Best of the Winter 2011 Challenge

[Dlmrose]

What were your favorite books of the Winter 2011 Challenge?

[JC]

5 stars:
A Game of Thrones
The Widow of the South
Anne of Green Gables
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Lord John and the Scottish Prisoner
The Last Lecture
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
A Red Herring Without Mustard
I, Coriander
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Winter Sea
Year of Wonders

Wow! that seems like a lot, but only 20% of the books I read for the challenge rated 5 stars.

[Cindie]

11/22/63
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein

My two favorite from the Winter Challenge. Surprising to myself, as I tend NOT to read SK's horror (too painful) and neither one was particularly uplifting.

[Bea]

5 stars for me:

The Peach Keeper
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
The Secret Life of Bees
Siberian Light
Darkness, My Old Friend

[Jennifer]

My 5 star books:

Room
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
My Sister's Keeper
The History of Love
The Things They Carried
Dreams of Joy

[★Meghan★]

My 5 stars for the Winter Challenge:
The Mediator: Volume 1 - Shadowland & Ninth Key
Twilight
The Girl in the Steel Corset
Call Me Mrs. Miracle
Revolution

[Aleksandra]

My 5 star

The Septembers of Shiraz
Just Like Heaven
Sweetness in the Belly
The Red Tent
Wish

[Kathy G.]

Kathy G.

My 5 star books
Mistborn: The Final Empire
The Time Thief
Pretties
The Golden Spiral
The Soldier's Wife

[Angie]

My 5 Star books:

Forbidden
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Lover Awakened
Drink, Slay, Love
The Future of Us
Fury

[Sue]

My 5 Stars:
Aunt Dimity's Death
The Silent Girl: A Novel
John Adams

[Ann A]

I read a lot of books I liked in this challenge, but these are probably my favorites:

River of Smoke
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
East of Eden
The Night Circus (so that's out for me for the Spring Group Read)
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Freedom
The Inheritance of Loss

[Kristi]

Rules of Civility
Ready Player One
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
The Paris Wife

[Mrs.soule]

My five star books this challenge:
A Green History of the World: The Environment & the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting
Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter by William Deresiewicz
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Sand Chronicles, Volume 1 & vol. 2 by Hinako Ashihara
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eatingby Elisabeth Tova Bailey
All You Need to Be Impossibly French: A Witty Investigation into the Lives, Lusts, and Little Secrets of French Women by Helene Frith Powell

[Chris]

I only had one 5 star book
Cutting for Stone
But several of the four star books were standouts
The Night Circus
The Sense of an Ending
The Outsiders
The Shadow in the North
Shadow in the North is the second in Philip Pullman's Sally Lockhart series. These have been absolutely wonderful books.

[mstan]

5-star reads:
A Monster Calls
Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin

Quite a lot of 4-star reads, but the more outstanding were:
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
The Queen of Attolia
Okay for Now
All Passion Spent
Crossing to Safety