tent
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

[Dee]

i'll figure something out - I used anna for one of the 15 pointers (a task from a previous challenge)

[Nick]

I really enjoyed the opportunity to read books about Africa or set in Africa:

[Cassie]

and were so good. I'm glad I had such a good reason to read them!

[April]

I had The Chicagoland Vampires#1 Some Girls Bite on my list and kept meaning to get to them. Glad I did. Reading the second now and I will find a way to include them in the Winter.

[Amy J.]

[Connie]

These were my favorites:

[mstan]

I had many more 5- and 4-star books this challenge than the last.

I loved (all 5 stars).

I really liked
and a few others... (all 4 stars)

I still have 10 books left to complete for the challenge though - and who knows, a few more 4- and 5-star reads may appear!

[mstan]

Fran wrote: "My favorites turned out to be mostly YA this Fall for some reason-

YA- ,,,..."

Fran, the first three books on your list are some of my favourite YA novels! :)

[Fran]

mstan, they are my favorite three YA novels too, and all three first time authors for me.

Did you read The Piper's Son? Supposed to be a great story about Tom from Saving Francesca.

[mstan]

Fran wrote: "mstan, they are my favorite three YA novels too, and all three first time authors for me.

Did you read The Piper's Son? Supposed to be a great story about Tom from Saving Francesca."

Yep, I have read The Piper's Son. I am one of very few people who actually prefer Saving Francesca, though. (Nevertheless, I still think The Piper's Son is really good.) A comment from my review (because I can't think of how else to put it) - 'The grief and love are exhausting, and I miss the frequency of the surprising flights into frivolity that made me adore Saving Francesca.'

If you like fantasy, Finnikin of the Rock is another favourite of mine!

[Tammy AZ]

My favorites of the season were:
Ready Player One
Magic Time: A Novel
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
This Is Where I Leave You

[★Meghan★]

Katrina wrote: "Dee wrote: "i'm hoping to fit Lola into the Winter challenge"

I slotted it into 15.4 (added book to tbr during summer challenge), however there didn't seem to be many other spots to slot it into. ..."

I fit mine into the 50 point challenge for A. I was looking for a back up book in case one of my others didn't work and when looking for books with the word "door". I got extremely excited!

[Jessica]

My favorites:

[Butterflycager]

My favorites from Fall 2011:

Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
A Year on Ladybug Farm by Donna Ball
Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen
The Map of True Places by Brunonia Barry
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint

And then there's The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley, which is so far the best book I've read all year.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Room
The Story of Shirley Temple
Four To Score,
High Five
Hot Six
Seven UP
Hard Eight
To The Nines
Ten on Top
Secret Daughter
Wizard of London
Beautiful Creatures
The Literary Potato Peel Pie Society

[Chris]

My favorites among books read specifically for the challenge:

[Jody]

I had 2 five star books this time

[Angie]

5 Stars
Comfort Food
Blood Promise
Spirit Bound
Thorn Queen
Iron Crowned
Lola and the Boy Next Door
Hearts in Darkness
Again The Magic

[Gayla]

Great Expectations
The Illumination
Silver Sparrow
Emma
Blue Nights
Lost Memory of Skin
The Stranger's Child
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson

[Bea]

5* books this season:

No Good Deeds
Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story
The Night Bookmobile
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
The Paris Wife
The Giver
The Hunger Games
The Tiger's Wife
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Double Whammy
Desires of the Dead
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

Wow! I did not know that I gave so many 5's. And, what a range of books.

[Connie]

I enjoyed my reading the last three months. These are the books I gave 5 stars to:
The Book Thief
The Language of Flowers
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
The Giver
Mudbound
Between Shades of Gray
Sole Survivor

[Mabeelle]

4*

[★Meghan★]

Connie wrote: "I enjoyed my reading the last three months. These are the books I gave 5 stars to:
The Book Thief
The Language of Flowers
To Kill a Mockingbird
[book:T..."

Ooohhh! I was debating between Mudbound and The Winter Sea for the Recommendations task. I have had a person say The Winter Sea is good an now I see that you have Mudbound on your 5 star list. Decisions, decisions...

[Denise]

★Meghan★ wrote: "Connie wrote: "I enjoyed my reading the last three months. These are the books I gave 5 stars to:
The Book Thief
The Language of Flowers
[book:To Kill a Mockingbird|26..."

I haven't read Mudbound, but I loved The Winter Sea.

[Connie]

I have The Winter Sea on my TBR list too. Maybe you could fit them both into this challenge.

[Aleksandra]

my 5 stars from fall
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
The Japanese Lover
Still Missing
Magic Hour

[Ms.soule]

My Fall 2011 Five Stars (I had a good season!):

Magic Bleeds
When Beauty Tamed the Beast
Crazy Wild
Eating Animals
Morality for Beautiful Girls
About A Dragon
Ani's Raw Food Essentials: Recipes and Techniques for Mastering the Art of Live Food
The Forgotten Garden
Hunting Ground
Tears of the Giraffe
The Peach Keeper
Unexpected News: Reading the Bible With Third World Eyes
Angels' Blood

[Jayme Pendergraft]

My absolutely hands down best book was Between Shades of Gray. Read this book!

Other favorites: The Gemma Doyle and Fallen Series.

The Buddha in the Attic - I know others haven't enjoyed this one. I listened to it and it was a truly beautiful audiobook.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and Raising Stony Mayhall - I had a thing for zombie books this challenge for some reason. These are pretty different if you enjoy this genre.

Maine reminded me of home.

Bossypants was good for a laugh.

[Dee]

I second Between Shades of Gray - I used it for the challenge before this one ;)